Woke up early and felt like hitting up this park. I was hoping when I arrived at 8:30 am that I would have some time before the scooter tools showed up. Nope. Families of them. Remote control cars, parents sitting on ledges, GoPros strapped to chests, kids on Strider bikes. Man I miss when skateparks were for skateboarders. I started off feeling ok though and though I would skate well. Wrong. I was able to turn it up a little at times though. I got a pretty long line of ollie up the euro, front slash the qp, boardslide the bump to bar, kickflip into the slight bank, back 5-0 the little ledge. I tried a bunch of front 50s on the bump to ledge or the regular tall ledge and came up short. It was very depressing. As were kickflips over the hip. I was able to ollie the 3 stair most tries at least. Did a few bank ride to manuals. Also a little frontside nosegrind. There was a brief period where I had the park to myself. It was under 5 minutes. In fact I remember being stoked, but looking down the road saw two scooter kids headed toward the park. The remote control bike kid was almost too much. At least he kept it in the bowl. Dave showed. I was trying a long line of ollie the 3 stair, noseslide the hubba, 360 flip on flat and something else, but I never got the 360 flip and I kind of lost all motivation to skate. Dave had a nice feeble stall on the round bar. Simon with some good boardslides and manuals off the 3 stair ledge. Dave might have gotten a backside bigspin over the hip. I got a crappy backside flip over one.

Then we skated this in the round about entrance to the skatepark. It’s really hard to skate with the curb right in front of it. Simon was ollieing up the curb, it was sick. He did a nice back blunt. I got a little boardslide. Simon also got a boardslide fakie, some back 50s and front slash. Dave did front 5-0 quick, front tail, front board to fakie and eventually a front board 270 after I had left. As hard as that was to skate at least we hit some street for a bit.

(setup 8.125 null message deck, venture 5.2 low custom hollow trucks with 3 washers inside each axle, 1/16″ riser, stock thunder bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 classic 101a wheels, bronson bearings, new balance numeric pj stratford 533 navy shoes 12)

Carleigh and I headed to Lafayette after a day where I had watched Jason for a long time. It was beautiful out. I’m not sure if I remember an autumn this full of great weather in CO. We arrived to a park full of scooter kids. Ugh. We kind of each did our thing for a bit. My favorite thing about Lafayette is there are some easy grinds that feel great. Front 50s on the little granite pad are incredibly fun. Garrett and Nolan showed pretty much right after we got there. After awhile we had a stair session. Well, everyone else did. Garrett and Nolan kickflipped the 3. Carleigh got the line of ollie the 3 then noseslide the hubba. That’s what I wanted to do as well, but I couldn’t get the 3 stair ollie. Ugh. It took me getting pissed about all of the scooter kids and venting about how much I hate skateparks before I could do it, but when I landed the line it felt really fun. I also took awhile to get the fun line of back 180 into the first bank, switch 180 into the second then kickflip to fakie on the bank. Also fun. Those three tried pop shoves down the 3 stair for a bit, I don’t think anyone got one, but Nolan was doing them poppy everywhere else. Carleigh also got one into the bank. Oh yeah, I forgot how bad I slammed at one point. I rolled down the bank with speed for the bump to ledge and hit a rock and went down hard. Ugh, that definitely took me out for awhile. Felt good to get outside and skate with homies.

(setup 8.125 null message deck, venture 5.2 low custom hollow trucks with 3 washers inside each axle, 1/16″ riser, stock thunder bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 classic 101a wheels, bronson bearings, new balance numeric pj stratford 533 navy shoes 12)

After work on a beautiful Friday I met up with Rob at the dog park. Well, I was first. I had attempted to start the warm up process, but man I was feeling like crap. I got somewhat into my normal list of warm up tricks. Rob and I played a game of SKATE that went pretty long with a lot tricks landed on both sides that could normally be letters. It eventually got to SKAT-SKAT. I don’t remember the winning trick, but I squeeked it out. Fun game. Rob left shortly after that. Dave laid into the switch tre attempts and got his closest yet. He landed with both feet on one of them. So close! I had a couple nollie heels that seemed close, but weren’t and one clean 360 flip to make it feel worthwhile. Couldn’t get a nollie tre though.

(setup 8.125 null message deck, venture 5.2 low custom hollow trucks with 3 washers inside each axle, 1/16″ riser, stock thunder bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 classic 101a wheels, bronson bearings, new balance numeric pj stratford 533 navy shoes 12)