Had to work a bunch in the morning. While I was working I did my PT and Ming Method exercises. My legs felt good. I went to the research ledge. I waxed it up, then went up to do a warm up noseslide and two other skaters rolled around the corner and dropped their backpacks down to have a session. Ugh. Nothing against other dudes skating, but I just wanted to be by myself and relearn some tricks. It worked out though because I guess it had me skating a little faster or something. I got boardslide pop out, noseslide, noseslide to fakie real quick. I got a few crooks, but none were clean, I fell into noseslide at the end. Those dudes were pretty good. One dude was the fakie dude. He did halfcab noseslide and fakie 50. The other dude was the loud guy. He did back 50 and cheered really loud. It cracked me up. He was cool though, nice to talk to. When he got the switch front 50 the world knew about it. Ha. They ended up leaving after awhile. I stuck with it for awhile longer. Got a back 50. I had tried some flippers. Got a few good halfcab flips, varial flip, didn’t get much more and couldn’t get a treflip, but it was the longest I was able to do ollies/flippers in awhile and it felt great.

I got tired, but wan’t too sore so I went to Stonehenge. My legs were really sore when I started. It took a few tries to even ollie into a back 50. But I did. Front pivot felt cool. Then I tried kick back axle stall for an hour and never got one. Ugh. I only got close a few times. Still, it felt good to finally skate hard and last longer than an hour.

(setup 8.25 null fortune deck, venture 5.2 low awake trucks, 1/16″ risers, 3 washers inside each axle, venom 88a bushings, swiss bearings, 50mm spitfire classic formula 4 wheels, new balance numeric PJ 533 black/white 12 stock insoles)

Went to Arvada park around noon to meet up with the Amigos dudes from Seattle. Nolan rolled in around the same time too. Nolan and I started out at this little quarterpipe. Sasha and another dude (can’t remember name now argh) were skating the little flat bank nearby. It was fun. They were doing bigspins, shoves, etc, getting warmed up. I did a couple basic tricks and a couple Rampy tricks I haven’t done in awhile. I was hyped on the front pivot to fakie. The beanplant to tail was maybe the slowest one ever done. Nolan laughed at me then did tricks like back tail to switch front crook in lines. Man he is good. Front tail to switch crooks to fakie, back noseblunt, front noseblunt to pivot, revert, whatever. I skated the mellow blue round bank for awhile. I got a few no comply tricks in a row that felt good. No comply shove to fakie, no comply bigspin, no comply finger flip to fakie. Also kickflip to fakie, b/s flip which hurt. Couldn’t get treflip to fakie, but got close a couple times. Nolan did pop shove, kickflip and treflip over the flat gap. This scooter kid kept hanging out with us and challenged Nolan to a game of SCOOT vs SKATE. Nolan used it as an opportunity to do the flamingo to fakie. So sick. Amigos Justin and Ryan did tricks on the potato chip. My legs were pretty done by the end. I mostly just chatted. It was rad seeing Shad and the Lunchbreak dudes too. Nolan and I worked on looking like morons trying 360 eggplants off the ledge. We didn’t get close at all. This was the first time I skated in awhile. The pain wasn’t as bad as it has been, but it was still there.

(setup 8.25 null fortune deck, venture 5.2 low awake trucks, 1/16″ risers, 3 washers inside each axle, venom 88a bushings, swiss bearings, 50mm spitfire classic formula 4 wheels, new balance numeric PJ 533 black/white 12 stock insoles)