A post shared by carleigh samson (@gnarlycarleigh) on Jun 3, 2017 at 12:35pm PDT

Went out in front of my house to try and warm up and knew it was going to be a tough day for me. I had put smaller trucks and bigger wheels on. They felt fine. My legs didn’t. I got to kickflip. Then Carleigh showed up and we rolled to Fuzz’s, stretched then rolled to Golden with Rob. We hit some potential spots on the way. One full pipe had water in it, one had human crap in it. Then we rolled into Golden and looked at a spot, then ended up on campus. First spot was a plaza that I would normally love. Great flat ground and a bunch of ledges. But my legs weren’t working so flatground didn’t really work. Carleigh warmed up doing a bunch of tricks in a smooth area. I tried to do Fuzz or Rob’s lines. Everyone was weirded out by the crack in front of the ledge. Well, not kids that showed up later. Fuzz did two really sick boardslides to fakie 50. Unreal. I got my camera and we tried to film it, but he ended up hurting his back like an old person rather than landing it. Ha. Carleigh picked up the slack and got a boardslide to lipslide to grass flop. It was sick. We moved on. Ended up at a sick spot with a couple of benches, 4 stair, 2 stair, 6 stair. Carleigh reigned champ and ollied the 4 then 6. Rob did a sick line, but it doesn’t count since he wouldn’t let me film it. Or maybe it just deserves parenthesis. (front board, bean plant the 4). Then we hit a steep bank for awhile. Rob and Carleigh did wallrides. I just hiked the hill and did powerslides. It ruled. Nolan showed up and grinded the top of the darn steep bank. Then we went to Holidaily! It was a dream come true, have a couple “beers” with my friends.

(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.2 high v-hollows, venom 88a bushings, bones sft v3 52mm wheels, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, bronson raw bearings, nbnumeric quincy 254 12 gum/cream, fp gamechangers then remind cush insoles)

Good times yesterday @43shifty @iamnotacreepyjake @fullertrron #toomanyscooters #theskateparkisagreatplacetolearnhowtorideabike

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 3, 2017 at 8:36am PDT

With rain threatening Rob and I rolled to Berthoud park to meet Dave and Jake. We arrived to an empty park. I went in to the portapotty and came out and there was like 8 scooter kids and parents sitting on ledges watching. Ugh. Luckily they didn’t stay too long, but there was still a constant wave of scooter kids to ignore all skatepark etiquette. Dave and Jake showed a little later. Rob and I had cruised around, snapped a few ollies, slashes, carves, etc. Dave gets out and was pretty quickly trying nose manuals, 50s, pivots on the extension, etc. Jake had a front tail on the ledge all quick too, back 50, crooks. Rob did the ol’ sick beanplant over the hip, crail slides on the bank, kickflip the hip first try, board slide the tall bench, ripping. Jake and Dave skated the bank to ledge. Dave did switch nose stall and regular nose stall. Jake did front nosespick and they doubled on on front tail/back tail. Unreal. I was in a serious funk and bordering on focusing my board. I forced myself to ollie onto the little ledge. It was hard. I couldn’t get a kickflip over the hip. Then I tried front 50 on the ledge for a long time. Failing over and over. I started hucking flip trick in between fails and got hands down 3 flip and nollie 3 flip which cheered me up a little. I eventually got a few terribly slow front 50s or 5-0s. I might have even gotten a backside flip over the hip after one (or maybe I had moved on to switch noseslide by then). Then we set up the phone to film a hip session since I had done b/s flip and Dave had done front shove. It took both of us awhile to get them again. Rob did the steezy no comply finger flip first try.

Then after food, chilling at MRKT we met Nate at Spring Canyon. He was doing back 5-0s across most of the little ledge and crazy manual tricks across the low part of the manny pad. I was super sore. I was able to get going for a little bit and got some weak 50s on the little ledge and a couple of kickflips, but that was about it. Nate is so good. Fakie 5-0 pop out, fakie 50 halfcab out, nollie nosegrind, fakie back 50, almost fakie back nosegrind, nollie back 180 nose manual 180 out, nollie front 180 nose man, just plain slaying it. Rob picked up on it and was skating super good too. Halfcab manual, no comply manual, manuals around the banks, back 50s, halfcab noseslide the tall bench, nollie front lip. Those dudes were shredding. It was sick.

(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.8 lights, venom 88a bushings, bones sft v1 50mm wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, old bad bearings, nbnumeric quincy 254 12 gum/cream, remind cush insoles)