Got home from work and chilled a bit. Riley was painting the house. Got a text from Saul to come skate and it worked out that Riley was finishing up so we hit it. Riley was hyped as he’s never skated Saul’s before. His first run was less painful looking than Nolan’s the other day, but clearly showed the bowl is harder than it looks. He went on to rip it though. Front noseblunt in the shallow, feeble and 5-0s to fakie in the deep, lipslides, bonelesses, he figured it out for sure. Saul’s runs with the quick carve grinds are so sick. Even his trendepents can’t withstand the abuse. He also locked into some good 50s, had a front slash,etc. I skated it okay and the first few runs had me in different lines which I liked. My heel (plantar fasciitis) was pretty bad so running out was extra painful, but I had fun for sure. Then I went home and climbed on the roof to trim trees and clean gutters. Fun.

(setup 8.38″ null machine deck, venture 5.8 wides, venom 88a bushings, green spitfire F4 52mm classic 99a wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, nbnumeric 254s cream/gum with stock nb insoles)

With everyone here over the last several day the thing that got me the most hyped was seeing ledge tricks go down. It made me really want to work on it again and no better place to go then research center (well I suppose just about any skatepark would be “better” but I like being able to work my way up and go slow and not have a million people watching). I had a few tricks under my belt like noseslide, noseslide fakie, boardslide pop out, switch front nose, switch front nose to forward before I started trying halfcab noseslide. I got stuck on this one for awhile. Nate showed. I was trying nollie back 180 before the hc noseslide. Nollie is a bit of a stretch as I could probably never even pop over a curb. I got a hc noseslide, but it was terrible. I decided to move on anyway and got a first try crooks to put me back in a good mood. Rob showed and him and Nate mostly skated the manny pad below for awhile. I’m not sure what all went down, but Nate said Rob was ripping and nose manualled the long section. I got a second try terrible back 50 and ended up getting another slow one later where I didn’t touch the wall. I tried a line for awhile that was really run. Ollie up the curb, wallie nollie by the entrance, back 180 off the curb, halfcab flip .. . But I never got the halfcab flip. In fact I slammed pretty hard trying it. Oh well. Rob and Nate joined on the ledge action. Nate tried a line over and over of switch flip then switch front nose. His switch front noseslides are real though with a switch ollie in rather than just turning in like me. Rob boardslide pop out, halfcab boardslide pop out, noseslide (maybe it was a crook attempt?). Fun evening.

(setup 8.38″ null machine deck, venture 5.8 wides, venom 88a bushings, green spitfire F4 52mm classic 99a wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, nbnumeric 254s cream/gum with lunarlon insoles)

Day 5. My cramps have shinners! A pre-airport roll around at the mellow Longmont park with @corpoglenny and @ollie.gillingham. Thanks for an amazing trip! See you soon Seattle! #wehaveeachothersback #vertsocks #ColoRadicalSabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift #jpskatecrap

A post shared by Joshua Pluger (@boredzinejp) on Jun 12, 2017 at 3:38pm PDT

@corpoglenny and I with #rabethica tributes on the last day of the trip. #ColoRadicalSabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift #alssucks #jpskatecrap

A post shared by Joshua Pluger (@boredzinejp) on Jun 13, 2017 at 8:18pm PDT

The last day of the trip! Josh was the last one standing. We wanted a mellow park and we got it. We were pretty beat and staring out was hard, but not as hard as I thought it would be. I didn’t try many ollie or flip tricks though. The rainbow grind took Josh and I awhile. Ollie did the wallride every time. Even once with onto the first stair and front 180 off the second. Josh was doing some rad lines using and using the course to it’s potential. Ha. The quarterpipe tricks were sick though, that qp is so weird. The ollies over the weird hip were sick too. Josh did the bean plant transfer and it hyped me up to try it too. It was way scarier then I thought it would be. I eventually got the lame slow motion slider variation, but it was fun. We did sone from nose slides. Correction. Josh did sone front noseslides, I didn’t land them. But for the record I had did one earlier so it’s good. I’m not remembering much else. Josh ripped it. I wish we could skate that park together more.

(setup 8.38″ null machine deck, venture 5.8 wides, venom 88a bushings, green spitfire F4 52mm classic 99a wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, nbnumeric 254s cream/gum with lunarlon insoles)

Day 4. My cramps have cramps! We hit Northside and Spring Canyon. Then we took a nostalgic skate through my Alma mater, C.S.U.. With @bovine_recapitation and @corpoglenny #ColoRadicalSabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift #nostalgiaruleseverythingaroundme #jpskatecrap

A post shared by Joshua Pluger (@boredzinejp) on Jun 11, 2017 at 11:03pm PDT

The Fremonsters split town early. Josh, Chief, Rob, Neil and I rolled up to Fort Collins. After MRKT we went to Northside and the crew started getting bigger. Matt H, Ed, Shane, John, Nate, Hayden, and many locals joined us. I skated like total garbage other than a switch front nose on the ledge. I tried to get back ollies up the MJ ledge, but it was embarrassing. Josh had some sick manuals over it. Regular manual, nose manual, maybe nose to manny? Nate too. Matt and Nate were slaying the ledge. Matt almost did back nosegrind nollie front shove out. I can’t even understand how to do that. Josh was cruising the rest of the park too. It was great seeing John again. He had a nice John Brandow shove. Neil was doing a lot of filming. Rob was ripping. I filmed Hayden get a few tricks first try.

#bffs @hayden.don.miller @jackspanbauer @nolancormier

A post shared by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Jun 13, 2017 at 7:51pm PDT

@nolancormier doubles with @fullertrron #coloradicalsabbatical2017

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We eventually grew tired of the park and left for Spring Canyon where Jack, Carleigh and Nolan joined us too. We started with a game of SKATE where John straight up took everyone out in like 5 tricks. Well, except for Jack and Nolan and a couple others. I was bummed on how much I suck at flatground now. Then I filmed Neil for awhile and he was bummed on my filming and it made me mad. It was good though. There was so much going on with so many people skating that I hardly remember any of it. Nolan doing an air over Fuller was amazing. Jack did a back bigspin to switch manual. Josh had nose manuals and a nose manual big I think? And lots more as he skated hard the whole time. Carleigh with the frontside wallrides and pole jams. Rob halfcab noseslide the tall bench. John with the quick feet to 50 the back of the tall bench. Rob, Carleigh, Dave, John and I hucked 360 flips for awhile. John did his first two and bounced. Dave came incredibly close. I never got one and I blame the bulky shoes. In fact I could barely kickflip. Josh came over and got the 3 flip and added nollie heel to the game. Jack, Nolan and Hayden did BFF kickflips. Then we left for food.

Great times with @fullertrron @neilsoffire @boredzinejp at CSU last night. #coloradicalsabbatical2017 #handrails

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 12, 2017 at 7:46am PDT

Low and behold we skated more! Well, some of us. Rob, Dave, Neil, Josh and I. And even then we basically only skated one spot which is the rail spot above. It was fun. And I had switched to vulcs I had in the car and skating seemed way more fun and doable. But yeah, we skated a rail for a half hour or so. No biggee. It was a blast even though we were all super sore. There were some funny slam. Neil’s street plants were epic. So were Dave’s “ollies”. ha ha. I got a boneless transfer and a boneless 360 bonk (accidental bonk and only 270 but I’m not being judged on number of rotations so I think that’s ok). Josh’s line was sick. I think Rob mostly sat. We went and checked out the Clark building hip which is more cracked out then it used to be. Rob, Dave and Neil bounced. Josh and I 180’d the hip and then basically just walked around campus and reminisced about our days at CSU. The dorm rooms look exactly the same.

(setup 8.38″ null machine deck, venture 5.8 wides, venom 88a bushings, green spitfire F4 52mm classic 99a wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, nbnumeric 868 12 black/gum with old stock NB# insoles(until the end when I switched to 254s with lunarlon insoles)