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

A post shared by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Jun 16, 2017 at 9:49am PDT

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)

@the_neviathan nollie lip pop #coloradicalsabbatical2017

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 10, 2017 at 10:44am PDT

First spot of the day – Joey Clams kf manny the top and then the roller coaster ride to the bottom #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift #coloradicalsabbatical2017

A post shared by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 10, 2017 at 11:22am PDT

Up pretty early to skate! It was already very hot outside, but we got to Wilville sometime around 9am. I was on a wider setup so my shoes didn’t feel so big. It helped. There were two separate sessions going on. The manny pad and the ledge area. I went in between both. The ledge was popping. Nate, Joe, Damon, Josh were killing it. Nate nollie front lip pop out, boardslide pop, boardslide pop to fakie. Joe boardslide pop, halfcab boardslide pop out. Damon fakie nosegrind back tail, tried cab back tail. Josh front tail fakie, crooks, boardslide pop out. I got noseslide. Pretty sick huh? On the manny pad Matt got nollie varial heel manual to the bank, Dan was trying a fakie shove fakie manual, Eric pretended he wasn’t ollieing at all when he turned into manual. I tried switch 180 manuals for awhile. Didn’t get too close. Then Josh, Joe and I tried kickflip manuals for awhile. I started off feeling pretty good about it then started totally losing kickflips. What the heck. I started hating the bulky 868s. Josh got one perfect. It was so sick. At that point I gave up. Joe kept with it though and nailed one. Sick!

Day 3: I'm cramping as I write this! Rad-making in a ditch! Spots 1: Willville 2: 287 ditch 3: Crisis curb 4: Red Hawk 5: Brian Ball mini Ditch rippers: @corpoglenny, @neilsoffire @gnarlycarleigh, @_f_u_z_z, @nolancormier and @jackspanbauer #ColoRadicalSabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift #theditchtookoutmyshin #jpskatecrap

A post shared by Joshua Pluger (@boredzinejp) on Jun 10, 2017 at 10:11pm PDT

Then we went to 287 ditch. The crew grew larger and I grew more tired. Fuzz, Rob, Neil, Nolan, Carleigh, Jack joined us. It was hot and I was not feeling it. Josh bashed his shin and wasn’t feeling it either. We sat next to the human crap and watched others. Gross. Jack and Nolan did double noseblunts. Nolan almost got back noseblunt, then did nosegrind on the parking block and switch nosegrind too. Insane. Jack had some moves. Front tail shove, hurricanes, bigspin manuals. Rob front tailslide. Joe kickflip rock ‘n roll. Eric boardslides and surprisingly no staple guns that I can remember. Carleigh with bluntslides and tailslides. Neil was in the back doing his patented ollies on every wall and trying to get things working. Fuzz had some fast and steezy noseslides.

We gathered at Crisis. After awhile we broke in the newly repainted parking blocks. I did a bunch of slappy crooks as did Rob. Jack hurricanes. Boardslides by all.

Got a solid couple hours in before the cops gave us the boot

A post shared by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 10, 2017 at 5:18pm PDT

Then we went to Red Hawk where the crew got even bigger with Riley and Garrett joining. It quickly turned into the Riley demo. First try out of the car manual the stage then immediately to switch manual. He was going full speed into switch manual and fakie ollied into the rock. Unbelievable. There is no way I can remember what all everyone was doing. I was feeling off and kind of trying to hide, but it was hard with everyone there. I had one good crook and that was about it. Josh front 180’d up the stage and nose manual the rock. Neil had an incredible line with front lip then front nosegrind. It was great seeing Neil shred it. Jack and Riley did quick ledge tricks then ollied the 10. Remember a few days ago when Jack thought he broke his toe? There was so much ripping going on. Matt did quick up to nose manny the stage. Joe did front lip to front 5-0. It was quite incredible seeing so many great friends ripping so hard. Unfortunately we got the boot.

Party at Brian's ramp #coloradicalsabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift

A post shared by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 10, 2017 at 6:42pm PDT

@nolancormier taking cues from @brianfrancisball #coloradicalsabbatical2017

A post shared by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Jun 11, 2017 at 7:24am PDT

Fortunately Brian’s was right there and we went to his ramp to skate and bbq. A lot of shredding was had there too. I enjoyed it and had a couple okay runs for myself before retiring to food and mosquito bites. It was fun watching Nolan and Riley there. Brian is so good on the ramp too. 360 drop in?!?! I think everyone did their tricks. Neil almost got killed by a board shoot out, Dan did get killed by one. Fun ender for a fun day.

(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)

@fullertrron is too good #coloradicalsabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift

A post shared by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 9, 2017 at 11:30am PDT

@boredzinejp knows how to rock #coloradicalsabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift

A post shared by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 9, 2017 at 11:50am PDT

I felt pretty lucky to have been allowed to sleep in all the way to like 7:30am by Fremonsters. We were at Evergreen by 9:30 am or so. Crazy. I love Evergreen park. The crew was Ollie, Dave, Matt R, Joe, Eric, Dan, Damon, Jake, Josh, Chief (who just slept in the car), Rob, Neil so if I miss some tricks let me also say I’m writing this a week later. We were there 2-3 hours. It was hot, but not too hot. I was annoyed with how big and bulky my shoes were and how they made my board feel so tiny. I struggled and the only tricks I got were super sketchy and terrible (b/s flip, halfcab flip, f/s halfcab flip). Joe got his first ever halfcab flip over the hip. Matt and Damon did nollie big heels. Josh had front big and a nice frontside flip. Dave had back bigspins, 360s, front shoves. Dave, Jake and Josh killed the steep qp. The ledges were skated. Dan had 50s to manuals. Eric got the drone angles. I wish I remembered more.

Best skatepark #coloradicalsabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift #oververt

A post shared by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 9, 2017 at 4:38pm PDT

Then we went to Golden. It was my first time there. It was incredibly hot out, but it kept the crowds down. I mostly slacked initially as I was super sore and took a little nap in the shade. The visitors were hyped and skated hard though. Carves in the Big O replica. Ledges, wallies, lines, speed races through the park. Josh and I skated the tiny qp for awhile which was my fav part of it. He got pivot to fakie which he hasn’t done in years. I didn’t. I got a front pivot to fakie though. Ollie did some stuff too. Then we joined the race around the park to ride up the stairs. I was feeling extremely clumsy. Ollie skated almost the whole time. He was pumping the Big O, doing ride on grinds and showing up Joe. It was rad. Eric was grinding the tall qp. Josh slashed the tall bank. Ollie showed up Joe with a f/s halfcab. Matt did a bunch of manual tricks. Damon front boarded the big rail. Chief pumped the Big O for a bit, but it hurt his knee too much. Neil must have been hurting because I don’t remember much Neil action.

@mattrief getting blunted in an amazing backyard bowl #bettercallsaul #coloradicalsabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift

A post shared by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 9, 2017 at 8:14pm PDT

Then after some food and driving back to Boulder we went to Sauls. The crew swelled to a big size. Eric F, Lazer, Nolan, Jake joined. Everyone seemed to have fun. I didn’t skate much as I was sore and I felt like others should enjoy it. Saul showed how to do the quickest grinds back to back to back to back. So sick. Nolan slammed on his first wall, so you know it’s tough to skate. But he ended up totally slaying it. Dan was ripping, lots of disasters. Eric boardslid around a corner. Josh front smiths and disasters. Lazer looking good. Dave displaying his large bag of tricks. Matt Rief with the slam of the night. Eric F ride on grind into the bowl. It was a really fun session.

(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 868 12 black/gum with old stock NB# insoles)

A small sample of yesterday @boredzinejp @ericjeckert #coloradicalsabbatical2017 @idrawmazes @ditchlife

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 9, 2017 at 6:04am PDT

After being in so much pain just skating a little the night before I tried something new. NB# 868s with old stock NB insoles. At first the crew was Joe, Damon, Rob, Neil and me. We played a game of SKATE. My new shoes were feeling great and I actually got first try heelflip and halfcab flip. I ended up losing to Damon, but it was a good warm up. Then I went to get Josh and when I got back the rest of the Nebraskans where there. Eric, Matt and Dan. After a quick hello the shredding commenced. Josh, Eric and I hit the steep bank for a bit. Josh’s front disasters were sick. I took a lot of tries for the front rock. Jack showed. Carleigh showed. Remembering what everyone did is impossible. Especially several days later. I will say I was impressed with how hard Rob was ripping (back lip the parking block!). Jack too. I guess it’s more expected with Jack, but it’s always kind of mind blowing.

First spot #coloradicalsabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift #momsspaghetti

A post shared by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 8, 2017 at 8:50pm PDT

Then we went to Stonehenge. I was incredibly sore. Too sore to kickturn on the barrier. I hucked some pivots and stalls on the bank to curb, but not much worked. Josh, Dan and Eric were hitting the barrier. Josh did a feeble on it. Dan fakie tail and fakie disaster. Eric rock to fakie. It rained for awhile. Eventually it dried up and we hit things again. I got a terrible no comply to tail on the bank to curb. Josh did nose picks. Joe had some moves too. Nolan showed and after a few warm up bank to curb tricks went nuts on the barrier. “Hey Glen, should I do the blunt bigspin again?” Dan also did fakie tail revert. Eric decked his boardslide fakie. Richard showed and did front tail revert. Damon did frontside feeble. Nolan did everything.

(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 868 12 black/gum with old stock NB# insoles)

I've always wanted to check this spot out. Last night it happened. @joerhamilton @damon1819 #coloradicalsabbatical2017 #badcameraplacement

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 8, 2017 at 8:21am PDT

Joe, Damon and I rolled to Arvada to the foundation spot. We were in the process of checking it out and rolling around when we got the cowgirl boot. Then we were driving toward triple nipple and I remembered wanting to check out this bank spot. So we did. It was pretty fun and we skated for longer than I thought we would. It grinded really good. There is a light hill so frontside for regs is a bit of work. Backside grinds worked so well. There was also a little bench that Joe 50’d a few times. It had a funny wave in it. I noseslid it, Damon probably did something too, but I missed it. The bank was fun. I thought I did some back smiths, but on the footy review it was just a bad looking slash. I’m bummed the camera missed a lot of Joes tricks, but happy we had something.

Then we went to Triple Nipple. Fuzz was already busting boosty ollies over a boob. Or as Joe said, going Total Recall. Jack found out his toe wasn’t broken so he was skating hard. Lipslide to 5-0, back lip, back 5-0, lots of tricks on the ledge. I saw Carleigh do a bunch of back disasters, kickflips and varial flips. Neil was busy snaking Fuzz, trying to do shoves quick and trying to get a noseslide shove like Carleigh. Fuzz and I struggled with crooks. Fuzz was doing solid back 50s on the ledge, switch noseslides, such a good halfcab noseslide. At one point Nate pretended to snake me which sent me in another dudes path who I collided with and then Fuzz came out of nowhere and nailed him too so we sandwiched him. It was hilarious. Nate destroyed the ledge. Back 5-0, back nosegrind, nollie front 5-0, fakie nosegrind, fakie nosegrind shove out, kickflips into the wedge grind. Totally shredding. Richard showed up and slayed it. Nollie nosegrind, nose manual nollie flip out, back nosegrind, back 5-0, kick back nosegrind. Damon had backside flip over an awkward hip and a lot more I’m not remembering right now. Rob was flying through the park with so much style. My feet were f’ing killing me. I did a switch front noseslide, but other then that it was a wash. A dude at the park did front smith kickflip out. Joe did a bunch of fakie 50 combos and fulfilled our request to do a back 50. Fun crew, fun park, perfect weather.

(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 gamechanger insoles)

Rolled to the research center with Joe and Damon where we met Matt and eventually Carleigh and Jack. There was another dude there skating too, he was cool. We started out riding down the stairs. I had spenco insoles with adidas insoles on top of them and it felt really thick. Joe added a front 180 off the last stair, Matt nosebonked a ledge, we moved on to the main show. The ledge. People were doing their own thing. Sometimes on top of the hill trying lines, sometimes posting at the ledge. Matt missed a few treflips and back 50s so he clearly needs to be skating more. Damon was trying fakie flip lines. Fakie flip, fakie heel, fakie tre. Some other flippers too. He can do hardflips way too easy. Frontside Joe was in effect. Regular or fakie. Front shove or bigspin. Jack and Carleigh showed. Jack hurt his foot so he was just doing manuals and carving around. Carleigh did some noseslides, kickflips and the ol’ Rabethica. I got a crooks, some terrible front nose jibs (some of which were front crook attempts), couldn’t ollie high enough to do back 50. Matt had front tail to fakie and front 5-0 to fakie. Joe was doing fakie 50 front cabs out. Matt and I were trying noseslide 270 shoves. Damon was trying cab back tails. Oh yeah, he got a first try kick back tail. Dang! I was hurting bad and switched to the Gamechangers halfway through and felt much better.

(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, spenco insoles then gamechanger insoles)

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)