After a long day with jury duty and a nap or two I went to the school not really expecting much. Some people were playing basketball on the new court so I went in the back to check out some rocks. I tried to warm up with some stalls and was getting into them when a neighbor walking here dog decided to talk to me and make me feel weird about skating these rocks. Ugh. The rocks are good though and would be really good for me to keep trying to ollie up onto them. I hit the basketball court for a minute after that, but there were pebbles and lumps everywhere. So I skated in front of the house for awhile. Started okay with kickflip, pop shove, halfcab flip first try. But struggled with fakie flip and then fakie bigflip. I did get a great feeling treflip though and a first try b/s flip. Came close to frontside halfcab heel. Man I wish these shoes would die, but I think the’ll last forever.

(setup null spanbauer 8.38″ deck, venture v-light 5.8, bones medium bushings, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, old 51mm spitfire f4 classics, new balance numeric 212 sand 11, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)

A little sample of the fun had yesterday. @hayden.don.miller @garrettswheelers @monico_dan_can #yesmonicowasplayingbillyjoel

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@monico_dan_can !!!

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Jack and Hayden met at my house at 7am and after swooping Garrett up in Denver we were off to Trinidad to meet up with Monico. We met there because it’s halfway for both of us. We arrived at the park to Monico with his camera pointed at us and Elton John playing. Cracked us up. Hugs and board exchanges later we hit the park. We started in the lower part. Man that park is wild. Weird lumpy transitions with cracks and holes in spots. I didn’t skate down there much, mostly just posed and watched the ripping. Jack did some cool nose stalls going up the bank to hubba, kickflip nose stall first try. A couple broken decks later he was chilling. Ha. Garrett flowed, but wasn’t feeling it too much either. Monico was jumping on the rails/hubba right away and doing flippers all over the place. Man he’s good. Hayden popped some lofty b/s ollies on the oval lump, airs over snowboard jump, grinds and apparently jumped over Monico when they were trying to film lines.

Then we skated the ‘street’ section. It would have been more fun for me had the first step not been mostly wet. I had some fun 50s and came somewhat close to a slow switch front crook. Hayden’s nose manual is ridiculous. Garrett never quite got the line, but the Powell Magic is funny either way. Monico was shredding so hard. The 180s up and switch/fakie tricks off came quick. The front 50 up the weird corner ledge took a minute, but wow.

We left the park looking for some street spots. I joked how we should find a 15 stair for Monico. Well to my surprise a few minutes later we did. And he skated it! It was surreal to there filming Monico get buck. Well, I didn’t really film because my daughter had taken the memory card out of the camera and forget to put it back. Argh. Luckily Jack got a killer angle. Thanks Jack.

After a stop at Zumiez so Jack could be an Independent shirt (ha) we hit Pueblo CSU. Jack setup a new board, Garrett and Hayden played on the ledge area and I went to go skated this little bank spot. They all came and joined me. That thing is so fun. I was doing lots of back 5-0s, took awhile to get some front 5-0s, posed some front nosegrinds and back hurricanes. Hayden did some crazy bluntslide combos. The bluntslide body varial was crazy. He also did no comply tailslide easily too. Garrett had some blunts too, tailslides, and posed the photo above. Jack was struggling then did a b/s flip nosegrind like it was nothing. Amazing. I think he got a noseblunt too. We skated this bench to bank area. Jack got a sick manual popped into the bank, Hayden with a crazy fastplant then hardflip. Garrett got a nose manual, but cheated the landing a little. I posed some 360 no complys out. Man I felt bad.

Then we hit the newer Pueblo park. It’s pretty neat, but most of the stuff we all wanted to skate is right in the same area. Jack and I were really struggling. I came super close to focusing my board. It took me 20 tries to get a front 50 on the tiny bank to curb. Garrett was ripping. Solid basics that look good. Front tail, front noseslides. Hayden did some really crazy stuff. The front noseslide bonk thing, wallie 50s, 5-0 t fakie the China bank. Last thing I tried was a back 50 on it that took too long. I guess I at least went over the hip thing. Jack shut it down with manual up, manual down kickflip out then later ollie up kickflip to switch manual down. So sick. Fun day with the Nullers. We got a good thing going.

(setup null spanbauer 8.38″ deck, venture v-light 5.8, bones medium bushings, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, old 51mm spitfire f4 classics, new balance numeric 212 sand 11, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)

Super random and awesome day with @ollie.gillingham and @skateboard_chicken

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Slept in for once on a Saturday which is 8:15 am these days. Felt nice. My nuts were fine, but somehow I actually hurt my right ankle yesterday. Not bad enough to prevent me from skating, but enough to need additional stretching in the morning. Saul biked over and we piled into my car with Ollie. We went to Triple Nipple which was surprisingly crowded. This made warming up in the cooler weather even harder. Ollie and I played on the little qp up top a lot where we did the double front rocks. Ollie also did rock ‘n roll and halfcab over the hip. He skated around the park and didn’t seem too bothered with the masses. I struggled to get it together, took a long time to get a tiny crook on the ledge. Saul was bummed on the crowd too. It wasn’t like people were jerks or anything, we knew a lot of them, it’s just a small park and hard to skate when it’s crowded. I saw him hit some fun lines though which is exactly what that park is about.

After a 303 / donut stop we randomly chose the Mott’s. When we got there Ric and Christian were there. So sick. As well as a few other rippers. Ollie only took two runs in the bowl. Saul was quick on long grinds like it was nothing. I get thrown off by the tile. My brain thinks as soon as I hit it I’m on the coping. So it took awhile to get a few little grinds, but I had fun. Ric was shredding. Grinds over the hips, smiths. Christian makes transition looks really fun. Ha. He can do all kinds of grinds/slides anywhere. Seeing the Mott’s skate was rad too. Ashley is killing it so soon after having a baby. Those two are good people. Then we needed to bounce.

(setup null spanbauer 8.38″ deck, venture v-light 5.8, bones medium bushings, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, old 51mm spitfire f4 classics, new balance numeric 212 sand 11, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)