A post shared by Rob Helmstetter (@43shifty) on May 22, 2018 at 9:02pm PDT

Another Tuesday night session. When I got there only a few people were at the park and Rob and Neil were using a t-shrit to wipe up some puddles. Apparently it had rained in Broomfield. The park wasn’t bad though. As always it took me the longest to crack my tail. Neil was high energy hitting everything. Noseslides, 50s, ollies, wallies, boardslides real quick together. Rob was building on the lines he does there with some stuff I haven’t seen before like back 50 down the escalator ledge, front 50s. Then it rained for a bit. I tried to stay loose by doing flatground under the pavilion, but I felt like I was just annoying everyone. A bunch of people started to show. The session was real heated for awhile and I felt like every time I would get going I would stop and talk for awhile. But seriously, here’s the list of people that were skating (and I’m sure I’m forgetting someone). Carleigh, Rob, Neil, Jake, Ed, Matt, Donnie, Will, Chris, Eric, eventually Fuzz. Not to mention there was of course other people that showed up to skate. So, some highlights from what I remember. Jake noseblunts the parking block. Rob back lips the parking block, boardslides to feeble on it too after paying with some good slams. Carleigh lipslide the parking block and back d the brick qp. Donnie switch hurricanes the brick qp, switch front 5-0 up the steep bank. Chris front board brown ledge, back 180 nosegrind the black ledge. Ed 43 shifty, front lip the parking block. I didn’t see Matt actually land a treflip, but he said he did it first try. He also did back 50s and back 5-0s very easily on the black ledge. Jake and I played a game of SKATE where I nearly focused my board after starting with two letters on fakie flip. He almost pink slipped me, but I managed to finally get him with heelflip and fakie bigflip, also landed a defensive 3 shove and a fakie 3 shove! I forget what he won on. Will was doing long front and back 5-0s, I saw a casual nollie heel. Near the end Eric did like 20 heelflips, he had a nice back 50 on the blue ledge. Then him and Fuzz ended by trying fakie heelflips. Fuzz had a good slam on one, but came back a few tries later and landed a good one right before the lights shut off. So many rad people skating. I tend to lock up in crowded situations so it’s kind of a battle for me just to skate, but I still love seeing everyone and it was a fun time for sure. Pretty sure I will be switching to a smaller setup after tonights performance.

(setup 8.38 null atomic cowboy deck, venture 5.8 black icon trucks, 51mm bones stf v1, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, bones medium bushings, es accel slim all black size 11.5, footprints gamechanger lite insoles)

After work I went to Dog Park to meet Rob and Neil. I got there first, did some dynamic stretching things then started the warm up process. I had done a couple things then randomly started trying cabs. I may have gotten a couple that could pass as defense in an over 80 game of SKATE. Rob and Neil showed. It was really warm and nice out. There were some warm up lines that everyone tried, but I think only Rob did. The cone started sideways. I had some fun kickflips over the little part of it. Rob was getting his lines going. Neil was breaking protocol and going off the course. Ha. Man it ruled seeing Neil out there. Him and Rob were doing lots of lines with 180s over the cones then a flip trick. I was trying to put the flip trick before the cone, but rarely landing them. The cone was put upright. Rob and Neil went over it first try no problem. I had to hype myself up to try it so I did that with a heelflip and got over the cone first try. That’s a first for me. Felt cool. Rob would go on to 180 it both ways and bean plant over it. Neil halfcabbed it I think. I couldn’t get 360 flip or nollie 3 flip. Then I had to go.

(setup 8.38 null atomic cowboy deck, venture 5.8 black icon trucks, 51mm bones stf v1, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, bones medium bushings, es accel slim all black size 11.5, footprints gamechanger lite insoles)