Started at a crazy ditch with ledge on top and a wide spine. I walked up the ditch for awhile to look at it. Then played SKATE with Hayden, Monico and Nolan on a super mellow bank on top of the ditch while Sean, Garrett and Jack warmed up on the ledge. It was a super fun game. There were a bunch of silly tricks, some standard tricks. I was happy to get a first try sex change, a front 540 kickturn and much more I can’t remember right now. I got taken out by a flamingo. Hayden had it too. I’m not sure who won, I went on to film. Jack and Monico got good tricks pretty quickly. Garrett on the other hand took a long time, but it was well worth it. Then we looked at a hip/over guardrail spot in the same ditch. It had gotten super windy though. Hayden got a couple cool tricks and Sean almost died trying a huge 180. Glad he survived.

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Then we went to campus. We all did wallrides on this. Jack’s was so good. Monico somehow wallied over this in the past?!?!?! Hayden had some incredibly good wallride nollies. I had some fun ones. Then we filmed Nolan rock fakie it. So nuts!

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After that it was the mini hubba area where the pressure was on my to noseslide it. I had a nervous feeling in me, but somehow this visit to the spot made it seem doable. The six stair is longer than it looks. Monico put down a few basics. Jack did a few other side slides. Like over to noseblunt, then over to front blunt. He was slamming but man the one he got was insane. Hayden tried front 180 fakie 5-0 180 for a long time. I was in the mix, trying noseslides every so slowly taking baby steps towards really trying it. I’m going to write a lot about it, because it was one of my favorite things I’ve done on my skateboard. I was getting no confidence from flatground tricks as I bailed one after the other. I was would go so painfully slow and just barely get my board up on it. But all of the Nullers were being encouraging and kept wanting me to try. At one point I started talking trash about how easy noseslides are and finally went fast and fully tried. I didn’t land it that try, but the feeling of finally committing and standing on it was incredible. I would do a few more that I really thought I would land, but I kept coming up short. I lost some momentum and couldn’t commit again for awhile. I thought I was gonna be defeated. I knew this would haunt me for a long time if I didn’t get it. Somehow I convinced myself to really try it and I landed it. It’s kind of funny because it didn’t feel right, but it was the one I landed. Like I wasn’t really on top or something. But wow, yeah I landed it. Jack got a rad photo, Nolan filmed it great. A huge thank you to Sean, Nolan, Monico, Jack and Garrett for motivating me and sticking with me. I didn’t skate a ton on the trip, but this noseslide made it worth it.

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After that was the icing on the cake. We spotted a curved curb by the van. Hayden and I started messing around with slappy crooks. It was fun to commit to it. Hayden got one first. Then I got one and he got my back with the 180 out. It was a super rad feeling and such a great way to end the day. Some more slappies were had after this, but I stopped because my stoke was so high. Amazing day.

(setup 8.25 null nolan deck, Venture 5.6 trucks, venom 88a bushings , spitfire F4 52mm 99a green swirl wheels, 2 washers inside each axle, new balance numeric 306 Foy b/w size 12, footprints gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 2/10)

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Up not so early on a gorgeous day we set out to this spot. It was just me and the Nullers for this spot, Monico would arrive a little later than the rest of us. It’s crazy how spots like this are just everywhere in ABQ. People did their warm ups. Garrett died on a drop in that slid out. It was sketch. So he was out of it for most of the session. Jack and Nolan made noseblunts look easy. Hayden styled out some ollies to fakie and noseslides. Sean did a lot of flatground and had some sick front tailslides. I skated, but didn’t really land anything. Then I filmed Nolan get a banger 5-0 to fakie. You know it’s gnarly if Nolan is filming a 5-0 to fakie. Monico showed and skated some flat with Sean and Hayden.

Then we went to the insane rainbow bank spot. It is so much gnarlier than it looks in videos. Jack did a noseblunt on it right away. So incredibly gnarly. I putzed around on the bottom bank that everyone jumps over on their run out. It has these fun little 1′ gaps. I’m surprised there was no forensics on it at all. I took a long time to do a little gap to back tail. I technically didn’t roll away because of rocks, but whatever, I needed to start filming Jack destroy himself. And oh man did he ever. Jack was so close so many times to noseblunt shove, but man he slammed. Over and over, hard. It was a brutal display in determination and stubbornness. Hayden and Garrett skated the hip on the other side. Hayden put down a sick varial flip. I was impressed how quickly Garrett did back 3 over the hip. Too bad we were joined by the Agush who already did blizzard flip because Garrett was close to that too, but when he heard it was ABD he stopped trying. Nolan got a cool front tail to 5-0 and somehow avoided death on the roll away. Jack eventually had to stop. I felt bad for him, but the effort was commendable.

Then we went downtown. Went to a ledge over trashcan spot that Monico kickflipped so casually first try, but we got the boot. So we went to a nearby spot that Monico and Sean killed. Monico makes tall things look short. He had a sick back 3 into a bank. Sean did such a powerful back 5-0 to front 180 into the bank. His ledge skating is incredible. Then we were off to dinner. Yum.

(setup 8.25 null nolan deck, Venture 5.6 trucks, venom 88a bushings , spitfire F4 52mm 99a green swirl wheels, 2 washers inside each axle, new balance numeric 306 Foy b/w size 12, footprints gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 5/10)

On a nice day we headed out in a van from Boulder at 9am. It was Jack, Hayden, Sean, Garrett and me. First stop was a flat bar in CO Springs that looked awesome. I posed like I was going to boardslide it, but that was about it. Jack and Hayden had some warm ups on it before we got the boot. Then we were in Pueblo near the shop and looking at a tall flat rail. I did a wallie nollie or two. Nulls posed some tricks to get a feel, but we got the boot there too. Doh. So we ended up at the dam spot. I did a few tricks on the tiny qp up top. Hayden joined at times. Then we all mostly rolled into the bank and tried tricks on the qp. Except for Sean who mostly just skated the ledge. Nosegrinds, nosegrind 180, 5-0s, all looking good. I tried some layback front rocks. I thought I was committing, but they never stuck with my feet. I filmed Jack stomp a nosepick/impossible line really quick. Then Garrett work for hurricanes. Jack also did a nosepick shove which was ridiculous.

A short drive to Albuquerque later (ha ha) we ended up at UNM. We had Nolan and Monico with us!!!!!! We went to a fun plaza area with some plastic ledges and tall concrete curbs. Everyone messed around for awhile. It was fun to watch. I was feeling very tired, but since I wasn’t filming tried my best to actually skate. Had a fun switch front nose. Then pieced a dork line of halfcab noseslide, kickflip on flat, front 180 a 3 stair. Monico bounced. Everyone but Sean played no comply SKATE. Looked fun. I think Hayden one after they changed it to sudden death. Sean ollied a bunch of stairs. Jack did a sick wallride. Then we hit the parking garage with Nick and Dean. Sean had a nice front 50. Jack back 50 flop out, kick back 50. Fun night.

(setup 8.25 null nolan deck, Venture 5.6 trucks, venom 88a bushings , spitfire F4 52mm 99a green swirl wheels, 2 washers inside each axle, new balance numeric 306 Foy b/w size 12, footprints gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 3/10)