On a nice afternoon after working from home I met Saul over at the school. We talked about the state of things for awhile then went in on the slappies. Saul was grinding them longer than normal. Especially his frontside ones. He had a pretty good slam too. We tried back smith slappies. Maybe we kinda got them. I was feeling better on my board than I had in weeks. Maybe it was the new PT, maybe wearing vulcs again, but it felt great to skate. Until I missed a front slappy and kinda tweaked my knee. But the pain didn’t stay intense for very long and I was back to skating. I tried a line of f/s halfcab flip, slappy, kick back tail. Never got the first or last trick, but did land no them. My slappies felt better than normal. Going the other way I was trying front slappy, back 180 onto the downhill curb cut then fakie tre the curb cut. Never committed to the fakie tre, but it felt doable. Fun session.

(setup 8.38 null curby deck, venture 5.8 cast baseplate with titanium hanger, 51mm bones stf v1 with all speed washers on the outside of the axle, bones medium bushings, jessup ultra grip, new balance numeric 306 Foy blue/white size 12, footprint gamechanger orthotic insoles)
(pain level 3/10 except for awhile when the knee was hurting like 7/10)

After a cold and cloudy start to the day I hit the curbs for awhile while Jack and Sean figured out where to skate. I had some good fun. Got the basic slappies and started piecing together some harder lines. Was trying slappy front crook, front slappy, front shove off curb cut to the street. Somehow I kept not rolling away from the front shove though. I blame cupsoles. Oh, I had tried the stock insoles again. Also going the other way I was doing kickflip then slappy then trying kick back tails. I got close, but no cigar. Then I went to Wilville and we skated some flat and the manny pad for awhile. Sean may have gotten fakie flip then halfcab manual. Jack did some frontside flips, nollie flips, maybe switch heel? He was trying front shove nose manual. I didn’t do much. Had gotten a few super slow fakie flips, almost a halfcab flip, almost a nose manual before we left.

Then we went to this building. I posed some back 50s. Sean ollied a fun bump over a bush. Jack battled and stomped a gnarly wallride.

Then we walked for a bit and ended up at Southern Hills. Jack had first try fakie nosegrind. Man I need to learn that. My legs were shot though. I struggled to get 50s on the first step, noseslides and a couple crook jibs on the bench. Jack would get some more tricks, but was pretty beat after the wallride battle. It was rad seeing Sean’s warmup process to get through the basics. Front 50, front 5-0, front tail, front nosegrind, front lip. All so perfect. Then I filmed him get a rad manual trick. Front 180 nose manual 180 out. Dude rips. I got cold from sitting and filming at the end and felt sick after. Winter sucks to film. Actually, just filming so much sucks too.

(setup 8.38 null curby deck, venture 5.8 cast baseplate with titanium hanger, 51mm bones stf v1 with all speed washers on the outside of the axle, bones medium bushings, jessup ultra grip, new balance numeric 913 westgates black/yellow size 12, footprint gamechanger low profile orthotic insoles, incrediwear knee sleeve)
(pain level 6/10)

After some fun PT at the Denver Facility Kevin and I ended up at the Denver museum of nature and science. We skated for awhile feeling the place out. I was able to ollie with no pain, but it felt so weird. I didn’t land much. I had some halfcab noseslides on the little ledge, boardslides, noseslides, got close to fakie nosegrind, a few switch noseslides. Had some fakie flips. Got a few crooks on the taller one. Kevin had been itching to film a line so I starting filming. That would turn into the end of my skating :(. Oh yeah, Dave L, Jack and Carleigh had shown. Jack had a crazy slam initially that sounded bad. He would go on to do some crazy tricks like 180 switch crooks both ways, fakie nosegrind to show me up, pop shove crooks, almost kick back noseblunt?!?!?! Carleigh mostly skated flatground. I saw a nice halfcab flip and she got front 50 on the ledge. Dave L had some nice fast front boards, front 50s, hurricanes and some flippers like treflip I saw. I filmed for a really long time. I was happy Kevin got a really good line. Kick back 5-0, Janoski flip, halfcab blunt. Then we went to Pete’s and enjoyed one of the last few nights of restaurants being open.

(setup 8.38 null curby deck, venture 5.8 cast baseplate with titanium hanger, 51mm bones stf v1 with all speed washers on the outside of the axle, bones medium bushings, jessup ultra grip, new balance numeric 913 westgates black/yellow size 12, footprint gamechanger low profile orthotic insoles, incrediwear knee sleeve)
(pain level 3/10)

After my first full day of working from home thanks to Coronavirus I met Dave at Louisville park. It had been snowing lightly off and on all day, but it was dry when we started. And boy was it a rough start for me. I should probably warm up at skatepark more though, because pumping around and stuff felt good. Dave was doing cool pole jam bonks off the side of the rainbow rail and front noseslides. I started hucking the trick Dave challenged me to, nollie front bigs over the hip. Dave was ollieing onto the pad to get into the bank so I started trying too. It was embarrassing how many tries it took me to get onto it. And when I started to commit they were sketchy. Oh well, it felt good to ollie again. Dave had some cool feebles, nose stalls, axle stalls on the bank to curb. I had settled in on a line of switch nose jib, ollie onto the pad then nollie front big over the hip. I was super hyped to get it. Thanks for filming Dave! He got a really cool line too of pole jam, nollie into the weird bank, then back 180 fakie 50. Tech Dave. I took a long time to get super slow front 50s on the lowest part of the ledge, but managed to get a fun line of front 50, boardslide the flat bar, then go around and noseslide to fakie the bank to curb. Dave did another line which I am spacing on right now. Then the snow kicked in again, but it didn’t stop Dave from doing a sick tailslide then pop shove fakie. Fun day in that I felt like I got a little confidence back finally.

(setup 8.38 null curby deck, venture 5.8 cast baseplate with titanium hanger, 51mm bones stf v1 with all speed washers on the outside of the axle, bones medium bushings, jessup ultra grip, new balance numeric 913 westgates black/yellow size 12, footprint gamechanger low profile orthotic insoles, incrediwear knee sleeve)
(pain level 5/10)