On a hot day I pulled into the new 3rd St skatepark in Greeley. Much to my delight Damon was there. He was ripping. Frontside flips over the hip, up the euro, etc. My hand was still hurting really band and on one of my first warm up tricks I slid out right to my hand. Ouch. But it showed me I could fall on it. I did a few slow flip tricks, a slow front 50 on the main ledge, a few nose manuals on the manny pad, nothing of real note. The Nullers started showing. Man it was great seeing all of them ripping. It took me forever to kickflip up the euro, but when I finally did it I almost lined it out with noseslide down the hubba then noseslide 270 shove. I would kind of get one noseslide 270 shove. I also got a front 50 on the weird banked ledge that was fun, but could only do it once super slow. Hayden did it all fast first try so stick. The dudes killed it. Jack back 50 up and down the euro. Riley every trick, nollie inward heel, varial heel revert, switch hard, switch f/s flip, etc. Garrett was killing it, nollie back heel the euro, blizzard flip the hip, halfcab noseslide 270 shove the mellow hubba. Sean back nosegrind the mellow hubba, heeflip up the euro. Peyton did shove late shove and back foot flip up the euro. Also a 360 flip to land then nollie shove. Jack learned bluntslide front heel out down the long rail. WTF. Bo has a mean ollie and crooks.

We went and looked at a weird bank spot that basically Riley was the only one that skated. He did a 5-0 to fakie on it, crazy.

Then we ended up at a weird two stair, flat gap, little plaza area. Jack did manual then backside flip so quick. Bo was quick on the filming so I messed around posing a gap to boardslide on a dumb rock off a two stair. I would keep trying it while so much happened. Riley hurt his knee again on a varial flip :(. Garrett kickflip, board break on treflip then setup a new board and land the treflip. Sean ollied a bunch of 3 stairs as did Hayden. Jack would go on to do manual then bigflip. Once Garrett did the treflip I had to land my boardslide which I would eventually do. It was dumb, but since Bo was killing it filming I felt like I had to at least try something.

Then we ended up at a total dream spot. Most people were beat. I tried to skate, but really struggled. I got a line of pop shove, ollie the 4 stair, boardslide the ledge. Would love to go back and do a 180 or something followed by a better trick. Sean and Garrett killed it with the tricks. Sean did front 50 back 180 out up the hubba. Garrett did wallie boardslide for like 20 feet. Hayden 50’d down it and almost got some cool nose manual drop downs. Long day!

(setup 8.5 curby deck, ultra grip, venture 5.8 custom hollow cast baseplate titanium hangers, stock purple bushing bones top washer, 52mm spitfire green/yellow swirl classic 99a F4, new balance numeric 913 westgates b/w size 12, no insoles)
(pain level 5/10 hand and sore knees)

On a warm day Kevin, Dave L and I met in Golden at the univ. We just wanted something different. We started out on a set of long stairs. Kevin and Dave tried a bunch of 180s. I think Kevin may have gotten it all. Nollie front 180, halfcab, back 180, switch 180, switch back 180. I did a couple wallride nollies down a step. I was feeling pretty off. Next we ended up at this crazy manny pad. It was quick with a somewhat tall drop. I was feeling every bit of my cracked tail and had no confidence so I went back to the car to switch out my board. Kevin had already manualled it and switch ollied onto it and Dave ollied onto it when I left. When I got back Kevin said he had landed primo on a nose manual and was over it. We went to the center of the school which has a bunch of stairs. I warmed up on a 3 stair while Dave and Kevin went at a 4. Kevin had made it look so fun with a fun carve after. I got the 4 stair ollie and didn’t want to try any more than that. Dave would get it too. We ended up at a total Stubborns spot. A weird 2 stair with ride on ledge off it. I was skating really bad, but had a fun few runs. Pop shove, front nose jib a tall ledge, ride on back 50. Wallride nollie, front board, ollie the weird gap. Kevin went for a line swerving some tables, 50 a weird round bench then ride on back 5-0 front shove out. He wouldn’t get it. Jack showed up at this point. He did some good back 360s, wallrides. We got the boot from there and ended up at the steep bank that Nolan crook and 5-0d. I never got a wallride. Kevin splatted again, but got a good wallride. Jack had some really good wallrides. Then we went to the downhill ledge. There was a truck parked there, but he offered to move it so we had to skate it. Jack was on the back 50 immediately then went on to do several back tails that were all incredible. Dave, Kevin and I took some time to get anything or even try. It must have looked funny we would drop in like 10 feet from the ledge, roll a couple feel then stop unable to commit to the ledge. I would get a few noseslides and one to fakie. I was trying to slide them further but slammed into the rocks on top and messed up my hand enough that I had to stop skating. Kevin was going for crooks, took a horrendous slam and chilled for awhile. Then worked his way up to a good one to fakie. He grinded a long ways. Dave would get a couple front 50s and one with front 180 out. It was funny how distracted Dave would get. Any car in the distance, noise, etc. It was hilarious. We were beat after that. Street skating is hard, but rewarding.

(setup 8.5 curby deck, ultra grip, venture 5.8 custom hollow cast baseplate titanium hangers, stock purple bushing bones top washer, 52mm spitfire green/yellow swirl classic 99a F4, new balance numeric 913 westgates b/w size 12, no insoles)
(pain level 4/10)