After a busy day at work I headed up to Estes Park to meet Nebraska Dan at the skatepark. I got there first and rolled around for a bit. I was super sore and didn’t really feel like ollieing much so I would pretty much avoid it all night. Dan showed and after a brief warm up he was dedicated to getting some group lines where we did two trick lines and handed the phone off to each other. The tricks were supposed to end/start with the same trick. We started with a line of me doing grind up and over the box, kickflip on flat followed by Dan doing kickflip on flat then front 50 body varial out. We tried this for awhile. I ended up doing a lot of kickflips. Ha. Dan ended up changing to front 50 to front board – aka the Joe Hamilton. Then after that we kept going. He did a heelflip, I did a heelflip then a boardslide, he did a boardslide then a no comply, I did a no comply then a switch front nose, then he finally bailed. It was awesome. After that I captured him get his front board 270 / shove line. Then he got me get my switch noseslide shoves. The frontside one didn’t take all that long even, and man it felt awesome. Then we went and did the pump track for a bit which was pretty fun. We cracked some little ollies on a couple bumps. Then I drove home behind the worlds slowest driver. Argh. Heck of a fun night, beautiful sunset too.

(setup 8.3 null curby deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 v-hollows, stock bushings no boardside washer, 3 washers inside each axle, bones stf 51mm v1 83b, new balance numeric 288s navy, no insoles)
(pain level 5/10 sore from so much last night)

After work on a nice cool day I got a text from Dave to look out my window meaning he was at the school. So I went over there still feeling sore and worn out from all the filming two days before.  But I would actually start to feel pretty good quickly.  Dave was already skating well.  Back 180 fakie 50s, long slappy crooks, fakie ride off crook transfers, etc.  I had a few slappies and warm up tricks and would get some flip tricks at the start of lines.  Fakie flip, halfcab flip, fakie bigflip, f/s halfcab flip, f/s halfcab heel.  No nollie tre or rick flip though.  Also hucked sone backside bigspins for a bit, but never put the feet on it. Had a kickflip from the curb cut to parking lot where I think I closed my eyes before I landed.  Because I was quite surprised when I was rolling away.  I tried a line for a long time of front shove off the curb, front 5-0 or frontside slappy then treflip out of the curb cut.  I would never get the treflip.  Dave had some flippers too and left after a fast slappy crook shove.  Ollie’s friend Alex had arrived and I’ve never really skated the same spot before.  So that was cool.  He was ripping.  Kickflips, heelflips, close to treflips, front 50s, slappy.  But it started raining pretty heavily so we bounced.

After dinner I just had to get back out there and enjoy the cool weather.  I went to the knobbed research area.  I didn’t know how tight the knobs were and was hoping for some little quick grinds, but they did a pretty good job of shutting that down.  I was quite sore initially from the earlier session, but would get going and feel fine.  Warm up line was switch 180 the little flat gap, ollie onto the long ledge, back 180 off, halfcab flip.  Next was ollie a longer flat gap, ollie onto the long ledge from the side again (which is way harder for me than going straight on) then kickflip off.  The kickflip took way too long, but it was fun when I got it.  Then for whatever reason I wanted to treflip off it.  I didn’t line out to it because I was getting tired.  But I would try flip tricks between tries.  Mostly heelflips.  I didn’t commit to many of the treflips initially.  This is actually probably the tallest thing I’ve tried them off.  By the end I was committing to 1/3 or so.  The last one tweaked my knee pretty good so I stopped after that.  It was a little scary.  I was bummed I didn’t land it, but happy I tried so hard.

(setup 8.3 null curby deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 v-hollows, stock bushings no boardside washer, 3 washers inside each axle, bones stf 51mm v1 83b, new balance numeric 288s navy, no insoles)
(pain level 3/10)