A little after 9am on a smokey morning I met Rob, Kevin, Dave, Eric. Jake and Nick were there. A couple others too. It was cool. I thought I would feel good as I had a good morning work out, but pretty quickly into the session I got really upset at a failed front 50 on the cinder block shuffle. I threw my board and yelled. Then sat down and realized I need to accept how tired I am and roll with it. I was fine after that and avoided jumping up stuff. Luckily a kicker and launch ramp session ensued after awhile. But before that, Kevin rattled off a million ledge tricks. Eric got a first try heelflip back 50. Rob snapped over wally world, slappy crooks. Dave boardslide 270 full metal jacket, slappy feeble transfer. I got a wallie then front shove off Lil’ Wedgy. Kevin did switch wallie then switch back 180 off lil’ wedgy. I got his back with wallie then kickflip. I was hyped the kickflip took under 5 tries. Kevin went on to do so many more tricks. Switch flip, nollie flip, halfcab, nollie 180, nollie bigspin. Rob had a steezy bean plant or two. The tiny little mountain ramp served up some fun too and was put in front of Wally World. I got an early grab over it. Kevin halfcab, nollie 180. Dave did a crazy tail scrape and then an even crazier gap to 50 transfer. I posed treflips for awhile then came close to b/s flip off the wedge before giving up. I’m sure I missed a lot, I was kind of in my own zone of exhaustion. Then I met Nullers at Brromfield and didn’t even get my board out I was so tired. A bunch of good manuals went down right after my phone overheated. Then we went to the brick hubba. Bo, Jack and Hayden did neat stuff. Then to Central Park in Stapleton. I took forever to get a cruddy noseslide on the dry concrete ledge thinking of the many awesome ones that Jason did. Sean ollied the bench. Then we ended up at the gap to wood bench spot and Hayden slayed it. After that I drove home so incredibly exhausted. I’m not sure why I was that tired. Oh well, it happens. Goodbye 90 degree weather and hello snow.

(setup 8.38 null plant life deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 92 custom hollow baseplate, stock bushings, 54mm spitfire f4 99a radials red/yellow swirl, new balance numeric 306 foy b/w size 12, thin 533 insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

Trying to avoid the heat I rolled up to Breck with Saul. The park wasn’t too crowded. Warming up was a battle though. I putzed around for a bit, Saul hit the bowl right away. I met up with him after a bit and had some fun lines trying to do 50s with a bit of speed. Saul was slashing the pool coping. After a bit Cass showed. I was bailing a 50 on the granite ledge when Ed showed and was right behind me and yelled “Oh come on you pussy!” Made me laugh so hard. I had gotten a couple super slow crooks and front 50s on it. The height at the end scares me and hurts to land. I really hate the setup for it having to go up the kicker. Oh well. Cass 50’d it good to start. I landed kickflip then fakie flip and thought flatground might be good, but quickly didn’t land anything else. Cass had some nice treflips. He had a really good one on the flyout then we filmed each other for a bit. He got the hardflip in like 5 tries. I got the terrible 3 flip in like 20 tries. Ed and Saul were mostly in the bowl, but I did see Ed snap some clean ollies. I tried to egg Ed on to get a rock ‘n roll in the deep end, but understood when he didn’t want to. We all hit the tiny qp for a bit. Ed had some nice boardslides then back disaster. Cass front board fakie then some fakie trick. I had a boardslide then front disaster. But I spent most of my time trying front smith to front rock. It was a battle, but it was really fun to land one again. Cass had done the blunt to fakie then did it again first try. The annoying yelling in the background was some annoying skate coach dad yelling for their kid that finally landed a backside air in the big bowl.

After some good tacos/burritos we were at Frisco park. I was very sore. I did some of those CARs exercises though and it helped. I did some pumping around the bowl with Saul and Ed. It was more fun than I remember, but still pretty scary at times and full of beginners and scooter kids. I failed at front nosegrinds on the little section again. Front 50s on the curved ledge went alright, but I still felt weird. Cass tried the front noseslide a bunch. He would get it when the camera was out. Ha ha. Ed had some rad early grab airs and close to front smiths. Saul was cruising the tall corners like it was nothing. We did the little transfer pops a couple times. Pretty fun. I enjoyed some crooks on the curved ledge. That was about it I think. Then we celebrated with a couple brews on a gorgeous summer evening.

(setup 8.38 null plant life deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 92 custom hollow baseplate, stock bushings, 54mm spitfire f4 99a radials red/yellow swirl, new balance numeric 306 foy b/w size 12, thin 533 insoles)
(pain level 3/10)