And when I say brief, I mean real brief. I skated for about 20 minutes. It was mostly a session to see which shoes and setup I would want to skate next. I did one kickflip and several switch flip attempts. They felt best on the 8.3. I wore some old adidas 3st.003s.

On a warm day we gathered at dog park. For some reason lately on Saturdays I wake up without much desire to skate. This would be the same. I need to figure out why it keeps happening to me. I had a new pair of 212s, they felt large and weird. Rob and Eric were already there. I saw Rob get a nice back 50 back 180 and Eric heelflip a parking block before I had even stepped on the board. Sean, Bernie, Kevin would join shortly. Kevin and I played a game of SKATE. He had a new board, different trucks and new wheels. I had new shoes. I got him to SKA on kickflip, fakie flip and something else. Then he got his switch flip, nollie flip, janoski flip, switch front shove and something else to get me out. I was so bummed to get a letter on halfcab flip yet again. Shortly after that I would bail a front 50 or something and scream and throw my board. After that I just chilled for the most part did tricks that didn’t involve much ollieing. Jack had shown and tried a bunch of no comply flip 5-0s. Rob front boarded the tall bench and the tall part of the weird obstacle. Kevin did a no push line of back 5-0 the black ledge, front nosegrind the 2 step, back tail the tall part of the weird one. Sean ripped as he does. Eric had lipslides, wallie 180s, maybe a nosegrind, crooks, lots of charging. Bernie was adjusting to some new Venture lows (jealous) and still ripping. Near the end we all started hucking dream tech tricks on the black box. Rob was going kick front board, I was trying halfcab heel noseslide, Jack was trying Rick flip back tail, Kevin switch flip switch front nose, Bernie hardflip front nose, Sean and Eric were in it too, but I forget what they were trying. Jack and Kevin got into their tricks. Bernie and I got close. My mood would have changed drastically had I landed that. It felt good to huck and even commit to a few.

After some spot lurking we ended up at St Julien. Jack couldn’t get his mind into trying his trick. Joe had joined us. Most were trying fakie varial heels on flat. After Jack gave up I went and played Rick flips with Bernie. He got a couple, I kind of got one.

Next we went to Howard Huston. The struggle was real. Jack put an end to his beat deck after an awkward slam. Kevin was motivated to line out to a front blunt, but getting there was a battle. The front 5-0 shoves were sick. Sean had easy 50s, but mostly chilled. Bernie had a couple tails, noseslides, maybe a 50 or two. I couldn’t 50 the ledge to save my life. My legs were so sore from skating so much, but I was too dumb to stop. I did at least have some really fun crooks. Ventures pinch the crooks so well. Joe went off. Front 5-0, heelflip, hardflip front nose. He actually did like 7 hardflip front noses as he was trying to get into front crooks. He would prevail with a really good one. Bernie and I had made the silly decision to play a game of SKATE. It almost ruined me. I couldn’t land much of anything. I was hoping Bernie would land anything to get me out. I got a very defensive fakie heel. But ended up losing on something like cab flip? I don’t even remember. Ha. Long day. Tough day. Skateboarding is not easy. At least we had good company.

(setup 8.25 null spanbauer deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollows, venom 91a bushings with roadside washer, 51mm bones stf 103a v1, new balance numeric 212 b/w size 12, nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

TGIF session at Broomfield. I arrived to a crowded park at the same time as Jake, Sean had been there. There were a lot of younger kids skating which was good to see. The quartapotty was crowded so Jake and I had to warm up elsewhere. We did the bump to bar boardslides and some basics on the black ledge. Sean was already past the tailslides and onto nosegrinds. Jake and I did the down rail which was our first time in long time. It felt cool. I had some decent feeling crooks on the black ledge, struggled with some front 50s. Oh yeah, I wore some other shoes since my 212s had died. They were some 379s which I had worn a couple times before and stopped because they hurt. This would be no different. After a while we played on the quartapotty then blue ledge. I had a goal of fakie 50 b/s halfcab out. I would get one in a line with a fakie pivot to fakie. It felt good. Jake got the same line too I think. Sean worked on nollie front 50 180. I also got a line of fakie front smith to fakie (been a long time) and fakie nosegrind. I had also done a disaster revert which I haven’t done in forever and some little nollie back tails and a bad back 50 or two. Jake had blunts both ways, pivot fakie super easy, blunt to fakie. Sean had some fakie front smiths. We tried to add flippers to the lines, but it didn’t work. Then we played a game of SKATE. My heel was hurting bad. Jake missed a few of the basics like fakie flip, heelflip, halfcab flip and was out quick. He went up top and conquered his goal of the pole jam which he did so good. I had also gotten a first try treflip which hasn’t happened in eons and made my day a little better. I forget the other tricks we did. I couldn’t land a fakie bigflip or nollie tre. Sean got me with fakie inward heel, halfcab heel and maybe switch back heel? My foot hurt really bad after that. Fun session.

(setup 8.25 null spanbauer deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollows, venom 91a bushings with roadside washer, 51mm bones stf 103a v1, new balance numeric 379 grey size 11.5, thin rubbery adidas insoles)
(pain level 5/10 heel pain)

Feeling alright after work on a nice smokey day I went to dog park. Sean, Kevin and Eric would skate too. I had pulled out the 8.25 setup. It felt better. Sean, Kevin and I played a game of SKATE to get warmed up. I once again could not get a halfcab flip which darn near caused me to focus my board and leave. I was the first one out. I did not skate well which seems to be the theme as of late. Sean, Kevin, Eric were ripping. I’m writing this too many days after the fact to remember much about the session. Clearly from the clip above Sean was on fire. I had a bright moment getting an over 40 Rick flip in like 3 tries after seeing this PJ clip. I also got really close to crooks shove which I haven’t done on the cinder block shuffle before. Kevin got a switch front 5-0.

(setup 8.25 null spanbauer deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollows, venom 91a bushings with roadside washer, 51mm bones stf 103a v1, 3 washers inside each axle, new balance numeric 212 b/w/yellow size 12, nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 3/10)