On a cool day with clouds forming quickly I met Rob, Sean and Kevin at Broomfield park. Sean and Kevin had already been there and were shredding the black ledge when Rob and I showed at basically the same time. Warming up I felt better than expected, but I would never actually do much of anything for awhile. Sean had gone deep into his ledge bag and was doing fakie 5-0s and nosegrinds. Kevin nollie nosegrinds and the Gish. Rob would get into demo mode pretty quickly. There were a couple rare tricks that came out like nose manual followed by no comply back 360 and lots of his other manuals and grinds. Near the end I really wanted to do a back heel on the mellow bank. I tried and tried and used various lines to get there, but never got it before the snow settled in. I couldn’t get a decent front 50 on the black ledge, couldn’t back 50 the blue lurb, couldn’t halfcab noseslide the black ledge. Man, it was a struggle! The funny thing was I did a kickflip axle stall nollie shove out on the low part or the brown ledge. As dorky as that was it was probably my highlight.

(setup 8.25 null spanbauer deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast baseplate v-hollow hanger, bones medium little bushing ace big bushing, spitfire f4 52mm classic shape 99a, new balance numeric 212 cake size 12 with footprint mid elite insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

Up kinda early on a nice Saturday and off to Denver picking up Kevin and meeting Sean at Emage before they even opened. It’s been a bit since I been to Emage. That shop rules. Then we met Cass at Denver park. It wasn’t too crowded. I was wearing some new Tiago 1010 shoes. They felt like I was skating on a cloud. I immediately slammed on a slappy crook on the bank to curb hitting my wrist again. Other than a noseslide on a somewhat tall ledge I really did nothing else worth noting. Sean flew over the trash can flyout easily and ollieing the dish was sick. Kevin flew over the trash can too, front smith the ledge over the kicker. Cass had a quick treflip flyout as soon as we got there. I retired the 1010s after that session. I have no idea how people can skate in shoes with that much heel lift.

By the time we got to the Osage ledge meeting Ryan and Kyle and then Joe, Hayden and Donnie my knees hurt so bad from the 1010s. I wore the complete opposite – the 212s and man they felt better. But my knees were doing this weird twitching thing so I chilled for a bit. Ryan did a couple noseslide nollie heels out. Sean was so casually doing the basics. Kevin had a good slam to start, but then also rattled off a lot of tricks. Kyle stopped filming and did a nollie heel front tail right away. Cass was setting up a new board and really only did a few noseslides. I was feeling very off so didn’t really try to pop. I had a line of noseslide to fakie then switch front nose that made me happy. Also noseslide then crooks. And the switch nose forward then slappy “crook” felt cooler than it looks. I wish I would have gotten that treflip. Kevin struggled with the front tail to fakie then switch crook, but it was so good when he did it. Hayden had some good moves. Noseslide crooks to fakie was hot, he almost got bigspin out. I tried to noseslide to crook and slammed over the ledge hitting my back on the ledge. Argh. When birthday Joe showed up the first thing he did was a hardflip. He went on to do a million hardflip variations and a few fakie front crooks. Donnie did a fast grass ride to wallride fakie a tree.

Then we went to a nearby warehouse that was oh so cool and oh so dusty and gross. My legs were straight up done all I mustered was a crappy wallride nollie. Kevin had some pop left and did nollie flips, boardslides and crooks. Hayden kickflipped a flat gap and back smith. Joe may have hardflipped a gap. Donnie ollied several flat gaps. Joe and Hayden hit a weird soggy bump.

Then we went back into the warm fresh air and ended up at Auroria, but all we really did was hit the banked red curb. Kevin and I were there initially and struggled to make our bodies even do the basic slappies. Kevin beat me to crooks and had some nice back smiths. Donnie had some good fast ones on both his monster boards. Joe did more fakie front cooks. Ted did some slappies. It was fun watching Hayden, he skated it rather unique. He did pop shove off the curb like a bigspin, kickflip onto it, pop shove 50 thing, bluntslides, etc. What a long exhausting wonderful day.

(setup 8.25 null spanbauer deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast baseplate v-hollow hanger, bones medium little bushing ace big bushing, spitfire f4 52mm classic shape 99a, new balance numeric 1010 tiageo no insoles then 212 with nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 5/10)