With rain in the forecast I met up with Sean and Rob around 10:30 at Broomfield park. For the most part it was actually pretty nice and warm until the end. I was sore from a hard workout in the morning, but after some warming up felt pretty good. Rob and Sean were already ripping. We did some talking about the King Sooper tragedy, but got to skating. I’m not much in the writing mood, but I will say that Rob did a first try front 50 to front lip and it was awesome. He also had a lot of his normal trick like crooks, halfcab noseslides, fakie bigspins followed by nollie shoves, front tails, back 50 180, super steezy no comply back 360, kickflip, cab, back 3. Sean was landing lots of flippers. He would do some other stuff, but mostly tried a line of kickflip nose manual then nollie back heel then fakie back tail then switch heel. He would do it, but not to his liking. He would get it again, but not to his liking. Ha. Then he settled for halfcab nose manual first and did it. It’s weird, I really didn’t so much. I landed some of my flippers and I did some of my ledge tricks, but not many. After Rob left Sean and I played a game of SKATE which ended up being fun. I had thought about calling it a day, but glad we kept at it. Sean got me with halfcab heels, back heel, nollie back heel and treflip. Argh, treflip again! I had gotten a couple letter on him, but it was a fluke like halfcab flip. Then we tried our lines over and over rotating with our phones. Sean got his line first. I got mine kind of. I hadn’t done fakie front smith fakie in a long time, so that felt kinda cool. But seeing the footage I look like someone that doesn’t know how to balance on a skateboard. Sigh. Thank you skateboarding for being able to distract me temporarily from the stupid mass shooting near my hosue.

(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 table shape 99a, new balance numeric 212 cake size 12 with footprint mid elite insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

After struggling for motivation because of the shooting Dave got me going and I met him at Frederick. As I rolled through the nearly empty park I saw Dave do kickflip to fakie then sex change on the mellow bank. After a quick hello he also did varial flip to fakie! 3 tricks in a row, pretty amazing. My warm up was whatever. I didn’t skate bad, but never quite got a nose manual. Had some fun crooks, switch front nose slides. Dave was doing some rad ride on tailslides on the C ledge. He did that awesome dump truck 180 transfer. I attempted to line out the b/s flip over the hip with kickflip on the steep bank and noseslide the bump to ledge. But didn’t get the kickflip. The noseslide was fun though and the b/s flip felt really great. Sean showed up. We all chatted about the shooting and just how terrible it is. Dave was doing slappy front 50s to fakie. I was trying front heels on the mellow bank until I got one. Sean warmed up with kickflips to fakie. Then Dave left. I fizzled out. Sean did a sick line of the front 5-0 to 180 nose manual, front 50 up the escalator ledge, front nosegrind a hubba. Then I was like “hey Sean think you could ollie this?”. Well, yes, he can.

In some special news today marks one month with no real setup changes 🙂

(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 4/10)