Up early trying to beat the rain I drove to NE Longmont to mee the Daves and Rob.  We hit a weird flat bar spot.  Wide round tubes with a rounded ending.  We did some sweeping to warm up, some flatground and ollies.  Boardslides started happening, noseslides.  Then the rain started threatening.  You could see the wall coming.  We did a few group boardslides which was fun.  Rob got sick halfcab boardslides, noseslides.  Dave F wallie 50 for the hammer of the session.  Dave L almost front lip, but broke his board.  I had the tiniest crook jib ever and as you can see the worst switch front board.  I was motivated to try that for Jam since he did that trick so much.  

Dave F and I lurked for awhile, found a really sick bank spot then ended up at Rocky Mountain.  It was wet, but the weird stair area below was mostly dry.  We messed around on a really frustrating double ride on grind for awhile.  I fell on my wrist and got mad.  Oh yeah, I had switched from the 212s to 440s to avoid pain (it worked) but was taking some adjusting to.  Then we skated flat at the basketball court.  Initially we each had little section between puddles, but it would dry out and become mostly skateable.  Dave started by hucking flippers like switch varial heel, nollie varial flip, then settled into kickflips and fakie flips.  I tried to work my way through some “basics” in the new shoes.  I got kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, heelflip.  Couldn’t get fakie bigflip.  Tried the Iron Man challenge starting with heelflip.  I kind of got a treflip,  It was bizarre though.  The board only rotated as far as varial flip and somehow I stood on it and turned it forward.  Then we skated the school as it had dried up.  I was dead at this point.  I had a fun run though of switch ollie up the curb then switch front nose the ledge.  Dave was going for his back pivot switch crook down the median.  I took a long time to get a line of nollie shove spin on the bank, manual a brick median, crook the ledge.  I think i only did noseslide, but Dave said it was crooks so it counts.  He did first try back 50 the ledge then struggled through getting another one.  He almost had switch flip on the bump.  He ollied the medians casually and was still skating when I left – trying switch back 180 50 on the curb.  Maybe he’s still skating now, he’s the energizer bunny.

(setup 8.38 null smoke valley, jessup ultragrip, 5.8 ventures titanium axle, venom 91a bushings with both washers, spitfire 51mm green slag radial 99a f4, nb# 212 then nb# 440)
(pain 5/10)