After a late night partying at Brian’s I attempted to ready myself for skating to meet Will and Jake at dog park. I wasn’t expecting much, but I got less than that. I was quickly reminded how much I dislike 8.25 with venture highs. i don’t know man, it just doesn’t work. Even with little 51mm wheels. I never once even tried to ollie onto a ledge and couldn’t even commit to a front slappy. Jake and I did nollie back tails on the taller pad. Somehow I won the game of SKATE even after getting letters on kickflip and front shove. I had already gone like 1-10 on kickflips before that. Yikes. I would get a halfcab flip and a fakie bigflip in a row for the win. Then Jake and I went on to treflip battle. Neither getting one. I had one incredibly bad one that I didn’t even attempt to pass off as a set. That was it for me. Jake and Will were ripping otherwise. I saw Will trying to back nosegrind the top tier. Whoa! Joe, Hayden, Bo, Noe had shown and were shredding. The ease at which they did manuals was so impressive to me. Also Noe’s million flip tricks, Hayden smoothly doing hard tricks, Joe popping over the hydrant so casually and Bo with the pop and energy. Then we went filming. I didn’t even really get my board out I was so tired and not wanting to skate. Those dudes shredded. Great seeing everyone.

(setup null 8.25 glenosaur, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast plate hollow hanger, 51mm spitfire f4 101a classic shape, new balance numeric 440H b/w size 12)
(pain level 3/10 achilles wasn’t great)

On a nice day I got going after some morning chilling.  I went to Southern Hills.  I was on an 8.25.  I really struggled to get going and tried to do a quick line before I would go meet the others in Longmont.  I tried to do noseslide, kickflip, front 50 the lower step, crook.  Never got all 3 in one line.  Did manage to get all tricks, but never together. 

Then to Rocky Mountain and I was beat.  I had done one of those 7 minute HIIT workouts with India and it wore me out.  I could hardly jump.  I didn’t do much I was happy with.  Got a couple basic flippers and some ledge basics that mostly involved not ollieing.  Will mostly shredded the ledge.  He did back tail before he did back 50.  He also had casual front 50s, front tails to fakie and would get back tail shove.  Dave had setup a little ramp to get up the curb.  It was awesome.  I had used it for a warmup line of slappy crooks to fakie then switch front nose the ledge.  Dave used it to get tricks like pop shove and varial flip to fakie on a bank.  He also graced us with some boardslides to fakie both ways.  All in all a pretty fun session.

(setup null 8.25 glenosaur, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast plate hollow hanger, 51mm spitfire f4 101a classic shape, new balance numeric 440H b/w size 12)
(pain level 4/10 achilles wasn’t great)