On a nice morning I went to dog park right as a stiff breeze kicked in. Eric and Peewee were there. Kevin would come a little later. I warmed up in the park for a bit, just did the rainbow grind and a few hip ollies. Eric did the pole jam. Then hit the dog park. Some puddles made it less fun. Kevin showed. It wasn’t the best session for me. I was stiff and sore and lacking motivation until a couple hours in when I finally started going. Kevin had a fakie front tail which I hadn’t seen, lots of back 180 fakie 50s, his normal tricks. Eric said he was at “60%” ha ha. Still ripping though some good back 50s almost a fakie heel. I came close to nose manually around the C ledge, tried front tails on the curb, tried front nosegrind shove on the curb (got remotely close), came very close to switch flip, couldn’t treflip and couldn’t heelflip. Mostly a bummer session.

(setup 8.25 null vhs, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.2 lows royal bushings flat top washer, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 440H b/w grey size 12)
(pain level 5/10 sore)

Cold morning so we let it warm up for awhile and met at Broomfield park at 11:30. We pretty much had the park to ourselves. There would be a couple other people, but never really felt like it. Kevin was quick to pop onto stuff. After a while we played a game of SKATE. Kevin won of course, but I did get a few of my tricks. Black ledge was the main attraction for a bit. Kevin rattled off nollie nosegrinds, nollie front crooks and a bunch more. Cass had posting up on tailslides and was thinking flip out, solid crooks. I struggled with front 50s, but was getting up onto it more frequently than normal. Had a couple accidental 5-0s. Tried noseslide 270 shove and was not close, had a few crooks. Tried a lot of flippers, but didn’t land much. We played a game of no repeat SKATE which Kevin easily won. Then we finished on the blue box. I tried halfcab crooks and may have gotten some little jibs, but definitely not a legit one. Cass did back 180 nosegrind, fakie back tails. Fun session even if I didn’t really land much. Afterwards Kevin and I went and hung out with Fuzz which was great.

(setup 8.25 null vhs, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.2 lows royal bushings flat top washer, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 288S grey size 11.5)
(pain level 4/10)

Wanted to kind of do a side by side comparison between 5.6 hollows and 5.2 lows so I went to Boulder park again before work. I had a fun morning. After a bit of warming up I kind of felt like filming a little to make the blog more enjoyable so I set it up for the bank to ledge. Noseslides are always fun. Was hyped to actually 50 more than a few inches. The 5-0 was an accident. Hyped on the crooks. Then I just skated whatever and did a lot of hucking. I skated the ledges better and would get a fakie nosegrind on the bench as well as first try front 50. Couldn’t get b/s flip over the hip, but did get remotely close to cab flip over the little hump hip. Tried a bunch of varial heels to fakie and didn’t get my feet on any. Ended with a front 50 front 180 out on the bump to ledge. It took awhile. Fun morning, I liked the lows better.

(setup 8.25 null vhs, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.2 lows royal bushings flat top washer, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 288S grey size 11.5)
(pain level 3/10)