After work went and met Rob at dog park with a little over an hour of light left. It wasn’t crowded. The metal grates were propped up for a mini kicker which added a fun new obstacle. Rob went in on some poppy ollies and back 180s quickly. My neck was still really hurting from the rain slam a couple days ago and made popping hard. I also started to completely hate my setup and couldn’t flip easily or ollie onto anything. I had some ghost pops up onto the ledge to setup for nollie back tails which I never got a clean one. At the end I took way too long to do a front shove off the side of the kicker, but not so long to get a satisfying kickflip off it. Rob had done a really good fakie 50 halfcab out, manual to manual to boardslide. Also a bunch of really long lines with all kinds of tricks like boardslide pop out, back 180 50, halfcab noseslides, etc. Decently fun night before diving back into editing.

(setup 8.5 null vhs deck, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 55, 52mm snot pink/yellow swirl 101a, new balance numeric 272 maroon size 11.5 half insoles)
(pain level 5/10 neck pain)

On a cool misty morning I met up with Cass. Dog park was puddled out so we started at Valmont. Pretty early on it was drizzling and I made the dumb mistake of going through the pump track and died going sideways down a hump. It hurt so bad. It was hard to get going after that, especially after I kept getting ghost pop over the hip. Argh. Cass got a first try kickflip over the hip. I didn’t. Then we mostly skated the mellow bank. Cass did a bunch of perfect frontside flips, I barely got one that wasn’t rotated. There were a couple of other dudes there that were fun to skate with. Then we went over to dog park. The puddles took away some of the fun and we played a game of SKATE. Cass won again, I had halfcab flip and heelflip back to back, but other than that didn’t land much of anything. Then it was off to 303 and some filming which didn’t go so well.

(setup 8.5 null vhs deck, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 55, 52mm snot pink/yellow swirl 101a, new balance numeric 272 maroon size 11.5 half insoles)
(pain level 5/10)

Went to Broomfield park not super early and met up with Sean, Collin and Cass. The first thing Collin did was a switch flip. It was like hanging with Kevin ha ha. It’s been a few days since the session and I’m jaded from editing so much since then. I will say I hadn’t really seen Collin skate a park like that and wow he’s good. The kickflip crooks, cab crooks, nollie front 180 crooks and I think a switch tre in there too. Sean killed it like he does. The back nosegrinds on the happy ledge and nollie back nosegrind 180 were so smooth every time. I had one line that I liked of front 50 shove the blue ledge then turn around and nollie back tail it. Other than that I didn’t have much energy or drive. Cass had some good fakie back tails, front noses, front tails. Him and I played a game of SKATE which he easily won and he hasn’t skated in a few weeks. Argh. A few other dudes had shown. One dude that is kind of a favorite of mine that is way better than he looks like he would be. Stokes me out. He had switch tre and back tail bigspin first try. Then we went to a gnarly spot for Sean to try and ollie and unfortunately he got smoked. Then to a nearby ledge where Garrett did a cool crook while Jack filmed it. But nothing for the video.

(setup 8.5 null vhs deck, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 55, 52mm snot pink/yellow swirl 101a, new balance numeric 440 white/red size 12 half insoles)
(pain level 4/10)