I’m writing this one week after the fact and a huge video premiere later so it’s not going to have much. I had taken a few notes. I had switched to venture 5.8s and hated every second of it. The dog park was heated. Rob and I went over to the skatepark. My only notes are that I did a kickflip on the mellow bank, the rainbow grind and couldn’t get a good grind on the pond qp. After Rob left I went back to the ledges and putzed around for a bit before having a fun little line of wallie the corner of the barrier then boardslide the other end of it.

(setup null vhs 8.3, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 titanium hanger cast baseplate royal bushings no big washer flat top washer, 51mm spitfire f4 101a classic shape, new balance numeric 440 black size 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level no idea)

After work and a quick nap I met up with Dave at the nearby tennis court spot. There were a couple younger kids there initially, but they left. Things were arranged oddly, but we just skated them as is and it ended up being pretty fun. I had some new shoes and went for vulcs this time around and they felt super weird and I lacked any pop. There was a weird ride on round bar that was super low. Dave would do some good ride on grinds. I was too scared of it. I could barely ollie it even though it was only a few inches tall. There was a launch ramp over a little box which became our main physical challenge. We would both get it in lines a couple of times and it was fun. Basically we just rolled off it with speed to clear it, no cool high ollies or grabs. We both did some lines that were pretty good I thought. Although mine were full of tic tacs and no speed. I struggled with crooks again, partly because the ledges are sticky. Dave had a lot of kickflips, shoves, halfcab off the lower launch ramp, front 50 the ledge 2nd try, front noses. He was ripping. I couldn’t get halfcab flip, but got first try sketchy fakie bigflip. I liked some switch front noseslides, a fun front 180 off the lower launch ramp and a fakie 50 on the main ledge. Fun session.

(setup 8.1″ null all you need deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollows cast plate royal bushings no big washer flat top washer, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance 272 b/w size 11.5 half insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

On a beautiful fall day I dashed out shortly before sunset to get some skating in after completing a rough draft of Something. I got in my car and started driving towards Southern Hills but ended up here instead. It has some random stuff and it was kind of fun. I just pushed around the school a bit then started lining out some stuff the way I do. Had a fun gap to axle, ollied up a curb a few times to try and do a backside flip on a micro hip, had a few basic flippers, couldn’t ollie onto the weird ledge in the back. It was hard to focus on skating through, everything felt surreal, like I should be editing my skating rather than actually skating. Hard to explain, only those that have made a skate video would probably understand. I really did hate the 440s the last two days.

(setup 8.1″ null all you need deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollows cast plate royal bushings no big washer flat top washer, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance 440 black 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level probably something like 3/10)

After doing some editing in the morning I met up with Jake, Cass, Rob, Hayden, Bo at Valmont / dog park. We started at Valmont. Jake did pole jam. Cass and I did frontside flips. One of mine might have even turned a whole 90 degrees. The riff raff was out of control. A lady was taking a phone call from the ledge, strider kids in moto cross helmets. I did the little line of ollie the euro, manual the volcano, back 50 the high to low qp.

So we didn’t last too long and went over to dog park. Rob had gone over there earlier and was totally shredding. I think it’s some of the best he’s skated in recent history. Nose manual front 180s around the C ledge, nollie front lip the low flat bar, halfcab 50s, big pops off the philly kicker. Jake was ripping too I saw lines with nollie back tails, front boards, back 50s. Cass with the casual front noseslides, 50s, back 180 50s. Jake, Cass and I played a game of SKATE. Well, Cass and I started and I got a letter on front shove or something and then Jake came so we reset. It was a good game, one of my better ones in a while. Cass did a first try treflip and I got his back. It made me so happy. Like one barely moving flip trick was all I need to make me so happy. I would go on to get halfcab flip, heelflip and a few more and somehow win the game. Hayden and Bo had shown up. Bo was unable to get the nose manual on the table. Bo, Hayden and I tried flip tricks off the mellow kicker. Hayden got switch heel, Bo was close to switch varial heel, I was close to backside flip. A lot more went down, but I forget as it was all erased when I got home and went into another editing marathon.

(setup 8.1″ null all you need deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollows cast plate royal bushings no big washer flat top washer, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance 440 black 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level probably something like 4/10)

I had about an hour after work and before Nullers were going to show up to work on Something. So I hit up Noè and asked for a 10×10 list. This is what he gave me:

Nollie tre, bigflip, switch flip, switch frontside flip, nollie back heel, fakie tre, fakie bigger flip, backside flip, varial kickflip, nollie heel flip

YIKES! I should also mention it was cold, down in the 40s. But it felt good. I warmed up and got a few kickflips before I started the list. I didn’t do the tricks in that order, but I did huck a couple like switch flip and nollie heel at the start to get warmed up. I would only get backside flip, varial flip and fakie bigflip. But I was close to the other ones I’ve done before like nollie tre, fakie tre. Honestly every trick felt somewhat doable, bigflips especially. Felt good to skate a little.

(setup 8.1″ null all you need deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollows cast plate royal bushings no big washer flat top washer, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance 440 black 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level probably something like 3/10)

I’m writing this after several days of editing Something and remember basically nothing about it. I know I didn’t have the will to pull out my big board again so I was on my little 8.1″ board and it felt small, but awesome. The kicker had been raised and some dude kickflipped the picnic table so casually. He would also hardflip it. I don’t think I did much other than some slow flip tricks. I think Fergs was there too bringing the fun. Rob said he did nollie front lip on the little flat bar which he hadn’t done there before. I’m sure he was killing manuals and nose manuals and back 50s too.

(setup 8.1″ null all you need deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollows royal bushings no big washer flat top washer, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance 440 black 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level probably something like 3/10)

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)

After a terrible night of sleep I got out of bed and went for my Friday tradition of skating Boulder park before work. Warm up obviously took a bit. I had the park to myself for the first 45 minutes or so. In that time I basically just did some warm ups and battled a line I had thought about while laying in bed wishing I was sleeping. Front 50 the bump to ledge, kickflip to fakie the little escalator, halfcab noseslide the triangle ledge. It did not come easy. At least the roll in for setup is fun and when I finally got the line I did an accidental 5-0 that was not pretty. Oh well it felt cool to link up those tricks. I had done a few flatground tricks in between attempts. Around the time I got that line a dude showed up and was rattling off flip tricks in the flat of the new area as his warm up. I think he did a few tricks like fakie bigflip and treflip before kickflip. Then he went on to do double flip variations all over the place. On the bank, out of the bank, double varial flip flyouts. It was cool, he stomped ’em. I tried front 50 back 180 the mini bank to ledge for a while and couldn’t get it, also front halfcab heels over the hump which were surprisingly close. I ended on a crooks on the bench that took a few too many tries. I may be really enjoying my setup, but definitely struggling with crooks so far. For as tired as I was I was happy to skate as hard as I did.

(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 3/10)