On a day with rain forecasted all day I met Cass at a very bright, sunny and warm Broomfield park. I was really sore and didn’t feel like wearing the same shoes so I switched them up for some 574 vulcs. I did feel less sore in them, but they made my setup feel huge and heavy. For some reason I had very little juice. After a while Cass was doing such good fakie back tails on the lurb that I setup the camera. I couldn’t get a back 50 to save my life. I did get another fakie 50 switch front shove though and it felt cool. Cass went on to do kickflip 50 and front shove 50. So sick. We played a game of SKATE that had some good tricks .. by Cass. He got me on fakie flip, halfcab flip, treflip, hardflip and won with backside bigspin. I did at least get him on heelflip and f/s halfcab flip though. Darin showed after this and we skated a little, but mostly just watched and listened to him. Not sure why I had so little energy.

(setup 2/10 8.5/14.25 null 20 year, null grip, thunder 149 team hollows with royal bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic yellow, new balance numeric 574 vulc blue size 11.5 with half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

Up earlyish because we’d be celebrating Liz’s birthday later on. Met up with Bratcher, Tim, Salty and even Fuller at the library spot. I haven’t been there in like a year. It was pretty hectic at first with the homeless cleaning up their spots from the night before. I would get kind of frustrated at first by the cracks and craziness of the spot, but calmed down and had fun. I skated whatever, would do okay as far as getting most tricks I wanted, but didn’t get as far into the bag as I would have liked. Got a few front 50s on the taller ledge, struggled with crooks, took a long time to get a sketchy fakie front 50 switch front shove out, couldn’t get kick back 50 or front nosegrind 180 or many flippers. Bratcher did a few tricks down the ledge. I liked the switch boardslide to 50 the most. He almost got a nosegrind on the little ledge. Tim got from noseslides and 50s on the low ledge. Salty wasn’t too into the spot but still skated and worked on some things like switch crooks and fakie bigspins. Dave was the last one there, but he packed in some good tricks. Front 50s the tall ledge, back 50 and back 50 back 180 the low one, almost switch slappy crooks transfer. At the Dave and I started trying ollie up then trick down the ledge. It was so hard to get the ollie up and setup in time. No surprise, but Dave did his way quicker (and better). When I finally got the noseslide though it felt really cool. Fun session, weird and fun spot, crazy environment. Then I went on to play tennis and go for a long walk with Liz and was so tired.

(setup 4/10 8.5/14.25 null 20 year, null grip, thunder 149 team hollows with royal bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic yellow, new balance numeric 440v2 wide 11.5 white with half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 5/10)

Was slacking after work, but decided a 10×10 list would be good motivation to skate a little. My list:

kickflip
bs flip
fakie bigflip
heelflip
bs halfcab heel
treflip
nollie treflip
fakie treflip
switch flip
nollie back heel

Rain was threatening and I tried to warm up quickly even though I had yet another setup change. 8.5/14.25/thunders. I thought I would do real bad, but was happy I was able to get 6/6 before the rain hit at nollie tre. I was happy to get a first try fakie bigflip and my first halfcab heel in forever. Other tricks were whatever. Treflip was a little over 10 tries.

(setup 5/10 8.5/14.25 null 20 year, null grip, thunder 149 team hollows with royal bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic yellow, new balance numeric 440v2 wide 11.5 white with half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10)