After work went to Berthoud on an absolutely gorgeous day. Somehow both Cass and Dave worked in Berthoud. I was also meeting Hayden to give him boards for MRKT. Dave and Cass were there before me but I’m not sure how much they had skated. Hayden got there at the same time. I felt slightly less sore, but it didn’t translate to better skating. Warm ups were kind of random for a bit then some hucking when we tried front heels over the hip for a while. Hayden got a good one and was close to switch front heel after. Then he had to bounce. Oh yeah, his warm up pivot to fakie was solid gold. Cass was close to f/s halfcab flip over the hip. Dave did kickflip back tail on the hip, back tail 360 out, backside 90 body varial??? Him and Cass bounced too. Leaving me with suicidal egg board guy who almost broke my phone and showed me up on every trick. Seriously, I tried to crook around the C ledge, he came and did it. I bailed a front 50, he did it. The highlight would be going over the to flat bar, getting a terrible switch front board then he did fakie back lip. It gets better. I tried halfcab boardslide, he did it. Then he tops it with halfcab feeble. I had been trying b/s flips and of course he got one over the hip. He also did varial heel, f/s halfcab flip and fakie flip really well. I took like 30 tries to do a heel drag bs flip over the hip. I stretched and left after that. I should say that suicidal shirt egg board guy just seemed completely clueless, but it still sucked. Not as bad as my skating though. I have a goal of not skating for a while and letting my body heal up, but who knows.

(setup 1/10 null beatles 8.25 deck, null grip, slappy low profile 8.25 trucks with royal bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape yellow, new balance numeric 440v2 black size 11.5 with half 574 and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 6/10)

After work and a stop at Satellite I went to dog park and met up with Paul and then later on Dave. I felt bad initially and would not really feel better. Like, at all. I know at one point I almost couldn’t get over a parking block or handle the landing. Geez. Paul nollied over a parking block, was close to nose manual shove, was real close to switch front heel. I very much struggled with flip tricks, didn’t really land anything. My one saving grace was crooks were working. I did a sketchy crooks to fakie and then went in on crooks shove. About 25 tries later I got a crook shove that felt quite great. After that I went to go over to Valmont to see Dave, but he came over and we skated the bank to curb. Which was Dave landing tricks like back tail, front pivot shove to fakie. So sick! And me getting hit on my swollen achilles by my board. Argh.

(setup 2/10 null beatles 8.25 deck, null grip, slappy low profile 8.25 trucks with royal bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape yellow, new balance numeric 440v2 black size 11.5 with half 574 and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 7/10 knee/achilles)