After going to Northside in Fort Collins to witness the amazing halloween contest that MRKT does I stopped at Rocky Mountain to meet Dave. The sun went behind the mountains around when I got there, but we still had some decent time. Dave was doing nollie back bigspins on the bank when I arrived. Then he did some nollie noseslides on the curb. He played them down, but they were amazing. I had a few slappies like normal, one ultra lame fakie back nosegrind, couldn’t get fakie front nosegrind. At the end I tried slow noseslide to crooks on the ledge. May have gotten a couple up into crook. Dave was doing nollies to fakie on the bank then switch body varials off the curb, back tailslide the curb. Ended it with a fakie crook ride on grind transfer off the curb. Fun, short session.

(setup 2/10 null smoke valley 8.3, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-cast royal bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance numeric 440v2 high black size 12 half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 5/10)

After two days of loading up furniture, boxes, everything of my mom’s into a U-Haul I had some free time. So I went to the park for 30 minutes to say goodbye. I don’t like that park much. Okay, I really dislike it. And it never helps when there are lots of scooter/strider/mountain biker/one wheelers. This would be no exception. At first it was just two scooter kids and there dad was even cool and trying to teach them to take turns and to avoid going right in my path. Did they listen? Nope. My first warm up run was a fly out kickflip, rock ‘n roll, front grind around the very mellow love seat, pop shove fakie on the mellow bank. The kickflips took too long. Later on I would get a front 180 out of the steeper fly out then a fakie bigflip. I did some fun boardslides on an I beam. Some switch front noseslides on another beam and tried to get f/s halfcab heel after which I never landed. Had some really fun longer feeling back 50s on the long qp and fun carves around, but most were interrupted by kids not having any awareness that a 200 pound old man was coming down the qp he went up. Ugh. Anyway, I think that was it. Goodbye to that park.

(setup 2/10 null smoke valley 8.3, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-cast royal bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance numeric 440v2 high black size 12 half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)

On a Tuesday afternoon I went out to dog park knowing I wouldn’t be able to skate much the next several days. But I’m writing this several days after the session, almost remembering nothing about it. I know Paul showed, then Ladd, Mike, Wade did later. I don’t remember any tricks other than a heelflip in a game of SKATE and that every other trick was hard. I was still slightly sick feeling so kept it mellow. It was cool seeing Ladd.

(setup 3/10 null smoke valley 8.3, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-cast royal bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance numeric 440v2 high black size 12 half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)