On a beautiful morning Dave and I went to check out the remodeled Windsor skatepark. We met up with Hayden, Bo and Witman and Alex showed too. As well as a lot of scooter youth, but whatever. When we arrived there was also an old guy crew that had the very telling signs of an old guy crew. Andy Anderson boards, full pads, punk music and bags sitting on the ledge. The new stuff was all good with maybe the exception of the bank to ledge. I had some fun crooks on the middle sized ledge and a few slow back 50s on the lurb. Hayden first try front 180 fakie manual! Dave was over at the mini for a while then did some manuals and nose manual on the pad. I filmed Hayden treflip then switch front board then I did the kickflip up. The euro is kind of scary, but so fun. Hayden and I alternated for a bit him doing switch heel up the euro and I did b/s flip over the hip. Took me longer than it should have, but it was super fun feeling when I got it. Bo has such crazy pop, ollieing over everything. It was cool skating with Witman, he has such a cool casual style. His friend Alex was rad too and wearing D3s. I’m somehow not remembering much during the middle stretch. Dave’s line was cool. Skating the miniramp was fun. It’s nice skating a mellow mini instead of the standard concrete mini that’s super tight. I took way too long to get a front d but at least I got all my front 50s. I skated the ledges more, but didn’t really get anything. I got really sore. At the end Dave and I were just watching the session. It was cool, at that point it was all skaters. Some of which had crazy hairball style. Cool park, would like to skate there again.

(setup 8/10 null flaherty 8.25, jessup ultragrip, venture redrilled v8 5.6 v-hollows with royal bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance numeric 440v2 wide black size 11.5 half 574 vulc insoles and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 6/10 not so bad initially but became unskateable after a while)

On a warmer than expected Saturday morning I showed up late to Broomfield park. Met up with Ladd, Paul, Sean and then some Crisis kids showed which was awesome to see. I had gotten into a groove of trying a line starting with a flatground trick, trick on the bank to curb, brick qp trick, noseslide to fakie the bank to ledge. Never quite got it, but never really stuck to a certain line. I hadn’t done a back 50 on that qp in a long time, felt fun. Sean showed and after some catching up we stuck to flatgound below the stairs .. for like two hours! I took a long time to get a treflip, nollie treflip and fakie bigflip. Heelflips and halfcab flip were quicker. But man, the nollie tre felt so good. Paul almost did one too and almost had switch varial flip. Ladd was getting used to a larger 8.75 deck, but still rattled off nollie heel, treflips, nollie flips, and more. Sean went through like all of the tricks he can do. And they looked good. It was great seeing Maty and Chase. Fun session. Need to skate flatground more.

(setup 7/10 null flaherty 8.25, jessup ultragrip, venture redrilled v8 5.6 v-hollows with royal bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance numeric 440v2 wide black size 11.5 half 574 vulc insoles and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 5/10 sore from having a couple drinks the night before)

After Cass did me a solid and picked up some boards from 303 we bolted to dog park on the last Friday of daylight savings time. When we arrived the park was dead. Within minutes it started to fill up. Turns out the CU skate club was having a party. We had started out on the jersey barrier/bank to curb area. I thought things would go for me when I did a front slash on the barrier, boardslide the cement chunks then no comply to tail. Cass slammed really hard on a back 50 down the barrier. He went straight to shins. Doh. He skated some after that, but was pretty much toast. I would go on to get super frustrated and angry at times. I had a new board so I think the steeper new tail was tough to get used to after skating such an old board. I took too long to do a crook stall to fakie on the bank to curb. The main ledge area was popping so I kind of randomly just skated the metal bench and flatground. I would get some crooks, one really bad treflip and one less bad nollie treflip.

(setup 3/10 null flaherty 8.25, jessup ultragrip, venture redrilled v8 5.6 v-hollows with royal bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance numeric 440v2 wide black size 11.5 half 574 vulc insoles and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10)