Had Black Friday off work but was dragging. Picked up Dave eventually with no set plans and we ended up at the mostly prefab Loveland park. There was some snow on the north facing banks which made for some weird flow to the park. But we basically had it to ourselves the whole time which was great. Warming up wasn’t as bad as anticipated even though I felt incredibly sore. I thought wearing some thicker shoes would help. It did initially. Dave did the f/s halfcab flip line pretty quickly, it was the first thing we filmed. I had struggled to kickflip the hip, but would end up getting several as I tried to line them out with crooks shove, but gave in when filming and just did a bad crooks. I had a lot of trying to line out the ledge and hip, mainly because I was actually consistently getting up into frontside grinds. I had a front 50 then b/s flop the hip. Also almost a front 50 to front board followed by a fakie bigflip over the hip. Had a couple front 50 shoves, even tried a couple nosegrinds which weren’t close. I was hyped to try them though as I haven’t tried on anything taller than a curb in a long time. Flatground didn’t work great but had a couple heelflips. Was somewhat close to treflips and close to front heel over the hip. Dave’s did f/s halfcab flip before f/s halfcab over the hip. But man his f/s halfcabs were so good. Front board transfer was good, quick up boardslide way harder than it looks. Dave worked so hard for the switch bigspin. I took a while to get crooks shove. Dave did fakie bigspin and we bounced to the bank to curb.

Upon getting out of the car I was in so much pain it was insane. Them Strike Mvmnts did me dirty. I could barely walk and didn’t think I’d be able to skate the bank to curb at all. Almost died on a warm up front nose 270. Nollie front tail was fun. Dave figured out the spot pretty quickly. We started hucking and filming after a while. I tried some front crooks to fakie, but decided to try front pivot kickflip out instead. Got kinda close, but I felt so sore and awkward that I stopped. Dave’s crook shove was so good. Back tail, back tail shove. Definitely want to go back.

(setup 8/10 null 8.5/14.25 20 year deck, null jessup ultragrip, thunder hollow lite 149 bones medium bushings, 52mm bones stf v1 103a, strike mvmnt transit 12 black/gum with currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 6/10 initially, 9.5/10 at the bank to curb)

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