Showed up at big Arvada to meet up with a good sized crew of great dudes. Bratcher, Eric, Salty, Gordon, Garrett and more. It was quite cold when we started and there were quite a few scooter kids surprisingly so warming up wasn’t easy. I ended up being there for like 4 hours, but it’s all kind of a blur. I know I hit the little qp at the top for a bit, skated the bank by the blue chip, did some boardslides over the parking block. Gordon and I were at the top for a bit he was doing manuals and fast 50s on the granite pad. I was doing incredibly slow front 50s. I had changed back to 8.25 with Ventures and would mostly like it though. Then we skated the blue chip area for awhile. Salty had some fakie front 50s, got me to do an alley oop fakie front 50 that gave me a good slam. I spent a while getting a bad front heel on the blue chip. Although there was one which was almost perfect. Eric got going on the hubba and after some noseslides by Gordon and I he 50’d it like a stud. Gordon and Garrett would go on to manual it. Garrett with the b/s flip up the 3 after. Jack had some nice front boards on the parking block. Gordon and I got no comply pole jams on the weird granite. I couldn’t ollie up the big pad like I could 10+ years ago. No surprise there I guess. Skelly showed at the end so I tried to skate more, but was pretty much toast at that point. Fun session.

(setup 6/10 null keyhole 8.25, null grip, venture 5.6 v-cast bones medium bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape orange/black swirl, new balance numeric 440v2 size 12 wide navy with half insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 5/10)

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