Feeling a bit lazy after work I remembered the good slappy curb across the street so I went there. I did some slappies to start, a couple flippers. Then went behind the school and would settle in on a line for a while. F/s halfcab flip then ollie onto this darn rock that I struggle to ollie onto. I would get it finally! It still wasn’t easy, but took less than 10 tries. That’s definitely the most f/s hc flips I’ve done in a while. Then I went back to the curb area, but got in line mode with the little bank and manhole. Dave got in on the action right away too, we had some good stuff for us. He had a good long line with nollie back 180 into the little hill, fakie shove, switch crooks shove, kickflip. Everything was so good. Feeble grinds on the curb, so many good switch slappy crooks, some good switch front crooks, switch 180 over the manhole, pop shove over the manhole, so good. I mostly had some little slappy switch crook jibs and got a kickflip over the manhole after one. Got halfcab flip, sloppy b/s flip, fakie flip, kickflip, fakie bigspin, pop shove into the little hill. And a front shove over the manhole with a fun hand down carve after. I couldn’t get heelflip or treflip, although pretty close on both.

(setup 7/10 null 8.3 sean, jessup ultragrip, venture v8 5.8 with titanium hanger and bones medium bushings, spitfire 52mm f4 99a tablets, vans wayvee white size 12 remind insole)
(pain level 5/10)

Met Skelly on a warm afternoon at dog park. We chatted a while, then went over to the toddler zone and tried to get warmed up. It was too much for me though and I suggested we bounce to a nearby bank spot. And it ended up being super fun even though we only did a few tricks. I want to go back and do a better ledge trick then front tail or something on the bank to curb. Skelly’s one foot was so sick.

I dropped Skelly off and went back to a nearby building. Did a couple lines with tiny ollies up and over some little curbs. I think halfcab flip, ollie up, ollie down. Maybe the same with heelflip. It was kind of embarrassing how difficult those ollies were. Heelflips were hard too, I was wearing different shoes – Vans. I went around the corner and saw the 4 stair and knew I had no reason not to try it. I got it in about 5 tries and it felt pretty cool.

(setup 8/10 null 8.3 sean, jessup ultragrip, venture v8 5.8 with titanium hanger and bones medium bushings, spitfire 51mm f4 99a classic shape, vans wayvee white size 12 with remind insole)
(pain level 5/10)

Up early on a crisp Saturday morning I met up with Monico! Then Cass and Monico’s brother Matty met too. We tooled around a little and then Cass, Monico and I played a game of SKATE. Monico obviously won it, but it was a decent warm up and I did get a few flippers at least. Then I filmed Monico get like 3 lines in like 5 minutes. He is so incredible I can’t even believe it. Cass was ripping too, front noseslide and front board shove on the flat bar. Monico 50’d the biggest rail in the park, varial heeled up the euro, big heel the hip, kickflip over the pyramid. It was amazing. Matty learned nollie front heel over the hip and added nollie heel and nollie inward heel. I had a fun line of switch front nose the flat bar to quick fakie flip. The boardslide did not come easy, the setup is so quick. It was fun though.

After some breakfast Cass and I met up with birthday boy Sean at Broomfield. Also there was Gordon, Jesse and Darin. I was really sore. I had some okay crooks, some tricks on the bank to curb, but that’s about it. Gordon pop shove to manual on the black box. Sean’s ollies on the steep bank were so sick. At the end Gordon, Jesse and I played a game of SKATE. I was so sore, but managed a few flippers and it was SKAT for all of us and Gordon one on nollie back heel. I’m okay with a letter on that one.

(setup 7/10 null 8.3 sean, jessup ultragrip, venture v8 5.8 with titanium hanger and bones medium bushings, spitfire 51mm f4 99a classic shape, converse fastbreak grey size 12 half 272 insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 5/10)

Went to Blue Skies on a lunch break from work. I had thought maybe I could skate through pain. I guess I kind of did, but it was an embarrassing struggle fest. Add in having to wear glasses, new shoes and a setup change it was ripe for struggles. I had some boardslides on the flatbar, one good feeling flatground bs flip, a few noseslides. As much of a struggle as it was, it was a nice break from work.

(setup 7/10 null 8.3 sean, jessup ultragrip, venture v8 5.8 with titanium hanger and bones medium bushings, spitfire 51mm f4 99a classic shape, converse fastbreak grey size 12 half 272 insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 8/10)

After work stopped at Valmont as Will had told me to meet up. It was kind of cold out so it limited the toddlers. Will was going in on nollies over the euro hip and would get a few eventually. I was feeling pretty out of it and sore, had glasses on too from an eye infection. I battled a very bad fakie varial flip on the bank, hucked some big heels on the bank which seemed possible. Will hucked some back heels too. Dave showed in his work fit and proceeded to rip as it got dark. We went over to dog park. I had a fun front 180 off the side of the grate to kind of quick switch noseslide on the green ledge. Other than that I got really frustrated trying to do the Dave trick on the bank to curb, switch nose stall revert the hard way. Dave ripped some back pivots on the bank to curb. I left as I was feeling wrecked. (turns out I had eaten gluten by accident and arthritis was starting to kick in).

(setup 0/10 8.25 null keyhole 2, null grip, slace 8.25, spitfire f4 99a orange/black swirl classic shape, new balance numeric 440v2 wide size 12 navy, half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 7/10)

Wanting to be lazy on a cold breezy night I went out to the garage for about an hour. I skated my 8.25 slace board. I had gone out with the intention of trying front bigs, but instead after I did a few basic flippers I settled on varial heels. And kInd of got one. I was really surprised when I landed on it, felt cool. I hucked some other flippers too. Nollie b/s flip and switch b/s flip which were not close. Got one bad 270 flip. Happy I skated.

(setup 6/10 8.25 null keyhole 2, null grip, slace 8.25, spitfire f4 99a orange/black swirl classic shape, new balance numeric 440v2 wide size 12 navy, half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)

Early on I went to Lafayette which would serve as a meetup spot for Nullers and hopefully a little old guy session. Brian had already left though. I had cruised around a little, almost got run into by a mongo pushing longboarder and Dave and Sean showed. Sean manualled the little pad all casual. Dave said we should get his back. Dave went nose manual and would get a few, one even followed by a crazy ride on grind up the shark fin. I never did got a manual. I did have a fun little switch noseslide shove followed by noseslide to fakie on the bump to ledge. Sean had some good back 5-0 180s. Jack showed and we bounced.

First spot in Brighton was a mellow little ditch with a flat bar in it, a micro hip and some retaining walls that could be stalled on. Sean couldn’t quite get a f/s flip on the hip. He’ll refer to that as ‘the one that got away’ forever ha ha. Jack slammed hard on some feeble 180 attempts. I couldn’t get a b/s flip and struggled to get a sketchy treflip, but it was fun. Garrett got a really good boardslide 270 shove.

Then to a flat bar that Joe and Sean skated. Garrett skated flat. I sat around. Then to a brick bank where I only barely carved it, but Sean and Jack got buck.

(setup 1/10 null flaherty 8.3, jessup ultra, indy 149 forged hollow ace bushing, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 440v2 wide navy size 12, half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 6/10)

Another beautiful “false spring” day in the 60s. I went to dog park pretty early and quite a few of the old crowd showed. Bratcher, Jesse, Gordon, Eric, Paul, Cass and Rob. Was really hyped Rob came and started getting his skate feet under him. Saw some manuals, back 50s, fakie bigs, nollie shoves, back 180s. Jesse left right away unfortunately. Bratcher getting his willy grinds on. Gordon pop, speed and sold basics. Haven’t seen Paul skate in a while either and was surprised how hard he was ripping. Seemed like he hadn’t hibernated all winter. Cass had some good back 50s and manuals. Saw a pretty gnarly Eric slam. I skated okay. Didn’t do anything that stands out, didn’t get overly frustrated. I liked some back 50s on the curb, one with a shove out. Struggled more than I wanted to on front 50s on the bench. Cass, Paul and I played a game of SKATE. Paul won it, I was happy to get a really fun feeling fakie bigflip, but not happy to get another letter on a treflip.

(setup 3/10 null flaherty 8.3, jessup ultra, indy 149 forged hollow ace bushing, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 440v2 wide navy size 12, half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 6/10)

On an incredibly nice Friday I took the afternoon off work and met Will and Darin at Broomfield. I had some solid struggles at this session, only things I can remember liking were doing several heelflips on flat, actually 5 in a row at one point. they were supposed to be setups for treflips though, which I never even got close to. Will, Darin and Spencer did them well though. Will went in on kick back tails on the black ledge. He got into some, but never landed it. I really stunk it up, couldn’t really crook which was so frustrating, got one sketch front 50 shove, a halfcab noseslide that took forever. Darin rattled off his qp moves. I managed one back 50 on the blue lurb. Will was having no problems, same with Darin. It was cool seeing Spencer there, he was ripping and did 180s to fakie nose manuals on the crazy euro. Yes, both frontside and backside. I had one fakie bigflip I liked. We skated quite a long time, I really sore at the end.

(setup 5/10 null flaherty 8.3, jessup ultra, indy 149 forged hollow ace bushing, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 440v2 wide navy size 12, half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 5/10)

3rd day in a row at dog park, normally spells disaster for me, but it was okay. I didn’t have a ton of energy. The park was surprisingly dead, only a few people skating. One of them was young Ace whipping his 60mm wheels around. I skated pretty mid. Continued to have success with crooks and had a great feeling halfcab flip. But man I struggled with pop and I didn’t like that. Seriously could barely front 50 the main bench. Was close to kf back 50s going slow on the lurb. All in all a pretty lackluster session even though I attempted to skate hard.

(setup 5/10 null flaherty 8.3, jessup ultra, venture 5.8 titanium redrilled to v8 with bones bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic orange/black, new balance numeric 440v2 wide navy size 12, half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)