Julian ChristiansonSkater/Athlete, PSL Skateboarding · Pro Skateboarder ,Sk8 Sensei Skateboarding Mentor/Coach

Ending my Day With Some Skateboarding At Denver Skatepark

23 Apr 2026 · 4 min

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In this vlog, the creator narrates the end of a long workday, picking up his son Sol from school, taking him to jiu‑jitsu, and then heading to Denver’s D‑Park for a skate session. He describes the difficulty finding parking and the hassle of managing keys, a tripod, Gatorade, and chapstick while trying to skate. He revisits a nostalgic street‑gap trick he first performed—a front‑foot 180 over a dirt gap—explaining the maneuver and its significance. The narrator observes how D‑Park has changed, noting more youths hanging out, drinking, and smoking, and comments on the limited number of skaters actively riding. He interacts briefly with fellow skaters Adrian and Don, captures footage for his YouTube channel, and wraps up by setting up his tripod to film the session. Throughout, the tone is conversational and reflective, mixing personal anecdotes with observations about the skatepark’s evolving culture.

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Finally, after a long day of work, picked up my youngest son Sol from school, took him to jiu-jitsu, and now finally I get to go and skate a bit. Just pulled up to D-Park and it's hella busy, like no parking. Somehow was able to find this spot. It's not too far, but when you want to go skate, you just want to pull up to the park right at the park, you know? Like, it's the worst thing when you go to a skate park and they have no parking, or the parking is just really far away from where you're trying to go. But no worries, enough complaining. You ever get to the skate park and you have too many keys and you gotta leave some in your car too? Look at this house. Family's houses for backup keys for the sisters and all kinds of stuff. So I like to take these off. Skating with too much stuff in your pocket is not good. Got to make sure you keep that chapstick though. Up here in Colorado it gets too dry. Hope you guys have been having a good day though. It's been a lovely day, but it did start to get a little windy. Seems to kind of die down now. Oh, hold on, I got to show you guys something. This was the first street gap that I ever switch front 180'd right here, and you just go over the dirt. And you gotta roll onto the street or jump off real quick. But yeah, childhood, one of those spots that, you know, you skate because it's right across the street from the park. Man, juggling too much stuff in my hand— tripod, keys, Gatorade. All right, look both ways before you cross the street. All right, let's see what homies are here. D-Park has changed a lot in the past. Oh, there's a homie right there! Adrian hitting the step up. Oh, never mind, it is still breezy. Like I was saying, Denver Park has changed a lot. A lot of kids just up here drinking, smoking, and just hanging out. What's up with all the, you know, the lack of skating with all these youngsters these days? They're just all hanging out up here, you know. I mean, there's always been— it's always been the same activities, but there's more. Yes, it's just happened more and more, but now it's like you got the same 5 people skating. Yeah, my fucking throwing is hurt today. Hey, I feel that. It's been a long day. All right, I'm going to follow you. What up, how are you? Hell yeah, gotta film this YouTube video. Oh, kickflip manny up the step up! What up, how's it going? See ya. Hey, what's up bro? Good to see you, Don. Hell yeah. Well, let's put this phone down and get skating. Use this tripod in a minute.