Oh man, I’m so excited I can’t even begin to tell you.  It was dumping outside and I skated for an hour.  Man it was so fun.  I had installed a new light so you could actually see both sides decently.  The warm up time was minimal.  I finally got my fakie stall to fakie thing that I do, front slashes, etc.  Got way more consistent, was able to pump better and not look like such an idiot.  Seriously though, I’m too tall for the ramp, but I don’t care.  Started hucking some back tails, never got close but it was fun.  So insanely hyped on having my own ramp and hopefully finally learning how to skate tranny a bit.

After a long day of working on my garage ramp (sorry no photos yet because my kids broke my digital camera) Jason forced us to go skating for awhile.  We ended up at Southern Hills.  At first I wasn’t into it and just wanted to finish my ramp, but it ended up being super fun.  It was t-shirt weather in the 60s.  Brian ate shit pretty much immediately.  I got a couple krooked grinds on the ledge and was genuinely having fun until I cracked my board on a 360 flip to middle of the board.  That bummed me out and I was totally wanting to focus the board because the crack was really bad, but I ended up just going slow and trying fakie hardflips over and over.  Believe it or not I even landed one.  Rad!  I’m hyped on that trick and would love to start getting it with some speed and pop.  Right before we left Jason and I were dorking on the 2 stair.  Nosestall the top one to back pivot the lower one.  Jason was trying to go to back tail.  It was a fun little session until I did the splits really bad.  Fun.We finished my ramp a couple hours later.  The initial session was Jason, Brian, Lazer, Neil, me.  Brian and Jason ripped it up.  Lazer straight destroyed it.  Everything.  First try.  I was completely blown away. Later on I skated the ramp by myself for about 30 minutes.  Just donig the basics were so tough for me.  It’s such a quick/tight ramp that my tall ass can’t do anything.  I managed to get some of the basics down though.  Feeble stall, halfcab rock, back 50s, front rock, etc.  I could barely even sleep that night I was so excited about the ramp.