Very tired from being up late and lawn work Ollie and I went ot the school across the street.  I basically just skated the no setup curb the whole time.  Ollie almost did a front 50 on it first try.  I tried to skate coach him into trying it again, but he didn’t want to after it didn’t work in a few tries.  I went through the basic stalls the started trying the Jason trick.  Front 50, back 180 while on the ledge into a fakie grind.  Seeing as how you can’t grind without any setup speed I tried just stalling it.  Turning the back 180 is way easier than I thought it would be.  I landed a few of them.  But since I wasn’t moving who knows how easy it would be when grinding.

Brian, Neil, Rob, Greg, Jam and I headed up to the Fort to hit Northside and check out the contest.  It was crowded which it should be.  I didn’t even skate the park between runs like others did.  I basically only skated flatground which was fun.  There was a bunch of games of SKATE with Skelly and John too.  All were fun.  I hardly ever land anything.  Rob and I skated the little slanted ledge near the park.  It was really dry, but we still had a blast.  I got into a couple hurricanes, but didn’t commit to a land.  Tried front smiths and back feebles, but since it didn’t grind I never landed them.  Tried a bunch of tailslides but only got up on the top good a couple times.  Next up we went to the new pool which was also crowded.  It looks really fun, but the numbers were too much for me.  Rob and I just skated flatground and a plastic parking block which ended up being really fun.  Rob was doing really sick ‘slappy smith lapovers” and grinding really far.  I started trying it and managed to land one or two.  Fun.  Next up was a game of SKATE with John and Andy from MRKT.  What a fun game.  John has 360 flips every try and Andy was close to full cab flips.  I somehow won.  I think the tricks I landed were pop shove, kickflip, halfcab flip, fakie flip, 360 flip, fakie varial flip, frontside halfcab flip amd maybe something else.  I had T.  Even though I mostly skated flat all day it was a super fun day.  Ok wait, who am I kidding, skating flat all day is why the day was so fun.  Ha!

Didn’t have anything else going on and Nate wanted to skate.  We were both tired and he seemed extra bummed on becoming unemployed soon.  We met over by Silver Mine subs to skate the new ledge spot, but ended up not really skating it.  I guess you could just say we didn’t really skate much at all.  Nate had some really good and long back 50s on a curb near the wallride thing.  I tried to manual into a frontside wallride, but upon hitting the wall my back foot hot pocketed super bad.  Ugh.  Other than trying a few flippers and two mile an hour hurricanes on a curb it was a pretty unispired session.