Met Jason and Nate at the Mikes Camera manny pad.  I was there first and it literally took me 10 tries to land a regular manual.  I wanted to quit, but since those guys were coming I waited.  Took a lot of tries for a nose manual too.  Then out of the blue I got a first try kickflip manual.  I got a manual front 180 out which is a trick for me, came super close to a fakie bigspin manual (tiny tiny scrape) and came somewhat close to a heelflip manual which I’ve never tried before.  I tried it because I felt I had to try something new after what Nate was doing.  He landed on nollie flip nose manual.  WTF!  He was trying sw flip manny one way, nollie flip nose man the other way.  So sick.  Jason did a text book halfcab manual to slam.  A bum came over and was super annoying.  Getting way to close, demanding money, using my work phone, wanting to try our boards, etc.  He sucked so we went to the ledge.  I was pretty tired and slammed more than normal, but didn’t totally suck.  I got back board pop out first try, back noseslide first t, a few back crooks, front 50s and a slow back 50.  Jason killed it with the back 50s and front board pop out.  Nate did Jason and I’s tricks as warmups then tried back bigspin to front board unsuccesfully.  My body can use a rest.

After kind of helping Brian move his motorcycle engine I went to the Longmont park to help out with the contest.  I didn’t have to do much and kinda dorked around for awhile.  Did some no comply 270s on a curb and some front nosestalls on the curved ledge.  Then it started raining.After a huge meal we went out to the school we all love.  Well, most of us love anyways.  John, Jason, Fuzz and I skated.  Brian and Neil did not.  We started out with a session on the bank to brick just kinda doing various stalls.  Fuzz did a ton of good ones easily like front pivot to fakie, front tail fakie, blunt pivot, etc.  John landed his signature move – the front shove front nose.  Jason had a bunch of front tails.  I had a couple tricks like front smith stall to fakie and a front tail back shove out that I struggled with for awhile.  Next we skated the ledge for a long time.  And by a long time it probably felt like forever to Brian who needed to go feed some dogs and Neil who had to get back to his couch.  Lots of tricks went down.  Jason had back 50s and front 50s ever try.  He also got noseslides both ways and was close to back 180 nosegrinds and put down a textbook front smith.  John wasn’t feeling the ledge so much, but skated.  The only trick I had without much work was back crooks.  I kept going over the ledge on frontside grinds and I totally suck now at back 50s.  I ended up getting a back 50 after some work and a front smith-0.  I call it that because it felt like a front smith to me and people called it a smith, but it wasn’t quite dipped enough to be a Carrol smith or anything.  I came close to some other tricks.  Really close to front 5-0 shove.  Fuzz can skate a ledge.  So many tricks.  Front 5-0 180 out, front salad, back 50, front 180 nosegrind forward, fakie front tail, etc, etc.  He has never done a crooks pop out before and landed a few of them.  At the end of the session Fuzz and I were trying back noseslides to fakie followed with f/s halfcab flips off the curb.  We battled til dark when Fuzz gave up and I landed a really bad tic tac’d one.Feeling totally done I brought everyone to their motorcycles at the Longmont park.  John, Fuzz and I ended up skating it.  We said we’d cruise around and see how it felt.  An hour and a half later we left.  Ha.  We had a blast.  Highlights for Fuzz were front 50 the ledge on top of the euro, front blunt fakie on the side of the step up, front d on the 7′ quarter, boardslide the flyout ledge, and a ton more I don’t remember.  I had a front d fakie on the side of the stepup, cali grind manual above the stepup, the funniest and worst noseslide ever on the flyout ledge, cali grind down the stepup, probably nothing else.  John kills that park and started with halfcab front blunt fakies over the hip, front 50 the ledge near the stepup,  ollie into the euro, so much more.  We ended with a game of SKATE amongst kids that were doing tricks like switch inward heel bigspins.  We shut it down.  Ha.  It was not the best game of SKATE.  Fuzz was struggling getting off the ground, I was slower than normal, John hit his shins.  I was the first out.  I don’t know what won it, but we had fun and wow what a long night of skating.

Went up to MRKT to sell some boards and give them some stuff for their Windsor run that I wouldn’t be able to attend.  When I showed up Chad and one other dude was there who left right away.  I was so hyped to skate the park with so few people to laugh at me.  Eric from MRKT showed up after awhile and eventually a couple others, but basically the three of us had the place to ourselves.  So awesome.  Eric was working on front tails on the east wall.  Chad did a sick line of kickflip to fakie then switch polejam.  I was kinda cruising around figuring out what I could do there that would normally be too embarrasing to try.  I settled on a run where I would ollie a bump, back 50 on the jersey barrier, roll in to the halfpipe area, back 50, rock fakie, fakie smith fakie.  Never got the last trick, but was hyped to finally roll in to something taller than a curb.  Chad did another run that was ridiculous.  HUGE ollie over the b/s hip, rock fakie then cab flip over the hip.  So retarded.  I finally tried to ride over this weird wall thing that I normally wallie out of and got it second try.  Cool.  I also did a really, really bad wallie frontside grab.  Never done that before.  Also got a b/s 5-0 on the brick bank over the bench.  Before leaving Chad and I played the longest game of SKATE ever.  Chad won, but it wasn’t easy.  I struggled with treflips and of course missed all the nollie/sw flips/heels.  Super fun night.  Oh, and today is 150 days of skating for the year.  Halfway to my jock goal of 300 days of skating this year which is gonna be really hard.