Worked late and had such a frustrating day I didn’t feel like talking to anyone.  Watched a couple episodes of Leave It To Beaver with the family then felt like skating a manual pad.  On the way to Valmont I had all these one – two tricks in my head to do on the back to back manny pads.  When I got there I landed every warm up manny and I thought it was on.  Then a truck came and parked in front of one of the pads.  Doh.  I still tried a bunch of lines and pretty much never landed anything other then a manny and nose manny.  I tried a run to a nose manual 180 out.  Couldn’t even get that.  I tried a line to 180 nose manny.  Couldn’t get that either.  Ugh.  The saving grace was all the tricks I got up the various curbs there.  180s, sw front 180, kickflip, pop shove, fakie bigspin, heelflip and a very rare frontside halfcab.  I tried a few 3 flips up, but never got close.  I left bummed although I was happy with how hard I skated.  I just wish I would actually land tricks sometimes.

Didn’t have much time as I wanted to get to Fuzz’s kinda soon to work on his website before the premiere.  So I just skated flat for about 30 min.  Nothing special went down.  It took several tries to get a slow treflip.  The new trucks are still a bit stiff.  I tried a line for awhile of halfcab flip, heelflip, treflip and never came close.  I skated pretty hard at least and it was fun.Later on Fuzz, John and I went to the Stay Gold premiere.  We got there kinda late so we missed the Meta teaser.  Doh.  After a bunch of good teasers Stay Gold started.  Without ruining it too much I’ll just say that the video starts off super good with Westgate and Herman before going into a bunch of handrails for awhile, Suski, more handrails then ends with epic parts from Leo and Reynolds.  At one point during Leo’s part Fuzz said to me “Are we watching Misled Youth?”  Pretty much nailed it right there.  Reynolds part is completely epic though.  He makes hammers look good and he’s 30 something?  Not sure I’m gonna buy this video, but I really liked the 5 parts I mentioned so I probably will.