Dean and I had little photos in the about page of Nullozine. Here’s my photo. A crooked grind that went the distance. And by the distance I mean less then an inch. But at least there is concrete proof that I finally skated something taller then a curb. Ha. Thanks for the photo Dean.

Skates the raddest spots.

If you know how OCD I am about gas mileage then you know I was freaking out when I saw 121.4 mpg. I had filled up in Leadville and this was the mileage as I coasted downhill out of town. 1.21 gigawatts!

Sean Flaherty Nose Bonk. Photo by Dean Barnes.

Chadman front 180 up switch heel over. Photo by Dean Barnes.

Man I was so tired. I drove down from my mom’s place early. The drive wasn’t bad, but 3 hours is a bit regardless. A big crew had sounded interested, but when it came meeting time it quickly fell apart. We still went to Denver though. It was Bernie, Chad and I in my car. Dean, Max, Sean and Jack in Dean’s car. First spot was overrun with Broncos traffic so we went way out to Centennial to one of the sickest spots ever. I didn’t even warm up before the filming started. Some really cool stuff went down and some not so cool stuff. After the kids were ready to move on for food I wanted to skate. Chad stuck around and we skated a bit more. I had troubles ollie’ing up the two stair due to a crack that messed with my head, but ended up getting it. Ollieing off a little two stair that had another two right away was tough for me too. I was sucking. Chad was doing 100mph kickflip manuals up the two. There is a somewhat tall ledge off the two stair and I wanted to noseslide it. I got a kickflip out of the handicap bump then got the noseslide. Sweet.

After some food we went to the Centennial park. It was crowded when we got there and I was still feeling stiff and awkward. Max was destroying the place. Sean too. Chad skates so rad. Just kinda doing random stuff then will do such a crazy trick perfect. Dean ollied a rail on the bank. I was trying to ollie into the bank over the rail, but took forever to do it. I got it though. Max treflipped over it and ollied over it out of a manual. Yeah, I suck. I also did a tailslide on the bank, front shove off a little kicker and almost got treflip flyout for the brohs. One of the front shove misses hurt my foot. These little Lakais are gonna be done real quick. They already hurt too much. Pretty weird day. Too much driving.

It was super nice out. I had a half day as I was leaving for my Mom’s house after work and didn’t want to drive later on when it’s supposed to be snowing in the mountains. I went to St Julien where I was supposed to meet Carleigh. I wasn’t feeling that spot, but I kept “skating” it since I was waiting for Carleigh. People kept standing near the ledge on their phones on work breaks so I felt weird skating by them. I tried a bunch of kick back tails and never got close uphill, manuals downhill and never did that either. Carleigh showed up, but wasn’t able to skate as she had some stuff to deal with. When she took off so did I. I was feeling burnt and tired. I rolled through a couple alleys and saw nothing. I was walking back to the car and saw a sick curb cut to downhill parking lot bomb and had to do it. It wasn’t too fast, but by the end I had to cut left to avoid a parked car making it fun. I was struggling with kickflips, but managed a couple into it that made the skate day worth it for me.

A pretty cool night. I got to the park and started out with just a long sleeve, but had to add the hoodie as the wind was really cold. No beanie of course. I’m doing my best to not wear one this year as they remind me of cold. Maybe I should rock one in the summer like Jack and Fuzz then it would remind me of summer. If only it were that simple. Anyways, some dude was posted up in dropin on the quartapotty for a good solid 15 minutes. A big dude with big DC shoes on just trying to get up the courage to dropin on that huge two foot quarter pipe. He eventually just gave up. Matt and Shaun were beat from a whole day of skating, but they still shredded. Back to back back 180s down the back to back 3 sets. Matt had a nice back smith on the unhappy ledge. I skated ok. Flip tricks were coming easy. 3 flip, frontside halfcab flip. Front feeble on the quartapotty is one of my favs. I could not nose manual the blue ledge. I tried a bunch of kick back tails and failed. Carleigh arrived and was super tired, but in a good mood. She ended up staying til the end even though she didn’t want to. Matt, Shaun and Rich left a little early and most of the park cleared out. I tried to ollie up onto the happy ledge and bs flip off, but my ollie’s haven’t been on point since my knee pain and I struggled at it. Had a good time.