Went up to my Mom’s house in Buena Vista because my brother was in town. We got up super early, ate breakfast, then went out, got some caffeine and dropped my mom off at a quilting class. Steve knew I would want to skate the park with him a little so he didn’t even try to skip it. We had fun. I had brought an extra board for him to skate and he made due. He carved around the park quite pretty good for only skating a couple times a year and trying to act older than me. Other then a carving around his only trick was a little 50 on a weird corner thing (yes that really is the best description of it). Click here for the quicktime of it!

I forgot to mention how cold it was. 18 degrees. With the sun it didn’t feel that cold, but when the wind would pick up, brrr. I was still really sore from the long red curbs session with Dave, but I knew I wouldn’t have much time to skate so I tried to get it all in. I bet the kids in Buena Vista were hyped on this rainbow rail until they realized the would have to drop in on a kinked vert wall to get to it. It was really fun to grind over though. And considering I gave up grinds on flat bars a long time ago it made it even more fun. Maybe I should try again. I found some little lines in the park cruising around. Here’s a movie I didn’t know my brother was taking (otherwise I would have done a frontside invert). For all the stuff that’s packed into that park the small tranny section really is hard to keep speed. My favorite line was a little front scratcher on the noping wall behind Steve above, roll into the roll in, pump over the roll in hip, slappy the rainbow rail, then front rock the little qp above it.

This one took me a bit. Front 50 that I would turn to front tail then drop in. It’s the only ledge in park (there is a backside one too). It has square coping and it’s really weird to go into tranny off square coping. The funniest thing is this wasn’t the only tranny with square coping. Whack. Some of it is even placed level so you grind on a corner of it (like a diamond). Anyways, this was pretty frustrating, but the only real trick I did.

Last thing I really tried was a little scratch grind on this wall. I think it goes to vert. I carved tile a bunch, and got the wheels halfway onto the pool coping, but couldn’t quite get a grind. Doh. My brother took the photo with my delay ridden phone and that’s the closest he got me to the top. I may have gone past my welcome as Steve was wanting to go pretty bad so I finally left.

I’ve finally skated the Buena Vista Skatepark. Yippee. My review of it is a 3/10. The reality is it sucks pretty bad considering todays skatepark standards in Colorado. Square coping on tranny? Whack. Kinks all over the place. I can’t even imagine what the crash up derby factor is as we were the only ones there. No flow. The funny thing was two high school kids were skating the old park. In most ways the old one is better for beginner skaters so I could see them avoiding the new park. That and there is basically no street stuff at this park. And the few “street” oriented obstacle have tranny in it anyway. For a town that has no street stuff to skate I imagine the kids are pretty bummed. Well, the kids that want to skate anyway, I bet kids with BMX bikes are hyped.

Jack’s blog has some fun photos from recent session. Peep it here.

Lucas Puig can stack footage!

Jordan Sanchez. Quick feet, lots of up/down curb tricks which are my favorite, good style ….

My knee is feeling better. My arthritis isn’t so much. It’s been 3 weeks of no jumping with 1 – 3 more. I can’t wait to skate again. Hopefully I remember some tricks. I had a dream I grabbed someones board, did a perfect treflip and handed it back. Felt so good in my dream. Ha. Ollie just bought EA SKATE 3 for the PS3 so hopefully that will help tide me over.

Had a really fun Sunday with the Null crew and Jason. Thanks dudes (and dudette)!

Jack and I had this idea a couple years ago, but haven’t been able to make it work until now. We had fun. Well, at least I did jocking out and yelling that my kid was the best 16 year old skater in Colorado. The worst part is there were parents in attendance that think this behavior is acceptable. Check out lot’s of photos on Carleigh’s blog here.

Dean got lot’s of good photos here and here too.

Here’s a couple “Skate Dad” phone clips from the a flyout session.

Such a fun day even if I couldn’t skate at all and mostly had to just sit down. I guess the limp added to the Skate Dad character anyways. Check even more photos here on Jack’s blog.

Lots of great photos from last weekend. Go there now!

Issue One of Nullozine print is done! While the name is similar to this blog (without the jr though) it isn’t the same thing. It’s a Colorado skate zine. Issue One is heavy on the Null tip, but we hope to expand outside of our circle in future issues. Super hyped for this! Dean is largely responsible for it happening and I am super grateful to him and the others that helped with this. They are now printed and we will have them at the Crisis art show this Saturday!

Congratulations to Fuzz and all the hard work he’s put in the last year with Crisis. Happy one year anniversary and thanks for all the support! The party will be a blast. The art show will feature art from lots of friends and family. And when I say family I don’t just mean Trick Factory or Null dudes (which is totally awesome family!), but I also mean my family, as in Liz and Ollie. Yes, they will have art there too. See you at Crisis Saturday night!

Some good photos and write up of a day out with Carleigh on a Girls Skateboarding blog. Good work Carleigh.

Carleigh took lots of awesome photos at the RVCA demo we went to. Click here to go to her blog and check them out!

Don’t forget to ask her about the full story behind this photo!

Saturday’s adventures.

Sunday’s adventures.

Jeff has been trying to get me to the No Love warehouse for quite some time. I guess it took another night of -10F to make it happen. After work I took a quick nap and piled in the TF bus with Neil, Brian, Carleigh, John and Fuzz (oh and it’s possible a kid named Kyle joined us). Can you believe it, TF out on a week night? Awesome. We arrived all frozen from the lack of working heat in the bus to a somewhat crowded session. Warming up for me never really happened. At times I felt ok, but for the most part I felt awkward and disconnected from my board the entire night. Fuzz on the other hand killed it out of the gates. Stalefish from the flat bank to the wall qp, sugarcanes on the smaller qp, front tail on the electric box above the flat bank and front tail front 180 out which was ridiculous. Neil had his moves down quick. Carleigh skated about as good as I’ve ever seen her. She got a sick line of wallride, back 50 on the qp then back noseslide shove on the ledge. People were hyped and the ladies drinking on the sidelines were so hyped they were throwing peoples boards. Brian had some monster frontside alley oop wallrides, sick qp skills and an insane one footed frontside wallride. John ripped it. The no comply 270 back tail is a crowd pleaser everytime. Jeff was there destroying. He can do everything. Mikey went for two tricks over 4 hours and eventually got them. They were gnarly at least. Nollie b/s bigpsin and frontside flip from the flat bank into the wallride qp. There were some other dudes there ripping too. Like I said I felt awkward, but I still had a blast. I’m pretty happy that my fear of crowds doesn’t prevent me from at least trying to skate anymore. I got a b/s flip on the flat bank that took way longer than it should have, but in all honesty the narrowness of the flat bank made it pretty hard. I also got some kickturns on the wall, a little backside grind to fakie on the qp and almost a front feeble grind on the qp.Once again, Carleigh took a bunch of photos so go here and check them out.I was also very excited to finally meet Andrew from No Love. We had a good time chatting about running companies and how we respect what each other is doing and how awesome skateboarding is. What a fun night and I can’t believe the TF was out past midnight.