I haven’t been this excited for a video basically ever.  There is at least one totally new J Mascis song and at least 3 Dinosaur Jr songs.  Sick sick sick!  Check out the soundtrack listing here.  Mikey Taylor and Omar Salazar are skating to some extremely good Dinosaur Jr songs.  Sick sick sick!!!  Can’t wait to get my copy in a few hours ..

It’s been a long time coming for Tyler.  Can you feel the Hype?  Ha ha, it’s such a fun name to say.  But seriously, Tyler, I’m hyped for you.  Ha ha, I just can’t resist.  

Greg is a rad dude.  He’s got one of the worst anxiety issues I’ve ever seen, but he’s got a good heart and he calls it like it is.  Greg, I’m stoked for you.

Not the best recording, but you get the feel of it. I’ve been on a big Drive Like Jehu kick again lately.

Brian, Nate, Jam, Travis and I headed out from IBM around 4pm on a super nice February day.  It was around 60.  Insane.  We arrived at Northside after sun had started going down.  Being my lame self I got frustrated right away even though I haven’t been skating much lately.  I tried manualling the MJ ledge and after only about 50 tries I got it.  The dark settled in real quick, too quick to document Brian’s hurricane season.  Travis, Brian and I messed around on the end of the jersey barrier for awhile.  Brian got a blunt fakie, Travis did a few rad front pivot crailish tricks.  I did a back pivot.  Whoopie.  Before leaving Nate and I played a pretty bad game of SKATE.  Nate put down a perfect nollie tre which I couldn’t get, but I somehow prevailed with all of my fakie flip tricks.  And once again, this is only because Nate is nice and doesn’t do all the tricks I can’t do.  Ie, everything switch and nollie with the exception of nollie tres.We hit Longmont park on the way back and it started off about as rad as it could with Jam rolling into the bank by the rail.  He was hyped.  We were hyped.  The session wasn’t so hot for me.  I had to promise myself no sex on Valentines Day if I couldn’t ollie flyout over a cone which I barely was able to do.  Whew!  Not much more went down except me slamming hard on a back 50 attempt until we went to leave and a couple games of SKATE came out.  The first one was between Brian, Nate, Travis and I and it was a whatever game meaning no complies were good, bonelesses, whatever.  I missed basically every single trick.  It was rough.  After Nate and I got out Brian went on to land a treflip backed with a front foot impossible then a back foot impossible and even his new trick for the night – front powerslide shove.  Sick!  Nate and I played a regular flip trick game that went on forever and somehow I won.  Neither of us could land a treflip to save our lives.  Ugh!  

I guess J has some footage at the start of Omar’s part in Mindfield.  Great, as if I wasn’t already dieing to hear the new J Mascis songs enough already.  Dude’s my hero. This ones funny.  Nice mall grab J!

Hadn’t street skated in a long time so brought Ollie to Stonehedge. It wasn’t that great. I couldn’t even kickflip onto the manny pad. After a bit of complaining from him we went to Louisville Skatepark, aka the park filled with dumb bikers. And I don’t mean dumb bikers because I hate bikers, I mean it because none of them can do anything worth a shit. We started off in the hockey rink. Ollie was having fun. I was just sucking. Then the light shut off and we went to the park. I basically just skated the ledge. It was crowded so Ollie was just trying to ollie the manhole and he was hyped on that. I started off ok getting 50 shove right away and a few crooks and a crooks fakie. But then couldn’t put much down after that. We hit the bowl for a bit and rolled out. Ollie had some good kickturns which he’s never really done before on anything other than Rampy. 

So many rippers out there today.

Completely exhuasted from snowboarding the last few days.  Ollie wanted to ride the ramp.  I couldn’t do anything and gave up from exhaustion.  Ollie learned fakie kickturns, ie halfcabs without ollies.  He also did a couple more intentional fakie ollies above coping.  Ridiculous.

Skated Rampy before my trip to Utah.  Was tired as hell, but wanted to skate since I wouldn’t be able to much after that.  I tried to do every trick I’ve done before on it.  In the end I may have done most of them, but somewhere in the middle I went down on a front smith grind and totally ate it.  I went off the edge of the ramp and missed getting my hands on the corner so hit my face right on the tranny.  It hurt super bad.  Not only did I hit the side of my face, but it scraped up my neck and ear pretty good on the side of the ramp.  It hurt really bad.  I kept skating, but wow.