Had about half an hour to skate and it wasn’t so hot that the street was melted. I started super slow as usual but ended up getting a few flippers. I tried the line I’ve wanted to do for awhile. Fakie bigflip, front shove, 3 flip. I had lots of trouble with the bigflip for some reason, but kept trying and actually landed all 3. Stoked. Also tried a little line of fakie flip then switch flip. The switch flips weren’t even close this time around. Doh. Glad I skated a bit.

After a nice lunch and nap at the parents house Liz dropped me off at the Loveland park where I met up with Neil, Lazer and Carley. Before I could even ollie onto the ledge Carley had pop shoved the 3 stair. Neil was pretty frustrated cruising around. Lazer was murdering everything with a rolled ankle. I was sucking. I laned a no comply shove over the hip, but it sucked. Sean Kelly showed up with Adam Yee and Justin. Those dudes were all ripping. That might even be the best I’ve seen Sean skate. Justin had 20 trick combos on tranny. He’s fun to watch and Adam’s style is textbook radness. I got stuck in a rut of failing to land wallrides on the q-pipe to wall. I got very angry and close to focusing my board. Luckily I landed a horrible one and we headed out to a nearby high school.The high school had this weird bank spot. You could ollie over the six stair rail into the bank, ollie into the bank from a concrete platform, manual up it, do tricks on the middle bar of a gate, the possibilities were endless. I took a bunch of tries to get a backside flip off the platform into the bank. I didn’t do it where there is much of a drop. It was super fun though. Neil got a no comply to tail on the middle bar of the gate. Carley slammed trying to do a double ollie run. Sean got a bunch of noseslide tricks on the middle bar, kickflipped into the bank and did a sick tailslide out of the bank onto the platform. Justin did a bunch of cool tricks that can’t be described by words. Adam almost nose manualed down the bank. At the end I tried to ollie into the bank and manual down it from the platform and followed each attempt with a 360 flip. I managed 3 3flips in a row and managed to crack my board too. Ha. Wanted to skate it longer, but we had to get going ..

Jason and I headed to Longmont since I had to sell some boards to SOL. After chilling at SOL for a bit we went to the little concrete park were Jason milked his hangover and I skated in the heat. Since I didn’t skate much all week my legs felt good, but they didn’t seem to remember what to do. I dorked around for the most part (nothing new there). Tried to get my Leo on and front 50 up the little hubba, but didn’t get it. Got a krooks on one of the bank to ledges and almost front 180 nose grind. Boardslid around the C ledge and front 5-0d it. I was trying front 50s though. Typical. I only land good tricks when I’m not trying them. After awhile I settled on trying a run where I ollied up the tall ledge, ollied into the bank and noseslid down the curved hubba. I never landed the noseslide.Next we went behind Skyline HS to the red ledges. I wanted to film a wallie up no comply finger flip off the last time I was there, but couldn’t ever put them together. This time around I started trying no comply shoves instead and eventually got it shortly after Jason started filming. Rad! Then the wind kicked up super hard and I filmed Jason navigate blowing trash for a front noseslide on the tall ledge. Awesome.

Had a busy and fun night with the kids. Was feeling really lazy, but figured I should skate so I went out to Rampy. It was one of my least favorite sessions on Rampy ever. I had troubles with everything. The only new stuff I tried was switch back 50. Came pretty close. Then the heat became too much and I started to feel like crap so I stopped. I felt horrible the entire night.

10 minutes of raw Dollin footage.  AKA awesome.

Can you feel the hype?  Ha.  I’m hyped on the new Hype promo.  Love the afro and the last part.

I hate when I go a few days without skating, but it happens.  Anyways, I was especially mellow after a wonderful dinner date with Liz went better then expected and didn’t have much energy or drive to skate.  We started off at a tall curb/ledge thing where I SUCKED it up for quite some time.  I got one back 50, a couple bad front tails, a really bad fakie nosegrind and tried a few front blunts.  Nate on the other hand landed a million tricks and was having fun.  Nosegrinds both ways, 5-0s both ways, etc.  He was ripping.Next up we ended up under the engineering building where the two sets of three stairs have been turned into two banks leaving some new options.  I tried a run of pop shove into the first one, kickflip the second, but never comitted to the kickflip because the bank got me moving too fast.  Well, that and I had no real desire to put any effort into skating.  I guess that’s what happens if you skate immediately after getting some loving.  Nate found a cool little quick up to two benches, gap to another one.  I managed to ollie on and over the gap, but Nate threw down nose and reg manuals too.  That was fun.  Then it was bed time.

It will also be 4:56 7/8/9.  Nerd.

This album is the surprise album of the year for me so far. Not best album of the year, but something I didn’t think I would enjoy so much. I’ve always somewhat enjoyed Guided By Voices and I thought their best of compilation was awesome. But this new album by Boston Spaceships might be my favorite thing Robert Pollard has done. It’s good ol’ indie rock done proper along the same lines as Guided By Voices. The drumming seems better then GBV though and the songs seem more consistent. The song “Keep Me Down” is so good I’ve considered skating to it for my Off The Couch part if somehow I decided to not use a Dinosaur Jr song (impossible).Rating: bostonspaceships.com