Another cold and snowy night, another fun Rampy session.  Jake and Nate came over after the kids went to sleep and we skated for close to a couple hours.  Jake had a pretty sick 10 trick + first run to kick things off.  He went on to do lots of sick tricks like nosepick, front feebs, front feeb fakie, front tail revert, back 5-0 fakie, front smith fakie, tons more, and learned back boneless.  He finished the session trying to get nosepick stale grab, but never quite put it down.  Nate was on it again.  Some crazy manuevers out of no where, fakie front smith 270 in, back feeble back board, front 5-0 rock fakie, and maybe even some basics in there somewhere.  His new trick was front boards trying to be like Jason.  He also had front board 270 in.  Sick.  I skated well, came close to getting back hurricane’s, but never rode away.  Got most of my harder/newer tricks.  Front 50 yank in, front nose bash to fakie, front nosebash to front rock, front d 180 (first try), fakie pivot fakie.  Fun times.

After a really fun day of skating we headed over to Brian’s for “game night”.  First stop was the liquor store where I picked up a few forties and Brian got some Bartles and James.Brian needed some fruity candy to offset the harsh alcohol taste of wine coolers.The Wii was the big hit for Christmas this year.  You just can’t help but smile playing this stuff.  Maria kicked my ass in boxing.Then it was time for poker and Brian explained to Rebecca how to easily take my money.Although after another five hours it was Brian and Maria winning once again.  Somebody please send some Rogaine Lazer’s way.

Had to bring some boards to SOL and it seemed like a few people were down to make a trek to Longmont to skate.  Jason, Jake and I picked up Brian and met up with Fuzz at a fun school in Longmont.  Things were going well and everyone seemed to be having fun.  The ledge there was in good shape and it was great to see Brian trying tricks on it.  He got some front 50s all good.  Jake had some front 50s and front tails.  Jason was getting back 50s, front 50s, front noseslides, back noseslides.  I got some back crooks, back noseslide, front 50s, front 50 180.  We were trying various lines where you ollie over the brick sections and stuff.  It was fun.  Fuzz showed up late, but started killing it immediately.  A while later Bernie and crew showed up.  We were all hyped, but at the same time it seemed like the old guy crew kinda mellowed out once the young kids came in and started landing lots of tricks.  Jason ended up taking some photos with my camera.Front 5-0 to no speed landing.  It also kinda looks like a switch front crooks.  Maybe that’s how they do it in Thrasher.This must not be a make considering I never landed it.Jake prior to a front tail.After a bit I accepted a challenge from Jake for the first to get two 360 flips.  Winner gets a tall can.  Awesome.  Jake is new to this trick and I totally admire his drive to get it consistent.  Doesn’t mean I’m gonna let him win though.  Ha, it took me a long time to get to two, but we had fun.  After that I threw in a nollie treflip and a bad fakie treflip to round out my treflip training for the day.  I went back to skating the ledge and banks.  I got a run where I kickflipped a puddle, front 50’d the ledge, rode up a bank, ollied onto the brick and rode down it into a manual across the sidewalk.  Super fun.  That wore me out eventually and I just skated the ledge.  I couldn’t back 50 it so save my life.  I landed a couple, but they were horrible slow and disgusting.  I managed a front 50 back 180 which felt great and ended my session by dropping into the narrower brick wall in the back and doing a front noseslide whirly bird.  Awesome session.  I stopped and took a couple photos of Bernie almost getting a crazy trick.I think he would have landed this had I not told him he should get someone to film it.  My bad.My shoes are looking beat, but they still feel great.