Drove home from work totally exhausted thinking about how badly I wanted a nap, but I would be hanging with the family and Liz’s parents.  When I got home though no one was there.  Nap or skate?  Hmm.  Well, it was about 65 out so I decided I’d skate flat until they got home.  It ended up being about 20 minutes.  Kickflips were hard so I tried switch heels.  Didn’t get very close to switch heels though so I tried random stuff.  Got a couple 360 flips first, second, kind of third try (landed sideways but somehow rode away) and landed on a fourth, but bailed.  Everyone showed up so I did a fakie bigflip and called it a session.

After a night of playing basketball with Ollie, playing Clue with the family and inlaws, eating too much, working on a new null wheel graphic I went out to Rampy well after 10 pm for a short session.  I wasn’t very excited about it, but somehow I skated somewhat hard.  I tried and landed most of my Rampy tricks.  I tried a few front tailslides, landed one, got a fakie hurricane in the same run and went back inside to work on graphics.

I’m definitely starting to feel the effects of skating so many days in a row.  My legs feel totally shot and I am burnt out on making multiple phone calls to skate.  So I already feel bad for not calling Brian or Carleigh to skate with us.  Sorry.  Anyways, Bernie said it wasn’t windy in Longmont so I picked up Nate and then John and we got to the park shortly before 9pm.  A couple kids were there for a bit, but that was it.  We had the whole park to ourselves mostly.  My warming up sucked.  Like I said, my legs are shot.  Bernie, Nate and John were ripping through.  Nate rattled off like 20 tricks on the ledge.  John can so slappy switch noseslides bigspin out.  So sick.  One thing good that came out of the first hour for me was switch heel attempts.  They were super close.  So close that I was committing and getting one foot on a lot of the time.  Man I’d be hyped to land that trick and I can’t even believe it’s flipping after so many years of not getting close at all.  Thanks for the foot placement tips Jack!After awhile John had Bernie film a line of 3 flip, no comply 180, halfcab flip, ollie the hip, b/s flip on the flatbank, but totally shattered his deck on the b/s flip.  Doh!  He still cruised around on Bernies filmer board though.  Bernie and I tried some lines.  I was trying tiny ollie over the hip, b/s flip on the flat bank, crooks the ledge, front 50 shove out the ledge.  Finally got it.  Bernie backed me up with a real ollie, f/s flip on the bank, nose grind, kick back tail to fakie and like 10 flip tricks.  So sick.  Nate got a bunch of back lips, 20 other tricks and a few b/s 5-0s front shove out.  I got a front nosegrind and came close to halfcab crooks.Last part of the session was on the q-pipe without coping.  I got a front tail and rolled in.  Nate got a bunch of front lips and rolled in.  We both also wallied up the ledge.   Bernie did a front tail from the q-pipe onto the ledge then off into the hip.  Sick!  Fun session.  Hope I land a switch heel at some point.

Wow!  The opening line alone is like one minute of total awesomeness and it just keeps getting better.

Went to Meta after some basketball with Ollie to sell some Null stuff.  Talked with Sam and Carleigh forever before Sam finally kicked us out and we rolled on campus for a bit.  Since I broke my last board I had a new Game Over deck and some Spitfire Busenitz wheels.  I’m testing those too because I supposedly might be able to get something similar to the F1 Spitfire urethane.  Who knows.  Cruising down the hill into campus felt way faster than normal.  Probably mostly the new wheels, but also not having flat spotted wheels for the first time in a really long time.  We got down the the flat gap area and I tried a cali grind and ate shit pretty hard.  I guess I was going faster than I thought.  Ha.  We moved on to the super mellow bank to mini curb where we ended up having a good time.  Carleigh learned front pivots, front tail and back axle to fakie.  Rad!  I got a few tricks I reserve for spots like this.  Front pivot fakie, back and front nosepicks fakie, back tail and a trick I’ve never done before – front pivot, front 270 out.  Cool.  At one point we got approached by the ol’ “My skateboard is broken can I try yours?” kinda dude.  Normally I don’t even allow it to happen ever, but for some reason I let him.  Wow, he looked awkward on a skateboard.  He couldn’t even stand on my board without wobbling all over the place.  It was funny.   On the way back we hit a little gap off a narrow ledge and it took us each a couple tries, but it was fun.  Warmer weather ist awesome.

Dumb intro, but wow, somebody watch PJWHL a lot!

After a nice Easter breakfast and morning with the family I picked Jack up at his place on a very nice day.  We went to Meta to meet Neil, but he had already left so we went to his place to pick him up and swooped up Jake on the way.  We ended up at a super mellow bank to curb with some other stuff around it.  Neil ollied a little wall and some buckets super good.  Jack got a front pivot kickflip out on the bank to curb.  Jake got some pivots both ways and tried blunts.  I got a front tail stall back shove out and a front pivot to fakie.  Hyped on both of those.  Jack and Neil went and checked out a nearby loading dock.  I guess Jack did a wallie late shove out of it.  Near the end of the session Jack did a bunch of weird blunt to nosepick variations, slammed super awkward attempting to kickflip a long 4 stair and some other cool tricks on the bank to curb.  Neil tried nosepicks, but couldn’t get them.  I couldn’t get kick back tails or nosepicks either.Lazer showed up and we went over to the nearby metal ledge.  Jake, Neil and I aren’t the best at back 50s, but we all got a few.  Neil and I tried crooks, but didn’t get them.  Lazer did some good back 50s and Jack ripped it.  back 50 big front 180 out, back 5-0 back 180, back 5-0 back bigspin.  Sick.  Then we put a desk after part of the loading dock and Jack put on a mini demo.  Pretty much everything first or second try.  Front lip, front 5-0, back 5-0, back nosegrind, back 5-0 front shove out, kick back 5-0.  So sick.  Neil was ollieing onto it easily.  Lazer put down a few tricks including a nose manual accidental airwalk out.  I was sucking super bad and couldn’t ollie onto the ledge.  Ugh.  So I tried it in a run.  Kickflip off a bump, no comply finger flip on flat, ollied on to the desk and rolled off.  I was terrified of that.  I had to bring Jake to work so I left for a bit with Jack and after dropping off Jake we loaded up on water.  Yum.We then went to a new bank to curb spot that Jason had seen.  It was such a sick looking spot.  The curb was rough though.  We wasted a few candles on it, but it still barely slid.  Somehow I did a few stalls on it.  First try alley oop no comply to back tail, front smith,  front board 270 in.  Jason was killing it.  Back pivot, back smith and some hurricane variation.  Jack kickflipped over the curb into the bank super easy.  Lazer switch ollied in like nothing.  It took Neil and I a few tries to ollie in which we were both kind of embarrassed about.  Jason also front and back 180’d in.  I eventually front 180’d in moving 2 mph.  After awhile Jason and I started trying lines and I ended up getting a ton.  Ollie a water bottle, ollie into the bank.  360 flip, ollie the water jug, front 180 into the bank.  Then we waxed up a weird nearby ledge that landed kind of in a bank near a big pile of snow and crusty dirt and other crap that was plowed in there.  Jack was the first to get a boardslide on it which was harder than it looked.  Jason and I followed.  Then I started trying lines to the boardslide and ended up having the time of my life.  I  got a fakie bigflip, back shove, boardslide pretty quick.  Then halfcab flip, kickflip, boardslide.  At one point Jack got back 50 and back crooks too.  I kept going.  Also got front shove, bad 360 flip (I’m scare of doing that trick on downhill), boardslide.  Fakie flip, halfcab flip, boardslide.  And the last line was kickflip a manhole, solid 360 flip then the best boardslide of the night. That run made me soooo happy.  It felt amazing.   Since my board was cracked, chipped and razor tailed, I called it a day and focused it.  Well, Jack did most of the damage.  Such an insanely fun run to end a fun day.

This is pretty ridiculous.  Everything in it is sick, but Matt Miller wow.  Nollie heel noseblunt and the 3 flip are bonkers.

On a very windy day I brought Ollie and his buddy Sam out skating.  I had some new shoes.  Yeah yeah I know, I only had those Circa’s for a bit and the DC’s are mall shoes.  Well, those Circa’s were very thin and I skated them everyday for two weeks.  The DC shoes are really good.  I wish I could have worn them longer to break them in, but oh well.We went to Southern Hills.  Pushing hurt more than it should have initially.  I have some type of problem going on with my left groin.  Probably due to skating so much and rarely pushing switch.  I dorked around for awhile trying to push switch to loosen up.  It was kinda fun and the new shoes were feeling decent.  Ollie and Sam were having fun cruising down the little sidewalk that leads into the courtyard of the school.  Ollie was going really fast.  Pushing as hard as he could (mongo of course) and trying manuals down the handicap ramp.  He eventually did the whole thing without a scrape.  He also tried front boards on one of the benches, but never really got anything more than the front wheels up on it.  I settled in to trying a couple lines.  Coming down I would try cali grind, noseslide the tall ledge, kickflip into the handicap ramp, front board pop out on a bench.  After getting the front board popout first try before trying the line I thought it would be easy, but I would never land it again.  Ugh.  Coming the other way I tried to manual a bench, crooks a bench, then b/s flip.  I never got any of the tricks other than the crook.  Man I suck at skateboarding.  Back to the front board pop out line I gave up and just tried to ollie onto the bench and 180 off, but the wind gusted up crazy insane and we just left.Back to the ol’ mellow bank spot with the curbs at the bottom on Folsom.  We rolled in and noticed a homeless woman not looking well at all.  It’s always weird rolling in where someone is resting.  She looked really bad.  She mumbled some stuff and we kept skating.  The kids instinctively kept their distance.  I continued to suck.  Sam is just learning, but started doing some things like rolling off a curb, turning around, slappy disasters, etc.  It’s funny because he pushes goofy footed, but totally looks like he should be regular footed.   Ollie was totally ripping.  He wallied over a parking block onto the bank then turned around and 4 wheeled over the block.  He also carved backside over parking blocks to slasher grinds on the top.  High ollies off the curb, f/s ollies on the bank and put both feet on a back shove on flat.  So sick.  Oh yeah, the homeless lady had left for awhile then come back.  I decided to be nice to her and talk and it ended up being rad.  She was grateful to watch us skate and kept saying how much of a natural Ollie was.  It was cool.  Throughout the whole session I skated, but didn’t do much worth remembering.  Some manuals onto the bank, a wallie onto the bank where I accidentally manualed back into a 4 wheel over the curb.  We had fun.

Went to film Bernie at the industrial bank in Longmont after work.  I warmed up for a bit while he warmed up.  I dropped in about 3/4 of the way up the bank, but that’s not much.  I did a kickflip first try for him on flat saying he would land his trick first try if I did that.  But he didn’t.  Two hours later after some hot cocoa to warm up from sitting in the cold filming I played a game of SKATE against Bernie.  I felt bad, but apparently not as bad as he did after running down the bank 50+ times.  I think a switch front 180 even got him a letter.  I did nothing to brag about, varial flip was probably the techest trick.  Why do I sponsor him?  Ha ha, just kidding.  Bernie rules.  Tricks into that bank are gnarly.