Chad Dad stopped by to look at the new graphic he made and we played a couple games of SKATE.  He was riding one of my extra boards and still ripped it. He won both games obviously.  He did varial heel, front big, hardflip, fakie hardflip, f/s halfcab flip, and everything I landed.  I was sore and not warmed up, but managed a couple ok tricks like a treflip ground bounce, heelfrip, etc.  Then the wind came and shut us down as a storm was moving in.

I’ll be there.  $100 says Reynolds gets curtains.

Skated with Ollie and Cooper behind the school for awhile.  I kept it mellow doing some small ollies, 180s over a rug and ollie over a rug to long manual to big dog jumping at me scaring the crap out of me.  Of course the dog owner doesn’t apologize.  People with dogs really suck sometimes.Met up with John at Meta and cruised down the hill to the super mellow bank to mini curb.  There was some freshman orientation dance thing going on blasting some horrible dance music in the background and lots of college girls in tiny skirts.  Pretty funny.  We started out with some basics and not before long there was a guy skating with us who asked if we were freshman.  Ha!  As if either of us even remotely looks under 30.  Anyways, he kept asking questions about skating and we kept skating.  John learned blunts to fakie and did a bunch of tricks like pivot fakie, blunt pivot fakie, almost front shove back nosepick, back tail shove and no comply bigspin tail.  After I rattled off kickflip pivot pretty quick I tried kickflip nosepick forever and never got too close.  At one point I did and accidental back lip (front revert out) followed by an accidental kick back smith.  Ha this spot is awesome.  I did get a first try kick back tail which felt great.  I spent some time trying front smith kickflip out and got close, but no cigar.We then played a couple games of skate in the new area.  The first game lasted forever though.  We both struggled with our standard tricks.  John was ahead for most of it, but I ended up winning it with tricks like 360 flip (I got john on a 3 flip wtf?), fakie bigflip, first try best one I’ve done nollie treflip, and it ended with a f/s halfcab flip war that I won.  The next game was quicker.  At one point I put down 3 tricks in a row, halfcab flip, heelflip, b/s flip and managed a nollie var flip too and took him out with the super tech fakie bigspin.  Ha.  I felt bad about that.  Fun night and oh yeah it was my 200th day of skating this year.  100 more to go!

Picked up Jake at Meta and headed to Broomfield park.  We skated the flow bowl area for while.  Jake skated it well and got a mean front 5-0 on the corner pocket extension thing.  I finally got a few grinds that I didn’t bail and got a little back 50 on the pool coping.  After awhile I moved on to the street area and mostly tried lines with the blue box and little qp.  Jason and Carleigh showed up which made it even more fun.  At one point I got a run with nose manual the blue box, front feeble on the qpipe and then back 50 the blue box.  I also came close to kick back tail on the blue ledge, got a first try front smith on the qp, front 50’d down the ledge near the qp, I don’t know it was all fun.  Carleigh was trying to pop shove the double set so I went up and failed miserably at just ollieing the six stair.  Then Carleigh put down a textbook pop shove down the dub set.  So sick!  I failed at getting her back with a measly ollie down the six though.  At least I can take comfort in knowing I committed everytime instead bailing like I normally do.  I gave up for awhile and did some more nose manuals and a couple 3 flips on flat before going back and landing the six stair.  Sweet.  Jason was skating pretty well too.  Lots of qp tricks and back 50s.  At the end Jake came up with the idea to try and ollie onto the rust box and go into back tail on the tall side.  We all got it and it was fun.

Right after work I ate dinner then went straight to swimming with the kids.  Right after getting home I went out for a short session and was too tired to hit anyone up.  Went to Steelyards where I didn’t quite have the energy I wish I had.  Ok things included treflips, nollie back 180 off the curb, kickflip up kickflip off first try and coming super close to a manual shove out going the long way on the manny pad.  Then the cops came and I left.  Boo.

Needed to bring some boards to Community so Max, Davis and I met Bernie, Mikey, Sam there and eventually Jeff at the new Arvada park.  That park rules.  Max and Jeff destroyed it with crazy lines.  I skated ok, had some fun runs with front disaster on the qpipe at the top, ollie the twinkie, noseslide the ledge, back smith the 2′ qpipe.  I did a few front feebles on the little qpipe too, and got lots of Rampy tricks on the little qpipe at the top including fakie pivot fakie.  Jeff had a really good run with back 5-0 to fakie on the twinkie with a switch nosegrind 180 on the ledge.  Max did first try fakie manual fakie tre out.  Ridiculous.  Bernie almost got front smith fs flip out.  Mikey did tons of back tailslides.After some Goodtimes we skated a marble ledge spot.  After some warming up I did a noseslide on it and eventually a boardslide.  Then I filmed for a long time while not much was landed until Mikey got nollie nosegrind and my battery ran out.  After that I made myself ollie out over the ledge which I was finally able to do.  Fun day.

Saw this on Jack’s Blog and wow.

This part rules. I still want color video though Mystery.

Such a nice day. Went to Brian Bourquin’s wedding and brunch and had a blast. Even had a couple drinks that had worn off making me a big sleepy when I picked up Jake. Oh yeah, I didn’t want to skate my same crappy setup anymore so I set up a new board and rocked some new shoes. I-Path Stash’s. 420 dude.No one was at Rock Creek and we played warm up on the ramp for awhile. Jake killed it. I almost started landing tricks when we moved on to a game of SKATE. The game went on forever and I think we just kinda ended it with a fakie treflip race which I eventually landed. I also tried some front smiths on the round bar and kinda landed a jib at the end one. Fun session though. Hyped on my new setup.

A hot afternoon after a long work week. I had a few minutes to skate before Liz and I went on a date so I skated flat in front of the house on the melting street. I just went slow and skated in the shady area or else my wheels would stick in the road. I tried a ton of nollie b/s bigspins. I’ve landed that trick, but never well. That continued. I did get closer to comprehending that trick though. I also did a bunch of kickflips setting up for nollie flip attempts that I never got too close to. After a good for me treflip I called it a day and went on to have one of the best dates with Liz ever. She is the best.