Awhile ago Liz said she wanted a nice camera to take photos with.  I had just talked to Meta Sam about his camera which he films with too so I was like, whoa, lets sell the video camera and get one of these new DSLRs that does great photos and HD.  Win win!  Whew!  Unfortunately it hasn’t been so easy.  My video camera sold on ebay, but the dude has yet to pay.  There is a Sony coming out soon called the A55 that seemed amazing until I found out more about the video options (no progressive?  seriously sony?).  Everyone knows the Canon 7d is the bomb for this, but it’s $800 more then the Sony or the cheaper Canon t2i.  So I think I’m probably going with the t2i once I get the money for my video camera.  After talking to Meta Sam (7d stud) he agreed that it’s probably not worth the extra $800 anymore and you can build up a better lens collection with that money.  So maybe Null will finally go HD and just maybe I can make video clips that are slowed down more than the Lakai intro.  Ok, you’re right, that’s not possible.

I used to be pretty against skate brand jeans and just wore crap like Old Navy or Levis.  But I saw these at Meta and they stood out.  One trip to the fitting room later I know have all three color ways!  Super long for tall guys, a little stretch in them, good fit and good colors.  It’s the haps yo!

It’s been almost a month since the last time I took a day off skating.  I’ve been kinda needing a day off for awhile.  In skating’s absence I went swimming with the kids which is pretty tiring.  Especially after jocking out pretty hard at the gym earlier in the day at work too.  Have I ever mentioned I’m related to the strongest man in the world?Well it’s true.  2000 and 2001 Super Heavy Weight Powerlifting Champion of the World Big Bad Brad Gillingham!

Late evening short session at Valmont.  We skated the manny pads the whole time.  Carleigh got a manny pretty quick on one of the shorter ones and I managed a couple on the longer one.  Then Carleigh proceeded to land 20/22 kickflips or something.  So sick.  She was also trying slappy nose mannies and getting somewhat close.  I was trying heelflip up one, then nollie shove up the next, but only landed one or two heelflips up.  Coming the other way I tried to manny, drop down to manny, then pop up to nose manny.  Never got close.  Other then that I did lots of ollies around and managed a kickflip manual.  Fun little session.

Believe it or not it was my idea to go skate a ramp.  We hadn’t been to Dave’s ramp in a long time and I had been thinking about it.  I picked up Jake and Lazer and headed to Meta where we met Jason and I got a quick tutorial on DSLRs.  Off to Longmont we picked up Brian and went to Dave’s.  Oh yeah, we drove through a bunch of smoke from the wildfire going on and at times it was snowing ash on us.  Anyways, the session started slow.  I was really sucking, but surprisingly Lazer and Brian were having troubles too.  Brian took the worst slam I’ve ever seen him take (which is saying a lot).  He was trying front axle stall to fakie and dove from the coping onto his back all the way to the flat.  It was epic.  The fact that he was able to laugh it off is beyond me.Things eventually got going.  Jake was ripping as usual.  Brian was throwing down trick after trick, Lazer was ripping, Dave was holding his daughter, Jason was downloading music and I finally landed some Rampy tricks elsewhere.  I got a fakie pivot fakie, fakie front axle to rock ‘n roll to got heckled, crooks on parking block side, front ds felt pretty easy, etc.  We dorked around for awhile and I ended up getting Brian’s trick the front tough guy to front rock.  It was bad, sloppy and fun.  After awhile I held Dave’s daughter so he could skate.  That was pretty fun.  Allan had showed up and was calling out tricks for everyone to do.After awhile Jake and I went out front to play of SKATE which was going pretty slow and was ended abruptly by a drunk neighbor that tried to fight us and threw rocks in the street.  That dude sucked.