Met up with Jack and Sean at a double set rail near Jack’s house. Jack boardslid it before we got there then entertained us with some amazing bails before realizing the selfie cam was good enough.

Then we went to Red Hawk. Sean did all the 50s and 5-0s. Jack did bluntslides with some pop out or pivot shove out. Ha. I was feeling okay, struggling with front 50s, but the kickflip front board seemed close. Chad showed up and rolled around the place maybe once before we got the boot. Doh.

Off to Douglass it was. The sun was out and there was a couple high school kids there skating hard. They didn’t seem too bummed we barged their session. I played a game of SKATE with Sean while Jack did front smith to manual to kickflip out and front tail front heels out. Wow. That boy good. Sean beat me, but it was okay. I was wearing some old 212s since I just couldn’t handle the Tony Hawks anymore. They felt good. After the game of SKATE I had fun for awhile. Actual fun. Ha ha. Landed some crooks, noseslides, a 360 flip and a few front shoves off the training drop. Then I filmed Chad for a bit and he got a rad line for Stubborns. He’s got a wicked good back 5-0. Sean was going back 5-0 front 180 out on the longer ledges. Jack was playing around with tricks like front tail to 5-0, 5-0 to front nose, back tail, back nosegrind. I joined the ledge session. Had fun with some noseslides and stuff then tried to front 50 it. UGH. I probably tried 50 times and didn’t get one. I got into about 3 of them and even with Sean and Jack giving me advice I couldn’t get it. We left and I felt super depressed. I would blame it on getting old, but I’ve never had pop.

setup null 8.38 dream machine deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers outside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, new balance numeric 212 cream size 11.5, vans ultracush insoles)
(pain level 4/10 that weird pain in my legs that seems to come from eating too much (any) dairy)

On a nice morning I worked on some Stubborns stuff then went to skate flat in front of the house. I told myself 10 flip tricks before I could leave. I got 10. Most weren’t pretty, but I did it. I think they were kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, heelflip, both halfcab heelflips, 360 flip, b/s flip, fakie varial flip and varial flip.

Then I went to Douglass for a dream trick. Noseslide 270 shove. I was bummed to see that there was ice in the shade which made it a bit of a gap in. Argh. I tried though. And all things considered I got pretty close, but never rode away. Sean arrived and I eventually gave up. I had a weird new sharp pain in my knee. I filmed him get a banger line.

Then we went to research center so I could do crooks shove. I was sore and my first couple attempts at noseslides were terrible. Although Sean did laugh at my first trick being a switch front noseslide. I did get a crooks first try though so I thought that would be a good omen. Sean was running through tricks. Front 50, 50 180, 5-0, 5-0 180, 5-0 shove, tailslide, tailslide fakie then started hucking tailslide heelflip out. My phone died though and he was kind enough to film me try crooks shove. I don’t know how I didn’t land it. I really tried and I committed and it just didn’t work out. Doh.

setup null 8.38 dream machine deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers outside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai proto white/black 11.5, dc foamy insoles)
(pain level 4/10 some sharp knee pain at times)

After another way too fun night at J Mascis I had the day off work and went to set a trick against Dave in our silent game of SKATE. I played on the curbs at the school for awhile though. 50s, 5-0s, that’s about it. Then I went and did a fakie bigflip. Looking forward to not drinking for awhile.

(setup null 8.38 dream machine deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers outside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai proto white/black 11.5, dc foamy insoles)
(pain level 7/10 legs felt fine but the hangover was rough)

After a fun night at J Mascis Kevin and I worked on his part for awhile before looking for something dry. Dave joined and we ended up at Arapahoe Ridge. I felt terrible. The only things i did worth anything were a pop shove up a curb then front shove off one. Oh and a similar plant thing to what Kevin did. Kevin was kinda bumming taking the last few days of filming kinda serious. Dave got a cool line down the long 3. Nollie back 180, switch ollie, switch pop shove. He also had some good ollies up all 3. Kevin was manualling, doing some other stuff. Sean joined us. He joked around with the hand assisted dorking too in between easy ollies everywhere. Dave split. Kevin and Sean pieced together lines involving ollies, hippy jumps, quick feet, kickflips and heelflips.

(setup null 8.38 dream machine deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers outside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai proto white/black 11.5, dc foamy insoles)
(pain level 5/10 mostly just the hangover)

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Snowy day curbs a couple days ago. @damon1819 @joerhamilton @43shifty @baffoos

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Joe was still here, but it was snowing. I didn’t sleep well. Damon showed up at like 9:30 am on a snowy day to skate garages. Ha ha. Joe, Damon, Kevin and I went to Redder curbs around 10:30. I had a new board as the cracked tail had gotten worse the day before. I went 8.38 this time instead of 8.5. It seemed quite a bit smaller surprisingly. That garage might be small, but it sure offers a lot of variety. It’s kind of hard to see what everyone is doing though since it’s kind of a circle. So maybe that will be my excuse for not documenting a lot that happened. The curbs didn’t grind so great initially. It’s that weird new paint they used. But we threw some wax on and grinding started happening. We played a game of SKATE pretty early on. I had to do triple or nothing on kickflip, but other then that it went alright for me. I even got a defensive cab which normally gets me a letter. I do feel like I made it onto the front trucks before pivoting. I think Kevin won the game on something like switch frontside flip. The game helped the warm up for sure. Everyone was starting to get in the groove of a line and we started filming each other. Rob showed up and got in the mix quickly. The slam on the back 50 was so bad. I skated better than the previous day, but still had some struggles and fear trying to front 50 a curb. Argh. Jack and Carleigh showed around the time we got booted. Doh. That still gave Jack some time to do a crazy wallie manual thing off the pillar.

Then we hit 303 and had some tacos before going to St Julien. I was wanting a nap so that’s what I did. I watched the tail end of the session which looked fun. Jack kickflipped the whole parking block, Carleigh and Joe did lipslides, Damon was trying heelflip front blunts, when Kevin wasn’t waking me up he did nollie noseblunt. Whoa. Then it was off to J Mascis!

(setup null 8.38 dream machine deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers outside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai proto white/black 11.5, thin rubbery adidas insoles)
(pain level 3/10 probably from the cold)

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Some @joerhamilton and I in between stop rocks at York St. fun times with @cassletsonimages @43shifty @_f_u_z_z @gnarlycarleigh

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Joe came out a day early for the J Mascis show and we had the whole day to skate. It was a little breezy in Boulder, but since we’d be in Denver later we decided to head to there early on. We were out at a decent time and went to York St stop rock DIY spot. It was just Joe and I at this point. Almost right away I did a first try nose manual across the long pad that locked in so good. I kinda knew at that point it would be downhill for me. Cass met up with us. We were mostly skating the ledges at that point. I called out a 5 trick line challenge and managed to get mine quick. Kickflip on flat, front board the taller ledge, crooks up the granite ledge, boardslide the flatbar, polejam the tiny pole jam. I don’t think Cass was really going for the challenge, but he learned front boards on the taller ledge. Joe took awhile, but got front shove, front board, front 50, kickflip, pole jam the tiny one. Carleigh showed with Ella shortly before Rob and Fuzz joined. Cass, Joe and I were skating the bank on the backside of the ledge. Cass did a bigspin. I had fun with the chinese nollie then 5-0 fakie thing. Then a manny pad session ensued. I had fun with a front 180 up switch front nose off the little ledge. Joe did front 50 to manual. Rob and Fuzz were working on boardslide to manual. It took Fuzz a minute, but Rob man, he did boardslide manual body varial out so good. Carleigh would get in some boardslides in between Ella not listening to her. Ha. I started trying nose manual shoves, but was struggling with the manual part and my knee was hurting. Rob got in on it and did it in like 3 tries. I was happy for him, but it definitely made me reminded me how bad I suck at skateboarding. So I moved on and tried to ollie the low part of the banged up flat bar. I got close for awhile, committed, but could never get over it. Cass ollied it first try. Another reminder of how hard skateboarding is for me. Then we hit the ledges for awhile. Well, Carleigh and Fuzz tried pivots fakie on the bank thing. Carleigh would end up getting some really good ones without cheating at all like I do. On the ledges I was getting incredibly frustrating. Cass, Rob and Joe were rattling off tricks. I wasn’t. Rob had back 50 back shove out, back 50 body varial out on the low ledge. Also close to front nosegrind. Joe did front smith on the tall one, 50 front boards, lipslide to 50 up the granite, back 50 up, crooks the low ledge and a bunch more stuff. I was at least enjoying doing crooks down the granite. So at least something was working, but when I would bail trying crooks up it I would almost lose it every time. I took a long time to get a front 50 shove up the granite, but I landed with no speed so it doesn’t count anyway. Joe lipslid up it and I got his back with my favorite crook of the day. Then I saw the footage and saw my crooks looked more like a willy grind. Argh. As fun as the crew was I was quite depressed and angry about my skating.

(setup 8.5 null lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai proto white/black 11.5, thin rubbery adidas insoles)
(pain level 4/10 weird sharp left knee pain at tiems)

Last day at work for a couple weeks! To celebrate after work I took a nap. Ha ha. After dinner I went to the research ledge. The temp was decent in the low 40s. There was a few students standing waiting for the bus which was annoying to warm up while they watched. But my first noseslide and noseslide fakie worked out. Then some boardslides fall out. Then the ol’ crooks which is so fun there. I got a really bad back 50/stall kinda quick which was nice too. Which allowed me to do another crooks which was even more fun than the first. Halfcab noseslide was next, got a really slow and bad one. I forgot how tall that ledge is. Had a few kickflips on flat, backside flip, almost a fakie tre, landed on some heelflips. Tried crooks shove for a bit, but mostly just did some fun feeling crooks. Got another sloppy back 50, then a clean back 5-0 on accident. Ha, it felt awesome even though I basically came to a halt on it. Hucked some front smiths without getting into it, front noseslides, got one slow front 50. Switch front noseslide. Tried halfcab crooks for a bit without getting close. Then ended with another fun crooks and called it a night.

(setup 8.5 null lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai proto white/black 11.5, thin rubbery adidas insoles)
(pain level 1/10 very slight knee pain)

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Heated session this afternoon! Thanks for stopping by the #squarehousewarehouse @corpoglenny and @baffoos

A post shared by Squarehouse Warehouse (@squarehousewarehouse) on Nov 14, 2018 at 8:01pm PST

After work on a nice day I went to Square State to check it out, sell some boards, hang with Brian and hopefully skate some. I was pretty blown away by how cool it is in there. I mean I shouldn’t be surprised that Brian decorated and made it fun to hang out at. But it was still impressive. We did some business then started skating. Brian wasn’t supposed to, but I had some shoes he could borrow and we messed around. Kevin had been in the are for a dentist appt and joined up. There was a kid there Ashton that is cool. Quin had left. Kevin had no problems warming up and kickflipped and switch flipped up the euro right away. I always find it disorienting to skate in an indoor park. I’m not sure what it is, but as long as I can remember it throws me off. We started with a bounce off the lower qp onto the upper one then ride back down over the low one. I was last. No surprises there. Brian also did it to rock fakie. Kevin did it frontside too. Then I went in on Dave’s latest challenge to me. Kickflip rock fakie. Brian played with me and was was trying impossible nosepick fakies. Whoa! I had a bunch that I committed to, but the board was upside down. It took about 30 minutes, but I got it and I have to admit it felt pretty cool. Brian got close, but stopped when I moved on. He wasn’t supposed to be skating anyway. I was impressed with his lack of slams. We used to joke about how I was the guy who bailed and he was the guy who slammed. Kevin had done like 30 tricks on the ledge. I couldn’t crooks or 50 the regular one, but I had fun trying back 50 and nosegrinds on the little ledge. All in all a fun time and I look forward to going back.

(setup 8.5 null lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai proto white/black 11.5, thin rubbery adidas insoles)
(pain level 2/10 not much pain but felt very disoriented)

It took 3 days to recover from the front shove session. Man I was so sore for two days. It was brutal. I had gone to 303 and picked up the new TWS Duets video and watched it. Man it was good. Franky Villani did a weird sex change trick at some point and I knew I’d want to try some variation of one in the garage. But I started with the shoves, worked in to kickflip. Actually tried backside bigspin for awhile until I got a really bad one. It was fun though. Then worked through a few basics. Fakie flip, halfcab flip, backside flip, heelflip (cracked my board pretty good on it doh), treflip. Lots of these landings I call garage landings. Since I have to go so slow it makes for some awkward landings. Then I went in on the fakie sex change which felt really fun. Took about 10 minutes to get one. Then I hucked a few other life goal flippers. Switch f/s flip, nollie front heel, neither were close. Tried switch varial flip and didn’t get both feet on. Doh.

(setup 8.5 null lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai proto white/black 11.5, thin rubbery adidas insoles)
(pain level 2/10 some plantar fasciitis pain)

While waiting for people to arrive I went across the street and started warming up on the curb. I didn’t feel great, but had some fun basic grinds. Rob showed and joined in on the fun. Then Kevin, Fuzz, Jack and Carleigh. I was trying front 50 nollie shove out, then up the curb and front shove off. Took a long time. Argh. Rob was doing back 180 fakie 50s, slappy crooks, etc. Kevin did some flip in 50s, switch/nollie tricks. Out of nowhere Rob did a sick line of back 50 shove then front shove back 50. Whoa! We went to film it around the time Jack and Carleigh showed. Carleigh landed every kickflip I saw. Jack did a cab back tail. The wind kicked up and the vibe changed and the filming didn’t go so well. At least Rob kept his board in one piece.

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While I am completely honored to be named #stubbornoftheyear sometimes I wish I could just land a trick. #ilovemyfriends #thestubborns #icouldnotwalkafterthis #over40skateboarding #thisisonlyhalftheslams #soty #dentist5

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Then we went to the Dentist 5 where Chad, Sean and eventually Eric met us. I think Carleigh had some trick ideas there and Kevin and I did too. I took the longest to ollie it and could only do it in a line. Sean’s casual ollies and 180s were so sick. Jack did back 180 one foot right away. Fuzz ollied it pretty easy. After awhile Kevin and I got into our lines taking turns filming each other. I was going for no comply shove up the curb then front shove down the 5. He was going for back 180 up, switch front shove down. Jack was hucking nollie tres, pressure 360 flips, manual varial heels, basically whatever. Carleigh was in the mix doing wallies up no comply down. I was hyped that I started committing to front shoves within a few tries. I think Carleigh got her line first. She stomped that no comply! Kevin took a bit, but he got a good switch front shove down that set! Sean had started filming us. I committed probably 50 times, but never landed it. I was so exhausted. I wasn’t bummed when I finally gave up though. It felt good to try so hard. Obviously I would have preferred to land it, but oh well, skateboarding is hard. Fuzz had done f/s halfcab first try, fakie ollie. Eric showed up and was heelflipping in the street and ollieing the 5. Carleigh went back for more and got a line to kickflip. Kevin was the last man standing going for switch flip and got oh so close. It eventually got dark and we went for margs.

(setup 8.5 null lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai proto white/black 11.5, thin rubbery adidas insoles)
(pain level 3/10 got to a point where my knees were sore, but not too bad. guess these shoes are alright!)