Woke up at 5:00 am, worked, took a brief nap then picked up Rob/Neil and headed toward Crisis for the safeway ledges. Neil was Neil and killed it out of the gate. Ollies over boxes right away, front 50, front lip, front tail on the ledge, halfcabs over boxes. Struggled with back crooks. Rob hasn’t been able to skate much lately, but decided to get his skate feet back by doing tricks like front nose 270 out and cab front nose. Wowsers. Struggled with switch boardslides for awhile, but banged out a good one. I was struggling big time in the beginning and couldn’t ollie a simple little crate. About the time Neil was wrapping things up I started to feel good. I got a grip of ledge tricks total. Back crooks, back noseslide, noseslide fakie, back 50, front 50, front 50 shove, front 50 front 180 out, front crooks jib to fakie, kickflip back 50 (a few of these!), front 5-0, front 5-0 shove (took a long time, but the one I got felt so good) and lastly a front 5-0 front 180 which I am the most hyped on as I haven’t done it in forever. Other tricks I was hyped on was kickflipping the little crate, an ollie over the tall box and not being at a skatepark.

Was up at my mom’s in Buena Vista for most of the weekend. Drove down in the afternoon, got home, played football with Ollie for awhile then met up with Fuzz, Neil, Dean and Lester in the Louisville Tech Center area. First spot was the OG ledge / junk spot. Fuzz and I arrived first and we were slow to start. It was fun, we were totally just dorking. Neil showed up. We moved a big metal rack so we could skate it which was fun. We all did some 50s. We all got some boardslide transfers up onto the loading dock. I did a couple super slow bluntslides. Neil and Fuzz put a metal shelf thing out to ollie. Neil had it every try. Fuzz crooked the corner of it and manual bonked it. I rode by it. Things were starting to heat up a little when we got the boot from a nice and respecting cop. That’s always nice when police are cool.

We went over the blue angle bar. Dean showed up. Everyone did boardslides down the end to begin. Neil added a lot more with lines that included front boards, front shoves, no complies, ollies and probably 20 other tricks. Fuzz did halfcab boardslide, nollie front lip. Dean had halfcab noseslide. I tried a run of no comply 180, fakie flip, sw boardslide, but never got them all and was too embarrassed about my pushing/slow speed anyway. After awhile everyone was doing a flatground trick then trying something up. Neil battled b/s flips for awhile and when he got it bailed the sw front 180. That sounds like something I would do. He had some bluntslides up and a sick ollie onto it, then no comply out. Dean was working on 360 flips and getting so close. So close that he landed it, rolled a few inches then wilson’d hard. Ouch. It’s so rad to see an upper 30 year old learn 3 flips though. Get it Dean! I mixed up a few flatground tricks, halfcab flips both ways, heelflips and managed a decent for me crooks pop out up it. I don’t remember what trick I did before it. Once I slammed and put my fingers up in the grate. Not good. My fingers survived though. Fuzz wasn’t in a flip trick mood. He had some fun looking 180 slides and sw 180s though, nollie front 180, sw front shoves. The session kinda fizzled out and we talked about Four for awhile before calling it. Fun times, good to see Neil out after 5 pm.

Had one of those Saturday mornings where I woke up at sunrise for some dumb reason. I did some stuff on the computer for awhile then decided I should bite the bullet and skate a bit since I wouldn’t be able to the rest of the weekend. I went to Boulder park. There was some dad’s in sandles and bike helmets skating with their kids and some remote control car action going on. Ugh. Just another reminder why I despise skateparks. But I stuck with it and had some fun. I was feeling very caffeinated from some matte and cranked up OFF! on the way to the park. That happy caffeine feeling went away pretty quick when I bailed and axle stall and I almost went down hard. Skating early in the morning is so tough for me. In the end I did some basics that I’ve done at that park awhile ago when I skated it once in awhile. My favorite line was dropping into the deep bowl, grinding out of the roll in thing, front 50 down the hubba, roll into the mini section then a front rock. I also got a front d there, but man I suck at tranny. Granted I haven’t been skating it at all lately, but it’s pathetic. I also did like 20 f/s ollies over the tiny hip hoping that maybe on one of them my board would actually leave the ground. I don’t think it did. Ha. Hyped I skated at least. Boulder park is so dated.

Got off work at a decent time on a super nice friday. Met up with Carleigh then we went to the 30th & iris ledges. It was kinda dry and things didn’t start all that great for either of us. Eventually we landed some tricks though. Carleigh got noseslide, noseslide shove and almost 180 nosegrind. She also almost did a b/s flip on flat. I got some uphill crooks, slow front 50, front 50 180 out, front 50 shove, front 5-0 and a weird first try kick back tail with a slide that I couldn’t get again. Flatground was ok, got some heelflips, treflip, some kickflips.

Then we went to the crazy bikepath kicker in north Boulder. I’ve never skated it before. We both had some ollies. It’s really fun. I got a smallish kickflip too, but it felt cooler then I would have thought. That thing boosts you. Carleigh basically got pop shove, but fell off. I ended it by trying a big ollie and not even hitting the tail. Ugh. Even though we didn’t land a whole lot it felt cool to skate some harder kind of spots.

Right after work on the first 90 degree day I met Jack and Carleigh and we went up to Cheyenne for the 23rd anniversary John Doe skate jam at the Cheyenne park. We pulled in at the same time as Skelly, Justin and Mike from Ft Collins. Good timing. Most of the Cheyenne dudes were chilling as they had been going at it for hours. Sean hadn’t stopped though, he was still busy destroying the park. Monster sw back 180, a million awesome tricks all landed every try. Dude slays. I started out on the tiny qp in front of the main ledge. That thing is fun. I did a first try blunt to rock fakie which was new for me last time I went there and then a few backside blunts. So hyped on learning that! Everyone else was kind of all over the place. Jack did a crazy manual late 360 shove, Carleigh got a front 50 across and down. I got a noseslide down. Got into some front 50s across and down, but never quite got it. Had a couple fun lines of front 50 the top, ride down the bank, boardslide the shotgun rail, nose manny the flat of the mini ramp. Jack did a nice front hurricane on the shotgun rail right in front of me and told me to crooks it. After a patented crooks/willy/jib I did an actual crooks. Neato. Man so much was going on this is hard to remember. Mike did a really long wallie 50. Skelly was nursing a broken foot, but still shredding. I tried wallieing up the green box and was kinda just sucking flailing around. Oh yeah, I had new shoes:

Fallen Forte Lowcard collab. They are thin as hell so skated pretty good on day 1. After awhile Mike and I started trying tricks over the hip. He did back 180, cab and fakie bigspin. All were tight and all were after doing rock ‘n roll or rock fakie on the weird dark metal qp at the top. I tried backside flip and got a couple. The second one felt great. Next up we all skated near the top of the park. There were some crazy long lines going with lots of ollies. I think both Carleigh and Mike got the following. Ollie the long two, ollie up 1, quick ollie up the next 1, ollie up the taller ledge (2 stair height at the top of the park), ollie into the step up. So sick. Jack was in on the action, but I forget what he was doing. He would manual the middle stair and ollie up the next of course. No comply flip up the long 2, no comply tailslide on the bank, a ton. I was hyped on a line of ollie the long 2 (which was way easier then I thought it would be and I’m sorry I embarrassed myself so much in front of Jack and Carleigh), ollie up 1, quick ollie up the 2nd, kickflip up the tall ledge, kickflip down the top 2 stair. That’s almost as exhausting to type as it was to do. Ha. At the end Jack, Carleigh, Mike and I played a game of SKATE. It ended up Jack and I going at it and it went on forever. We weren’t landing all that much, but somehow we went on forever and it seemed like a totally epic game to me. At one point we were tied and Jack did a double flip. I hucked it and landed it. Hyped me up so much. Later on Jack would take me out with a 43 shifty that I managed to land after the game (of course). That trick hates me. What a fun night though. Warm weather, no wind in Cheyenne, a couple beers, homies, good skating. What a blast.

Whoa, a null filming mission? Haven’t done this in a while. Went to meta to meet up with Jack, Dean, Derek, Chad. While we were waiting I skated the slappy curb as I didn’t want to lose front feebles and slappy crooks. I did a bunch of them and the dream line, but with an ollie instead of a kickflip. Jake randomly biked by at one point. He’s been out for awhile with a rolled ankle, but still managed a couple slappy grinds and a bluntslide. Then we went to Southern Hills. While the boys warmed up I skated. I got a little line of ollie the 2 stair, crooks the ledge, 3 flip on the smooth flatground. Might have gotten that line twice actually. Also did a front 50 and a front 50 shove as time expired and I turned into filmer Glen. Jack got a good line. Derek almost got his gap back tail bigspin out. At times I thought I was going to throw up. I felt really weird and still sick. But I pulled through. We went to Petes to eat then to the new CU Research center. Most of Meta was there. Chad and I arrived first and Cameron filmed Josh do a completely ridiculous line in front of our eyes. It was crazy. After some drama everyone ended up at the front for what was mostly just everyone skating flatground and Josh continuing to rip everything. Josh did front 180/fs halfcab twists down the long two stairs. It was so funny. His fakie benihana was hot too:

Pretty much everyone was landing crazy stuff. Cameron did 3 shove late flip back to back. Josh did a nollie treflip and I jokingly said that trick was easy, posed one and somehow landed on it at 270 degrees. It was funny. After all that we went back up to the hill to drop some people off. I had mentioned to Chad that I really wanted to try a line at the slappy curbs. I wasn’t feeling very well and probably should never have tried it, but I did. Oh, and did I mention my shoes were literally falling apart?

Not so good for hammers. Or anything really. Jack and Carleigh hung out too as Chadman filmed. For any doubters out there, Chad is one of the best dudes ever. Well, all three of these people actually. But yeah, Chad has a heart of gold. Anyways, I started trying the line and eventually got all 4 tricks, but the kickflip and the slappy crooks were a bit too arthritic for me. What’s that? arthritic. As in that is my style. Thanks for the help Fuzz. Instead of having too artistic of a style, I have too arthritic of a style. Ha ha so awesome. I did manage to line up a front feeble with a decent kickflip over the little gap though. Maybe I’ll use it at some point, maybe I’ll just talk trash on it. I blame Chad for saying “You know if you land the kickflip you’ll get the slappy crooks”. Have I mentioned what a dick Chad can be? The kickflips over the gap (off a bench, over a short sidewalk section into a crack infested bike path) felt really weird. I committed every time, but with the lack of grip on my shoe sole I was really having troubles and I only landed 3 total. But it felt awesome to try so hard. Thanks Chad.

I’d been fighting a bad cold all week. Ugh. Started Saturday off by standing for two hours in the cold rain watching Ollie’s flag football game. It was fun though. Ollie got his first interception and his first touchdown. After some food and napping and the weather clearing up I went to meet up with Dean, Carleigh, Jack, Blaine and Conor at Red Curbs. Luckily I was late as apparently a cop had decided to make an example of them and wrote a $250 trespassing ticket. Ugh, that is one of Boulder’s best spots and so needed in bad weather. We went to the school way out on Arapahoe instead. I thought Carleigh had left to get ready for her sushi party, but it turns out she had still wanted to skate. Doh, sorry Carleigh. The crew at this point was Blaine, Jack, Dean and I. It was fun. Dean first. He did a gap out to axle stall like I had fun doing a couple weeks ago, ollied up the 3 stairs in a row (so hard for us tall folks, well at least for me), some manuals and ollied off the bigger drop. Blaine seemed to be more in chill mode and was kinda just messing around, but having fun. Jack was you know, ripping. He even did some nose manuals. Hippy jump a rail. Manual up all three stairs. It’s hard to remember all what he did at this point. It was rad to see as I haven’t seen him in a bit. I shaked off some rust and had a great session for me. Got a manual off the small drop then kickflip off the curb, manual the bigger drop, kickflip up, front 180 off the drop, ollied up the bigger ledge (super hyped on that) and had a blast. After awhile we went to the back of the school where Dean almost got a sick nosepick and I ollied (if scraping your tail counts) off the big two. It’s been awhile since I’ve ollied off anything that tall and it felt good. Jack, Dean and I went on to play a game of SKATE that I somehow won. Only because Jack was kind enough to not do switch and nollie tricks. It was my first game of SKATE since before the arthritis started and it was even funner then I remember. Nice kickflip Dean and thanks for playing old guy rules Jack. After that we went over to Carleigh’s and watched skate videos. It was fun.

BAD ASS CHICK OF THE MONTH (in the kitchen).

Got off work early, chilled a bit, ate a fried egg sandwich, make about 500 phone calls, watched the new TWS video and then Fuzz arrived around 7pm. We went to Meta so Fuzz could fan out and I could go buy the new OFF! at Albums On The Hill. John was saying he was gonna go skate an indoor mini and we were down. We went to skate campus until John got off work. We went about 100 feet and stayed put the rest of the night. Fuzz and I started out so bad. One of my favorite things about skating with Fuzz is how much we laugh at ourselves and each other. We looked so old and uncoordinated when we started. We were slamming trying slappy 50s on the little banked curb. Eventually things started falling into place though. Fuzz grinded a long slappy. Carleigh showed up after a bit. Out of the blue I thought about this and decided to try a slappy crooks. Got it first try! I went on to do probably 50 of them as it easily could be one of the funnest tricks in skateboarding. Carleigh did a couple slappy front 50s then slammed and learned slappy noseslides. So rad. Fuzz was killing it. Switch bluntslide popped out. Slappy noseslides, tailslides. He struggled with the slappy crooks. Kind of surprised me, but he did get a sick one. John showed up and after some warming up we started trying some lines. We did slappies, then ollied up onto the bench and ollied the little sidewalk gap. I had been doing some downhill nose mannies between sections of rock. Pretty fun. Started posing slappy front feeble grinds and they actually felt doable. Several tries later I started landing them. So hyped! Two new tricks in one night! Then I tried to combine everything with the nose manny, front feeble, ollie up the bench (the hardest part for me because I am horrible at ollies onto stuff at weird angles), kickflip the gap (never quite committed) then slappy crooks. That would have ruled. I got really close. John was doing lots of halfcabs, 43 shifties, nollie back 180s and was trying to 3 flip the gap. Never committed, but maybe if a camera was pointed his way. This night ended up being one of my favorite sessions ever. I don’t normally land new tricks and then do them several times. The slappy crooks and front feebs felt so good. And what an awesome crew.

My “gift” to Liz on Mother’s Day was a day of half-assed cleaning. While some laundry was drying I went out front and skated. I had Heavy Blanket going in my ears and it got me hyped quick. Had a quick line of f/s 180, fakie flip, f/s halfcab flip (landed at 90 then tic tac’d straight. argh. It was first try though so I left it alone). I tried to skate a bit faster than normal and found a way to ollie this little 5 foot crack to crack gap to start my runs out one way. Ollie the “gap”, kickflip on flat, nollie tre. I ate shit on a kickflip so bad. I was hyped though because I was actually going fast enough that landing wrong resulted in a slam rather then the typical Glennie walk out. Never got close to the nollie tre. Another line I tried was fakie bigflip, front shove, treflip. Never put these all together. Tried a bunch of nollie f/s flips and didn’t get as close as the last time I tried. Had another run going of no comply front shove, heelflip, nollie tre. Not close on the nollie tre. Skated about an hour. Had a blast. Halfway through Ollie came out of the house and went and shot hoops by himself at the school. It hyped me up so much because he normally only does stuff with me so it was so cool to see him over there by himself and not making me feel like a bad parent skateboarding instead of playing basketball (How funny is that?).

After a long morning of cold football watching (Ollie’s team got destroyed, but Ollie had a touchdown pass which was pretty rad) I needed to run some boards to SOL in Longmont. Ollie was down to join because he likes the park we could skate after. It was chilly and no one was there initially. We had fun. Ollie did ollies into the banks and 180s out of them. Near the end he managed a pop shove flyout which took him a long time. I had fun, did lots of basics since others weren’t around. 2″ ollies over the hip. Got an ollie up the tall ledge, turned around and flopped a tiny kickflip over the hip. Did a tiny flyout boardslide on the end of the smaller rail. Front 50’d the flat then downhill c hubba going about 2mph with my hands on the ledge. Had fun. At one point another dude showed up and basically just skated the park as fast as he could and would slide out and fall. He had some good stuff and I know skating fast is the new up rail so he’s on it.