I worked pretty hard on this.

Jason, Carleigh and I rolled out to Crisis to meet Neil.  None of us got much sleep and all of us were hungover.  We picked up Neil and Conner and rolled to a bank spot.  It’s one of those banks next to a handicap ramp kinda deal.  Neil was skating good.  Conner was of course.  I haven’t really skated with him before.  At one point he made something look really easy and Jason rolled his eyes just laughing at how ridiculous that was.  I settled in to trying a line of chinese crack nollie, front tail on one of the banks, curb around then b/s flip on the next.  I did land it, but the b/s flip was horrible.  I felt so foreign on my board.  My first three days in a row off in a long time, then to combine it with a pretty good hangover.  Not fun.  I took a bunch of tries just to ollie a 4 stair that was there too.  Ugh.  That spot is fun for sure though.Then we hit the park for awhile.  We were still hurting.  Carleigh ended up sitting in the car.  Jason and I skated mostly the blue pad, quarta potty for awhile.  I did the first b/s 50 b/s 180 out I’ve done in forever.  The funnest part was later on at the top of the park we would do a little wallride on the front of the bank, front tail revert on the lip of the oververt, then a trick into the bank.  Jason did wallride to back side rock, front tail front 180 out, halfcab into the bank.  I got wallride, front tail back 180 out, sw front 180 into the bank.  The sw front 180 was hard because my didn’t like being turned that way.  At least that was fun, but overall the skating was pretty horrible.

A tired Sunday for some reason.  Maybe it was playing Rock Band til late, maybe it was the cold weather skating on Saturday.  But for whatever reason I was beat.  Matt, Ian, Bernie and Carleigh met up for some skating.  Bernie was first and we played a couple bad games of SKATE before heading to campus for some shredding/filming.First was an uphill ledge.  I was still skating bad and did some runs with various 180s/manuals up/off the red curb.  I managed one 50 50 where I didn’t grind and another one where I almost rolled my ankle.  Matt did front 5-0 up, crooks down.  Bernie did crooks up.  Carleigh snapped photos.  Ian almost got front tail.Next we went to this weird drop with some ledges in front of it.  I was happy to ollie the further ledge then survive the drop.  Matt and Bernie played with a few tricks.  Ian tried to kickflip off it and ended up rolling his ankle super bad.  The kind that leaves you shaking in pain.Ian was a good sport about it.  He layed in the concrete with his foot up, hoodies piled on him while Matt tried a nosebonk.  It was so funny when people would come by and ask if he was ok and we would say the worst stuff like we didn’t know who he was and he was lieing there when we got there.  Get better soon Ian.  The dudes in the background of this photo thought Matt was Lizard King.  So funny.In the end Matt got his trick and we then we picked up Ian.

It was supposed to snow in the afternoon so everyone was moving quicker than normal. Neil, Brian and Bernie met at my house and after watching the Habitat video we went to meet John at Google. His goal was to do a 270 no comply to tail into the bank. Before I turned into filmbot everyone was warming up. It felt weird to be skating street again. It’s funny how ollie’ing up a curb isn’t a guarantee after a few days off. Or maybe it’s not funny. Anyways I filmed John try to get the last minute trick for the Meta video, but it didn’t work out. He lost his mind and his board. Being filmed sucks. Me and John share the same hatred for it. It’s rarily an enjoyable experience. Next up Bernie, Brian, Neil, Lazer and I drove around looking for spots. We ended up at Ball Aerospace for a bit before getting kicked out. Then on to an old wallie spot that turned out to be more fun than anticipated. Especially because the top was waxed up. Lazer and Brian skated for a bit, landed some tricks then sat it out. Neil was off and on dude to hip pains. Bernie and I skated a lot. Bernie was ripping. That spot is way funner than I remembered. Bernie did so many amazing tricks. Kickflip over the curb to manual, front 180 nose manual over the curb, almost ollie a 10 foot flat gap, a long manual popped up to front 50 transfer, an 8 flip trick run, front lip 270 transfer, front board transfer, etc. Neil had some good one foots, wallies and ollies. I skated decent for me. Got some boardslide transfers, kickflips up curbs, halfcab boardslide transfer, worked up to a halfcab boardslide 270 out transfer, and a line of quick up to a tiny gap, treflip, boardslide transfer, front 180 off the curb, fakie fip. Pretty fun and pretty cold.

Feeling good enough to go to work, but exhausted from not napping during the day I fell asleep after dinner instead of meeting up with Fuzz/Neil/Carleigh and others for Yellow Curbs. So I did my 4th Rampy session in 4 days. Not fun. I was over it pretty quick so I just started doing flatground. A few kickflips then I went for switch flips. Some were surprisingly close. One was almost a make. So close. But instead I shot the board into my knee. Ouch. After some not so close switch flip attempts I went for the double flip and shot the board into both knees. Ugh. I went inside kinda bummed.

Feeling sick enough that I called in sick for work I sat around most of the day. Did a lot of editing for the Null teaser, watched the movie Outsourced, napped and played some Rock Band with Liz. Pretty fun day really. I started to feel better late in the afternoon and after dinner I was too ansy to not skate. Ollie was down again and we went out to the garage for another Rampy session on a cold cold night. For whatever reason after a couple runs I decided to try fakie front axle and turn it around on the coping to back axle. A few scary slams later I landed it. New trick! Ollie had fun. He put down his longest run to date which was probably 5 minutes consisting of 99% rock fakie/tail stall combos. But he threw in some frontside kickturns, halfcab kickturns, body varials and fakie ollies too. Toward the end he started making a bunch of funny faces during his rock fakies so I took some photos.

Feeling really sick now, but stressing over this 300 day thing. When Ollie said he’d skate Rampy on a snowy night I couldn’t resist.  He ripped it.  Rock ‘n rolls, body varials, fakie ollies, funny faces.  I got a couple things I don’t even remember.

Feeling sick even after a nap I couldn’t resist Rampy with Jake since he called.  I said it should be a quick session, but it ended up being pretty long and of course, fun.  We both started out ok and did most of our tricks.  Jake had trouble with his staple of front nosepick, but came through with a bunch of feeble grinds which he surprisingly hasn’t done before.  I did a bunch of front tail stalls, front feeble and possibly my first ever backside chink chink.  Well, I’m not sure it’s a chink chink if it doesn’t make much noise.  But I went in fakie, touched the front truck and went back in to fakie.  Cool.

After feeling sick enough at work that I almost went home early, dinner, a nap and some Leave It To Beaver I met up with Carleigh for a quick skate session. We started out at the 3 stair spot where we almost lasted the whole time. Other than some ollies on the rounded curb I tried to manual off the 3 stair forever. I don’t think I’ve ever manualled to a drop down stairs. Yes I know it’s only a 3, but it was weird for me. I kept putting my wheels down right before. Carleigh was trying to ollie up the curb then kickflip the 3. The truck parked right next to the 3 stair with the lights on and the couple making out was a little weird. After Carleigh said ‘last try’ about 10 times I finally landed it. We left, went by the 5 stair where Carleigh ollied it a few times, and I bailed. Argh. I committed to it twice, but the brick to concrete runway messed me up. That’s my excuse at least.275/300 days down. 25 more to go. 53 days left in the year. It’s possible.

Warmed up a tiny bit at the jersey barrier spot before turning into filmbot for the day. I was still feeling pretty sick and run down and didn’t have much motivation to skate myself. I did a few rock ‘n rolls and scratch grinds on the jersey barrier, some no comply 360s and some failed nollie tres. Then I filmed, filmed, filmed. One of the most productive days of filming I’ve had, but totally exhausting. I even slammed really hard at one point trying to use the Meta filming board and pushed off one of the wheels that sticks out. Ugh! Got a good swellbow from that.filmingmore filmingfilmed for daysBut still managed to drop some awesome BGPs when possible.Go to Carleigh’s blog for more ..