Solo Rampy session.  Nothing that great.  I was super tired from tossing and turning all night for no reason then having to work at 7:00am.  I treid a bunch of fakie front smiths and only landed one lame one.  Then I slammed and called it a night.  New shoes feel good on Rampy.  I did a couple kickflips on flat and they felt great.After I got back inside I took my shoes off and realized I had both sets of my custom insoles in my shoes.  So two in each shoe.  Pretty funny.

Another perfect late fall day.  Chilly, but in the lower 50s.  Liz was out on a hike and Jake wanted to skate so we skated flatground in front of the house for awhile.  We started out doing our own things for awhile.  Jake had some 4 of 5 trick lines.  I struggled, but was having fun.  After awhile we played a game of SKATE.  He got me on treflip and frontside flip.  I got him with halfcab flips, fakie varial flip, heelflip and ended it with a first time in a game double flip.  Hyped.  Before Jake left we had a quick race to 3 360flips for a root beer.  I put the first two down, but took awhile to get the third.  Jake got two as well so it was close.Next I went to Southern Hills again, but with Neil, Derek, Matt and his friend Ian.  My legs were so ridiculously sore initially.  I kinda warmed up, did a few things I’ve done there a lot of times and then retired to being filmer guy.  Go Null.

Super exhausted from a late night of shows and getting home to a very sick Ollie making weird noises, crying and holding his throat. That went on for awhile keeping me up until 4am or so. Ugh. After chilling with Ollie for awhile, trying to repair my laptop and watching the Habitat video twice I went to Southern Hills solo as the rest of TF had gone to Fort Collins. I brought a bunch of wax, waxed up the ledges real good and felt like going right to work trying lines and I ended up only trying lines the whole time. The first one was backside noseslide, slappy front tail on the curb, back boardslide, kickflip. That didn’t take long. I chose to alternate between b/s on the benches and f/s on the benches. So the next line was frontside. Really bad front board, really bad slappy back tail on the curb, front 50. Backside crooks, no comply 180, horrible halfcab noseslide. It’s crazy how tight this spot feels when your trying lines like this. Next one took a awhile. Front 50 front 180 out, f/s halfcab flip, no slide front nose to fakie. Backside noseslide to fakie, b/s halfcab flip, back 50. The back 50 took several tries and was seriously horrible. It was one of those 90 degree in, grind less then a foot and desperately try to land on the board. But landing the back 50 was probably my favorite trick of the day because of how few times I’ve landed that on benches. Last line took forever and I was so tired. Frontside noseslide, treflip, front 50 front shove out. The front noses were horrid. I cannot do that trick to forward so I was jibbing the last bit of the bench. My standards were low for the day as it was just a solo session, but even with the bar so low I turned around and started over sometimes. I’m so jealous of Jason’s. Anyways I tried this run for awhile and when I did make it to the front 50 part I could never get on the bench so I switched ledge tricks. A few tries later I did it. Front 50 shove, 360 flip, bad bad front noseslide. I was hyped though. I sat for awhile feeling so so tired. I noticed that I cracked my board at some point and there was a hole in the bottom of my front shoe. Sweet.

Before heading to see Zach’s band then Henry Clay People I skated Rampy for abit. For whatever reason I thought of trying back 50s to rock fakie. I never would commit to fakie. Carleigh showed up with a few minutes before we had to go. I got a back 50 to rock ‘n roll, but not to fakie. In the same run I got a fakie pivot fakie so I called it. Carleigh got quite a few of her basics too.

Kid duty for me as Liz was going to a movie with a friend later. I had one of those days at work where I didn’t stretch for some lame reason, but I gabbed my board pretty much right away and went to it. Seeing as how it was rush hour there was a lot of people driving by the house which messed up my tempo a bit, but kinda let me rest too. Kickflips took a few tries. That’s not cool. After a good 20 minutes of sucking things started working out and I tried some tricks I hadn’t since the knee bruise. Treflip, double flip, nollie treflip, b/s flip, halfcab flips. I did most of them, but not in lines like I was trying. I tried one line one way of halfcab flip, treflip then heelflip. I had the most trouble with the heelflip. Ugh. The other way I was trying front shove, double flip, nollie treflip, but never got the double flip until Bernie showed up to drop off some footage and I snapped one in front of him to remind him who’s boss. Blah, I’m joking of course, but he was hyped. That’s the first double flip I’ve landed not wearing the IPath Stash shoe.

Had such a fun time after dinner playing Beatles Rock Band, then was supposed to have a chill little cello performance from India that went south. She freaked out and two hours later, lots of crying, me putting on a comedy act and lots of patience I was free for a few minutes. I was pretty beat and opted out for a quick Rampy session. I had watched a few more parts from the new Habitat video (Silas slays!) and was more motivated than I thought. For a few minutes anyways. I had wanted to try blunt to pivot and after some decent runs I started trying it. I never got a decent one. All were to 50 50 and I touched the wall on all of them. Oh well.

On the way to meet Fuzz, Carleigh and I were talking about street skating vs park skating. We agreed that park skating is awesome, but I had to say the best park sessions are not as rewarding as the best street sessions. It’s awesome because this ended up being one of those totally awesome street sessions.Carleigh and I picked up Fuzz in Broomfield, jolted to Community to sell boards, then to 303 to sell boards. After that we parked kind of near Civic park and rolled out with no expectations. First spot was a 4 stair drop over a rail. Carleigh went first and put it down in a few tries. Fuzz made it look easy. I took several tries to commit, but landed it when I did. Rad. Nothing like testing out the ol’ knee right away.Some pushes later we were at a fun little ollie spot. Ollie over a curb, land in a metal grate that is somehow super smooth, ollie out. And some nearby ledges with gaps and lights on them to get your mini-Huf on. We were here for awhile and it was a blast. Fuzz’s tricks: sw front 180 into the grate and back 180 out, front 180 in sw front 180 out, ollie in to manual ollie out (so sick!) and ollied about 10 of the little gaps/lights on the bench. Carleigh got wallies and ollies in followed by ollies out and got the one of the little ledge gaps. I got a couple of the little ledge gaps and a light, kickflip in and front 180 out. Man the front 180 was bad. I landed so straight legged.Lots of pushing around. We hit a crazy white ledge into a parking garage for a bit. Fuzz put down some solid front 50s and a first try sketchy front tail fakie. I got a little front 50 followed by attempted hill bomb, but I bailed out as it was sandy and I’m pretty sure I would have died had I done the whole thing. We ended up at the 4 flat 4 building. Fuzz did a first try front 180 off a big drop. I rode off it. Security came and Carleigh only got once chance at the 4 flat 4 which she almost did. That’s ollie 4, ollie 4. Not ollie 8.More cruising the city and we hit a banked window sill to wallride a bit. Fuzz got first try front wallride, I took a few tries, then added another horrible front 180 out to the mix. Apparently my front 180s need work. Next up Carleigh laughed at Fuzz and I for taking multiple tries to boardslide a little painted ledge and did it first try. She even slid at least 3 inches of it. Ha, just joking Carls. Fuzz and I finally slid it and we bailed out through a crack ridden ollie that smelled of bum piss and started back towards the car.On the way there was a fun looking hill bomb in a parking garage. Fuzz and I went at it. Fuzz did a ollie over a sidewalk section, quick manual then into the hill. He was hauling ass and bailed out. I went into it slow with a little gap to manny, but managed to stick with it until the gate. So fun! A few red curbs and ollies later we were in another parking garage where I slammed super hard trying to manual down a little curb downhill pad. Since no one saw it I re-enacted for Fuzz and since Carleigh missed the re-enactment I re-re-enacted it and called it a night. Totally awesome night. Awesome crew, awesome spots, awesome awesome. Skateboarding is awesome. Today’s word of the day is awesome.

Another busy day at work.   I stopped by Meta after work to get the new Habitat video and then home to eat and do the Null 3q taxes.  The taxes went by quicker than I thought so I peeped a bit of the Habitat video before picking up Jake.  Wow.  Austin Gillete and Janoski had some amazing footage.  It was rainy and felt like the first skate day in the 40s.  But it ended up not feeling that cold and Dahr, Ray Ray, Scotty and Dan where there warming it up.  Those dudes are fun to skate with and super positive.  I was a little worried about how my knee, but it came through fine.  Everyone was skating hard.  Ray Ray was making back lips look really easy so about when they left I started trying them on the corner of a curb.  A few tries in I did a couple weird sideways mannies and felt like back lip was possible. A few more tries later I put one down with a little squeek sound from the slide.  So hyped!  I’ve wanted to try back lips forever!  Jake had done some really good front lips and got back bluntslides already before he got some on the back lip game too.  He got a little squeeker too and we were hyped.  Other things I was happy about.  No comply 270 back tail, crooks on the ledge almost every try, being able to ollie, first try no comply over the rock, having fun.  Jake and I played a game of SKATE.  He got me with treflip and frontside flip, but I won it with fakie flip, halfcab flip, heelflip and b/s flip (he double or nothing’d the fakie flip and bailed it).  At the end I tried a run for awhile of front tailslide, 360 flip, back smith a curb.  I got a few tailslides which is good for me, some of the worst 3 flips ever and possibly a back smith.  I’ll keep working on that one.  As we left I told myself I need to man up and ollie the median finally.  A few tries in I committed, came up a bit short and still somehow rode away from it.  Good enough.  So hyped to be able to skate for real again!

Hopped in the Meta van in hopes of shooting photos second angles for the upcoming Meta video.  The first spot seemed really fun.  Max was trying a back 180 the hard way over a rail into a bank that was super gnarly.  He didn’t get it.  Next up was a steep bank spot where I posed a tail stall, Brian did some frontside grinds, a cool 360 carve and made fun of Jack for waxing it.  Neil and Lazer had some good ollies too and Neil through in a sick no comply.  Then I filmed Jack try his ass off for a front tail back 180 out.  Next up was my favorite metal ledge in Denver.  After some food and watching I grabbed the skateboard and was super excited to find that I was able to somewhat comfortably ollie.  It’s on!  Ha.  I did a few basics on the ledge like front 50, front 5-0, front 50 180 while Max tried tricks like front lip to switch crooks 3 shove out.  Ridiculous.  Neil killed it with some back crooks shove and front lip shove.  Carleigh had some good front 50s.  Brian was saving his energy for a manny pad.  Jack was was listening to Rocky Mtn High in a smokey van.  After awhile of this I got in Carleigh’s car with TF and we went to kook infested skatepark.  I don’t know the name of this park, but it has the lamest people.  Lots of scooters, fly out kids, bikes, thugs, etc.  Anyways to say I was hyped as hell just to be able to skate was an understatement.  I boardslide the little rail, tried to copy Brian’s awesome tailslide transfer, did a couple little grinds and basically worked myself up so quickly that I was out of breath and felt like I was gonna pass out.  Guess I’m out of shape.  After all the shredding we did the TF staple and ate at Tres Margaritas.  Don’t get their fish salad.  It’s not good.

Knee was buggin.  Met up with Derek and Mikey to film them.  Before we met Mikey, Derek and I skated a jersey barrier spot for awhile.  I did a few warm up tricks like back slash, back rock, front rock, rock fakie.  Might be fun to go back and do more some time.  We went to a couple other ledge spots where I filmed lines and had to squat and push a lot which seemed to be good for the knee.