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.
filming
more filming
filmed for days
But still managed to drop some awesome BGPs when possible.Go to Carleigh’s blog for more ..
Feeling run down and sore in a fighting a cold kinda way, I met up with Jason early to skate the manny pad before filming Mikey. Carleigh joined us after awhile as it took Mikey a long time to arrive. Jason and I took a long time to land tricks. Jason rarily gets nose mannies, but he put down a bunch of them. It was cool. He also did a really smooth halfcab manny back 180 out. So good. I took forever to get nose manny shove out, but when I did it felt great. I also got a couple kickflip mannies, failed at nollie shove mannies for awhile, got front shove, fakie big up the curb. Ended it with a first every fakie bigflip up the curb. Carleigh put down a few mannies too. Mikey showed up and after a bit of playing around we went out filming.
Mikey beat himself up for the most part. But we had fun.
Feeling really run down I should have taken a nap before going to the Nuggets game. Instead I watched Cory Kennedy’s Sasquatch part, got hyped and went out and skated flat. I had thought of trying a line of switch front 180, double flip, backside flip. After some warm up kickflips and whatnot I went for the line. Somehow it happened real quick. Like 4 tries. The double flip was really bad, but whatevs. After that I went for treflip than nollie treflip. Got that one too. Then it was time to go.
Another busy day. Get up for work with not enough sleep, work, do 7 titles for Bernies video, help India with her homework and it’s 9pm. I went to Table Mesa shopping center to deposit some checks then skate for a tiny bit. I didn’t even bring water since I was hoping it would prevent me from skating too long. Whom I fooling? Skating is so fun. I started out just cruising around and it was colder out that I would have thought. In the 30s, but not bad. A few warm up tricks and I ended up near Abos trying to do a slappy back 50 ollie a hole back into 50. Never got close. Started doing f/s calis in a line. Ollie a tiny crack gap to manny, quick up a curb, f/s cali, ollie up a curb and try to boardslide a round flower pot. No love so I went for crooks instead and got it first t. Then I started trying lines to/from the southside cafe with ollies over the lower umbrella stand. I moved two of the cafe benches close to each other to try nose/tailslides at the same time. I’ve wanted to do that ever since Craeger did it in Menikmati. I tried a couple and it was way scarier then I ever imagined. That might have to do with the benches being curved and a huge crack before them. So I tried it at the end of a line. Back 180 up a curb, halfcab flip, ollie the umbrella stand, bail nose/tailslide. Gave up and tried it by itself. It took awhile. Tried to ollie a taller umbrella stand too, but didn’t quite get it. Started getting closer to the nose/tailslides. Wow. Such a wierd feeling. It feels like a boardslide kind of. At one point I tried some switch flips and came super close. Committed to them, but didn’t land on the board. It felt right there though. After awhile I kept getting closer and closer and eventually I skidded out of one. I had started to think it was gonna feel dumb, but the make felt really fun. I haven’t had a stoke jolt like that in awhile. After that I headed home, hyped to have tried and landed that trick.
Didn’t sleep well and got to work early since I couldn’t sleep. After an ok day of work it was super nice out and I went to the ballpark ledges. I took a lot of time to warm up, but did manage to get a back 50 which surprised me. That ledge is tall and you can’t cheat the corner by going over the top. I also managed a first try crooks. Bernie showed up after awhile. We were both doing whatever for awhile. He had some good front tails. Almost fakie back tail. I had a few front 50s, accidental 5-0s, tried to shove out, but failed. I landed a double flip at one point. Then we started going for lines. I wanted fakie big flip, pop shove, crooks, 360 flip. Bernie was doing halfcab flip, nollie heelflip, front tail 270 out, but also throwing in a bunch of funny fakie flips over cracks. I worked for it, but ended up getting my line. That’s a good one for me if you think of the tricks, but the crooks and 3 flip were so bad. Trying to pop a 3 flip as the 4th trick was so hard for me. Bernie got the 270 out, but it wasn’t with the whole line. Fun. Then it was edit and collect footage time.That was day 270. 30 more to go!
I’ve been blowing off starting a new Null promo for awhile. But with the Meta premiere just two weeks away I hit the wall and had to start working on it. Four hours later I should have been asleep, but this silly 300 days this year thing got in the way and I went out to Rampy for a few minutes. I did a few blah lines then took about 5 tries to get a line of back smith stall, rock fakie, fakie front smith fakie. I also tried a few stationary kickflips without the reverse superman. That’s so hard!
Another busy day. Got off work, played football with Ollie for a bit, made dinner, packed up quick with boards to head to Fuzz’s. Picked up Jason and Jake on the way and Neil and Carleigh would meet us there. Jason and I always start out the best. By that I mean we can barely ollie up the blue curb. But things got rolling. Neil was already killing it. Perfect wallies into the bank, lipslides up the convex ledge, back d’s bricky, ollies over the rail super easy, etc. He puckered out pretty quick. Jake did a bunch of front 50s on the low to high ledge down the bank then manned up and did the 6 stair hubba. Gnarls! Fuzz was killing it as usual. Frontside sugarcane first try was hotness. Jason seemed to be right behind me the whole night. I worked on back 50s on the low to high for a bit and when I finally landed it curving to the right too much Jason was like “oh no I’m sorry” as his board shot out while front boarding the rail and went into me. We laughed. It was funny. Jason was ripping. Coast to coast feeble to fakie on brickey, front boards on everything, manuals, etc. I finally nose manualled the blue box again, followed it with front feeb on the quarta potty, back 5-0 on bluey. Treflips on flat were feeling good. After awhile something happened and I got frustrated though. So Fuzz being a kind sir agreed to dork around with me and we did some things on the mellow tall bank in the middle of the park. Fuzz started it off with manual, rock, fakie manual. I was trying to do a kickflip to fakie out of a rock on the top and Fuzz started trying it too. It took a few tries, but we both got it around the same time. We even did a couple of them. It was fun. Then Fuzz worked on b/s flips out and I worked on bigflip out which I somehow landed in less tries than the kickflip fakie. Hyped! Dork tricks rule! Jason was doing poppy back 180s into the bank then we ollied the six stair and I took some photos of Carleigh who had just shown up. Neato. Super fun night.