I was super tired for some reason and didn’t feel like leaving to go skate, but I also didn’t want to have a sick day.  Thanks Rampy.  For some reason I thought of Lazer doing front smith to 50s and decided to try it.  I didn’t do much of anything else and it took me about 20 minutes to finally land one.  If nothing else I think it helped my front smiths.

After a long day of listing stuff on ebay, taking the kids swimming at The Bay in Broomfield and having a nice dinner with Liz I wanted to go skating.  Carleigh was at the Broomfield park, but I didn’t want to drive back there again so I just went over to the Table Mesa shopping center for what turned out to be a totally awesome session.I started out behind King Soopers at the crazy downhill sidewalk with the two stair at the end.  It took me a few tries to even ride off it, but then I started scoping out a different way to hit it in a line and had a blast.  I started out trying ollies on the nearby sidewalk bump, riding down the sidewalk and ollieing the 2 stair then manualling the crappy manny pad down below.  At one point I landed a gap and barely made the corner and did an accidental powerslide.  That felt amazing.  Then I started trying kickflips on the bump which was hard because the landing was downhill and had a bad crack.  I eventually got a few kickflips and followed one up with the whole run.  So fun.  After slamming on the King Soopers 3 stair I ended up at the long flat gap by the auto store.  It took me a bunch of tries but I ollied it and that felt great too.  Next up I ollied the umbrella stand at the cafe that I’ve ollied a few times.  I tried a taller one, but since it’s six inches taller it’s basically a mountain and I failed.  Last part of the evening was spent doing a few flippers at slow speeds.  I did front shove, heelflip, 3 flip, another double flip, nollie shove and came close to a few nollie flips.  Fun night.  Street skating is the best.

One of the best days of Null sales ever.  Hit Meta and MRKT before going to Northside.  Carleigh and I met Chris and Miking and other Boulder old dudes Darin, Louis, CJ, Brian were there.  Not many people were there when we first got there and I ended up getting some of my stuff right away for a change.  I had a run with wallie out of the bank wall in the back of the park, ollie on the hump, roll in, back 50 china bank, wallie over the low part of the jersey barrier.  Other highlights were kickflip on a hump, axle stall on a jersey barrier and first try no comply pole jam.  Chris was ripping the pool section and got a gnarly switch polejam 180.  Carleigh got her tricks on the ledge and got her first polejam at Northside.  Mike did a ridiculous switch no comply polejam.  WTF?After filming Chris for a bit we found ourselves at a very hot Edora session.  And by hot I mean total sun and 95.  Andy from MRKT was there as well as a bunch of the Ft Collins pool shredders.  Carleigh and I took a while to warm up (uh, it was 95 so I guess I mean it took us a long time to land anything).  I tried a bunch of wallies in the low part of the snake run, even landed a couple of them.  Andy was kickflipping and b/s flipping up the euro like it was nothing.  Mike had some cool lines.  I started trying a run of kickflip up the euro, ollie the little hump, 360 no comply a bump, then blunt shove the triangle.  Technically I landed all those tricks, but certainly not well, and certainly not all in a run.  Oh well.  I played a game of SKATE with Andy and Mudgit and totally sucked it up.  I got letters on front shove, back shove, b/s flip, halfcab flip and couldn’t even get a treflip in two tries to stay alive. Oh well, it was hot.Carleigh and I rolled back to Boulder.  I was falling asleep while driving, so beat.  I had plans to go skating with Ollie and my buddy Zach and his son Marcus.  So I picked up Ollie at a Bday party with his friend Sam, met Zach and Marcus and we went to the bank spot off Folsom.  The kids all had fun.  It was cool to see Zach try some stuff.  I was really beat, but managed a few things that made me happy. Kickflip pivot to 4 wheel drive over a curb, ollie up the awkward two stair like it was really easy, another double flip on flat and a shove out of a tail drop on the bank to curb.  Exhausted, but had a good day

Got out of work kinda early and felt like skating. Neil and Carleigh were down and we met at my house. I was warming up while waiting and eventually started hucking double kickflips. They started to feel close and as Carleigh pulled up I landed one. When Neil showed up I told him I learned double flips then proceeded to land another one that try. Hyped! If I remember right I landed the very first double flip I tried over five years ago, but never came close again. And the first one was just a huck. But these felt good and I felt like I learned the trick instead of just getting lucky.We rolled out and parked near the south side of campus, but went toward some apartments instead.  One the way we skated a weird rock thing for a bit.  Carleigh pushed for two miles at full speed to try and wallie out of the rock.  Neil got some front pivots on it.  I kinda wallied out of the rock, pivoted the rock and took a good shinner trying to ollie onto a rock.Next up was a mini mini bank to curb.  And by mini I mean it was a regular curb with a bank up to it.  So a one foot long bank up to a curb.  In spots there is a couple inches of yellow curb showing so you can do grinds.  Carleigh did 5-os both ways.  Neil slashed it.  I had fun too and was hyped to get a front 5-o revert.  Around the corner we hit an awkward 5 stair.  It had a downhill runway.  We sent Carleigh off first since she doesn’t know how to bail and she stacked pretty hard first try.  Ha.  Neil and I bailed a few times and Carleigh landed the ollie and started moving on to pop shove.  I eventually got the ollie which surprisingly kinda hurt to land, but felt good.We cruised and found this weird double sided curb on a mini handicap ramp.  I tried a ollie over the curb down to a yellow curb, landed in front tail and ate shit.  The yellow curb looked old and crusty, but it slid so good and I wasn’t expecting it.  Ouch, my wrist has been hurting.  I resorted to trying ollie over to front 50 while Carleigh tried kickflips over the curb to drop.  Neil chilled.  Luckily it took Carleigh awhile to get it because in the meantime I did my first ever kickflip front board.  Granted it was a curb and I was going super slow, but that’s number one for me.  Carleigh landed the kickflip and we ended it.  Hyped to land two new tricks in one day.

Chad Dad stopped by to look at the new graphic he made and we played a couple games of SKATE.  He was riding one of my extra boards and still ripped it. He won both games obviously.  He did varial heel, front big, hardflip, fakie hardflip, f/s halfcab flip, and everything I landed.  I was sore and not warmed up, but managed a couple ok tricks like a treflip ground bounce, heelfrip, etc.  Then the wind came and shut us down as a storm was moving in.

Skated with Ollie and Cooper behind the school for awhile.  I kept it mellow doing some small ollies, 180s over a rug and ollie over a rug to long manual to big dog jumping at me scaring the crap out of me.  Of course the dog owner doesn’t apologize.  People with dogs really suck sometimes.Met up with John at Meta and cruised down the hill to the super mellow bank to mini curb.  There was some freshman orientation dance thing going on blasting some horrible dance music in the background and lots of college girls in tiny skirts.  Pretty funny.  We started out with some basics and not before long there was a guy skating with us who asked if we were freshman.  Ha!  As if either of us even remotely looks under 30.  Anyways, he kept asking questions about skating and we kept skating.  John learned blunts to fakie and did a bunch of tricks like pivot fakie, blunt pivot fakie, almost front shove back nosepick, back tail shove and no comply bigspin tail.  After I rattled off kickflip pivot pretty quick I tried kickflip nosepick forever and never got too close.  At one point I did and accidental back lip (front revert out) followed by an accidental kick back smith.  Ha this spot is awesome.  I did get a first try kick back tail which felt great.  I spent some time trying front smith kickflip out and got close, but no cigar.We then played a couple games of skate in the new area.  The first game lasted forever though.  We both struggled with our standard tricks.  John was ahead for most of it, but I ended up winning it with tricks like 360 flip (I got john on a 3 flip wtf?), fakie bigflip, first try best one I’ve done nollie treflip, and it ended with a f/s halfcab flip war that I won.  The next game was quicker.  At one point I put down 3 tricks in a row, halfcab flip, heelflip, b/s flip and managed a nollie var flip too and took him out with the super tech fakie bigspin.  Ha.  I felt bad about that.  Fun night and oh yeah it was my 200th day of skating this year.  100 more to go!

Picked up Jake at Meta and headed to Broomfield park.  We skated the flow bowl area for while.  Jake skated it well and got a mean front 5-0 on the corner pocket extension thing.  I finally got a few grinds that I didn’t bail and got a little back 50 on the pool coping.  After awhile I moved on to the street area and mostly tried lines with the blue box and little qp.  Jason and Carleigh showed up which made it even more fun.  At one point I got a run with nose manual the blue box, front feeble on the qpipe and then back 50 the blue box.  I also came close to kick back tail on the blue ledge, got a first try front smith on the qp, front 50’d down the ledge near the qp, I don’t know it was all fun.  Carleigh was trying to pop shove the double set so I went up and failed miserably at just ollieing the six stair.  Then Carleigh put down a textbook pop shove down the dub set.  So sick!  I failed at getting her back with a measly ollie down the six though.  At least I can take comfort in knowing I committed everytime instead bailing like I normally do.  I gave up for awhile and did some more nose manuals and a couple 3 flips on flat before going back and landing the six stair.  Sweet.  Jason was skating pretty well too.  Lots of qp tricks and back 50s.  At the end Jake came up with the idea to try and ollie onto the rust box and go into back tail on the tall side.  We all got it and it was fun.

Right after work I ate dinner then went straight to swimming with the kids.  Right after getting home I went out for a short session and was too tired to hit anyone up.  Went to Steelyards where I didn’t quite have the energy I wish I had.  Ok things included treflips, nollie back 180 off the curb, kickflip up kickflip off first try and coming super close to a manual shove out going the long way on the manny pad.  Then the cops came and I left.  Boo.

Needed to bring some boards to Community so Max, Davis and I met Bernie, Mikey, Sam there and eventually Jeff at the new Arvada park.  That park rules.  Max and Jeff destroyed it with crazy lines.  I skated ok, had some fun runs with front disaster on the qpipe at the top, ollie the twinkie, noseslide the ledge, back smith the 2′ qpipe.  I did a few front feebles on the little qpipe too, and got lots of Rampy tricks on the little qpipe at the top including fakie pivot fakie.  Jeff had a really good run with back 5-0 to fakie on the twinkie with a switch nosegrind 180 on the ledge.  Max did first try fakie manual fakie tre out.  Ridiculous.  Bernie almost got front smith fs flip out.  Mikey did tons of back tailslides.After some Goodtimes we skated a marble ledge spot.  After some warming up I did a noseslide on it and eventually a boardslide.  Then I filmed for a long time while not much was landed until Mikey got nollie nosegrind and my battery ran out.  After that I made myself ollie out over the ledge which I was finally able to do.  Fun day.

Such a nice day. Went to Brian Bourquin’s wedding and brunch and had a blast. Even had a couple drinks that had worn off making me a big sleepy when I picked up Jake. Oh yeah, I didn’t want to skate my same crappy setup anymore so I set up a new board and rocked some new shoes. I-Path Stash’s. 420 dude.No one was at Rock Creek and we played warm up on the ramp for awhile. Jake killed it. I almost started landing tricks when we moved on to a game of SKATE. The game went on forever and I think we just kinda ended it with a fakie treflip race which I eventually landed. I also tried some front smiths on the round bar and kinda landed a jib at the end one. Fun session though. Hyped on my new setup.