Had the morning off work and didn’t have to go to work until 2pm.  Mostly hung out with Liz, but figured I should skate for a bit incase I didn’t skate later on.  I’ve been feeling the need for a sick day lately.  I haven’t been that motivated lately for some reason.  This session wasn’t much.  After some warming up I tried to do a line of halfcab flip, double flip, treflip.  The halfcab flip was troublesome and I never got a double flip.  Neat.  Time for work.

Needed to bring some Null goods to 303 and I got off work early so I brought Ollie and his buddy Sam to the Zuni park knowing there is a “kids” section and it would be fun for them.  It was really hot out, but no one was there really so we cruised around.  I was skating like total crap since I hadn’t got my old man nap after work and was really groggy.  Ollie took to ripping pretty quickly.  He did an accidental back 5-o on the little qpipe and then started trying them on purpose and landed everyone of them I saw him try.  If only he would stop pushing mongo.  Sam learned how to drop in and do rock fakies.  Those two had so much fun cruising around that park.  They would ride down the double 2 stairs, push, ride through the little bowl and then ollie into the grass and tumble down the hill.  Being a kid must rule.  Being old kinda sucks, I was stuck in a rut of trying a long line in which I would probably not even land on a good day: Ollie a little ledge, kickflip on flat, treflip on flat, ollie up the euro 5 stair, roll in to the 4 foot section.  Technically I did all the tricks, but definitely not in one line.  Ollieing up the 5 stair felt awesome and the roll in made me laugh for being afraid of it earlier on.  At the end of the session I tried back disasters for awhile on the tiny qpipe and landed a couple.  Rad, I’ve never done that trick before.  I followed it with a front feeble and we left.

Met Carleigh at Meta with the intention of skating campus after doing some business.  But instead Lazer and Jake showed up and suggested Red Curbs.  A covered parking garage on a perfect night?  So be it.  It ended up being fun of course, because when is Red Curbs not fun?  Lazer looked good with a shaved head and skated fast as usual and landed most tricks he tried.  Lipslides, tailslides, switch mannies.  Jake had lipslides too and was working on bluntslides and front 180 nose manuals.  Carleigh looked really tired again and although I thought she was landing most of her kickflips she said at the end of the session that she didn’t.  She may have got some mannies too.  I skated ok.  Was enjoying slappy front tails and trying front lips, but that trick hates me.  I tried back 5-o’s for awhile, but never got one.  Front 180 nose mannies were hard for me too, I got 1 out of 15.  At the end I finally got a manny to grind and then right as I got in my car I remembered I hadn’t landed a double flip yet so I tried one and landed what may have been my best double flip yet.  Sweet.

John picked me up a bit before 8 and we went to Broomfield on a beautiful night.  Neil and Fuzz were already there and Carleigh and Jason showed up a few minutes later.  Things got started with a blue box little qp session.  I was super exhausted for some reason and warming up was difficult.  Fuzz got to ripping pretty quick.  Switch pivot fakie on the qp, fakie 5-0 on the blue ledge.  John nose mannied down the angled ledge, no comply 270 back tail front big out!  I got a front feeble that was fun and a kickflip 5-0 to funny fall off, no comply 270 back tail that slid for a few inches and a nose manual on the blue box.  Then John, Fuzz and I played a long game of SKATE that I won.  Tricks I was happy to land were b/s flip, halfcab flip, fakie var flip and the winner fakie bigflip.  I couldn’t get my new trick double flip and I didn’t get close at a treflip.Then we skated around.  I saw Carleigh get a front shove out of the bank, Jason do a million front boards down the rail, manual the black box and pivots to fakie on the brick qp, John ollie the rail into the bank, ollie over the corner of the wallride into the bank.  Fuzz ripped and tried kickflip manuals up the step up, but never quite got it.  I did some f/s flips on the mellow bank at the top then manualed the black box and eventually tried to ollie over the tiny rail.  Jason showed me how easy it was and after a few tries I committed, but hadn’t gotten it.  Jason back 180’d it in a few tries so I had to get his back and finally landed the ollie.  So hyped.  I have never ollied any downhill rail into a bank before.  That was fun.  At the end I managed to manual the micro mini first try (never even tried it before) and landed a couple 2mpg double flips.   Slow start for me, but fun session.

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!