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.

A hot afternoon after a long work week. I had a few minutes to skate before Liz and I went on a date so I skated flat in front of the house on the melting street. I just went slow and skated in the shady area or else my wheels would stick in the road. I tried a ton of nollie b/s bigspins. I’ve landed that trick, but never well. That continued. I did get closer to comprehending that trick though. I also did a bunch of kickflips setting up for nollie flip attempts that I never got too close to. After a good for me treflip I called it a day and went on to have one of the best dates with Liz ever. She is the best.

Max is the new kid on the Null Wheel team. We started filming a little intro clip. He ripped it. The only stuff I tried while we filmed was a crooks on a metal ledge that I didn’t land. We ended up going to Broomfield for about the last 30 minutes. I didn’t suck as bad as I thought I would, but I didn’t do anything new or surprising. Max did a hardflip manual on the blue pad and I almost got his back with a kickflip manual. I look forward to that park not being so crowded.

Finally had some energy, but not much time. After work I played Barbies with India (meaning I fell asleep while she played) and then football with Ollie. So fun. I used the old “I need to go to the ATM” excuse and skated in the Table Mesa shopping center area for about 40 min. It was a blast. I started out at my eye doctor’s parking lot just going fast and doing some ollies. I got a little run with ollie up the curb past a crack, ollie a grate to manual the sidewalk. Fun. After that I ollied a brick flat gap to parking lot that I’ve never done before. Posed an ollie over the kicker to parking lot gap. If that crack wasn’t before it I would maybe really try it. A couple ollies in/out of the other kicker I was at the long manual pad with the wallrides, but got sidetracked by a “I used to skate back in the day, have you heard of Tony Hawk?” guy and was too tired to skate anymore after that.

Had to make a run to 303. Carleigh came and we were gonna skate downtown. I guess I was still super tired because when it was time to park and skate I just wanted to go home. We attempted to stop at the Lville skatepark, but it was super crowded with teenagers so we blew that and ended up in the worst parking lot ever. Carleigh learned nollie back 180s though and all I did was do a quick up a two stair that was horrible. Sorry Carleigh.

This photo of Fuzz represents how all of us felt Sunday morning.  After a good ol’ cafe breakfast we headed to Northside where surprisingly Fuzz knocked out the boardslide over the mustache in minutes.  I was having the worst time though.  On the way to and from the car I hit rocks in the parking lot and slammed.  Ugh.  The only thing that came out of the day for me was a no comply pole jam which I’ve never done there before.  Yippee.  Brian and Fuzz knocked out trannie tricks, ragdoll tricks, Jack did a sick manual on the mj ledge, etc.  Then we cruised over to the gnar bank and Bernie ollied into it.  So ridiculous.  Standing in the median directing traffic and filming was terrifying.  KOTC was over.  We apparently scored the most points.  Nice.  What a fun time.  The party at MRKT was awesome and seeing all the John Doe photos was awesome.As usual, go to Caleigh’s blog for tons more photos and awesomeness.

I normally update this site at work, but it’s been way too busy lately. Ugh. Anyways, day 2 of KOTC started at Skellys house, breakfast at the Rainbow, shop time at MRKT and then finally some skating in Cheyenne. First stop was the Cheyenne park where I mostly filmed people do good stuff. It was rad though because everyone handled the park challenges is no time. Here’s a couple of the big ones. Daryl ollie the big 5 and Brian pole jam to fakie.In fact I didn’t really skate much until we got to Johnson Middle School where I skated a ton, but was super bummed on how I was skating. Niel and Jack killed that spot. Fuzz ripped it too. In the end I got a kind of fun run doing a boardslide down the curbslide followed by a kickflip off the brick thing. Ollieing up the brick pad was the hardest thing for me. Ugh, if only I could ollie.After that it was a bunch more ollies and drop challenges followed by a good mexican meal then more park skating. I sucked it up once again, but did two tricks I’ve never done before on the little green qpipe. fakie fifty fakie, chink chink. Cool. I had a few ollies over the little ledge and tried to manual the taller pad. At the end I was trying to wallride to cali grind, but didn’t come close. I managed to ollie up the long two with a bad landing, but whatevs, it was fun. Up next was one of the funnest party nights ever.Go to Carleigh’s blog for way more