Headed into Longmont to hit the little concrete park since Boulder sucks and you can’t bring kids there without fearing their death by bikers.  Anyways, I was very tired/burnt out from editing and staying up so late drinking beers on the commentary.  There were a few young teenagers hanging out being annoying, but other then that we had the place to ourselves and two other kids that were smart enough to be skating Null decks.  Ollie had fun doing little ollies out of the banks and cruising around.  I was just trying ollies everywhere as I was so tired.  I got one run where I ollied up the tall ledge, ollied into the bank, ollied the hip.  Another one that was harder was ollie onto the frontside hubba, ollie off the drop then quickly try to ollie onto the ledge.  So hard.  I got no ups.  Then we ended up cruising around this grass/sidewalk area that was really really fun.  You could gap in and gap out of all kinds of different curved walkways.  It was a blast.  Ollie was even ollieing some of the small ones.  He was also pushing the right way instead of mongo once in awhile.  Awesome.  There were some rocks to skate too and I wallied over a little one.  For how tired I was it was a pretty fun session and all.  Ollie rules.

Short and sweet rock creek session with Nate and John.  Started off sucking and kept at it.  John was ripping.  Nate and I skate Rampy too much I think and it makes everything else so hard.  Anyways I flailed at front 50s for awhile, kind of landed front smiths, got a decent fakie backsmith fakie and basically didn’t do anything cool.  We played a game of SKATE that went on for quite some time.  Lots of tricks were landed, but they took forever to land.  John finally beat me with a fakie treflip.  Back to the computer for editing ..

Typical week day crew of John, Nate and I headed up to the Fort.  Both John and I had some stuff to sell at MRKT then we headed out to Northside with Andy, Sean and Grant for a fun session.  I was pretty tired from more late night editing, but happy to know that my Off The Couch part was totally done.  Yippee!  I mostly just cruised around and didn’t do anything special.  Nate got me to try bluntslides on the end of the banked ledge and those were fun.  We all wallied over the low part of the barrier.  Well, everyone did it quick and steezey where as I took several tries and I’m sure it looked horrible.  We played a couple game of SKATE where I was the first one out both times.  Man I’ve lost all my tricks.  OH well, my part is done I can retire now.  Ha.

After a late night of editing I met up with Mikey and we hit some Boulder spots.  We went and warmed up at the bank over the drain spot.  I was tired and sore and didn’t really try anything.  Mike did a nollie front 180 over that was pretty cool.  We hit a few more spots where I just filmed.  Then found this tiny bank to fence where I did a bunch of fakie wallrides about 3 inches high.  Oh well.

Headed to Longmont around 1pm with John and Nate and we hit Longmont park.  Some bikers were there filming and one of them did a monster 180 over the snowboard jump.  It was gnarly enough to deserve a clap.  I had gone there with the goal of doing a no comply bigger spin, but couldn’t get it.  We were having fun cruising and I was trying hard not to feel the pressure of needing one more trick for my part to be done.  I got a front 5-0 shove on the ledge second try and Nate did all kinds of rad nosegrind tricks.  John did his patented slappy switch front noseslide combos.  I started trying a run where I ollied up the 3 stair and and tried a no comply bigger spin on the mellow bank.  Didn’t get it, but ended up filming a line of ollie up the 3, no comply 360, no comply bigspin.  Cool!  Thanks John.Next we went to Longmont ditch were Nate shouldn’t have bailed back 5-0s to fakie and I discovered how lame my nosegrinds were.  I filmed a quick line of back nosegrind followed by front rock.  I was hyped until I saw it.  Ugh!  Nate was killing powerslides both ways on the wall of the ditch so I started trying them on the backside wall and got a few.  Fun.  Then I filmed John get a sick ol’ line and we headed over to Brian’s to finish filming his intro.After that Brian wanted to go the the junk spot and get a trick that’s been eluding him a long time.  We messed around on a pallet propped up against a ledge first though.  Brian was trying 360 kickturns to rock.  He probably has a cooler name for it though.  I was trying rock kickflips out.  Never got too close.  Brian did though.  John was putting down trick after trick.  Nate was pretending he’s young and trying boardslide popouts over the ledge gap.  Then I filmed Brian land his elusive trick with an extra revert and Nate prove that he actually is young.  Cool.  Off to edit ..

This is one of those times where I waited to long to update my journal.  About all I remember was not skating too well, but my legs working decently.  I was about to head inside when Ollie headed out with his board and setup a little rock to ollie on the sidewalk.  He did some of his best ollies ever right over the rock so I had to stay out there longer and watch that.

Skated Rampy for a bit with Ollie before dinner.  Pretty chill session.  My moon boot I-Path shoes still seem a bit large, but better then the Adio football cleats.  Later on Nate came over and we skated for a couple hours.  It was looking like a pretty uninspired session so we started racing to dumb tricks we haven’t done a whole lot.  I won nose stall fakie.  Nate one ollie rock fakie and back smith grind.  I had to work at a lot of tricks like front d and front tail.  Had a couple decent feeling back nosegrinds.  Rampy is hard to skate.

Another hectic day at work after waking up way too early with a headache that wasn’t induced by beer.  Ugh.  Got off work around 4:30 and met Jason and Nate at the bank spot.  We had fun for awhile, but the spot definitely started to wear on me.  I got a lot of crooks pop offs and standard boring slasher 5-0 things over the hole.  Grinded the lower part once.  Jason had a super good back 5-0.  Nate did a back 180 over the hole.  Sick!Oh yeah, I had acquired these I-Paths over the weekend (thanks John) and decided that anything has to be better then those Adio shoes.  I was right.  I had some energy and actually skating for the first time in awhile.  We left after awhile and went to the new manny pad spot behind Colorado Sports.  Nate killed it with nose manny nose grind.  Jason and I tried manualing 3 pads in a row.  I got manny, nose manny then manny scrape.  How the hell did Jack manny all 4 without touching down in between?Anyways I didn’t skate with my orthotics in again and my legs are dead.  I don’t know how people do it.  Not having the in doesn’t seem to save my achilles anyways so next session, their back in.  Yippee.

After a rough day at work I had about 40 minutes of free time and decided to spend it embarrassing myself on a skateboard.  I went to the new bank spot that’s new to me and met Nate there.  I was sucking as much as usual for late.  Ugh.  I absolutely hate my new Adio shoes.  They have the weirded shape.  My heel was acting up and could not push or ollie comfortably.  I managed one fakie pivot fakie (not over the hole) and a few back smith scrapes over the hole.  Those are fun.  Nate is recovering from a heel bruise he obtained playing soccer, but still did lots of cool stuff like hurricane on the ledge and long back smiths over the hole.  Toward the end I tried to kickflip over the hole and almost died.  I got even more bummed and left to try and get home in time for India to make it to ballet class on time.  She was late.  My fault.  Sweet.

Started my day off feeling better.  Heel felt good, side felt ok.  Went outside to skate and realize I hadn’t put my shoe on yet so the heel started hurting more.  Ugh.  Side went kinda numb too.  Man getting old sucks.  I could barely kickflip to save my life.  I dorked around in front of the house for awhile and posed out switch f/s flips which still somehow feel doable.  Everyone showed up and after a viewing of Inhabitants we went over to Valmont because  Carleigh wanted to get a noseslide shove.  I wasn’t complaining as I had a trick for that spot on my list.  Lists lists lists, film film film.  Looking forward to a couple weeks from now when there is no filming again.  But it is what it is and it’s almost kinda cool trying to get everything on film.  I started trying front 180 fakie 50 bigspin out and eventually landed a couple.  Lazer ski’d off the dock.  Fuzz did 20 warmup tricks I would film for my part.  Neil got a lipslide.  Carleigh did not get the noseslide shove.  Then we went over to this bush gap  and Brian ollied it.  It was ridiculous.  That’s one of the list for me and one off the list for Brian.  Rad.