Two feet of snow in October.  UGH!  Lazer, Carleigh, Jason, Reed and Gordon came over for a session.  Gordon’s first run was the best first run anyone has ever had on Rampy.  I don’t remember what all he did, but it was like 15 tricks.  Wow.  I was on a straight suck fest for the first half of the session bailing everything including axle stalls.  Ugh.  Jason was killing it grinding from wall to wall.  Lazer destroyed as usual and Reed ripped it too.  Carleigh laughed a lot and attempted front d’s for a long time before setting down a kickflip rock fakie quick like.  Toward the end of the session I finally started having fun and landing a couple tricks.  Then we went out and had a fun night drinking beers and watching the Nuggets.  Who would have ever thought that Lazer and I would high five the Nuggets winning their first game?  Not me, but it was awesome.

A tired/hungover crew of TFers headed to the Westminster park after a late night of celebrating at the premiere.  The crew was Jason, Jake, Fuzz, Brian, Lazer, Gordon and me.  The first few minutes were pretty funny.  Fuzz slammed so awkward trying to boardslide a ledge.  It was like nothing I’ve seen him do before.  He was trying to boardslide a ledge on top of a step up but his back foot didn’t even make it up the step up.  It was hilarious.  I tried a weird dork trick nose manny into someting on the qpipe and ended up doing the weirdest trick.  Rock to nose manny to board to tail and somehow survived.  After awhile I played a game of SKATE with Lazer that quickly turned into a game of SKATE with Lazer, Brian and Jake.  Brian was out quick which I’ll blame on the hangover and Lazer quit so it was Jake and I.  I got a 3 flip something else to close it off in the end.Then we went to Rock Creek.  We played a huge game of SKATE.  Well, since I easily suck the most on the ramp I believe by the end of it that I had spelled SKATEBOARDER MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION RENEWAL.  It was fun for the most part, but it was definitely embarrassing and frustrating not being able to land any of the tricks.  It was probably good for my ramp skating, but ugh, I suck at ramp.  The only new tricks I got remotely close to were fakie rock to smith and the same thing regular.We ended it with a flip trick session and Jason did some kickflips for the first time in as long as I can remember.  Fuzz got some hard heelflip variation.  Front 180 heel and b/s halfcab heel.  I got a couple 3 flips, heelflips and fakie bigflip.  Couldn’t do nollie tre.  Fun day for how beat we all were.

Nate, Pat, Pat’s friend Charlie, Jason and I headed over to the Lville park for some pre-premiere skate action.  I started off slow.  Really slow.  After awhile we played a game of SKATE on the bank to ledge.  I bailed a couple easy ones, but got a kickflip pivot first try.  Pat won the game of course.   After awhile we headed over to the hockey rink for some flatground SKATE.  I kept up the sucking for the first couple games.  Nate gave Pat a run in a couple of the games.  The last game we could only do tricks we hadn’t done yet which somehow worked out for me as I didn’t lose right away and got at up to SKA.  I don’t remember all what I landed, but I know everything took a bunch of tries and I couldn’t do tre’s or nollie tres.  Then we went back into the park and shredded around for awhile.  I was tired and starting to get a bit stressed about the premiere, but managed to do one of the better lines I’ve done there.  Manual the ledge by the pool (first time I’ve ever done that), ollie onto the little ledge and into the bank, kickturn, kickflip over the hip.  Most of those were done horrible.  The session ended when Jason stomped a back tail over the bank to ledge.  Sickness!

There’s no way I could go to Fremont and not play Joe in a game of SKATE.  He had to be to the church for the wedding by 11am so we got out and played some SKATE in front of his house around 10.  Joe started pretty slow and I started super slow for what may have been the longest game ever.  Joe had me SKAT to S, but couldn’t seal the deal and I eventually came back and won it.  Flip tricks felt really weird.  Mostly due to my legs being messed up from sitting and editing for the last two weeks, but the new setup was partly to blame too.  After the game of SKATE Eric and I did slappy curb tricks for awhile.  Then I dropped those guys off and went to Linden.  I took a long time to warm up, but got a new trick somewhat quickly.  Front 5-0 to front board.  I got a lot of back 50s too which is hard for me.  Back 50, back 50 back 180 out, back 50 back shove out, back 50 horrible front 180 out.  I also tried a lot of front nosegrinds and front smiths.  Never got the nosegrind, but pulled out a couple short smiths.  Fun times.

In Fremont for Matt Rief’s wedding, but still exhausted/destroyed from so many late nights of editing the Fremont crew and Pat Hickey headed to Linden.  It was cold and and I had new shoes, new board and new wheels.Hey, I figured Off The Couch is done so why not start fresh?  My other gear was busted anyway.  Joe went to work immediately and seriously busted every move he’s got and some new ones.  Front lip to front 50 to front board.  back shove front 50 front shove out.  Back 50 back board 27 0 out.  The list goes on and on.  His new trick was a fakie front 50 turned into a back 50.  Ridiculous.  Matt was taking it mellow for obvious wedding reasons.  Pat wasn’t ripping as much as normal, but both of us were really tired/sore.  Glad we skated.Eric took a few fun long exposure photos. Not sure how he was able to capture this rare front 50 as I only did about 50 of them.Maybe these initial are cooler then sskfbts – ncbt.  no comply back tail.  I’d post some more photos, but Eric has them posted in a copywrited site so I gotta screen capture each one ..

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 ..