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 ..

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.