Kind of a late start the Icebox rounded up the Factory and we headed to Lakewood to hit some spots near Lazer’s place of employment.  We hit a couple sketchy/weird bank spots.  Kinda fun for sure.  Then the Icebox died and the rest of the day was spent pushing it and buying a battery and waiting,etc.  Get well soon Icebox.

Met up with Little Jack at Meta then went to the old little KGNU manny pad.  Jack was really sore from the day before and I was thinking of a line I wanted to get so I was guaranteed to suck.  At the manny pad I got a kick manual with no scrapes which is very rare for me.  Tried a few fakie bigspin manuals.  Failed.  I don’t even remember what else I tried.  Jack and I played a game of SKATE that I won.  Only because Jack was super sore and I landed a nollie treflip first try.  Sweet!  We went over to the ledge where I wanted to get a line and I couldn’t even land the first trick I wanted to do, front 50 front board popout.  Jack slammed hard a few times on some nollie lipslide things.  Neither of us seemed overly hyped.Next we went out to the Lville Tech area where I posed as a skater/filmer and Jack landed neat tricks.  After some lunch back in Lville we hit the ol’ 6 lots of flat 6.  I skated the manny pad in the back for awhile while Jack broke bearings and bailed ollies.  I got a 2 mile an hour run consisting of a manual then a nollie back tail.  But nollie back tail is a huge exageration.  It was a pivot on the front wheels while the tail slid across the curb.  Rad.  Jack ended up getting it together with the power of an extra bearing of mine and we filmed a bangin’ 1 -2 line.Next up we went to the carwash bank to curb.  I knew Jack would rip it and he did.  But not for long as I was getting close to kick back tails and Jack knew it was a trick I wanted for Off The Couch and he was kind enough to offer filming it for me.  I got into the first one.  I got somewhat close the second try.  I didn’t get as close the third try.  YOu get the drift.  It went downhill.  I got into a few more, but 2 hours later I gave up.  Yes, 2 hours.  Poor Jack.  It was easily the hardest I’ve ever tried to land a trick.  Ugh.  I felt sooo defeated.  Jack, thank you so much for filming me.  I will go back and get it sometime so you can get your kickflip lickety split.  Ha, as if that has anything with it.

Super tired from being up late then having to work on a Saturday.  Met up with Jeff and Mikey and went to the Eldo pool, but it still had a bunch of water in the deep end.  We skated the shallow for awhile, but nothing special for me.  Jeff as killing it.  We played a game of SKATE and Jeff won it.  After that we filmed at a couple spots, but they didn’t get their tricks.  Doh.

Didn’t have the time or energy to go skate really, but wanted to break in some new shoes for a bit. I’ve been wearing them for a few weeks and they felt pretty good. I did 20 kickflips in like 23 tries or something. Doesn’t really count as a session, but whatever, kickflips are fun.

I’ve been wanting to skate Parker some night after work so bad. Tonight was supposed to be the night. Nope, everyone bailed. Ugh. Jason still wanted to skate, but was more into bitching about our spots then driving to a good park. Ugh. We hit up the curb by Neils house for awhile. I was tired and bummed. Next we went to Valmont and started the session off by waxing the ledge until it was red from the red candle. Then we embarked on a backside noseslide convention that lasted at least 30 minutes. It was pretty awesome and we broke the ledge in really good. After that I tried a hundred front 50 front shoves, landed on them all, but only rode away from the primo one. Somehow it landed on it’s wheels after my weight pushed it down. I was pretty tired overall, but we kept hucking at it. I was landing 3 flips pretty consistently and even got one after a crooks popout. I tried a bunch of fakie nosegrind 180s, but never got one. Got a few horrible front tails. Got into a couple kick back 50s. Landed a bad nollie treflip. It was pretty fun, stoked on that spot again. Lastly, the Romero shoes are already dead. They could be the worst shoes I’ve had in a year or two.

Pretty tired and lazy, but feeling fat and wanting to skate so I walked into the garage, rigged the lights to work and skated Rampy for about half an hour. Pretty uneventful session. I did a back pivot followed by a front 50. I normally just do rock fakies after back pivots. Yippe. The best thing to go down was a front disaster that was popped high enough that if felt like I could break the board when I landed. That’s not saying much considering I push 2 bills sometimes.

Jason and I rolled out to Louisville around 8:30 on a super nice night.  We warmed up in the bowl area for awhile.  Jason killed the front 5-0s.  I bailed front 50s.  I blame it on the ultra sticky copying and the fact that it’s not Rampy.  Nate showed up with his biker buddy Adam after awhile and we got our “street” section on.  I skated the ledge a lot.  Nothing new there.  Got front 50 front shove pretty quick.  Front 5-0.  Crooks.  A bad back 50.  Then started trying kickflip back 50s and got one.  Got another one.  Got into another one.  It just kept going.  I started trying to get shoves out, but never came too close.  All the kick 50s hyped me up though.   Everyone there was skating and having fun too.  It was a good session.  When the lights shut off Jason kept trying front board 270 out and he landed one!  He’s been trying that trick forever.  Hyped for him.

Even more tired then the day before I went on a late night Longmont park session with Nate. I started sucking right out of the gate. I felt really old and heavy and had no pop whatsoever. Nate was ripping as usual. All kinds of sick ledge tricks first try. I want to forget my skating with the exception of a trick I’ve never done before. No comply bigger spin. Did it on the mellow bank second try. I guess now that I write about it I’m hyped just knowing I’ve landed that trick. Bye.

Jake, Carleigh and I met up with Neil and Brian in L-town. Jake, Carleigh and I played some SKATE while we waited for Neil and Brian to stop playing motorcycle dudes. Then we jumped in the Icebox and drove the two blocks to the industrial area. We parked somewhere new and it was looking pretty bleak. But pretty much as soon as we thought the area sucked Brian had a line mapped out that I filmed. Carleigh tore it up and ollied a long 3 then pop shoved it too. Sick! Everyone wanted to leave when Brian got his line, but I got all ouchy and cranky and wanted to skate the spot myself for a bit. I blame my crankiness on the first hangover I’ve had in months. But we skated longer and I actually got a line with a fakie bigspin up a curb followed by a boardslide to manual. Yippee. Next we skated the OG junk spot. Brian tried to get his trick for awhile while Carleigh, Jake and I did flyouts over a cone. Later on I tried to get a 360 flip out of the bump. I took awhile, but I finally got one. It’s been a couple years since I’ve tried 3 flips out of a bump. Cool. Fun day.

More flatground in front of the house. Thought I only had a few minutes before dinner with the old neighbor, but it turns out I had an hour. Didn’t land much. I got a 3 flip, a few frontside halfcab flips, lots of halfcab flips, but nothing to write home about. Pretty weak session and I don’t like the new Romero shoes.