After another not fun at all day in the tub I picked up Neil on a nice afternoon to try and find a decent sized patch of dry concrete.  We met up with Nate where he works and just stayed there at Google.  Nate lowered the yellow bank and we skated that as well as a snow pile and the bank into the parking garage.  Nate was ripping.  Neil wasn’t very motivated.  I felt like I was learning to skate all over again.  It took me several tries but I was able to ollie a little snow pile that Nate and Neil had no problems with.  Landing in cupsoles rules.  I had one little mini run with an ollie over the snowpile then feeble to fakie on the bank.  Yippee.  One of the ollies over the snowbank felt really good.  After awhile we were playing a game of SKATE, but I got a call from work so it just fell apart.  I cracked my board really bad on a heelflip then focused it before we left.  Hyped to be able to street skate again.

Crazy how quickly the snow melts off the streets in the spring eh?  After a long ass day of tiling I grabbed my board and went out for a few minutes.  I pretty much sucked, but wasn’t expecting much.  The only surprise was a second try heelflip.  Cupsoles are sick for heel tricks.  Hyped I can actually skate without much foot pain.

A blizzard outside, but inside Rampy is nice and warm.  After a long day of working from home, playing with the kids and working on the shower I went out to try something I’ve never done before – 10 different tricks in one run.  Knowing me that means about 20 rock fakie/tail stalls as well so it’s a long run.  I got to 9 like 5 times and I would be dead at the end of that.  I had a rule going where if I did less than six different tricks I had to do two kickflips on flat.  Fun.  My foot isn’t hurting so much anymore.  I probably would have gotten to 10 quickly, but one of the biggest problems was frontside 50s decided to be mean to me and I would slam often.  I guess I can blame it on the cupsoles, but still.  Anyways I got a 10 trick run and was laying in the flat breathing when my work phone went off.  Ugh!

After a long night of playing dad, Null owner, home owner and husband Nate came of to skate Rampy around 10:30pm. I was wearing the cupsole Circa’s I freaked out and bought awhile ago for skating, then freaked out and said they feel like moonboots. I’m a shoe freak. Anyways, they are way broken in and I wanted to see how my foot felt skating in them. There was a few times when it felt awkward, but for the most part it was good. We both started out pretty slow and neither of us got new tricks. But we skated for a couple hours and it was fun. The two new tricks I was mainly working on were front d to back smith and front 5-0s. Didn’t get either. I was trying to learn the front 5-0s after doing a back axle stall to fakie then fakie back 50 to fakie. Only got that once maybe. We had fun for sure. I did a few kickflips on flat and the stiffer sold definitely took away some foot pain. Maybe I’ll be on the cupsole tip for a minute ..

Very tired from tiling for 5 hours after working a full day, but really wanted to skate.  It was cold out and Rampy is right there and my foot still sucks so why would I go anywhere but Rampy?  I told myself I had to do 20 different tricks before I could go to sleep.  It started pretty slow and I probably ended up doing like 200 rock fakie/tailstalls, but I ended up doing a most of my tricks.  The better newer ones weren’t left out.  feeble fakie, fakie front pivot fakie (done weak sauce style), fakie feeble forward, fakie back 50 fakie, front d (yes this is hard for me and to make it harder I had to do it out of a axle stall instead of setting up with a tail stall), it was fun.

My foot is feeling MUCH better, but I’m trying to stay away from real street skating for another week or so. It’s still sensitive and I feel like if I go another week without bumping it I will be better off in the long run. I definitely didn’t have this much patience when I was younger. Anyways, speaking of younger, Ollie aka “H.D.” and I went over to Creekside before dinner and skated for about 30 minutes. We skated the curb and stairs the whole time. There is too much sand in the main area which blows. Can’t wait til they clean it up. Anyways the curb is mainly a stall curb and I just kinda played around on it. I finally got one of those crook to back 5-0 that seem to be all the rage these days. That trick is pretty lame though, it just feels like you don’t know how to pop out of crooks. I did manage to get a front feeble to grind though. Felt pretty fun. Ollie was trying to grind/slide/something the low bar on the 4 stair handrail. In his mind I’m sure he thought he was grinding it, but basically he was jibbing it with his nose and sometimes almost doing frontside noseslides. He would land halfway down the stairs and ride out of it. Basically it was beyond radical. I finally slappy noseslid down the ledge that’s underneath the rail. Funny. Fun session and I didn’t hurt my foot. Later on we skated Rampy for a bit and it was a pretty uninspired session. Oh well.

After getting way to frustrated working on our shower I was relieved for awhile since Nate wanted to skate.  We both started off pretty quick getting lots of our tricks.  Nate learned boardslides and did them almost everytime.  So sick.  I landed almost every ramp trick I’ve ever did including several feebles to fakie and got a new trick – fakie feeble to fakie.  Rad.  Super fun 30 minutes of skating that was quickly erased by working on the shower and getting frustrated once again.

Avoiding the working on the shower and street skating (due to my hurt foot) both in one night!  Nate came over around 9 and we ended up skating Rampy for a couple hours sweating like crazy.  It was Nates first time skating a ramp with vulcanized shoes so it was like a whole new world to him and he was landing tricks way sooner then normal.  After we both got the majority of our tricks (not very quickly) we started working on some new ones.  Nate was trying front pivot to fakie.  I was trying back 5-0 to fakie.  When the dust settled Nate ended up with a back hurricane (well, more like a front feeble stall turned to forward) and I did a back feeble stall to fakie.  So stoked.  Nate went on to learn front 50s as well before hitting his knee and we ended the session.  Super fun and I didn’t seem to hurt my foot to much.

It was super nice and warm in Boulder and Neil and I headed up to Cheyenne for the annual St Flattys Day contest. For some reason or another I’ve missed all of Rich’s contests due to work or something, but I had no excuse this time.  Of course it was windy up there.  Ugh.  Anyways, dudes were ripping.  Bernie and crew showed up as well as some Ft Collins crew.  Neil was skating good.  I’m basically skating in dork mode until my foot heals up and am lot allowing myself to do flip tricks at all.  Such a bummer.  Especially because they had a game of SKATE that I would have loved to enter.  I doubt I would have gone far, but whatever, I definitely wished I could have entered.  At one point I had a little line going basically copying what Neil did, but not as good.  Ollie into the flat bank, ollie the hip, no comply tail on the stepup bank, then a ledge trick.  But I never got a ledge trick.  figures.  Dorking around some more on the green pyramid I did a manual up, nose manual the flat, manual down.  Dorky, but fun.  Neil and I skated the bowl for awhile too.  We had fun just cruising around and it warmed us up.  Damn that wind!  Before turning into a judge Neil and I skated the tiny little quarterpipe that goes up to the kinked ledge.  I had tried a couple nosestalls and some kid decided he had to show me he was better and did it.  Pretty funny.  After that I tried Front 5-0s to fakie and ended up getting a couple where I even grinded.  Stoked.  Now I need to do it on Rampy.  Fun day.  But screw that wind.

Went swimming at the Longmont Rec Center with India and Ollie and it’s right next to a little skatepark in Longmont.  Ollie saw it while in line for the diving board and from that moment on wanted to skate that park.  After some lunch and icecream we drove all the way back to Boulder where we left India to a friends house and drove back to Longmont to that park.  The bummer was the city removed a couple obstacles for some dumb reason.  Ollie was ripping.  Dropped in on the little quarterpipe and also got a rock fakie on it.  It’s funny because I had gotten him a new flannel and he looked so stylee in his gear.  Cracked me up.  Anyways, my foot was not doing well and I was SUCKING.  Between not being able to ollie and not being able to do axle stalls to fakie on the little quarterpipe I got really pissed off.  Not cool when your just out skating for fun with your kid.  After awhile we left because Ollie was bummed they took out his favorite obstacle (the pyramid/funbox thing).  We went to the ledge trick (called the “rollerblade” park by some) and Ollie amazed me by pushing pretty fast into the rollin.  He was HAULING ASS and rode out of it.  The father part of me was scared, but the skater part of me was hyped.  I continued to suck it up.  It took me like 10 tries to ollie over the low flat bar.  Ugh.  I can’t wait for my foot to get better.