Nate and I figured we should play some SKATE since we were gonna do the SKATE game on Saturday.  In almost an hours time we only played two games and probably spent 20 minutes trying varial heels.  Both of us got close, neither of us rode away.  The tricks I had a lot more trouble with than I should have were fakie flip, fakie big flip and nollie treflip.  One surprise for me was a fakie treflip second try.  Nate has some bangers like nollie big heel, switch var heel ,etc.  I need to skate flatground more, it’s fun.  Especially now that my feet don’t hurt as bad since I don’t wear tiny vulc shoes anymore.

Really tired and run down, but felt like I should go do some flippers so I don’t get pink slipped in round one of SKATE on Saturday.  If I skate like it did just now I will hopefully be the laughing stock of the entire world.  The only remotely decent thing was landing on 360 flips as I still haven’t really done that trick much since hurting my foot in March.

New shoes.  Can’t deal with having the Herman’s that are too small for me.After one of the funnest days ever going to the Nuggets game with Ollie and my parents I had to go to Longmont to pickup the phone from work.  I went around 8 and picked up Nate on the way.  It was raining/wet/sprinkling all the way to the park which had some puddles, but was mostly dry.  And no one was there!  We started out on the mellow bank as it was the driest and ended up staying there for awhile doing flip tricks.  Nate threw done a lot of tech ones.  I was happy with a few first try tricks like fakie varial flip, halfcab flip and maybe another one.  Tricks that I was hyped on were a fakie treflip and a first time fakie bigspin flip. Now if only I could do these on steep walls.Then we kinda skated some other stuff.  Some ollies over the hips and whatnot.  The main ledge was wet so we didn’t skate that.  At the end we tried to 50 the long C ledge.  Nate got close.  Then we started a game of SKATE that ended early due to the lights shuttig off.  I got a treflip first try.  Sweet!

6th Saturday in a row of crappy weather.  Went to red curbs with Jason, Brian, Neil, Rob and Nate.  Warming up went ok.  Can’t think of anything special that went down.  Then we busted out Rob’s box that he brought.  It’s so funny, it’s basically the height of red curbs with angle iron.  In other words a blast.  Nate killed it with like 20 tricks.  I hadn’t done a nosegrind in a long time, but landed one, then two, .. then Neil and I did double nosegrinds (his was backside).  So fun.  After that my tiny shoes started hurting my feet and I had to sit for awhile.  I ended up trying to play a game of skate with Rob and Nate and man that went bad.  I think I won, but it was brutal.  Can’t wear those shoes again.

After a frustrating night at the homestead and missing out on a Rock Creek old man sessoin I went to campus around 9pm.  I got out of the car, put the mp3 player on the new Thermals and pushed as fast as I could for about 5 minutes and ended up at the bottom of campus in no time.  So bloody fun.  I’m not sure why I’ve been angry lately but Liz had called me out on it earlier.  I think it’s just so frustrating never getting to skate when it’s light out and missing out on so many sessions with friends.  Anyways, all my frustrations were gone quickly after pushing fast enough to get speed wobbles.  The first place I ‘sessioned’ is the newer parking lot southwest of the basketball stadium.  I found a quick up to flat gap that I posed at for quite some time.  It was super fun just ollieing up the curb as fast  as I was.  I never really landed the gap.  It was about a 5 foot flat gap with a curb at the end.  One time I ollied to axle stall on the curb and pulled out of it somehow.  I committed to the whole thing once,  hung up on the curb and somehow just walked out of it.  Rad.  I was also hitting this little manny pad and just doing fast manuals and landing a few flip tricks nice and slow or posing ollies over a bush.  Then I hit this lame long two stair thing for awhile until I ollied up it and down it.  Then I cruised around for awhile again just trying to push fast and ollied a manhole, landed in manny and went like 20 feet to the street.  Nothing special, but it felt really cool because it was just some impromptu trick I didn’t even see coming before it happened.  I ended up at some new loading dock at that is the height of a six stair (you can walk up the six) and I took my sweet time landing a 2″ ollie off it.  I haven’t ollied off anything that tall in awihle and the first few attempts freaked me out.Before leaving I wanted to do some flipper and ended up at this small little area that is lit really well and has super smooth concrete.  I stated doing 2 or 3 of each trick just going down the list until I was happy with how they felt.  Shove its, kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, varial flip and then snapped my board on a second heelflip attempt.  Doh.  Deck was super old though.  Fun night.  Needed to skate.

Brought some boards up to MRKT after work and Jake rode along.  We rolled into Northside as it was getting dark rolled around for awhile.  jake ripped the tranny.  I ripped nothing.  Really, I don’t think I did anything other then roll over stuff.Before leaving we played a game of SKATE in the poorly lit parking lot.  I won it, but it wasn’t a very good game.  Jake landed on almost every trick, but didn’t ride out of them.  Doh!

Missed the old man Louisville session due to playing basketball and skating a bit with Ollie.  It’s cool though because doing either of those things with Ollie is pretty much complete awesomeness.  I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be his hero, but for now it rules.  Jason picked me up around 8:30 and we met Nate downtown at a parking block spot which we pretty much ended staying at the whole time.  Everyone did pretty much the same stuff.  Jason was the only one to land boardslide to manny to the street though.  Nate got bluntslide to fakie.  I surpisingly landed a few bluntslides.  They felt like luck though.  I came close to getting manny to boardslide pop oever.  The fun stuff I landed was boardslide pop over to fakie, wallie manual, ollie up the curb then wallie the parking block and kickflipped up a curb into a curb cut.  Then we went to Wells Fargo bank for 5 minutes, but Nate had to go play soccer and Jason was just sitting.  Before leaving I took a few runs through the brick area and ollied the little 3 stair.  Pushing down bricks is fun.

Jack came over around 8:30 and proceeded to roll his ankle on his 3rd or 4rth run while stepping on the edge of the ramp.  Luckily he kept at it and slammed on his hip within a few more minutes.  Easily the worst slam Rampy has seen.  He slammed on a back 5-0 to fakie, but managed to land one a few tries later.  We had a good session other than Jack falling a ton.  Although sometimes I wish I slammed more because I just bail everything.  Ask Brian.  My new trick of the night was frontside pivots.  Yes, that’s a new trick for me.  Pathetic huh?  I guess the trick is to kind of ollie into it.  Fun.

Had a super busy day cleaning and whatnot.  I met up with a warmed up  Jason, Fuzz, Neil and Rob at Red Curbs and Neil says “Awesome, Mr Mom made it out of the house”.  Ha ha.  Everyone was in a super good mood and skating well out of the gates.  I was slow to warm up, but it ended up being one of the funnest red curbs sessions to date and that’s saying a lot.  Fuzz pulled out his 1990’s bag and was doing all kinds of crazy tricks I’ve never seen him do like fakie 5-0, noseslide 270 shove, switch front tail, halfcab heel and even learned a new trick – halfcab blunt.  And he did it on the ledge instead of the curb.  Sick!  Neil was killing 40 foot long lipslides.  Rob landed a slappy back 50 no comply shove out as steezy as it can be done.  Jason was ripping everything.  The tricks that surprised me were a fakie nosegrind on the ledge, first try front smith on the taller curb and kickflip back tail on the tiny curb going two miles an hour.  I also came remotely close to fakie nosegrind 180 out.  Before leaving Neil, Fuzz, Rob and I played a game of SKATE.  Neil got out quick after trying a triple or nothing that didn’t work and then it was Rob and I with SKAT and Fuzz with nothing.  Nothing!  Fuzz got Rob on something and then it was Fuzz and I.  I ended up getting him to SKAT, but he one on a fakie heelflip shortly after snapping his nose on a fakie treflip attempt.  I should mention that Fuzz got me to try my first 360 flip since hurting my foot in March.  I landed the second one.  Hyped to be able to try that trick again and having cupsoles is way better for that trick.  Fun fun fun session.

Had a few minutes before my anniversary date with Liz so met up with Nate and Jason at the ballparks.  When I rolled up Nate was over by some new stuff behind Whole Foods and we ended up staying there.  I was skating my new shoes:Some Emerica Herman’s that I’ve been walking around in for a month now to get them broken in.  They were good right out of the gate although they seem like they run a bit small.  Anyways, skating was fun.  There was a little two sided ledge and a mellow bank up to a loading dock that we skated.  I almost had a run with a kickflip into the mellow bank, heelflip on flat and then a front board to fakie.  But I only got one front board to fakie solo.  We all got front board pop overs to fakie.  Fun!  I also got a switch back board and ollied over the ledge.  Fun little session to start the weekend.