Can you tell I’m sick of the cold? Early April is always the worst time of the year for me as it seems March is always warmer. And well, my birthday is almost here and I’m almost another year older. 36. That’s now “upper 30s”. I think I’ve been pretty bummed on how I’ve been skating lately, but my foot is feeling better and I finally have no excuses. Anways, enough bitchng. Best session I’ve had since I hurt my foot. Nate and I went straight to business and we were landing tricks we don’t normally do right out of the gates and trying new tricks. Nate was doing really good switch front boards on the ledge and put together an all switch run: switch front board, switch heel, switch front 5-0 the curb. SO SICK! I didn’t put any runs together but managed a few weaksauce fakie nosegrinds on the ledge and grinded a few fakie 5-0s on the curb. Oh and I did the two best front tailslides I’ve ever done. After awhile we went to the heated Circuit City parking garage where we had a slow starting game of SKATE that ended as the cops rolled up. We didn’t get kicked out, but it was our cue to leave. Finally, I skated better than horrible.

On another cold and snowy day everyone went to SOL, but I was feeling really lame and tired so went back to sleep. We went and got Ollie some new skate shoes (DC) and he wanted to use them so we went to Red Curbs. Ollie rules. He has the biggest smile on his face of anyone ever when he skates. He had a few ollies up small curbs and pushed really fast and had a blast. I took awhile to get warmed up but started having a good time. Still trying to skate faster and pop more, but when it’s cold it’s tough. I tried a few fakie 5-0s and didn’t get close. I did get into them though and I’m not sure if I’ve ever done that before. A pretty fun session considering the cold and how unmotivated and tired I felt.

Nate, Josh and I left for Denver on a cool morning that was supposed to be super warm. Right out of the gates Josh was ripping and I was sucking. I ended up continuing to suck and having problems ollieing a tiny flat gap or attempting anything on the benches. The saving grace was a decent front board on the bench and doing ok in a game of SKATE.We met up with Mikey and went to a gap that I think I filmed decent enough, but Mikey didn’t get his trizzle tre on the ground.Next I filed Jeffrey jump over a bush and filmed it kinda mediocre. Although there was no filming that would do it justice unless he would have done it multiple times so we could get more angles.Next was a pretty much epic session for others at an abandoned hotel with a very tight pool and a bunch of crackhead squaters. I wanted to skate the pool, but a few dudes were lurking with us and talking incoherently and I had my camera backback and didn’t want to leave it’s side. Josh killed it with a carve over the lightbox, Jeff, Greg, Nate and Mikey killed it too. The locals we’re straight trippin’ when Mikey ollied into the pool. I would have loved to film that, but I should be happy that my camera is still my camera.Then we ended up at a curb going down a long 5 stair and after about 50 tries Nate and I boardslid it. It was super scary to me showing I guess, just how bad I am at skateboarding. Mikey, Josh and Jeff we’re doing whatever they wanted on it. I also almost cali grinded it too, but ate shit instead. All in all it was a fun day even though I skated horribly. I just have to remind myself I was injured for awhile and am getting back in to it.

Tired, but Ollie wanted to skate. But once I started getting warmed up Ollie wanted to kick a soccer ball. Oh well, I wasn’t skating good anyways.

Somewhat chilly night in the 30s Nate and I hit red curbs around 9pm.  Man I love being able to actually skate again and not have my foot killing me.  I was definitely still skating like crap, but it was fun.  We skated mostly the curbs and I felt like I was relearning 50s and crooks.  I couldn’t lay into a crooks on the 2 stair ledge to save my life although I would somehow land it almost everytime.  I can jib a crook everytime but I hate it.  Trying to grind it doesn’t seem to work for me.  I just pop right out everytime. Argh.  We tried some other stuff too.  I’m really trying to learn how to ollie so I went around ollieing the yellow flat bars over and over then tried to ollie a orange thing that was kinda tall.  Never got it.  Came close though before getting too tired.  I ended up ollieing it off the curb which is still somewhat hard because of the quick setup.  I suck at ollies.  Nate was killing back 180 fakie 50s, but had wrecked himself trying the ol’ front 50 back 180.  It got real cold come leaving time.  Skating ist rad.

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.