Helped Brian with skate lessons at 10am and brought Ollie.  I went to Louisville first because there was snow and we were to tell anyone to go to Rock Creek.  While waiting I just did a bunch of ollies on the flat bank which was really fun.  So then it was off to Rock Creek.  I myself didn’t really skate much but it was fun helping kids out and watching Ollie cruise around.  While waiting for the crew to assemble Jake, Rob and I played a game of SKATE that ended with me beating Jake on a nollie 360 flip second try.  Stoked!  Unfortunately Brian started with us, but took an absolutely horrible slam on a switch frontside 180.  Next up was Southern Hills.  I was trying to take my new found trick of noseslide 270s to the blue benches, but I never got it.  In fact I really didn’t get much at all.  Jason was killing it though.  He filmed a couple lines.  Brian was still hurting.  Jake, Rob and I played another game of SKATE that went on a long time and was a blast.  I landed my first ever 360 shove it to somehow stay in the game then come back and beat Jake with a fakie bigflip to surprise rollaway aka I didn’t think I had it at all.  Lastly a curb session ensued where Rob killed it with back 270 back tails and I landed a few no comply 270 back tails.  Sean Kelly had showed up at the end of the session so we had to skate more.  Red curbs.  Nate met up with us too.  At first I didn’t think I’d be able to skate anymore.  I ended up getting into a bit of a groove and got a few noseslide 270s.  Fun.  Neil was killing it.  Sean too.  Nate took the worst slam as the session ended.  I need to go back and film a run there.  Fs 5-0 (or slappy tailslide), noseslide 270 then no comply 270 back tail.  Could be rad.  Totally fun day of skateboarding.

Brian, Neil and I headed to campus on a pretty warm night.  There was still some snow around, but it wasn’t too bad.  We kind of dorked our way from the car over to the slappy curbs where we spent the majority of the session.  There is curb cut up the road a little further which makes for a fun line.  Trick off the curb cut, manual or curb trick, slappy and then there is a little gap to ollie up.  Neil was pretty beat from skating all day in the nice 55 degree weather.  Lucky Basterd.  Ha.  Brian had a fun run going.  Ollie off the curb cut, ollie onto curb, no comply tailslide thing, slappy.  Dope.  I had a bad ollie off the curb cut, manual on the sidewalk, slappy, ollie up the gap.  Fun times.  

First red curbs session in awhile.  It was late and cold.  Flip tricks didn’t work.  Long front 5-0s on the curb were though as well as crooks on the ledge.  I was still in the warm up stage and Jason and I started trying noseslide front 270 out on the ledge.  I kept getting close until I finally landed a couple.  Jason was getting so close but landing on both trucks before rotating.  I told him to “just fall on the back trucks”.  Next try as he was getting into the noseslide his front axle goes flying off.  I’m laughing so hard because I pretended like he took it so serious that he loosened up his trucks so the front would come off and he could only land on the back.  So funny.  Too short of a session, but it was cold.

Was feeling super exhausted around 9:30 and wasn’t sure if I should just go to bed or maybe skate Rampy.  How old do I sound?  Anyways, I decided to skate Rampy for at least an hour and it ended up being super fun.  The new trick of the night was fakie alley oop back 50s to fakie.  I didn’t get it as good as Jason of course, but it’s a start.  I got my first front disasters in awhile and was doing front smiths pretty easily.  I need to get those longer.  It’s rad having a ramp though.  I didn’t even think I would skate and ended up skating hard for over an hour.  

Lazer killed the ramp.  Jake ripped too.  I sucked.  The only good thing was how easy front 50s were.

Ollie and I hadn’t gone skating in awhile.  We went to Rock Creek and there was two other little kids and a dad on rollerblades.  Ollie was hyped because there wasn’t bigger kids to intimidate him.  I was bummed because the dad kept wanting to talk to me.  Luckily Darrin showed up and I skated with him while Ollie rolled around having fun.  I sucked it up on the ramp and am pretty bummed how little Rampy helps me skate real sized ramps.  I slammed hard on a axle stall to fakie.  But in reality I wasn’t skating hard and was tired and cold.  Darrin and I played a game of SKATE that I somehow won.  I landed a nollie treflip.  Sweet.  Then we went to the Louisville park where Ollie just would not leave no matter how much the wind picked up.  Kid smiles more then anyone when he skates.  So rad!  He dropped in in a couple different places in the small bowl.  Sick!  I basically just cruised around not doing anything other then being cold.  Ugh!

Woke up real early on Saturday because of skateboard excitement.  And I mean real early, aka 5:50 am and couldn’t go back to sleep.  Nice.  Around 9am I just had to go try a kickflip to see how my ankle would take it.  I bet India and Liz each 5 cents I could land one first try.  Ollie wouldn’t take the bet since he knew I had it in the bag.  Ha.  Landed it and was 10 cents richer to boot!  After skipping rocks with the kids I met up with Brian, Rob and Jam and we started off at the Louisville ledges.  Rob and I took a year to complete a game of SKATE.  I was getting used to a new 8.25 board.  It didn’t feel all that surprisingly big compared to the 8″, but it was definitely harder to spin around.  We skated the ledges for awhile.  I did a few horrible crooks and some front 50s then started playing with a metal bar from a sign that went across the flower boxes where the ledges are.  I got a couple 50s and started playing with it in a line for fun when Brian showed up with the camera saying it should be filmed.  I ended up getting a nose manual followed by a 5-0 on the bar and it ended up looking pretty cool I thought.  Thanks for filming Brian.  We arrived at a fun little ditch later that Brian wasn’t feeling.  Rob and I skated for awhile and it was pretty cold.  I ended up trying a few tricks that Rob was kind enough to film.  It was more so to see what they looked like.  I got a blunt to pivot which I’ve maybe landed two of on anything other then a curb before.  Fun day.

I can’t even believe how huge the SOL ramp since I’ve basically only skated my own little ramp lately.  It felt great to be able to get some speed and it took me forever to start warming up.  I got a back axle stall to fakie and was just about to get in the groove and bailed a front 50 attempt that resulted in me stepping on my board weird and rolling my ankle.  Ugh.  Not a bad roll.  Probably wont be skating for a week or so though.

Had a blast with the kids all day.  Went swimming, to the grocery store, played Trouble.  Basically had a blast all day.  After they went to sleep I skated Rampy for about an hour.  Liz even took a couple photos.  Started trying a new trick for me.  Fakie front smith to fakie.  Never committed, but was close.  Accidently landed a new trick when I was trying nollie pivot – nollie back smith stall.  Also tried a bunch of lines I’ve never done before.  Back 50, back 5-0, back feeble, back smith.  Got dizzy on that one.  Also did my first front 50 while coming out of an axle stall instead of a tail stall.  I gotta get rid of my 20 tail stalls/ rock fakies per run.feeble grindBack 50 revertmaybe not the front smith I landed, but compensating for the crappy delay on our digital camera sucks.

Not being hungover on New Years Day rules.  I had gotten a few things down around the house before we headed out around noon.  Today was my last day of being a bachelor as Liz and the kids get back from Obamaha tomorrow.  The Parker skatepark was crowded as usual.  I heard a dad drop off his young daughter and friend on their scooters and say “have fun playing”.  Ugh.  Aboout two seconds later they nearly got killed by Jeff trying a gap.  Parents are clueless.  Especially me.  Ha.  The session was pretty amazing though.  I didn’t stop skating for two hours.  I came close to getting a front smith on the bank to ledge, got a first try back board pop out, 50’d the tall ledge (1 out of 50 tries), got some back axle stalls on the weird circle qpipe up top and followed it by ollieing into the bank and off the ledge, front 50’d a q-pipe, did back axle stall to fakie, did some good back 50s on the little ledge, nose manualed the little manny pad first try, did a bad front 5-0 shove first try, and basically had a blast.  Jason skated hard and was ripping.  Jeff did some really rad trick.  Fakie front crooks the bank to ledge.  Damn!We left and went to a spot that Jeff was telling us about.  It had a bunch of little plastic ledges, weird banks, and three stairs.  It was perfect for old men.  Although jeff straight killed the spot.  We were thinking of heading somewhere else when Jason and I tried ollieing a little bench.  Jason did it all good, I sketched it, but suck at ollieing and was hyped to have ollied a bench.  Jeff did an absolutely retarded line where he ollied a bench then ollied another bench into the parking lot.  We ended up skating for awhile and it was some of the most fun I’ve had skating in awhile.  Jason was killing it.  Neil, Jason and I tried a little gap that we eventually all landed.  Jason 180’s it.  So rad.  I did a little line where I ollied up a three stair, kickflipped up a curb, then ollied a 1 flat 2.  It was nothing in the modern world of skateboarding, but seriously the funnest thing at the time.  We left when it got dark hyped on skateboarding.  Since the wife and kids were still gone I figured I should skate the ramp.  The wind had picked up all crazy outside so skating outside wasn’t even really an option.  Nate ended up showing up and skating for awhile.  I landed maybe the second best front smith I’ve ever done and most of my tricks.  The only new trick of the night was an accident, but I’ll take it – nollie back 5-0.  Rad.  That ramp is seriously the best money I’ve ever spent.