Had a late night skate date with Nate for almost a week and we made it happen even though it was cold outside. We decided on going to the Ideal Market area as neither of us have skated there much and we felt like exploring. It took us about 30 seconds to find a sick plastic bench that I wasn’t warmed up enough to skate. But we kept at it. It’s a tall ledge in a narrow walkway with a handrail behind it so it’s not the easiest thing to skate at all. I did a couple weak backside noseslides and boardslides before trying a crooks and somehow locking in perfect and grinding really far with a pop out. Wow. I ended up getting a few more crooks that weren’t as good and some front 50s. Neither of us could get 5-0s at all. Doh. Sometimes those plastic benches stick a bit too much. Nate got some really good back 50s though.Then we skated this angled sidewalk that could be insanely good for grinding/sliding with a little bondo over a crack and some wax at the top. But we still had fun and ended up hitting it in a line. I was getting frustrated as hell, but ended up linking a bunch of bad tricks: kickflip on flat, barely ollie a tiny gap over a curb, front slash on the angled sidewalk, ollie up the tiny gap, 180 another one like it then a fakie flip. I should be fakie flipping over the gap. I suck at gaps! Nate and I then played a game of SKATE that started very slow, but toward the end got pretty good. I landed a decent b/s flip, 360 flip, heelflip, fakie bigflip near the end of the game. Unfortunately the lights shut off and we had to move the game when it was T to T. I think I won it with a varial flip at that point. Lame.We headed up into a parking garage and cruised down it, checked some stuff out. Found a nice ledge you can cali grind down a six stair. I tried it a few times in the dark, but it was too sketchy. At the end we skated a ledge that should be skated more and Nate did some really good front board slides on it. I was wanting to quit for the night, but ended up giving a few a try and landed some horrible ones. We ended the night after I slammed trying to kickflip a crack on the downhill approach to the ledge. Fun night. Skating new spots is the best.

It was supposed to be my day off skating, but oh well. Little Jack came over around 9pm and I skated with him for a bit while he warmed up to film a little web montage. I skated pretty crappy, but then again my legs were totally dead. At least I didn’t fall. It was cool seeing Jack have problems with Rampy at first which always reminds me how hard it is to skate. But it didn’t take him long to bust out some moves and film the following little montage.Since Jack is one of the few people that reads my blog I should probably at least make fun of him in some way. Jack, there are tic tacks at :31 and :39 and you had already stopped sliding before putting your front foot on the no comply tailslide. Weak sauce dude. Weak sauce. Ha ha you know I’m joking.

No matter how late I stay up the kids still get up at 7 and wake me up.  This week I don’t have to be to work until after 9am so I had some time to kill after the kids went to school and it was warm out so I chose to skate the Boulder park and write this run on sentence about it.  I didn’t feel like ollieing really and kinda just cruised around for awhile before kind of focusing on a line: Drop in on the 8′ bowl, 5-0 out of the roll in, rolldown the steep wall, ollie the nipple thing, go around, ride over the table top then backside ollie the weird hip, turn and frontside ollie the pyramid hip.  I didn’t do any of them worth a damn, but it was a fun way to start off the day.Later on Ollie and I were skating Rampy before dinner.  Things were going decent in between Ollie’s 20 minute runs of pumping until I slammed insanely hard trying to recover from a fakie 50 fakie.  I don’t know what happened other then I tried to bail, but stepped right back on my board.  SUCK! 

Seems like Monday’s are becoming my solo skate night over at Table Mesa shopping center. I love skating by myself sometimes. Unfortunately it became all to clear right away that skateboarding was going to be very difficult when I bailed ollieing up a curb. Ugh. I pretty much skated like crap, but tried lines at a couple spots until I got them. Over by Play It Again Sports I did a front shove on flat, nollie back tail on the curb (the worst one that’s ever been done), ollied over a weird parking block, ollied up a curb, ollied a little flat gap, nollied up a little curb, kickflip on flat, front tail the curb I started on. I had to sit down after that one and rest awhile. Every trick was done horribly, but it was fun linking them together. Next I went over the some painted curbs that were freshly painted and did my best to remove the fresh paint with my trucks. I put a few tries in to manual the pad in front of it then slappy grind the curb. This was hard because the ground between the manual pad was rough as hell and I wanted to go fast enough that I didn’t push in between. Before long I did probably the fastest manual I’ve ever done followed by a slappy 50 then turned around and kickflipped up the curb. Rad. Sat down for awhile again. Then I hit King Soopers via the fun downhill sidewalk gap thing. I want to try and link a line there next time: some flipper into the sidewalk, ollie the gap, make the turn onto the sidewalk, kickflip off the curb, then front lipslide a parking block. Next time maybe? Anyways, before I left I started to really lose it from being tired and spent a bunch of energy trying to quick up to ollie onto the bench in front of Tandoori Grill. I got it a couple times, but it was weak. I blame the lack of light though. Ha. All in all I skated bad, but I skated hard and sometimes that’s fun enough.

Got picked up by the Factory in the Icebox around 1 and we headed out to the Broomfield area. First spot was a weird metal beam/ledge thing that I didn’t hit as it was too tall for me. I was feeling pretty out of it and just did a bunch of kickflips in a row to try and get my feet moving. Then a game of SKATE with Rob that I don’t think we even finished. Next up was a weird small bank to rails spot. Brian and I tried some pole jams to fakie and didn’t get close then I tried to carve around the bank and launch out of the side. I didn’t make the carve and my board went under the rail, but then came out after a ledge. Impossible to understand in words I suppose, but I ended up getting a weird sideways hippy jump while holding onto the top bar. It’s ridiculously stupid, but super awesome at the same time. Jason and Rob killed it too with some stall tricks on the lower bar. Jason did a alley oop fakie 5-0, but the TF cameraman recorded over it. Suck! Next we skated this one section for awhile where Rob, Jason and I skated a little hip for a second. I got a no comply 360 over it and a couple kickflips. Nothing special, but it was fun. In the same lot was a metal angled thing that we ollied on and did tricks off of. Rob did a super sick bonelss off. Jason almost got a manual up to 5-0 down I think. I got a boneless 180 off and then slammed and lost a lot of drive to continue skating it. Next up everyone skated the bumper of the Icebox for awhile. My noseslides sucked, but we filmed the end of the video. Lastly I skated a tiny little gap that I could barely ollie, then filmed a bit and almost fell asleep in the van. Fun day.

It was about 25 degrees and almost still snowing.  Brian and Neil picked me up and we went to a gnarly little bank thing that Brian wanted to blunt fakie.  After almost getting hit by a bus filming him and freezing our asses off we split to red curbs.  There was a run I’ve wanted to do for awhile and that’s basically all I tried.  After awhile Brian was kind enough to film it and surprisingly I landed it on film.  Front 5-0 on a curb, noseslide 270 on the ledge, no comply 270 back tail on a curb.  Very hyped on it.  That was basically the whole session for me, and filming Brian get a sick line.  Pretty rad day considering how cold it was.  

Prolly the first time we’ve skated Rampy and Ollie didn’t learn a new trick.  I was still fighting a cold and kinda just chilled.  Don’t remember anything in particular that I landed, but it was fun.  

Got bitten by a bad cold that even kept me home from work.  After a day of lounging around and napping I had felt a bit better and decided to roll around on rampy for a few minutes.  Didn’t really care about trying tricks so much, but ended up trying alley oop back 50s.  I would get into most of them, but not grind because Rampy is too narrow.  At the end I got a weak little fakie 50 and decided to call it a night.  I’d love to get that one good like Jason.

After a fun time playing catch with a nerf football we headed out to Rampy for about a half an hour.  Ollie had some problems with his halfcab kickturn things for awhile then started spinning them around perfect.  He claimed he wanted to do them to rock fakie.  I didn’t think he had it in him, but I should have known better.  Right as India and Liz roll in to say dinner was ready he lands it.  Sick!  I did a few of my basics before settling on back tail attempts.  Only a couple were close.  Gotta get that trick.

Ollie and I hit the ramp while India did her homework after dinner.  Ollie was ripping.  It’s crazy he’s starting to link more tricks together and look like he actually knows what he’s doing.  It was a really fun session.  I did most of my tricks and didn’t really try any new ones.  I attempted some heelflips on flat bottom and somehow landed almost everyone of them.  That hasn’t happened in months.After what turned into a pretty intense evening with India freaking out I had to get out of the house.  Luckily the wind had died down and it wasn’t too cold.  I went over to Table Mesa shopping center and just pushed for awhile as fast as I could with my mp3 player cranked up on shuffle.  My trucks were super loose for some reason so I was swerving all over the place.  I ended up trying a tiny little gap and ran by a window with the light on with some dude working in an office.  I’m pretty sure I scared the living crap out of him.  Oops.  Anyways, I ollied a tiny median a couple times and pretty much decided that I hate tiny wheels.  I had setup some 50mm only because I’m running low on 52mms and wanted to concerve.  And yes I can tell the difference between 50mm and 52mm wheels.  Maybe next time I’ll try 54s instead.  Anyways, on to skating.  I just kept cruising around and trying to not get frustrated as parenting had done that enough to me already.  I did one of my all time favorite lines behind King Soopers.  Kickflip into the downhill sidewalk then ollie the gap into the street.  It’s not gnarly or anything, but I’ve only done it once before and it feels fun.  I ended up spending some time at a bump spot and tried a bunch of 360 flips before just giving up and going home happy that I got to get outside and skate.