Jason, Brian, Neil, Rob and I headed to east from Boulder with no clear plan.  The Neil ledges had cars and dirt so we went to Honey’s Hole.  Named after a GPS thing that Jason found naming it that.  I attempted kickflips to fakie forever and never landed one.  SO LAME.  Not digging the little wheels (50mm).  I just don’t want to have to order 52mms yet so figured I’d conserve.  Never again.  Anyways, Jason had found a fun line throught this tight little part of the ditch and cleared out a part at the end to grind.  Just carving through it was a blast.  Neil was blasting huge backside ollies on the tight little wall.  So sick.  Jason was going mach 20.  I managed getting a back 5-0 to fakie on it.  Hyped.  Brian even filmed it well.  Thanks!  Next up was the industrial center bank to gap.  I wasn’t feeling that, but wanted to skate more and ended up getting super frustrated trying to ollie a curb.  Yes.  I got so pissed I threw my board.  Suck!

I was super tired from working earlies all week and felt somewhat let down by my initial viewing of Mind Field.  Nate and I skated at Google for a bit until Brian was ready.  We ollied into the downhill pad a couple times then started goofing around on the little one foot tall flat bank on corrugated metal.  Before long I was trying feebles to fakie.  And then quite awhile later I was still trying feebles to fakie until I finally landed one.  Nate got a backside blunt.  Cool.Then we went and picked up Brian and headed to campus.  A cop rolled by as we pulled in.  Not a good omen.  We were rolling around and started to mess around on a rock when another cop pulled up and just kinda stopped.  Brian had read an article that campus police were cracking down on skateboarding so we split and went back to the Google flat bank.Brian immediately put down tricks that Nate and I had taken awhile to get.  I tried to get another feeble to fakie and after about say 100 tries I got one.  Then we ghetto lighted the spot and setup a camera while Brian did a blunt fakie and I did feeble fakie.  Doubles!  Brian did a bunch of amazing tricks like hands in the pocket blunts, front blunt to pivot, front blunt to 50 to fakie, etc.  Nate ollied onto the ledge near the bank then ollied into the bank.  Way harder then any documentation will ever show.  I got a nosepick pop out thing.  Nate closed it with a blunt shove out.  Banger!

Brian, Nate, Jam, Travis and I headed out from IBM around 4pm on a super nice February day.  It was around 60.  Insane.  We arrived at Northside after sun had started going down.  Being my lame self I got frustrated right away even though I haven’t been skating much lately.  I tried manualling the MJ ledge and after only about 50 tries I got it.  The dark settled in real quick, too quick to document Brian’s hurricane season.  Travis, Brian and I messed around on the end of the jersey barrier for awhile.  Brian got a blunt fakie, Travis did a few rad front pivot crailish tricks.  I did a back pivot.  Whoopie.  Before leaving Nate and I played a pretty bad game of SKATE.  Nate put down a perfect nollie tre which I couldn’t get, but I somehow prevailed with all of my fakie flip tricks.  And once again, this is only because Nate is nice and doesn’t do all the tricks I can’t do.  Ie, everything switch and nollie with the exception of nollie tres.We hit Longmont park on the way back and it started off about as rad as it could with Jam rolling into the bank by the rail.  He was hyped.  We were hyped.  The session wasn’t so hot for me.  I had to promise myself no sex on Valentines Day if I couldn’t ollie flyout over a cone which I barely was able to do.  Whew!  Not much more went down except me slamming hard on a back 50 attempt until we went to leave and a couple games of SKATE came out.  The first one was between Brian, Nate, Travis and I and it was a whatever game meaning no complies were good, bonelesses, whatever.  I missed basically every single trick.  It was rough.  After Nate and I got out Brian went on to land a treflip backed with a front foot impossible then a back foot impossible and even his new trick for the night – front powerslide shove.  Sick!  Nate and I played a regular flip trick game that went on forever and somehow I won.  Neither of us could land a treflip to save our lives.  Ugh!  

Hadn’t street skated in a long time so brought Ollie to Stonehedge. It wasn’t that great. I couldn’t even kickflip onto the manny pad. After a bit of complaining from him we went to Louisville Skatepark, aka the park filled with dumb bikers. And I don’t mean dumb bikers because I hate bikers, I mean it because none of them can do anything worth a shit. We started off in the hockey rink. Ollie was having fun. I was just sucking. Then the light shut off and we went to the park. I basically just skated the ledge. It was crowded so Ollie was just trying to ollie the manhole and he was hyped on that. I started off ok getting 50 shove right away and a few crooks and a crooks fakie. But then couldn’t put much down after that. We hit the bowl for a bit and rolled out. Ollie had some good kickturns which he’s never really done before on anything other than Rampy. 

Completely exhuasted from snowboarding the last few days.  Ollie wanted to ride the ramp.  I couldn’t do anything and gave up from exhaustion.  Ollie learned fakie kickturns, ie halfcabs without ollies.  He also did a couple more intentional fakie ollies above coping.  Ridiculous.

Skated Rampy before my trip to Utah.  Was tired as hell, but wanted to skate since I wouldn’t be able to much after that.  I tried to do every trick I’ve done before on it.  In the end I may have done most of them, but somewhere in the middle I went down on a front smith grind and totally ate it.  I went off the edge of the ramp and missed getting my hands on the corner so hit my face right on the tranny.  It hurt super bad.  Not only did I hit the side of my face, but it scraped up my neck and ear pretty good on the side of the ramp.  It hurt really bad.  I kept skating, but wow.

Setup a new board.  This time an 8″.  Felt good.  Ollie and I skated for awhile.  Time for skate dad bragging time.  He did three new tricks.  Backside pivot/slash grind, backside ollie and fakie ollie to manual to the other side.  He also did a fakie ollie above coping.  It was kind of on accident but sick!  I didn’t do anything special, but got a couple fakie front smith fakies.  Later on Reed, Lazer, Elijah and Elliot came over to film some stuff for Grind TV.  Ha.  I sucked.  Those guys ripped.  I really sucked.  And I sucked at the acting they wanted me to to.  OH well I felt like crap.

Had a blast playing with the kids and hit Rampy after reading the kids to sleep.  Skated ok.  Got a few more of those fakie front smith to fakie stalls.  Tried to do front smiths and front d out of axle stalls and finally got them.  I’m really trying to get out of my rock fakie/tail stall rut to set up for everything.  Did a lot of back 5-0s, couldn’t do an ollie.  Way too tight, I have no idea how Lazer does it.  I got really tired quickly and decided my new trick would be an easy one – switch rock ‘n roll.  I rock creek’d it real good too.  I tried a few out of front disaster, but eh, too tired.

It had snowed a bit and was cold in the morning, but somehow the sun came out and it ended up being pretty warm.  Jason and I met up with Neil, Fuzz and the Meta crew at an amazing ledge spot.  Everyone else was warmed up so it was kind of a bummer to start of sucking like I was.  But it got fun quick.  I tried a front 50 and ended up locking into 5-0 and shoved out.  I also got a sloppy front 50 front bigspin out.  I was feeling pretty good at that point, but then kinda went downhill for awhile and could only do front 50s.  Lame.  The ledge is really fun though, it’s fun to grind for a long time.  Fuzz freaked out and focused his board and a jug of water.  Neil landed a first ever front tail shove out.  Jason killed a long front noseslide.  After a long drive we ended up at a really fun tight little bank to ledge.  Jason straight killed it.  Back smith, back tail, everything quick.  I got a wallie out of the ledge, front rock, front smith stall and somewhat close to a kickflip pivot.  I ended the day with another wallie.  So fun.  

Got home from work and Ollie and I immediately skated the ramp.  He started doing two new tricks; manualling the flat bottom and doing body varials in the flat bottom.  Sick!  I tried front disaster to front smith, but never got it.  Later on Jake and Reed showed up and we shredded.  Well, they shredded.  I was sucking, but it was fun.  We thought we heard someone knocking on the door so I pulled the door up and BOOM nailed Jake and Reed in the head with the garage door.  Jake got the blunt of it.  I felt it hit.  It took him out and he ended up leaving.  Sorry Jake!  On top of that it was his birthday.  Doh!  Reed stuck around and we skated for quite awhile.  Reed learned front feebles and I learned fakie front smith stall to fakie.  Rad, I’ve wanted to do that for awhile.  I started trying back tails too, but never got too close.  Fun session.