Left shortly after 9am and got a whopping 37mpg on the way to CO Springs.  So awesome.  Yes, I’m obsessed by gas mileage these days.  The new park is huge.  Huge.  It took a good 15 minutes of skating around it to even start to take it all in.  The street course is huge.  There are 3 bowls.  There is a section of rocks/curbs/spines banks.  Basically the park has everything but a normal ledge.  Nate and I started out in the street/”flow” area.  There is some crazy bank wallride things.  I seriously can’t even write about how much fun it is because things like wallriding up a 5 stair bank make no sense in words.  Riding down kinked banks, etc.  For awhile I had some good energy and was skating ok.  I ollied a hip, backside flipped a flat wall, then almost f/s flipped the next one.  Nate and I got bluntslides over this seriously rad flat bank hip.  Later on I slammed over and over trying to noseslide the hip.  We all got together and skated a 1 foot tall spine that is a total blast.  Jake and I learned back feeble back 180 transfers.  I also got a front feeble front 180 transfer.  Sounds cool, but it was easy.  Then we skated the “legit” pool.  Carving it is fun, carving the tight corner is fun.  Lazer straight killed it.  Front slash the deep.  I carved the tile.  Whew!The rest of the session is kind of a blur until we skated two super tight qpipes like a halfpipe.  Lazer and Jake killed it.  I was just hyped to get rock fakies it was so tight.  I also got a fakie back smith stall to fakie. Next up was Parker.  We were all tired, but a few grinds around the hard way of the 3 foot corner gets the feet going.  Nate and I skated the ledge for a long time.  I got most of my tricks and I tried to do them in order.  back boardslide, back noseslide, front 50, back crooks, front 50 180, front 50 shove, back crooks, front 5-0, front 5-0 180, front 5-0 shove, back 50 (had a lot of trouble with it) and finally front smith grind.  I tried a bunch of smith grinds which turned more and more 5-0 each time until I finally got bummed and went twice as fast and held it down.  Best smith grind I’ve ever done.  Before leaving Nate and I skated the Colorado flag q-pipe and little mini q-pipe for a long time.  I got a couple Rampy tricks before trying to do front 50 back 180 out, but I never landed that.  Super fun day.

Had to bring some boards up to MRKT then went skating with Sean and Cody.  We started at the 2 up 2 down which was poorly lit and kind of scary to skate.  I used to love skating this spot with JP.  I got a manual and was working to nose manual it, but we took off.  We ended up skating this fun/weird manny pad with a square curb in the middle.  There were some potential for that spot.  We were all pretty tired though and just dorking around.  Nothing unusual for me.

Skated Rampy for about 20 minutes then took a few photos of him.  Gotta get him sponsored by Red Bull & Plan B soon you know?  The session was fun.  Ollie learned fakie ollies and I landed most of my tricks which was way quicker than normal.Rock Fakie.  Allan from Sol would probably be heckling him to deck it.Beaming the camera is a requirement for kids.My digital camera blows at taking photos indoors, but yeah, Ollie was popping fakie ollies and landing most of them.  Ollie has never even heard of Michael Jordan.  I guess it’s a natural thing to rock the tongue.

Neil, Brian, Jason and I met Bernie at the Longmont park and some Boulder heads were there too.  I started off sucking and just kept right on sucking.  My legs were tired and ollieing onto the little ledge seemed hard.  Brian landed the first 360 flip I’ve ever seen him land.  Jason, Brian and Neil were skating the flat bar and having fun.  I was getting more and more bummed by the minute.  I even pushed my board into a ledge at one point and chipped it a bit.  Ugh.  After awhile I calmed down and just skated the mellow flat bank by myself for a bit.  I had some troubles getting the big board to do a f/s flip, but eventually landed one.  At the end Jason, Bernie and I skated the ledge for awhile and I finally had fun.  I got a run with a back 50, front 50 back 180 out, fakie flip, fakie bigspin and then another run with a back 5-0 then a front 5-0 shove.  The second run was first try.  Rad.  At least I left the park on a good note.

Exhausted from yesterday I brought Ollie and his buddy to the Lville skatepark in the morning.  They had a blast.  Cooper was falling all over the place.  I was chilling for the most part, but having a good time.  I was having fun ollieing onto the little manny pad then ollieing into the bank.  Trying to get me Neil on I guess.  I tried to grind around a corner over a patch of snow, but never landed it although I did jump into the snow a couple times.  We left after Ollie stomped two body varials on the flat bank.  So rad.  As we were leaving he tried a body varial off the curb and ate it.  Even radder though since he laughed it off.

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.