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.

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!