Skated a little bit with Ollie at the school across the street.  I was very tired and just kind of goofing off.  Ollie managed to manual across the country.  Ok, the painting of USA they have on the cement.  Pretty rad though.  Later on Brian and Neil picked me up and we met Sean and half of Ft Collins at the Longmont park.  Neil straight killed it.  The only good that came out of the session for me was boardsliding the entire little ledge at full speed and getting into frontside noseblunts on the flat bank.  Oh and a fun game of SKATE with Sean, Neil and Brian where I finally landed a decent backside 360 no comply.  Rad.

Met Nate on another 30 degree’ish night at St Julien and we ended up staying there basically the whole time.  Somehow I ended up putting down most of my ledge tricks.  Starting with crooks.  But real crooks where I grinded a few feet.  Not my typical crooks of less than an inch and fall out.  Hyped.  I also put down several back 50s which have absolutely baffled me lately and my best halfcab noseslide ever.  Frontside went front 50 back 180 out, front 50 front 180 out, front 5-0 front 180 out, front 50 shove out, front 5-0 shove out and somehow I even got my second ever front smith grind.  I’m also getting closer to actually riding out of frontside wallrides.  That would be tight.  Nate killed it with long front tails and almost got a front nosegrind shove out.

I had one hour to go skate so I didn’t call anyone, loaded up the mp3 player with Dinosaur Jr and bolted around campus never staying at a spot very long.  It ended up being an absolutely amazing session.  I started off at the banked manny pad and landed a manny up to rock, halfcab flip out.  Really bad though.  My flatground was also somewhat on point and I stomped a couple treflips.  Next I tried a line down the sidewalk toward the 1 – 7 stair for awhile.  So fun.  The run was super tech.  Manual for awhile, ollie, front 180, switch 180 ollie down 4 stairs, bail the wallride on the rock.  Then I skated the brick courtyard area for awhile trying some lines on the bench and flatground.  I don’t think I pieced together a decent run, but if you add them all up together it was fun.  I ollied the student center 4 stair a few times then noseslid the gray bench and bolted back home.  Super fun session.

Pretty cool night in the 30s and we met up around 9pm.  Brian is kinda known for sitting out at street missions so I was a bit worried he’d be bummed on the session, but that wasn’t the case.  We started out at the banked manny pad which was harder than I remembered.  Nate did a nose manual turned around to switch manaual down.  So sick.  Brian did a 360 kickturn to front rock.  So sick.  I didn’t land anything.  I did start getting the feel for halfcab flips out of rock though.  I’d love to do a manual up to rock, halfcab flip out.  Landing in manny would be a nice touch, but that’s pretty unlikely for me.  We headed down to the 1 to 7 stair area.  Brian ollied 5.  Sick.  I couldn’t get his back and stuck with 4.  Lame.  Next up we session a rock for at least an hour.  Nate got a sick ass wallie.  I got a wallride.  Brian got a wallride and almost a backside no comply wallride.  We finished on a game of SKATE that Nate won.  Young jerk.  Ha.  Brian and I went $1 for a heelflip and I beat him.  He only had a dime on him so he owes me $.90 more.  Better not skimp out of that bet Brian.

Met up with Jake at the famous Circuit City parking garage in Boulder on a cold and rainy night.  It’s cool because they fixed all the lights and it’s clean in there since it hasn’t snowed yet (jinx).  Anyways I took awhile to warm up as usual and for the first time in a couple weeks I was able to try flip tricks other than kickflips.  We played a long game of SKATE to get warmed up.  I landed my first 360 flip in forever and got a first try fakie varial flip.  By the time the game ended Jake was ready to go.  We ended up playing an “old school” game of SKATE that ended up just dieing as we were having more fun trying to figure out what each other was doing.

Being super sore and skating don’t get together very well. Especially when your me, the least coordinated skateboarder of all time. Somehow a few of the basics were working out for me though and the curb was grinding good. After awhile we setup this little polejam thing and it ended up being legit. I’ve really only done no comply polejams in the past, but, decided this time I was going to stick to regular pole jams. After finally getting a few Nate was on me to do front 180 out. Just because he thinks it’s really easy he kept on me to do it. I never did. I do think I could eventually do it and I thank Nate for pushing me, but tonight was not the night. Over all a decent session even though neither of us were able to do flip tricks due to my heel hurting and his knee hurting. At least I’m old. Ha.

After a super fun morning of playing soccer and baseball with Ollie I met up with Neil, Brian, Jason, Lazer, Fuzz and Rob around 2pm. First we hit up this wallride spot in Lafayette where I got stuck mostly filming. Kind of a crazy wallride that Rob, Fuzz and Neil had no problem with. Brian was trying a pretty rad line ending with an alley oop wallride, but he couln’t get it. We ended up leaving due to numerous cop drive byes.Next we went to a playground/city park in Denver that ended up being a ton of fun. There was a really sick ledge off a curb. Unfortunately you had to drop down two sets of stairs and get setup for it really quick. The only thing I landed was a noseslide. Jason landed about 30 noseslides. Fuzz killed it. Neil killed it. Lazer got a sick line. I sucked, but that is to be expected. I really wanted to kickflip 50 the ledge, but couldn’t get setup after the curb drop to kickflip. Plus I have new shoes. Billy Marks Fallens, they are good shoes, but take a minute to break in. After awhile we ended up at the foam covered volcano for a fun session and a couple kickflips from Brian and I. Kickflipping on foam is really weird. Fun day.

After a week of either extreme back pain or being super sick I finally got out on my board for a bit in front of the house. I’m one of those people that loses tricks everyday so when I go an entire week I pretty much have to start over. Today was no exception. I believe it took 10 tries to land a kickflip. After about 30 minutes, lots of lame 180s and other lameness I ended the session completely winded after a fakie bigflip. Love that trick.

Red curbs session with Brian, Neil, Lloyd, Monico, Elijah, Reed and Eric with his amazing ledge.  My side was acting up really bad.  I landed 1 kickflip out of about 20 tries.  Horrible.  I could hardly bend down.  And to top it off it was about 40 degrees and raining which feels really cold when you are used to 60s.  Went to SOL ramp and met up with Riley and Tyler.  My side was still hurting but ramp is easier on the body.  Did a few basics before filming Brian, Riley, Tyler and Monico.  Pretty fun evening.

Had about an hour after work to skate.  Picked up Riley and met Josh at the Longmont park.  After awhile of cruising around dorking out I watched the Riley demo on the ledge.  He did tricks like noseblunt bigpsin out, front blunt bispin out, bigsin front blunt and posed out bigspin in bigspin out of front blunt a few times.  Geez.  I tried a bunch more smiths and didn’t get any.  I got into a lot more of them though.  Pretty mediocre way for me to start the weekend.