Pretty tired from staying up late working on a new Off The Couch teaser with Neil we went skating.  We started at Stonehenge where we were supposed to meet Sean, Mike and Taylor from Ft Collins then we were going to head to Denver.  After an hour of Stonehenge we decided to move on and ended up at a ledge off Arapahoe.  I skated it like crap, but Fuzz killed it.  He skated so fast.  It ruled.  Still no heads from Ft Collins so we went to this bikepath bank spot I’ve never been to before.  It ended up being really sick.  I still skated like crap.  Imagine that I was tired.  I always skate like crap when I’m tired.  I ended up filming Fuzz do a polejam gap nearby.  Pretty rad.  We ended the day at Naropa where not much went down, but it was super fun.  I did a little gap to manny then rode down the grass.  Riding down the grass ride there the first time is so scary.  All in all a fun day.

Met Nate at his apartment in North Boulder after getting out of work early around 3.  We skated the bikepath ledge between 28th & Folsom on Iris.  It’s not the best one, but we had fun.  We were trying lots of flatground tricks too so it made it even funner.  I made my 5 360 flips quota and maybe landed two tricks on the ledge.  Oh well it was fun.  Then it got dark and we went behind Safeway and made a little ledge/manny pad out of plastic crates that was super fun.  Nate killed the backside grinds through the crack.  I manualled it. Yippee.  Then Nate got me trying frontside lipslides and I committed to a few.  I totally want to learn that trick and that was the tallest thing I’ve tried them on.  We finished with a game of SKATE that took awhile, but was fun.

It was really cold outside.  I felt like skating, but no one was feeling a Circuit City session.  I skated for awhile before dinner and did a few basic tricks in between hucking switch flips.  It’s been awhile since I’ve really attempted that trick and yes I still hate it, but want to land it.After the kids went to sleep I skated again.  Skating in my garage totally sucks since it’s soooo small.  I eventually started hucking 360 flips and wanted to do at least 5.  I ended up landing 8 of them horribly.  But when you can only take one slow push that’s how it is I guess.  I tried a bunch of nollie flips and came somewhat close.  Skating is fun.  Going to start on the ramp this weekend.  That’ll be more fun, but I’ll miss just skating flatground.

Went to the Longmont park after work on a nice day.  Warming up sucked and it took me about 5 tries to land a slow kickflip.  Ugh!  I eventually settled in to trying a run on the long ledge.  Manual it one way, turn around on the bank and frontside nosegrind it.  I never got the nosegrind.  I was hyped on how many times I manualed it though.  I ollied the stepup a bunch of times and did a few flyouts over cones.  Yippee!  I got a first try no comply tailslide on the bank and failed at noseblunt attempts.  My flatground was sucking and I got frustrated and attempted 360 flips until I landed one.  Somehow I backed it up with three more in a row.  Never done 4 in a row before.  Rad.  I landed one more and called it a night.

Got up pretty early and picked up Riley to hit the new skatepark we’ve heard so many good things about.  In some ways I was disappointed when I first arrived, but in others I was more impressed then I would have thought.  It’s a great park.  Look for photos here soon.  I skated like crap all day.  I was not confident on my skateboard and survived a few close calls with death on the stupidist stuff.  Riley on the other hand destroyed that place.  He skated the big 3 and did back bigspin, switch flip, switch heel (first try), switch front bigspin and something else I’m forgetting.  It was so sick.  About the only thing I did that was new for me was grind around a corner the hard way, when the curb is convex.  Pretty fun.  That park rules.  I’d like to skate it again when I have more energy.

Ended up having to work pretty much all day and it sucked.  I got out for a bit and skated in front of the house and somehow was doing the best halfcab flips of my life.  Pretty fast, popped a bit and landed at full 180 with no pivot.  Hyped.  I tried a run of halfcab flip, 360 flip and heelflip.  Never got all three, but I did put down a decent treflip for me as well.

Another suprisingly nice day in the 50s.  Headed out with Neil with no spots in mind and a video camera.  We ended up at Fairview High struggling at the tricks we wanted to do.  I ended up attempting to gap over a small flat gap to front 50 and after about 100 tries I landed one.  Neil was kind enough to film it and I struggled trying to switch 180 up a curb to start the run.  It eventually went down though and I thank Neil for filming it.  I’m actually pretty hyped on it.  Next up we ended up at a building in north Boulder that had a little manny pad, bike rack and gap where Neil put together a nice line consisting of a halfcab manny, ollie the bike rack then one foot the gap.  Tight!Later that night I skated in my garage for a few minutes attempting the first 10 tricks on my list of tricks to do.  I made this list a couple of years ago when I would skate flat in my garage in the winter.  I had some new shoes so it made things slightly more difficult then they should be.  They were however, shoes from the living legend Tyler Price so if you see me frontside flipping double sets, you’ll know it was the shoes.

Nate and I cruised to Commerce City on a suprisingly chilly night.  When Nate and I got there we were the only ones there until Mikey met up with us a few minutes later.  It was fun to try whatever you wanted and not have to worry about getting in peoples ways.  The bowl was filled with leaves though which bummed me out because I wanted to skate it a little.  It was fun ollieing into banks and doing basic ledge tricks.  I tried 360 flips to fakie on a bank for a long time, but never landed one.  Never comitted.  It felt close though.  Nothing too gnarly went down but it was fun.

After an impromptu sleep over the morning was spent going on a gnarly hike with Liz.  We got back and I straight took a nap thinking the kids would be home any minute wanting to play.  But their friends kept saying it would be awhile longer.  Screw it, no more waiting.  Nate and I bolted to Denver around 2 for a couple hours of fun.  We went to the Harley banks where within 5 minutes I slammed hard and the cops came.  Ugh.We drove downtown and parked near the rail that Monico ends the Null video with.  But we skated the mellow bank as a flat bank.  Nate did a nollie fs flip easy and got a couple switch front heels.  I was very happy to get fakie treflip and treflip fakie amonst some other tricks like first try big flip.  Super fun.  Then we rolled around hitting various spots til we would get kicked out.  Nothing really stands out other than it was fun and we skated hard.  Rad.

After a fun morning of baseball and biking with the kids I met Rob, Fuzz, Brian, Neil, Jam and Gordon at Brian’s house.  Rob, Neil and I played a couple game of SKATE that didn’t go so well.  Especially when I attempted a frontside flip and the board bounced up and nailed me in the cheek.  Ouch.The first stop was a school in Five Points where the Meta team was filming some tricks across a 3 and 4 stair thing.  I dorked around for awhile and Brian and I had a game of curb SKATE on a weird triangular parking block.  Brian did a ridiculous blunt pivot where he actually turned on the tranny of the 8″ tall curb.  Ridiculous.  I did a new trick for me.  No comply to blunt bean plant out thing.  Stupid sure.  But fun yes.  Next Neil, Fuzz, Rob, Gordon and I skated a 3 up 3 down.  Man I haven’t skated stairs in forever and the thought of putting a kickflip down wasn’t happening.Next we ended up at the green playground spot I saw at the start of the Meta teaser.  The spot ended up being a blast.  Fuzz ollied everything.  Gordon played speed racer through it.  Neil killed everything as usual.  Rob’s got crazy rad tricks.  Brian slams harder than anyone.  Me, I suck, but I did put down a line on film I’m not completely bummed on.  Jeff and the Meta dudes showed up after awhile and Jeff got a cameo trick for my part.  Neato.  Fun day.