I tried to get the kids to play basketball or baseball or something other than skateboarding, but Ollie was insistent that we go skating.  We went to the school across the street.  India rode her scooter and Ollie rode his skateboard.  Behind the school there is a little drainage ditch that is about 2 feet long with grass on one side.  Ollie tried over and over to ollie it.  Pretty rad, he was actually snapping his tail pretty hard.  My legs were dead once again, but I joked around and did a front shove and kickflip over it into the grass.  It’s so fun skating with Ollie because I can totally just goof around and try tricks I’d normally be too embarrassed about.  Ollie ended up doing a halfcab ollie into the little ditch.  It was quite rad actually.  He started asking me how to do shove it’s and kickflips as well.  I told him to get his ollies down first so he doesn’t end up like me.  Ha.  I spent at least 10 minutes trying flatground manuals with back shoves out.  Never got one.  Decent time for what it was and how sore my legs were.

Met Nate at the little manny pad.  Pretty tired.  Pretty sore.  Took me about 10 tries to get a manual.  Almost over it, but kept going.  Nate shows up and does manny, nose manny and front 180 nose manny first try.  Kids these days.  I ended up just trying kickflip mannys over and over and ended up getting a couple.  Other than that I put down a few flippers I haven’t since before the hip.  Ok session.

So I have to confess, I started this crossfit workout thing in the morning with my homie Zach and it’s killing me.  I don’t know that my legs have ever felt this sore.  Instead of resting or chilling I went skating with Ollie out at the mellow bank to curb.  At first even a backside stall was difficult.  After seeing Ollie ollie (yeah I know, I didn’t really think that threw when we named him Ollie) off the end of the loading dock and land it I figured I better step it up. But even that wasn’t enough to give my legs any pop.  Before we left I was finally able to do a few basic tricks on the bank to curb.  Ollie was doing nosestalls on it and did a rock fakie by putting his front wheels up on the fence.  So rad.  He’ll be better than me in no time.

And that’s saying a lot.  I had run a mile earlier in the day and was super sore.  Ok, ridiculously sore.  I couldn’t hardly ollie at all.  I ended up just riding down these four long stairs and manualing out of them.  Stupid, but kinda fun.

Skated red curbs due to the rain. There was puddles everywhere, but it was still fun. I couldn’t really do flippers at all due to my hip still feeling weird, but it was fun. The only two things I did remotely cool were a front 180 over a puddle followed by a switch 180 to front 50 and an ollie over puddle to manual to noseslide fakie. Yipped. Filmed a bunch which hurt bending down but the old guys came through with some bangers.

Jason has been my main skate homie of the last 10 or so years.  Wow.  It was a Friday and we were celebrating his 37th birthday by going skateboarding all day.  We started at Windsor skatepark where Jason skated the best any of us have ever seen him skate.  It was amazing.  He did front board fakie and front board down one of the rails, powerslides on everything, feebles on the flatbar, basically, he didn’t skate anything like you would think a 37 year old should skate.  Jason rules.  Myself, I didn’t skate all that hot.  I tried several no comply tailslides on the bank and rode out of a couple bad ones.  New trick for me so I’ll take it for now.  Jack, Nate and I played a game of SKATE that Jack ended up winning while beating me with a switch flip.  Not only did he say “ok Glen, here you go” before doing it, but he made it look like it’s as tough as rolling off a curb.  Basterd.  One day I’m gonna land it though, and then I will also win a million dollars in the lottery.Next we skated a fullpipe.  It has all these sketchy bolt things sticking out every 8 feet or so.  I hit one.  I slammed.  Hard.  3 days later and my hip still hurts and is all black/blue.  Ugh ugh ugh.  No more skating for me.Then it rained and we ended up at the covered manny pad.  Gabe, PJ, Chad.Jason was the last one skating.  From the left, Jack, Nate, Chris, Jason, Gabe, PJ, Chad all sitting while the oldest dude there was still skating.  Go Jason.Nose manny like he’s only landed a couple.  Oh wait, he has only landed a couple.  Rad, Jason killed it.

Jason, Nate and I had just watched And Now for the first time and only had time for an hour or so of skating so we were pretty hyped up to say the least.  The only times I’ve been to Lville park recently was to help teach kids how to skate at 9am.  That’s too early to skate. Anyways, I was taking a warm up run in the snake run and since there was a bunch of BMX’ers around I figured the coping was really sticky.  Nope.  I slid out pretty bad and landed on my wrist on the coping.  Thought I broke it at first.  Ugh.We ended up skating the ledge as we always do.  It was a pretty hectic session.  The park was really crowded with people that were actually skating so it was chaos.  Nate beat me to a front 50 back 180 so I was cursed on front 50s all night causing me to hurt my wrist even more.  Luckily crooks were feeling good.  The 8″ trucks help with those for sure.  Within 5 tries I had done crooks and crooks 180.  Unheard of for me.  I started trying crooks shove and was getting close, but the board kept spinning to far.  I decided to go with crooks bigspin out and somehow came super close.  Gotta go back and learn that one!

Had one of those days where you get a million phone calls trying to figure out where/when the skating is gonna happen. Nate had been raving about a new ledge he found with me via nerd computer chat all day so I was determined to meet up with him there. In addition the crew was Gabe, Jason, Neil and Rob. The ledge was ok, but sketchy with water on the other side, hornets, etc. I was ok skating, but others weren’t. Little Jack called and so we left to pick him up and skate around downtown. Nate had a soccer game so he was out. Downtown was fun for me, I like skating anything pretty much, but there was so much bitching again. Rob killed it at Wells Fargo. Manny, back 180, wallride, kickflip. Dude rips. We setup a trashcan on it’s side after a little bump and attempted tricks over it. I say ‘attempted’ because the only tricks that were landed were ollies and a no comply by Neil. I’m still having issues with the 8″. It’s way heavier, but more stable to ollie. I’ll get it. Over all, a fun night, kind of a weird vibe though.

The above photo basically explains how I felt.  I woke up at 9am after 3 straight late nights and the first thing I heard was Ollie asking, “Dad, when are we going skateboarding today?”  I had promised to skate with him.  Around 1 pm we finally headed out to a fun little park in Longmont that shouldn’t have anyone there.  It was closed for repairs and fenced off.  Ugh.  Then we went to this other little park, but a thunderstorm prevented that.  Ugh.  Drove all the way back to Boulder and it was raining.  Found a parking garage finally.  Ollie was flying around.  Kid has so much fun skating.  It’s weird though, sometimes when I’m out with him I feel even older than normal.  Today was one of those days.  We went to the banked curb spot that I skated the day before, but this time I ran into a curb at full speed trying to carve around all the blocks and bloodied up my knee.  Over it.

I was running late due to cleaning my garage for hours getting ready for a garage sale and have a  goal to put some type of tiny little ramp in there this winter, but eventually met up with Gabe, Brian, Neil, Fuzz, Lazer, Jason, Rob, Lloyd, Jack and I believe that’s it.  Well, initially Rob, Lloyd and I went to pick up Little Jack since he’s young and can’t drive or any of that.  We found him doing polejam wallies into banks and decided to film it.Rob took the photo, I filmed.  5 minutes into the day and Little Jack does a better trick than I will ever dream of.  Next we went to Boulder ditch where half of us claimed it’s the worse spot ever and the other half skated.  Brian made fun of me filming Neil trying a run because I can’t push switch hardly at all, especially through a ditch.  The top photo is Brian’s attempt at keeping it straight while filming Neil.  Ha, just playing Brian, I was happy to not film and instead lost as quickly as possible in two games of SKATE to Rob and Jack.Next we went to a little bank/curb spot.  Pretty fun really.  I did a couple dork tricks as usual and somehow snapped my tail trying to do a kickflip over a curb onto the bank.  Doh.  My dork trick then changed to an even dorkier trick using a cracked board.  My whole part will be nothing but 2 mile an hour dork tricks that most people wouldn’t even think of as warm up dork tricks.  Sweet.  I swung home with Jack to setup a new board and then meet the crew at Canyon Center.  Jack gripped my board.  Maybe I’ll be blessed with some type of radness now?  The Canyon Center was fun.  Fuzz and Brian killed it.  I lost in a long game of SKATE to Lloyd and Jack.  Day over.  Exhausted, but hyped.  My new Hombres deck has a pink topsheet.  Sweet.  Every single Hombres 8″ deck came with a pink topsheet.  Not sure what’s up with that.