Picked up Neil on a sunny, but still cool afternoon and went to the Lville tech center to meet up with Fuzz. We started at a long manny pad. Ordinarily I would love it, but I was so beat from the day before that I didn’t feel much like ollies. Neil and Fuzz got the show started with some long manuals though. Then we started getting old man tech. Fuzz had a few lines with lots of 180s and hipster pants. Then a speedy halfcab up the curb, front shove, kickflip off. I was somewhat warmed up after getting a kickflip up, kickflip on flat, kickflip off. Was trying for front 180 up, halfcab flip on falt, b/s flip off. Got closeish. Neil nollied up which was sick. Then was going for back 180 up, halfcab flip on flat but never got it.

Went to the OG curb/ledge spot. I was so beat. Neil however was ollieing everything under the sun. Then we all did kickflips on flat then boardslide transfers up the ledge. So fun. I took the longest. Well, because of the boardslide. Had the kickflip. Ha. Then we all kinda did our own tricks. Heelflips were had. Halfcab flips. Fuzz got stuck on halfcab heel and never quite got it. I Couldn’t get past nollie tre. Argh.

I had to go to Sol so after dropping Neil off I headed into Longmont and decided to skate the little ledge at Rocky Mtn Elem. Probably a dumb idea considering how sore I was, but I did it anyway. Got some slappy noseslides, a crooks or two, and a couple front 50s before calling it a day.

Had such a weird morning. Stuff kept coming up. I tried to skate a couple times and just about the time I’d start getting warmed up I would have to stop. It was about 20 degrees, overcast and cold. Finally met up with Nate and we dropped his girlfriend off at the Denver Art Museum and rolled around to this fun spot. Nate did frontside and backside wallrides on it before I got a frontside one. Chadman showed up and did a frontside one pretty quick. I posed some kickflip backside wallrides and got kinda close initially and then Nate started trying it and did one. Pretty sick. We moved on.

They had torn out our favorite mellow brick bank and replaced it with a perfect marble bench. We kind of just walked around it for a minute to see how quick security would come out, but they didn’t. So we skated. Chad and Nate did so many tricks so quick. Chad did front 50 back 180, front smith, front nosegrind, front smith front 180, back 5-0. Nate had front nosegrind, front 50, back 50, almost back nosegrind, probably more. I got front 5-0, front 50 front 180 out, front 50 front shove out and back crooks. The bench was so new/perfect that it didn’t even feel like you were grinding. So amazing. Then we got the boot. Went up to the capital and had some fun there too with some manuals into the little bank. Chad man ollied the sidewalk into the bank hauling ass in the landing down the hill. On our last go I got manual off the 3 stair, manual into the bank and bombed the hill timing it perfect to get through the light. so insanely fun.

Then we skated the Civic fountain area. Chad and Nate spent a lot of time doing 50s on the little metal bars all over the inside of the fountain. I tried to line out flippers with the ledge. The sun had set so it was getting really f’ing cold. Nate kept skating though. I got a couple basic flippers. A couple basic ledge tricks. The switch front nose felt neat. Nate did those proper. Chadman was trying to manual from the 3 stair then ollie into the fountain. He spent so much energy trying. So funny.

Then we went to Launch for the Null premiere. There were quite a few little kids there, but the ramps weren’t crowded. We skated the little one before the showing and it was fun. We all did a couple tricks and had a some funny falls. After the video we skated the big ramp. But it was mostly just cruising and not really doing tricks. Chad did have one run with a kickflip to fakie and a front feeble in it though. Epic day. So fun.

Went out to Rampy for a brief session before watching A Wonderful Life with the family. I was feeling way more arthritic then I have in awhile and it showed. Rampy felt so much quicker and dangerous then normal. It got my legs moving though and seemed to loosen things up a little. Nothing new on tranny. Flatground went ok with a few of the basics.

Got home and split for Crisis right away after picking up boards. Hung out for awhile and Fuzz didn’t feel like skating so I left for Denver to do it. I parked near Connor’s house so he could get a dvd/deck. We started at a curb that I could not ollie up and my legs felt horrible. Connor did a cool wallride though.

Then we cruised around a while. Ended up at the two stair spot that I normally love, but my legs were feeling the most arthritic they have in months. Ollie’ing up the two was hard. Connor was just kinda cruising. We ended up back at the car. He got his stuff and split. I skated a little more. Tried to skate flat, but it didn’t go so well. Ended up at one spot I kinda like. Ollie’d onto a bench, rode off, ollied onto another, rode off, then did a b/s flip into a slight downhill. Got one b/s flip that felt super good. Everything else felt pretty weak.

Was on my way to Longmont to meet Dave when he texted saying he couldn’t skate. So just pulled off at Valmont and skated there. I started off so rusty. Ollie’ing up curbs felt hard. I stuck with it though and after a few noseslides and front 50s on the low part I started to feel better. For whatever reason I got it into my head to relearn nollie varial flips. I probably landed on 20 of them. Some of them even faster then lots of my tricks. They felt great, I just didn’t ride away from any. Doh! Made myself ollie off the loading dock which was harder then normal due to their being a puddle after making me go about 1/2 mph faster then normal to clear it. Ledge tricks were whatever. Front 50s on the low part were my fav. Got a couple crooks, one back 50, a switch front nose that I was pretty excited about. Did lots of flatground, defeated on 3 flips though. I started to feel cold at the end so I left. Felt good to burn some of the rust off.

Still feeling like crap and after a long day at work I went out to Rampy for a few minutes and was amazed at how horrible I was skating. I had a 4 wall run, followed by a 3, 2, 1, then couldn’t back 50 the first wall for awhile. I was almost mad, but I still felt pretty out of it mentally so just went with it. Didn’t land much at all. Had a couple flat ground kickflips. Tried some more switch heels and wasn’t close.

Got so bloody sick for the Null premiere. I guess the previous weekend of all night editing and cold Broncos game got to me. Ugh. What a rough few days. Fever, chills, nerves, anxiety. All made much worse at the premiere by trying to kill it with whiskey. Argh. Low and behold on Sunday I felt slightly better and got out to skate for a short one with Neil and Rob. We tried to wax up and skate this glorified curb I had in the back of my head for awhile, but we got booted. Probably a good thing considering how stupid windy it got. So we went to a mostly closed in parking garage off Valmont. I was so rusty. So incredibly rusty that I took like 5 tries to get a kickflip. Rob killed it. Back lips, manuals with back 180 out, back 270 front lip. So rad. Neil was buzzing around as normal. Nose mannies, mannies, bluntlides, and of course ollie’ing over stuff. The trash can above was not easy for him, so rad. I hucked a lot mainly because I couldn’t land much. Got close to switch heels again. Man that would rule. No complies over parking blocks, slappy crooks, super slow bad flip tricks. Almost got slappy front feeble on a parking block. Ended with a slow nollie tre that hyped me up and even though I was the sick one I decided to not keep Rob and Neil there any longer since they were already sitting. Can’t wait to feel better on my board again.

BE THERE!!!

Went out on Rampy kind of motivated to skate the tranny, but I just ended up skating the flat for the most part. I had a couple runs on the ramp with nothing special. I had put some thicker insoles in my shoes, some NB+ onces. They felt good for flippers and I ended up landing a lot. Kickflip, pop shoves, heelflip, varial flip, b/s flip, f/s flip, halfcab flips, treflip, double flip, f/s halfcab heel. Couldn’t get close to switch flips, nollie flips were somewhat close. Started hucking switch heels and out of the blue got surprisingly close. That would be sweet, never done one before.

On a really cold night Ollie and I headed out to Rampy. What’s this, Ollie skating 3 times in a weekish? Awesome. We skated the tranny for awhile. He had some moves, I did a few basics, then he was done and I felt like doing flip tricks. The goal was 10 flip tricks and they came kinda (except heelflips). Kickflip, fakie flip, varial flip, fakie varial flip, heelflip, 360 flip, b/s flip, f/s flip, halfcab flip, f/s halfcab flip, first try double flip. Tried switch flips for a long time and got super close. Tried inward heels for awhile and actually made it flip good. Flatground is fun.