Not as hot. Kinda breezy. Ollie said he was down to skate. Rad. We went to the Mikes Camera manny pad to start with which isn’t Ollie’s type of spot. He did a couple 180s then went and sat in the car reading Fox Trot. Jake and I plugged away at some tricks. He ended up with a line of manny then kickflip a crack as well as manual then f/s flip. Not too bad for just getting off a rolled ankle. He also did manual front 180 out. I took awhile to get nose manual shove, then tried nose manny bigspin, but never got close. Got a kickflip manual. Heelflip, front shove, fakie bigspin up the curb. Neil and Carleigh showed up as we were ready to move on. But not after Neil and I did a few manual/nose manual “combos”. I think the record was switching four times. Pretty fun

Then we went to the school out on Arapahoe. Neil killed the quick ollies up the curb, nose mannied the main manny pad, had some good pop shoves and bailed ollieing the ledge to drop. Carleigh bailed that as well. Both could get it. Ollie had fun with some little drop down mannies and a line of halfcab off one curb, ollie the next, back 180 the last. Jake ollied up the tall ledge and chilled. I didn’t skate great but managed to ollie the main manny pad, ollied up the tall ledge and at the end landed one of the best feeling front shoves I’ve ever done off the ledge. Fun times.

On the hottest day of the year Tyler and a few Denver Shop heads showed up so Tyler could get a photo for Four. The crew was Tyler, Nathan Fantasia, Steven Gritz, Justin Greer and Deano. I kinda dorked around at the warm up spot (Arapahoe school), but for the most part it was chill/dork/film mode. And it was fun. And it was productive. And I should skate more, but my arthritis aint doing so good lately.

Oh man, finely mostly recovered from the intense skatathon with the Fremont crew. Met Fuzz around 9 on campus. We rolled to the mini bank to curb. Oh yeah, crap I had all new stuff.

New shoes (eS Theory 2s). Null board. Null supers. And for the first time in 2 years, new bearings. Wow my board was fast, the normally little hill on the way to the bank to curb actually kind of freaked me out as my board went way faster then I’m used to. Whew. After a few tries each we finally got the most basic trick there of manual around a sign. We went on to get our switch pushing and fakie/switch trick itch. Fuzz did fakie pivot all perfect. Ollieing fakie was hard for me. He also did chink chink. The best part was us pushing switch though. Fuzz took a few tries to be able to run and set his board down switch. It was so funny. He would run and was unable to not put his left leg on the board first. We stuck with it and did some stuff though. We both got switch crooks. Fuzz did switch pivot both ways. We rolled on and ended up at the tall ledge by the engineering building. We did some nose stalls and front rocks before Fuzz’s had a palpitation. Scary stuff. We walked it off. Fuzz then had to take care of some other bodily issues so I skated flat for a minute. Worked on a tech line of sw 180, kickflip, b/s 180. Never got it. Fuzz joined up and I noticed a cop so we walked off, peeped some spots, saw Sean skating, chatted, then called it a night.

Go see Matt’s photos here. They cover the day better than my words will. It’s funny that my favorite full days of skating get such bad treatment in my journal because they was so much I can never remember everything. Especially when it takes me six days to start writing it. Anyways, we started at Northglenn. We were all tired. It was really hot. My arthritis wasn’t as bad though. We started working into our tricks after awhile. The only things I really remember were Joe ripping the ledges as he always does. Eric and I getting little scratch grinds in the deep end. Me getting a grind around the corner in the shallow. Greeley Eric showing up and destroying the bowl. Jeff arriving and slaying things. 360 flip the china gap then turn around and do it switch. Insane. Then we went to a weir brick bank spot that was really hard to skate. Jeff did a lot. Lazer, Joe and I got boardslides. Then it rained. We went to No Love warehouse. It was crowded and even though everyone there is super nice I didn’t skate really. Joe ripped the ledges. Jeff slammed, but still ripped it. Next was downtown denver. We hit a couple spots for a minute before ending at this weird ledge on top of a curb spot that ended up being way harder to skate then it looked. Joe did a ton. 50, 50-180, 5-0 180 (I think), tailslide, etc. It’s hard because you have to quick up the curb and get setup right away. Not easy for me. I got a front 50 (which took forever) and some front board pop outs. Dan got tech and did a front board to hurricane. I tried a long line of 3 flip, nose manny, front board pop out. Never got all of them together. Then we hit this weird two stair spot. Dan did a line with 43 shifty, manual front 180 out. Joe did a couple tricks down. I did a front shove down. Tried to get kickflip up, b/s flip off, but struggled with the kickflip up too much. Not really sure what we did after this for awhile. Hit the jersey barrier for a minute. Hit the bank to curb for a minute. Bombed a crazy parking garage ramp right before getting to the car that hyped me up so much. It had a weird drop near the end and I think I accidently cleared it. Ha. Anyways, the fremont dudes are the best to skate with. Had so much fun. Legs needed a few days to recover ..

Oh man I was so sore/tired from skating Denver so late the night before. We went to Arvada park after a nice big breakfast. I waited to long to update this so remember all that went down is virtually impossible. Luckily Matt took about a million photos which are RIGHT HERE. See, that’s better than my boring words! Um, where to begin. Oh, well for starters the city was there trying to make the park as clean as possible for their big grand opening party and they were spraying water everywhere. So stupid. We skated the bank to curb a lot. We skated that whole area the most I think. My arthritis/hot pocket pain was kind of intense preventing motivation to ollie/land tricks. Brian, Neil and Lazer showed too. Some dude doing pivot fakie on the big blue thing said “I couldn’t live my life without skate socks”. That was funny. Since this is my journal I’ll just say what I was happy about. Front d the bank to curb. Front 50 the rainbow ledge. Noseslide the rainbow ledge.

GO LOOK AT MATT’S PICTURES ALREADY. Next was little Arvada. That park RULES. I think I did 4 tricks first try I’ve never even tried before over the spine within 5 minutes of being there. halfcab 50 to fakie was one. back 50 stall which turns into front 50 then to fakie. Some other tricks. Had a blast here. Everyone killed it.

After lunch we went to Boulder ditch. Eric struggled for feeble to fakie and got it. Joe boardslid and front 50d the box. I struggled for front feeb on the qp and got it. Hyped. Next was the school out on Arapahoe where my body had basically given up. Dan got a cool manny trick. Joe got some bangers. Matt even manualled around in his cast. Really fun day.

My virtual friday. Had another unwanted early morning wake up and went to work around 6am. Had a relatively busy day, got off work, fell asleep at home for a few minutes, hung with the kids, played football with Ollie then headed to Crisis to meet Fuzz and crew. We rolled to Denver as the Fremont, NE dudes rolled to Denver. We had a shorter drive. Ha. Connor, Blaine and Keenan were with us. We started out at a little flatbar on the corner of the art museum that I have never seen before. I was feeling really rusty and not up for committing to the 4″ tall rail. Fuzz and I didn’t do much. Keenan and Conor did. I want to skate that again. We rolled around the corner to the art museum main area that rules and surprisingly we lasted a quite a while. Blaine filmed Connor rip. Keenan ripped. Fuzz ripped it too regardless of what he says. He had a few easy front 50s on a tall ledge. I was still feeling really weird on a skateboard. Managed a few noseslides, ollies onto benches (yes those are tricks to me) and almost ollied a narrow bench (I think I would have committed had it not been for how dark it was). We eventually got the boot, Connor might have even been mad and went across to the Library which ended up being fun. We did slappy 50s to start, some wallrides to fakie, fakie wallrides. Then I came up with a brilliant line for somebody good, aka Fuzz. Nosebonk a bench then wallride fakie. Good work Fuzz. Keenan also busted out a good line. I managed to do a line badly that Connor did first try. Boardslide the short side of a bench then wallride fakie. We started dorking around setting our boards between the benches and running jumping on them to do nose/tailslide things. Eventually all four of us did it while Blain filmed it (Thanks to Keenan for taking the hard bench that involved too much tailslide). Past Civic to the grate manny pad. John joined us. We hit 7-11 for a refresher. Blaine filmed Conor work on a trick. Fuzz, John, Keenan did something else. I tried silly lines. Got one. Front 180 up the curb, halfcab flip, ollie onto the grate, ollie out, flatground kickflip moving slightly faster than normal, slam a 3 flip. Felt good. Then I joined the other dudes. Amazing how I can’t ollie 8″. John did some gap to front tails. Fuzz did something neat I can’t remember right now. Got the boot. Rolled out toward the convention center ledges. Fuzz ended up getting his sick downhill line as the Fremont heads rolled up! I managed my little gap to manny to most of the hill bomb first try too. Anyways, the Fremont dudes were here! Matt, Joe, Eric and Dan. Some of the best dudes ever. They had been in the car for 6+ hours so took a bit to get warmed up. Except Joe who called out runs immediately. Back board pop out, no comply 180, fakie big. I would eventually get it, but it was after he already did another line of boneless a manhole then front board pop out (which I also got somehow). John was ripping. Noseslide shoves, front shove revert, sw front nose. Fuzz threw down the sal flipish tailslide trick. Dan showed off casper flips. Then we went to this nearby bump or maybe just two cracks with slight angles between them. Conor did back 360 no comply first try all perfect. I went for the f/s version of it and almost accidentally did 540. That would have been funny. I tried boneless 360 and my arthritis feeling hot pocket pain kicked in so I rested a bit as did others. Joe rattled off a bunch of tricks. John went for a sick line of front shove, 3 flip, wallride. Almost got it. So sick. I failed at no comply front shoves. Some dude threw stuff out of a high story window. Strippers argued in the parking lot. The city rules. Got home around 2am. Was skating by 10:31 the next day …

Woke up at 5:00 am, worked, took a brief nap then picked up Rob/Neil and headed toward Crisis for the safeway ledges. Neil was Neil and killed it out of the gate. Ollies over boxes right away, front 50, front lip, front tail on the ledge, halfcabs over boxes. Struggled with back crooks. Rob hasn’t been able to skate much lately, but decided to get his skate feet back by doing tricks like front nose 270 out and cab front nose. Wowsers. Struggled with switch boardslides for awhile, but banged out a good one. I was struggling big time in the beginning and couldn’t ollie a simple little crate. About the time Neil was wrapping things up I started to feel good. I got a grip of ledge tricks total. Back crooks, back noseslide, noseslide fakie, back 50, front 50, front 50 shove, front 50 front 180 out, front crooks jib to fakie, kickflip back 50 (a few of these!), front 5-0, front 5-0 shove (took a long time, but the one I got felt so good) and lastly a front 5-0 front 180 which I am the most hyped on as I haven’t done it in forever. Other tricks I was hyped on was kickflipping the little crate, an ollie over the tall box and not being at a skatepark.

This is shaping up to be another good internet part week. This one blows me away. Metal, fast skating, sketchy spots, I love it.

Man this part hypes me up so much I might even push twice before doing tricks tonight.

Was up at my mom’s in Buena Vista for most of the weekend. Drove down in the afternoon, got home, played football with Ollie for awhile then met up with Fuzz, Neil, Dean and Lester in the Louisville Tech Center area. First spot was the OG ledge / junk spot. Fuzz and I arrived first and we were slow to start. It was fun, we were totally just dorking. Neil showed up. We moved a big metal rack so we could skate it which was fun. We all did some 50s. We all got some boardslide transfers up onto the loading dock. I did a couple super slow bluntslides. Neil and Fuzz put a metal shelf thing out to ollie. Neil had it every try. Fuzz crooked the corner of it and manual bonked it. I rode by it. Things were starting to heat up a little when we got the boot from a nice and respecting cop. That’s always nice when police are cool.

We went over the blue angle bar. Dean showed up. Everyone did boardslides down the end to begin. Neil added a lot more with lines that included front boards, front shoves, no complies, ollies and probably 20 other tricks. Fuzz did halfcab boardslide, nollie front lip. Dean had halfcab noseslide. I tried a run of no comply 180, fakie flip, sw boardslide, but never got them all and was too embarrassed about my pushing/slow speed anyway. After awhile everyone was doing a flatground trick then trying something up. Neil battled b/s flips for awhile and when he got it bailed the sw front 180. That sounds like something I would do. He had some bluntslides up and a sick ollie onto it, then no comply out. Dean was working on 360 flips and getting so close. So close that he landed it, rolled a few inches then wilson’d hard. Ouch. It’s so rad to see an upper 30 year old learn 3 flips though. Get it Dean! I mixed up a few flatground tricks, halfcab flips both ways, heelflips and managed a decent for me crooks pop out up it. I don’t remember what trick I did before it. Once I slammed and put my fingers up in the grate. Not good. My fingers survived though. Fuzz wasn’t in a flip trick mood. He had some fun looking 180 slides and sw 180s though, nollie front 180, sw front shoves. The session kinda fizzled out and we talked about Four for awhile before calling it. Fun times, good to see Neil out after 5 pm.