Just couldn’t take not pushing anymore. NoLove and Rampy are a blast, but I was really missing pushing around, doing ollies, flatground, etc. So around 8pm I parked on 9th next to the back stair entrance and walked down to the bottom level avoiding any security sightings. Sweet. It was still super cold down there though and there were cars or puddles by every skateable blue curb. After pushing around for a few minutes I started skating some flat which felt pretty foreign. I found an orange cone after awhile and set it up to ollie over. It was one of those medium height ones, so not super easy for me, but not tall. I ollied it a bunch of times and tried to get some good lines with it. My favorite being the sw front 180, kickflip and then ollie over the cone with more speed than normal. I think I also did a halfcab flip then front 180 over it. I was trying a line of ollie over the cone, treflip, nollie treflip, but never got close. Mainly because I sketched one of the ollies and landed in the middle of the board and put my foot through it. Doh. Happy to have skated and looking forward to a new board, shoes and wheels. Ha.

Some people you don’t even have to know very well to know they are amazing. Every memory I have of Scotty is a smile. Best wishes to his family, I cannot imagine the pain they are going through.

Everything about this one is amazing. The filming, editing, skating and especially Jimmy Carlin killing it with the jump rope.Also amazing.

Another cold day. This winter is sucking. I put the space heater on and Carleigh came over and we skated pretty hard. I had worked all night the night before so was still pretty out of it. Carleigh raised the bar pretty early on trying a line of back 50, feeble, feeble fakie, fakie disaster, some setups, a front d and almost once added a kickflip rock to fakie in there too. I tried to keep pace and tried a line of 5-0 to fakie, fakie pivot to fakie, fakie pivot to fakie (frontside). I got it, but it was horrible. I skated decent. Did most of my tricks pretty quick, had some longer lines and ended it with a front tail that didn’t take 500 tries.

Pretty much exhausted and not that motivated to skate so just went out to Rampy on another super cold day. Carleigh joined and we had a pretty uneventful session. Carleigh actually skated pretty good and she learned fakie disasters. I failed at front feebles and front 5-0s to fakie, but finally did a fully decked rock ‘n roll on the short deck side. Not as hard as I thought it would be.

The snow almost held off long enough to skate outside, but it didn’t. I picked up Jack, Max, Davis and Jacob at Meta and we went to Red Curbs. The snow had blown in and things were pretty wet so it wasn’t as open and awesome as normal. The nice thing about skating with young’ins is they don’t really care. Everyone skated kinda slow and tried to stay on the dry patches. Davis rattled off a bunch of ledge tricks on the taller curb. Jacob did manuals and dorked around as I guess he was really tired. Max tried a bunch of crazy tricks. Jack was hyped to skate again as it’s been awhile and he had the excited skater steez. The line with the fakie hurricane was awesome. I skated decent. Especially considering the last night. Tricks I was hyped on were kick back 50, fakie nosegrind on the ledge, crooks pretty consistently on the ledge, slappy lipslide that took a long time, front lip pulled to fakie on accident (for once I didn’t go over the corner to get into the lip). Fun session. Later on we went to the No Love clubhouse. I didn’t skate though, just watched Bernie’s video premiere then people rip the place.

After dinner and before going to Pete’s to see Black Dot’s (John’s band) I hit the garage for a bit before Brian showed up. I was landing my Rampy tricks pretty quickly and when I would bail I would try a different flip trick. Rarely landing any of the flippers, but having fun. Brian showed up about the time I had settled into trying front 5-0s to fakie. I’ve never done it before. Brian was dressed in a cute sweater and didn’t want to get it dirty so he was playing it conservative. It’s weird seeing Brian bail tricks instead of falling on his hip. He skated and had fun and encouraged me to finally get the front 5-0 to fakie before leaving. Rad!I wish I would have taken photos at Pete’s. The show was super fun and we raged hard.

eS is building such a sick team of street skaters.

#1 on my list of bands I want to see currently.