Another chilly night, slightly warmer then the last. Jake called me and suggested Broomfield which we haven’t been to in awhile. Sounded good to me so we rolled there. Fuzz was sick we heard so it was just Jake and I. When we arrived at the park there was only 3 other dudes there. All in flannels and beanies of course. It’s the mandatory uniform you know. Jake and I were hip of course except we didn’t realize Nikes were mandatory. All them kids had the Janoski shoe. Ugh, don’t you kids realize that Nike sucks! Later on two more dudes would show up. One decided to go against the norm with a hoodie, but of course made up for it with Nikes. So lame.Anyways, time for the shredding.  Jake and I started with a game of SKATE on the quartapotty.  Jake pink slipped me, but we both landed quite a bit of tricks.  After that we played flatground SKATE.  I took this one.  I think Jake was spelling  SKATER though because  I got him with b/s flip, varial flip, 360 flip, heelflip, fakie bigflip and f/s halfcab flip.  After that we did cruised around for awhile doing our own thing.  I saw Jake ollie the six stair a few times.  I was feeling a bit to cold for that.  I settled in to trying a line which took a long time.  f/s flip on the hump above the corner in the bowl, back 50 on the black ledge, then front 50 shove on the black ledge.  I struggled with the f/s flip for awhile.  I started sinking into that depression mode again, but stuck with it and eventually started landing them most tries.  The back 50s were almost every try, some would go into back 5-0 and I’d stick with it.  The front 50 shove took longer than it should.  But when I did get the line it felt great.  Solid f/s flip, locked into a perfect back 5-0, then front 50 shove.  Stoked.  Jake was working on a run of f/s flip on the bump too, manual the black ledge, fakie front 50 on the black ledge.  Not sure if he got the whole thing, but he did get the fakie 50 and came out fakie which he’s never done before.  Rad.  At the end I went through the typical take 100 tries just to ollie the little rail into the bank.  I don’t know why that’s so damn scary to me.  Anyways I got it, but still ended up riding into the grass.  At the very end it started snowing, but I wanted to do halfcab crooks on the little blue ledge.  I got super frustrated as the snow started making the concrete and my grip too slick.  Ugh.  Kind of a bummer to end it like that, but it was a fun session overall.

Talk about inspiring.

I love the extra pushes, the crappy skatepark footage, everything. And I can’t believe Supra has him on the flow program while Antwuan has a pro shoe. Ridiculous.

A pretty chilly January night. Probably in the mid 20s when we started, lower 20s or less when we finished. Ugh. I didn’t bother with the multiple layers and went right for a jacket. Warming up was not fun and surprisingly the park wasn’t totally empty. Collin and Sean were there ripping. Derek was already ripping too. Carleigh went to work on noseslides pretty quick on the bump to ledge and landed most of the ones I saw. I didn’t see a first try noseslide shove however. She tried them in a line with a manual on the little manny pad up top too. Derek was skating the vert bowl so we joined him. He did kickflip to fakie, but well under coping. I finally dropped in the shallow section and survived a carve. It ended up being pretty fun and I’d like to skate it more. Carleigh skated it for a bit too.  And by a bit I mean one run and one kickturn.  Ha.  Derek also did full cab, halfcab and ollie to fakie (while yelling) below vert.  Still sick though.  I kinda went into a frustration period for awhile.  There are so many things I wish I could do at that park first try just flowing around.  I never land anything though.  Other than a faster than normal noseslide down the hubba the only things I was hyped on was things I hadn’t done there before.  Horrible ollie over the perfect rounded hip in the collision course, kinda close to manualling the way to tall pier 7 replica, and at the end finally nose manualling the little manny pad.  I really am bad at skateboarding and this place really brings it out.  Derek on the other hand is really good at skateboarding and it shows at this park.  Endless lines.  Fakie flip on the gnarly stone bank, treflip fakie on the extension in the little bowl, nosegrind down the hubba, kinda close to front board b/s flip out on the flatbar, etc.  He is hilarious too. All in all I skated like crap, but left the park in a decent mood and I wasn’t too sore.

Just kidding of course. Only posting this as a reference to this entry as I was hyped to get kickflip manual and nose manual at this spot.

I was pretty tired after such a late night the evening before skating Fuzz’s red curb to the wee hours of the night.  Ollie and I stopped by Borders to pick up a Looney Tunes DVD he wanted to buy with his allowance then drove off with no place to skate in mind.  We ended up near Foothills and Valmont in the industrial park.  We saw a fun looking speed bump and that was enough to get us out of the car.  It had been warmer out earlier, but now it was getting colder and windy.  Not cool.  We did have fun though.  We cruised around a few buildings never skating anything too long and having fun the whole time.  Ollie had some front boardslide transfers on parking blocks.  He slid them for a bit then would stop and dance on the board for awhile before transferring over.  So sick.  He tried a few back boards and slid out laughing.  I had some ollies and kickflips over the speed bump, some poses at kickflip front board on a parking block, front lips that stuck, a really bad hurricane.  We skated this long 3 stair where Ollie rode down by manualling the top stair.  So crazy.  It was spaced just perfect so that the front wheels would barely land before going off the next stair.  I wanted to ollie to the last stair, but it was too scary for the time being and I resorted to an ollie to pivot the turned in.  We skated this hill for a little bit into slippery new asphalt that was really fun to powerslide.  Ollie hung out in this medium between curbs and was rotating on his back wheels to nose stall back and forth from one side to the other.  It was so rad.  At the end of the session Ollie did a back 180 down a 2 stair (captured by the awesome camera in my work cell phone) and I ollied from the little kicker by the rocks in the photo over the two stair.  It was harder than it looks.  Fun, mellow session.  Went home after that and watched football and napped.  Go Packers!

Then nothing will. Busenitz rips!

Saturday! It was supposed to be 58 and sunny, but when I first woke up and looked outside it was cloudy and flurrying. So lame. That kinda brought my mood down a bit. Eventually it was a little nicer out and Carleigh, Jake and I went to meet Lazer in Longmont. Only he had left Longmont by the time we got there. We pulled into Rocky Mtn Elementary and it was windy and not very warm. Ugh. I had done what every poser does to make them feel better after a session like I had the last time I skated. I setup a new board. To complete the series I had a brand new Start Choppin’ board. It felt really good. Warming up was pretty funny. We all were sucking. Carleigh had the only valid excuse having not been able to skate much lately due to her foot injury. At one point Jake bailed a kickflip, Carleigh bailed a pop shove and I bailed a halfcab. Pretty epic. Carleigh kept at a run of ollie’ing a sidewalk section then doing noseslides on the ledge. She started trying them to fakie claiming she’s never done them before and got a few of them. Jake may have gotten a front tailslide, front 50 and lots of kickflips. For some reason I started with front board pop outs and got one kinda quick. I tried a run of halfcab flip then front 50 and got that. Coming the other way I was dropping in then doing noseslides. I tried crooks too, but never got a real one. It was a quite session for sure. I tried to manual the round ledge/flagpole thing and may have done that once. I got a line I was kind of happy about dropping into the long narrow ledge, 360 flip then front 50. I managed a back 50 at one point too and tried to back it with nollie treflip, but never landed a nollie tre.Next up we went to Dave Fuller’s amazingly fun ramp.Dave skated really good.  He has a huge bag of tricks and style so it’s always fun watching him skate.  He’s good enough that Brian and him had to debate trick names.Brian killed it too.  Kind of surprising after his first run which consisted of an odd looking dropin to full on slam on the first wall.  He busted out the sugarcane in less than 5 tries which rules because he worked super hard on it (huh huh I said ‘hard on’) last time we were there and came up short.No need to debate the trick here.  Axle stall.  Even though I was having fun I wasn’t skating too well.  My basics were ok, but I had to work for anything more then that.  The front feeble on the metal coping side took forever as did the front disaster on the parking block side.Neil, Carleigh and Jake skated good too.  Neil had some long runs out of the gate which always amazes me.After the ramp session we went for a fun ride in Brian and Neil‘s new mini aka short bus.  It’s epic.  Super epic.  Click the photo for much more on Carleigh’s blog.  Can’t wait for a road trip in this one.Somehow Jack, Neil, Carleigh and I ended up at Crisis that evening to watch some skate videos.  Fuzz had had a few by the time we got there and an epic night was in store.  We drank some beers, watched Go Big Shred, Escapist and went spot lurking nearby.  After that things got crazy as Fuzz decided it was time to pop the red curb cherry.  Oh man!The grin on Fuzz’s face says it all. He was in rare form, just ask the bathroom floor.After Jack teased the curb for awhile Fuzz gave it a go. He didn’t want any ollie in action, just slappies. Funny thing is Fuzz apparently can’t do slappies. At least not several beers deep.I started giving frontside slappies a go. But this curb is totally square and not easy to slappy ..One of Fuzz’s finer quotes of the night after looking at the curb destruction. “No wonder people don’t like us skating their stuff.”And I landed one!The truck carnage was hilarious!There was pieces of paint, concrete and wax still on the truck.In between naps Neil managed his patented nose manual.Carleigh introduced the curb to slappy noseslides.And her board to the wall.Again, the grin says it all.Fuzz nose pick.Jack did a ton of tricks including a bluntslide over his wallet that he had just lost falling down.Which he did a lot ofWe went back to trying regular slappies. Jack was getting close when he unleashed the slappy willy.But then he did the real deal. Sick!And I got his back!Fuzz on the other hand.Wow, what a fun night. Thanks Fuzz. Rumor has it Fuzz stayed up and repainted the curb already. Ha. Guess we get to skate it for the first time again some time. Can’t wait. But seriously, such a fun night.Thanks for all the photos Carleigh! Go to her blog now and see many more photos.

Kinda like this kid.

And still RIPPING!