Easily the coldest day of the season so far and the wind was howling.  Not an ideal day for skating at all.  But Bernie and I rolled out from Boulder and met up with Derek, Aaron, Fuzz and some of the new Crisisish kids.  After some business the first spot was the gnarly bank spot basically right across the street.  Fuzz kicked it off with an ollie over two rebar beams, some thread the needle carving went down, Derek did a crazy ollie to fakie over the beams and Bernie did a crazy manual to thread the needle.  I didn’t land a single thing.Next up was a spot Fuzz and I will refer to as Yellow Curbs from here on out.  Such a sick parking garage spot protected from the wind.  Unfortunately business was still in session and we didn’t last real long.  Everyone, but me, did some rad manuals though and I managed to do several frontside slappies even though I’ve only done that trick a couple times before that.Last spot was the old Broomfield Ledges spot and the wind was in full effect as the sun set making it ridiculously cold.  No one had their winter mentallity in effect yet, but we all skated.  Most everyone there can easily get into manuals or nose manuals.  I was having troubles just ollie’ing up the stupid ledge.  I tried to wallie up it and kept hanging up.  Fuzz manualed it pretty quick.  Derek , Bernie and one of the kids nose mannied it.  Derek almost got nose manny nollie heel out and nose manual b/s pivot to switch manual.  Bernie almost got manny treflip out.  Aaron kickflipped up it.  I came somewhat close to a line of ollie up, no comply 180, sw f/s 180 off.  Near the end we were kinda dorking around.  Fuzz did ollie over the corner and stopper to noseslide.  We both got rock transfer around the corner.  Then we were dorking with stalls for awhile.  I got a rock shove out, b/s rock, front smith bail to hit my bad knee, and tried f/s smith stalls with kickflips out (never got close).  We had a way better time than we should have considering the weather.

Another photo from the summer from Bernie.  No comply grab into the bank.  The setup for that spot is so hard.  It’s about 8 feet long and narrow due to cracks/obstacles on the top.  Fun spot though.  This was from July 5.

Albert Nyberg. Not to be confused with Norberg from Naked Gun.

Solo Rampy session.  Nothing that great.  I was super tired from tossing and turning all night for no reason then having to work at 7:00am.  I treid a bunch of fakie front smiths and only landed one lame one.  Then I slammed and called it a night.  New shoes feel good on Rampy.  I did a couple kickflips on flat and they felt great.After I got back inside I took my shoes off and realized I had both sets of my custom insoles in my shoes.  So two in each shoe.  Pretty funny.

Another perfect late fall day.  Chilly, but in the lower 50s.  Liz was out on a hike and Jake wanted to skate so we skated flatground in front of the house for awhile.  We started out doing our own things for awhile.  Jake had some 4 of 5 trick lines.  I struggled, but was having fun.  After awhile we played a game of SKATE.  He got me on treflip and frontside flip.  I got him with halfcab flips, fakie varial flip, heelflip and ended it with a first time in a game double flip.  Hyped.  Before Jake left we had a quick race to 3 360flips for a root beer.  I put the first two down, but took awhile to get the third.  Jake got two as well so it was close.Next I went to Southern Hills again, but with Neil, Derek, Matt and his friend Ian.  My legs were so ridiculously sore initially.  I kinda warmed up, did a few things I’ve done there a lot of times and then retired to being filmer guy.  Go Null.

Super exhausted from a late night of shows and getting home to a very sick Ollie making weird noises, crying and holding his throat. That went on for awhile keeping me up until 4am or so. Ugh. After chilling with Ollie for awhile, trying to repair my laptop and watching the Habitat video twice I went to Southern Hills solo as the rest of TF had gone to Fort Collins. I brought a bunch of wax, waxed up the ledges real good and felt like going right to work trying lines and I ended up only trying lines the whole time. The first one was backside noseslide, slappy front tail on the curb, back boardslide, kickflip. That didn’t take long. I chose to alternate between b/s on the benches and f/s on the benches. So the next line was frontside. Really bad front board, really bad slappy back tail on the curb, front 50. Backside crooks, no comply 180, horrible halfcab noseslide. It’s crazy how tight this spot feels when your trying lines like this. Next one took a awhile. Front 50 front 180 out, f/s halfcab flip, no slide front nose to fakie. Backside noseslide to fakie, b/s halfcab flip, back 50. The back 50 took several tries and was seriously horrible. It was one of those 90 degree in, grind less then a foot and desperately try to land on the board. But landing the back 50 was probably my favorite trick of the day because of how few times I’ve landed that on benches. Last line took forever and I was so tired. Frontside noseslide, treflip, front 50 front shove out. The front noses were horrid. I cannot do that trick to forward so I was jibbing the last bit of the bench. My standards were low for the day as it was just a solo session, but even with the bar so low I turned around and started over sometimes. I’m so jealous of Jason’s. Anyways I tried this run for awhile and when I did make it to the front 50 part I could never get on the bench so I switched ledge tricks. A few tries later I did it. Front 50 shove, 360 flip, bad bad front noseslide. I was hyped though. I sat for awhile feeling so so tired. I noticed that I cracked my board at some point and there was a hole in the bottom of my front shoe. Sweet.

Before heading to see Zach’s band then Henry Clay People I skated Rampy for abit. For whatever reason I thought of trying back 50s to rock fakie. I never would commit to fakie. Carleigh showed up with a few minutes before we had to go. I got a back 50 to rock ‘n roll, but not to fakie. In the same run I got a fakie pivot fakie so I called it. Carleigh got quite a few of her basics too.

Bernie took this photo awhile ago. I really am surprised at how weird my kickflips look. I seriously had no idea I do a reverse superman thing with my arms. It’s kinda depressing.

Kid duty for me as Liz was going to a movie with a friend later. I had one of those days at work where I didn’t stretch for some lame reason, but I gabbed my board pretty much right away and went to it. Seeing as how it was rush hour there was a lot of people driving by the house which messed up my tempo a bit, but kinda let me rest too. Kickflips took a few tries. That’s not cool. After a good 20 minutes of sucking things started working out and I tried some tricks I hadn’t since the knee bruise. Treflip, double flip, nollie treflip, b/s flip, halfcab flips. I did most of them, but not in lines like I was trying. I tried one line one way of halfcab flip, treflip then heelflip. I had the most trouble with the heelflip. Ugh. The other way I was trying front shove, double flip, nollie treflip, but never got the double flip until Bernie showed up to drop off some footage and I snapped one in front of him to remind him who’s boss. Blah, I’m joking of course, but he was hyped. That’s the first double flip I’ve landed not wearing the IPath Stash shoe.

Had such a fun time after dinner playing Beatles Rock Band, then was supposed to have a chill little cello performance from India that went south. She freaked out and two hours later, lots of crying, me putting on a comedy act and lots of patience I was free for a few minutes. I was pretty beat and opted out for a quick Rampy session. I had watched a few more parts from the new Habitat video (Silas slays!) and was more motivated than I thought. For a few minutes anyways. I had wanted to try blunt to pivot and after some decent runs I started trying it. I never got a decent one. All were to 50 50 and I touched the wall on all of them. Oh well.