New video and today’s song of the day.  Such a funny video.

Needed to bring some Null goods to 303 and I got off work early so I brought Ollie and his buddy Sam to the Zuni park knowing there is a “kids” section and it would be fun for them.  It was really hot out, but no one was there really so we cruised around.  I was skating like total crap since I hadn’t got my old man nap after work and was really groggy.  Ollie took to ripping pretty quickly.  He did an accidental back 5-o on the little qpipe and then started trying them on purpose and landed everyone of them I saw him try.  If only he would stop pushing mongo.  Sam learned how to drop in and do rock fakies.  Those two had so much fun cruising around that park.  They would ride down the double 2 stairs, push, ride through the little bowl and then ollie into the grass and tumble down the hill.  Being a kid must rule.  Being old kinda sucks, I was stuck in a rut of trying a long line in which I would probably not even land on a good day: Ollie a little ledge, kickflip on flat, treflip on flat, ollie up the euro 5 stair, roll in to the 4 foot section.  Technically I did all the tricks, but definitely not in one line.  Ollieing up the 5 stair felt awesome and the roll in made me laugh for being afraid of it earlier on.  At the end of the session I tried back disasters for awhile on the tiny qpipe and landed a couple.  Rad, I’ve never done that trick before.  I followed it with a front feeble and we left.

Met Carleigh at Meta with the intention of skating campus after doing some business.  But instead Lazer and Jake showed up and suggested Red Curbs.  A covered parking garage on a perfect night?  So be it.  It ended up being fun of course, because when is Red Curbs not fun?  Lazer looked good with a shaved head and skated fast as usual and landed most tricks he tried.  Lipslides, tailslides, switch mannies.  Jake had lipslides too and was working on bluntslides and front 180 nose manuals.  Carleigh looked really tired again and although I thought she was landing most of her kickflips she said at the end of the session that she didn’t.  She may have got some mannies too.  I skated ok.  Was enjoying slappy front tails and trying front lips, but that trick hates me.  I tried back 5-o’s for awhile, but never got one.  Front 180 nose mannies were hard for me too, I got 1 out of 15.  At the end I finally got a manny to grind and then right as I got in my car I remembered I hadn’t landed a double flip yet so I tried one and landed what may have been my best double flip yet.  Sweet.

Song of the day and who knows, maybe even song of the year.

John picked me up a bit before 8 and we went to Broomfield on a beautiful night.  Neil and Fuzz were already there and Carleigh and Jason showed up a few minutes later.  Things got started with a blue box little qp session.  I was super exhausted for some reason and warming up was difficult.  Fuzz got to ripping pretty quick.  Switch pivot fakie on the qp, fakie 5-0 on the blue ledge.  John nose mannied down the angled ledge, no comply 270 back tail front big out!  I got a front feeble that was fun and a kickflip 5-0 to funny fall off, no comply 270 back tail that slid for a few inches and a nose manual on the blue box.  Then John, Fuzz and I played a long game of SKATE that I won.  Tricks I was happy to land were b/s flip, halfcab flip, fakie var flip and the winner fakie bigflip.  I couldn’t get my new trick double flip and I didn’t get close at a treflip.Then we skated around.  I saw Carleigh get a front shove out of the bank, Jason do a million front boards down the rail, manual the black box and pivots to fakie on the brick qp, John ollie the rail into the bank, ollie over the corner of the wallride into the bank.  Fuzz ripped and tried kickflip manuals up the step up, but never quite got it.  I did some f/s flips on the mellow bank at the top then manualed the black box and eventually tried to ollie over the tiny rail.  Jason showed me how easy it was and after a few tries I committed, but hadn’t gotten it.  Jason back 180’d it in a few tries so I had to get his back and finally landed the ollie.  So hyped.  I have never ollied any downhill rail into a bank before.  That was fun.  At the end I managed to manual the micro mini first try (never even tried it before) and landed a couple 2mpg double flips.   Slow start for me, but fun session.

I was super tired for some reason and didn’t feel like leaving to go skate, but I also didn’t want to have a sick day.  Thanks Rampy.  For some reason I thought of Lazer doing front smith to 50s and decided to try it.  I didn’t do much of anything else and it took me about 20 minutes to finally land one.  If nothing else I think it helped my front smiths.

Business in the front ..Man I hope these things don’t catch on.

I don’t get how kids these days can have every trick in their bag.

After a long day of listing stuff on ebay, taking the kids swimming at The Bay in Broomfield and having a nice dinner with Liz I wanted to go skating.  Carleigh was at the Broomfield park, but I didn’t want to drive back there again so I just went over to the Table Mesa shopping center for what turned out to be a totally awesome session.I started out behind King Soopers at the crazy downhill sidewalk with the two stair at the end.  It took me a few tries to even ride off it, but then I started scoping out a different way to hit it in a line and had a blast.  I started out trying ollies on the nearby sidewalk bump, riding down the sidewalk and ollieing the 2 stair then manualling the crappy manny pad down below.  At one point I landed a gap and barely made the corner and did an accidental powerslide.  That felt amazing.  Then I started trying kickflips on the bump which was hard because the landing was downhill and had a bad crack.  I eventually got a few kickflips and followed one up with the whole run.  So fun.  After slamming on the King Soopers 3 stair I ended up at the long flat gap by the auto store.  It took me a bunch of tries but I ollied it and that felt great too.  Next up I ollied the umbrella stand at the cafe that I’ve ollied a few times.  I tried a taller one, but since it’s six inches taller it’s basically a mountain and I failed.  Last part of the evening was spent doing a few flippers at slow speeds.  I did front shove, heelflip, 3 flip, another double flip, nollie shove and came close to a few nollie flips.  Fun night.  Street skating is the best.