To celebrate David Letterman, Shannon Doherty and my birthday the family and I wanted to eat at Suki Thai.  Everyone was gonna bike there, but my tires were flat so I skated.  The bikepath there is really fun and fast.  I did a few ollies and even tried to manual the mellow pad at Willville once.  After dinner I did a few jibs then basically pushed switch the whole way home just to do it.  I can’t tell if it’s helping or hurting my left groin pain. Oh well, I’m closing in on 40 ..

Here’s a little montage that basically sums up the whole day.  All spots represented, everyone in the crew represented, my bad ollies represented, some humor in there, my son’s first shove it, much more and some good music too.  This day was the skate part of my birthday.  The other part was a mellow dinner with the family.  Hey, I’m old, I don’t want to party it up anymore.Some things to mention for the journal that aren’t in the clip ..Brian beat me in a game of bank SKATE on the little bank at the rollerblade park.  I did some lame kickflip variations while he did awesome one foot blunt tricks.Matt Warner filmed a wallie melon that was too good to be used in this clip.Shaun/Shawn/Sean also switch back heeled up the 3 stair.Watching Ollie land his first shove it was pretty neat.My camera ate the end of a tape that had a much better crooks on that escalator ledge.  Honestly, it’s true.

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What a day.  Woke up early and grouchy and never got out of the funk.  Went to the Llama farm with India for fix-it-up day.  I spent about 5 hours shoveling rocks and painting a barn.  Not fun and not easy on the body.  After a quick nap I picked up Nate and we went to the Safeway ledge.  It wasn’t in the best shape and I could tell Nate was feeling it initially.  I was sucking and totally exhausted.  After awhile we started to feel it though.  We hucked a bunch of tricks and landed some of them.  Nate did a first try nollie heel front nose jib.  I did a lot of tries kick back tail jib.  We put out a container to ollie over and Nate learned nosebonks then nosebonk front 180s.  So sick.  He did at least 20 180 nosebonks in a row.  I got a couple crooks, one back 50 that took forever, a couple front tails, a first try back 180 nosegrind jib and some fun and fast b/s noseslides.  I also tried a kick back 50 and accidently did a kick back 5-0 mongo push.  That was funny.  Nate got back smith, perfect back tail, back 180 nosegrind, and a bunch of fakie back tails.  He also nollie front 180’d the container thing.  So sick.  Both of us were tired and not skating our best, but it was fun.

Another super nice spring day.  Got home from work and hung out with the family and Liz’s parents.  We had some hot Wii golf action then went to Beaujo’s Pizza which took forever.  Great food, but the service was horrendous.  Oh well, they were busy.  Got home and skated Rampy for about 45 minutes.  Landed most of my Rampy tricks.  No new tricks, but I tried a bunch of switch heels on flat and got close.  Also tried a few madonnas I think.  I tried lien to tail and my foot kept coming off so I went with it.  Never got close, but it feels realistic.  One more day and I’ve skated a month solid.  Crazy.

Drove home from work totally exhausted thinking about how badly I wanted a nap, but I would be hanging with the family and Liz’s parents.  When I got home though no one was there.  Nap or skate?  Hmm.  Well, it was about 65 out so I decided I’d skate flat until they got home.  It ended up being about 20 minutes.  Kickflips were hard so I tried switch heels.  Didn’t get very close to switch heels though so I tried random stuff.  Got a couple 360 flips first, second, kind of third try (landed sideways but somehow rode away) and landed on a fourth, but bailed.  Everyone showed up so I did a fakie bigflip and called it a session.

After a night of playing basketball with Ollie, playing Clue with the family and inlaws, eating too much, working on a new null wheel graphic I went out to Rampy well after 10 pm for a short session.  I wasn’t very excited about it, but somehow I skated somewhat hard.  I tried and landed most of my Rampy tricks.  I tried a few front tailslides, landed one, got a fakie hurricane in the same run and went back inside to work on graphics.

I’m definitely starting to feel the effects of skating so many days in a row.  My legs feel totally shot and I am burnt out on making multiple phone calls to skate.  So I already feel bad for not calling Brian or Carleigh to skate with us.  Sorry.  Anyways, Bernie said it wasn’t windy in Longmont so I picked up Nate and then John and we got to the park shortly before 9pm.  A couple kids were there for a bit, but that was it.  We had the whole park to ourselves mostly.  My warming up sucked.  Like I said, my legs are shot.  Bernie, Nate and John were ripping through.  Nate rattled off like 20 tricks on the ledge.  John can so slappy switch noseslides bigspin out.  So sick.  One thing good that came out of the first hour for me was switch heel attempts.  They were super close.  So close that I was committing and getting one foot on a lot of the time.  Man I’d be hyped to land that trick and I can’t even believe it’s flipping after so many years of not getting close at all.  Thanks for the foot placement tips Jack!After awhile John had Bernie film a line of 3 flip, no comply 180, halfcab flip, ollie the hip, b/s flip on the flatbank, but totally shattered his deck on the b/s flip.  Doh!  He still cruised around on Bernies filmer board though.  Bernie and I tried some lines.  I was trying tiny ollie over the hip, b/s flip on the flat bank, crooks the ledge, front 50 shove out the ledge.  Finally got it.  Bernie backed me up with a real ollie, f/s flip on the bank, nose grind, kick back tail to fakie and like 10 flip tricks.  So sick.  Nate got a bunch of back lips, 20 other tricks and a few b/s 5-0s front shove out.  I got a front nosegrind and came close to halfcab crooks.Last part of the session was on the q-pipe without coping.  I got a front tail and rolled in.  Nate got a bunch of front lips and rolled in.  We both also wallied up the ledge.   Bernie did a front tail from the q-pipe onto the ledge then off into the hip.  Sick!  Fun session.  Hope I land a switch heel at some point.

Wow!  The opening line alone is like one minute of total awesomeness and it just keeps getting better.

Went to Meta after some basketball with Ollie to sell some Null stuff.  Talked with Sam and Carleigh forever before Sam finally kicked us out and we rolled on campus for a bit.  Since I broke my last board I had a new Game Over deck and some Spitfire Busenitz wheels.  I’m testing those too because I supposedly might be able to get something similar to the F1 Spitfire urethane.  Who knows.  Cruising down the hill into campus felt way faster than normal.  Probably mostly the new wheels, but also not having flat spotted wheels for the first time in a really long time.  We got down the the flat gap area and I tried a cali grind and ate shit pretty hard.  I guess I was going faster than I thought.  Ha.  We moved on to the super mellow bank to mini curb where we ended up having a good time.  Carleigh learned front pivots, front tail and back axle to fakie.  Rad!  I got a few tricks I reserve for spots like this.  Front pivot fakie, back and front nosepicks fakie, back tail and a trick I’ve never done before – front pivot, front 270 out.  Cool.  At one point we got approached by the ol’ “My skateboard is broken can I try yours?” kinda dude.  Normally I don’t even allow it to happen ever, but for some reason I let him.  Wow, he looked awkward on a skateboard.  He couldn’t even stand on my board without wobbling all over the place.  It was funny.   On the way back we hit a little gap off a narrow ledge and it took us each a couple tries, but it was fun.  Warmer weather ist awesome.