Dumb intro, but wow, somebody watch PJWHL a lot!

After a nice Easter breakfast and morning with the family I picked Jack up at his place on a very nice day.  We went to Meta to meet Neil, but he had already left so we went to his place to pick him up and swooped up Jake on the way.  We ended up at a super mellow bank to curb with some other stuff around it.  Neil ollied a little wall and some buckets super good.  Jack got a front pivot kickflip out on the bank to curb.  Jake got some pivots both ways and tried blunts.  I got a front tail stall back shove out and a front pivot to fakie.  Hyped on both of those.  Jack and Neil went and checked out a nearby loading dock.  I guess Jack did a wallie late shove out of it.  Near the end of the session Jack did a bunch of weird blunt to nosepick variations, slammed super awkward attempting to kickflip a long 4 stair and some other cool tricks on the bank to curb.  Neil tried nosepicks, but couldn’t get them.  I couldn’t get kick back tails or nosepicks either.Lazer showed up and we went over to the nearby metal ledge.  Jake, Neil and I aren’t the best at back 50s, but we all got a few.  Neil and I tried crooks, but didn’t get them.  Lazer did some good back 50s and Jack ripped it.  back 50 big front 180 out, back 5-0 back 180, back 5-0 back bigspin.  Sick.  Then we put a desk after part of the loading dock and Jack put on a mini demo.  Pretty much everything first or second try.  Front lip, front 5-0, back 5-0, back nosegrind, back 5-0 front shove out, kick back 5-0.  So sick.  Neil was ollieing onto it easily.  Lazer put down a few tricks including a nose manual accidental airwalk out.  I was sucking super bad and couldn’t ollie onto the ledge.  Ugh.  So I tried it in a run.  Kickflip off a bump, no comply finger flip on flat, ollied on to the desk and rolled off.  I was terrified of that.  I had to bring Jake to work so I left for a bit with Jack and after dropping off Jake we loaded up on water.  Yum.We then went to a new bank to curb spot that Jason had seen.  It was such a sick looking spot.  The curb was rough though.  We wasted a few candles on it, but it still barely slid.  Somehow I did a few stalls on it.  First try alley oop no comply to back tail, front smith,  front board 270 in.  Jason was killing it.  Back pivot, back smith and some hurricane variation.  Jack kickflipped over the curb into the bank super easy.  Lazer switch ollied in like nothing.  It took Neil and I a few tries to ollie in which we were both kind of embarrassed about.  Jason also front and back 180’d in.  I eventually front 180’d in moving 2 mph.  After awhile Jason and I started trying lines and I ended up getting a ton.  Ollie a water bottle, ollie into the bank.  360 flip, ollie the water jug, front 180 into the bank.  Then we waxed up a weird nearby ledge that landed kind of in a bank near a big pile of snow and crusty dirt and other crap that was plowed in there.  Jack was the first to get a boardslide on it which was harder than it looked.  Jason and I followed.  Then I started trying lines to the boardslide and ended up having the time of my life.  I  got a fakie bigflip, back shove, boardslide pretty quick.  Then halfcab flip, kickflip, boardslide.  At one point Jack got back 50 and back crooks too.  I kept going.  Also got front shove, bad 360 flip (I’m scare of doing that trick on downhill), boardslide.  Fakie flip, halfcab flip, boardslide.  And the last line was kickflip a manhole, solid 360 flip then the best boardslide of the night. That run made me soooo happy.  It felt amazing.   Since my board was cracked, chipped and razor tailed, I called it a day and focused it.  Well, Jack did most of the damage.  Such an insanely fun run to end a fun day.

This is pretty ridiculous.  Everything in it is sick, but Matt Miller wow.  Nollie heel noseblunt and the 3 flip are bonkers.

On a very windy day I brought Ollie and his buddy Sam out skating.  I had some new shoes.  Yeah yeah I know, I only had those Circa’s for a bit and the DC’s are mall shoes.  Well, those Circa’s were very thin and I skated them everyday for two weeks.  The DC shoes are really good.  I wish I could have worn them longer to break them in, but oh well.We went to Southern Hills.  Pushing hurt more than it should have initially.  I have some type of problem going on with my left groin.  Probably due to skating so much and rarely pushing switch.  I dorked around for awhile trying to push switch to loosen up.  It was kinda fun and the new shoes were feeling decent.  Ollie and Sam were having fun cruising down the little sidewalk that leads into the courtyard of the school.  Ollie was going really fast.  Pushing as hard as he could (mongo of course) and trying manuals down the handicap ramp.  He eventually did the whole thing without a scrape.  He also tried front boards on one of the benches, but never really got anything more than the front wheels up on it.  I settled in to trying a couple lines.  Coming down I would try cali grind, noseslide the tall ledge, kickflip into the handicap ramp, front board pop out on a bench.  After getting the front board popout first try before trying the line I thought it would be easy, but I would never land it again.  Ugh.  Coming the other way I tried to manual a bench, crooks a bench, then b/s flip.  I never got any of the tricks other than the crook.  Man I suck at skateboarding.  Back to the front board pop out line I gave up and just tried to ollie onto the bench and 180 off, but the wind gusted up crazy insane and we just left.Back to the ol’ mellow bank spot with the curbs at the bottom on Folsom.  We rolled in and noticed a homeless woman not looking well at all.  It’s always weird rolling in where someone is resting.  She looked really bad.  She mumbled some stuff and we kept skating.  The kids instinctively kept their distance.  I continued to suck.  Sam is just learning, but started doing some things like rolling off a curb, turning around, slappy disasters, etc.  It’s funny because he pushes goofy footed, but totally looks like he should be regular footed.   Ollie was totally ripping.  He wallied over a parking block onto the bank then turned around and 4 wheeled over the block.  He also carved backside over parking blocks to slasher grinds on the top.  High ollies off the curb, f/s ollies on the bank and put both feet on a back shove on flat.  So sick.  Oh yeah, the homeless lady had left for awhile then come back.  I decided to be nice to her and talk and it ended up being rad.  She was grateful to watch us skate and kept saying how much of a natural Ollie was.  It was cool.  Throughout the whole session I skated, but didn’t do much worth remembering.  Some manuals onto the bank, a wallie onto the bank where I accidentally manualed back into a 4 wheel over the curb.  We had fun.

Went to film Bernie at the industrial bank in Longmont after work.  I warmed up for a bit while he warmed up.  I dropped in about 3/4 of the way up the bank, but that’s not much.  I did a kickflip first try for him on flat saying he would land his trick first try if I did that.  But he didn’t.  Two hours later after some hot cocoa to warm up from sitting in the cold filming I played a game of SKATE against Bernie.  I felt bad, but apparently not as bad as he did after running down the bank 50+ times.  I think a switch front 180 even got him a letter.  I did nothing to brag about, varial flip was probably the techest trick.  Why do I sponsor him?  Ha ha, just kidding.  Bernie rules.  Tricks into that bank are gnarly.

I tried to come up with some April Fools Day joke about how I quit skating, but I’m just not that funny.  Plus who would ever believe it?  On a windy and colder night I picked up Jake after 7 and we went to Stonehenge.  On the way there we talked about doing front 180 up fakie ollie off.   That didn’t seem to likely at first when we both couldn’t get a clean manual.  We gave up on a clean manual after awhile.  Jake got an ollie up the tall side turned around and nollied off.  I got a front 180 up the taller side and a f/s halfcab off the shorter side.  Then we started the line we had talked about.  Jake and I did it totally different, but it was cool.  He would do front 180 up the tall part and turn around for the fakie ollie.  I would do front 180 up the lower part to fakie ollie off the taller part.  After getting those Jake tried halfcab up and kickflip off, but it started to get too dark for flippers.  I went the shove route and did fakie bigspin up, front shove off which really hyped me up.  I followed that with a clean manual finally and we called it a day.  On the way back to the car we hit the old bank to curb.  Jake did front pivot and I did front tail, front d and back axle.  I used to skate that spot so much.   It’s still fun.

Nike makes funny commercials along with soccer, tennis, basketball and football shoes.

Such a rad dude, style and bag of tricks all in one.

Neil and I both got off work early and it was pretty nice out so we met at my house then went skating.  We had no real spots planned out and parked on east campus thinking we’d start at the steep bank spot.  It had a bunch of snow and crap in the runway though so we bombed the little hill under 28th and ended at Silvermine Subs where we ended up skating the curved ledge for awhile.  At first neither of us had anything for that ledge.  The setup is insanely short.  After awhile I landed some horrible noseslides and tried to line them out with a manual on the sidewalk across the street.  Awhile later and I was getting crooks popped out forward and still not getting the manual.  Neil got some crooks to fakie after awhile too and managed to eventually put down a nose manual.  Sick!  We tried quick upping the sidewalk before the ledge too, but it’s way quick.  It was fun trying to line stuff out there because we had to weave between traffic, pedestrians and longboarders.  I was doing a lot of unnecessary powerslides too.  So fun.  We got kinda bored after awhile and roamed around a bit.  Jason, Carleigh and Lazer showed up and we went back under the tunnel and skated the ledges for awhile.  Jason got some good noseslides and Neil some good tailslides, but it was kinda whatever.Lazer, Neil and I headed out to the nearby ‘old folks bank’ and on the way skated a few things.  Ollied onto a narrow ledge into a driveway bank and ollied a 4 stair.  Also got a f/s halfcab flip on the way in a sketchy asphalt section that hyped me up.  At the bank to ledge Neil sat down and Lazer busted some cool crail tricks.  I started out good and got back axle and pivot pretty quick.  Then got front tail first try and got a 360 flip on flat to follow it up.  I tried kick back pivots for awhile then kinda worked into kick back tail attempts and eventually landed on.  So hyped.  It may have been suski’d though.  Either way it hyped me up.  Jason had joined and did several basics with his patented 20 stair landings.  I ended the day with a front smith stall on the curb then a fun hill ride on the way home.  Awesome times.

Got home from Estes Park around 11.  Unpacked, ate some food, watched some skating and picked Jason up on the warmest day of the year so far.  We went to ballparks for a very unmotivated and weak session.  Nothing more than back noseslides and front 50s were landed.  Oh, well Jason did some front noseslides of course, but that’s like rolling off a curb for him.Next we met Nate and Carleigh at the Rainbow ledge.  We skated harder here, but the wind really picked up and made it kinda hard. Carleigh got a noseslide.  Jason did some really long front 50s, front boards, front noses, back 50s, back board popout.  Nate did everything.  He got into nollie front lips so easy I thought I could do it.  Nope.  He got a back board popout to fakie really quick, landed on back board popout bigspins (wtf!), front 5-0s, he skates ledges too good.  I got a back board popout, crooks, front 50 shove out and some long back noseslides.Nate had to take off and after a refresher at the convenience store we skated the manny pad.  In an hour I really only landed a nose manual front 180.  Took forever.  Came close, but didn’t get kickflip manny.  Carleigh never got the manny and Jason mostly chilled out.We picked up Lazer and Jake and went to Rock Creek where Darin and a crew of skaters was already skating.  I sucked on the ramp for a long time.  Took forever to land anything and the coping was so sticky.  Some lame razor scooter kid kept going between everyones runs.  Ugh.  Lazer skated well and took a really bad slam.  Jake’s warmup run was so good.  Jason can grind really far.  Darin never bails.  I finally got a run with more than one trick at the end and it felt pretty good so I went and played a game of SKATE with Darin.  Ended up being one of my finest.  Darin got me on hardflip and an impossible.  I landed several tricks first try and got him with f/s halfcab flip, 360 flip, fakie bigflip, something else and ended it with a first try nollie treflip.  Sweet!