Meta posted this.  Pretty radical.  Max got some quick feet!

Was planning on going into work early then leaving for Colorado Springs with John and Bernie around 11, but I felt all sick the night before and hardly slept at all.  So instead I just got up late, ate breakfast and rolled out when John and Bernie showed up.  First stop was the CO Springs park which was mostly clear of snow.  Bernie had never been there before.  Bernie and I started out in the backyard pool and did a few carves before we all skated the flat bank for awhile.  John was killing it quickly.  Back smith, back smith fakie, blunt pivot, back blunt, blunt back tail, etc.  It was ridiculous.  We moved over to the somewhat crowded street area for awhile.  John was ripping there too.  He got me to roll in on the steep area up top which was fun.  I was skating so bad that after awhile I just went up to the little one foot tall spine by myself and ended up having some fun there.  I got a line with like front D on the little q-pipe then front feeble to backsmith revert transfer over the spine.  John and Bernie ended up joining me and once again John killed it.  Fun powerslides over the pump bumbs, blunt back ts on the flat bank, rock ‘n roll on the little extension, etc.   Next we all tried some lines on some hips.  I was trying manual down the downhill manny pad then kickflip back tail over the hip.  Bernie was doing kickflip manual then double backside flip.  John was doing 180 into the downhill pad then switch b/s flip over the hip.  I don’t think anyone got their line perfect, but Bernie got close and I got a really bad kick back tail over the hip.  I was still kinda hyped though because I’ve never done it over a hip like that.  Before leaving we all ollied the longer 3 stair and it took John 1 try, Bernie 3 tries and me 4 tries.  Imagine that, me sucking.After hitting a few shops, selling some things, eating some food and more driving we ended up at Parker shortly after 7 pm.  It was supposed to be a quick session.  This dude Mike was there that John knew filming some really crazy stuff.  Nollie back big front board fakie.  None of us had even seen that trick attempted before.  He also switch front big heeled the big gap.  So sick.  Bernie and I skated the tall Pier 7 replica.  I wanted to manny it, but never got it.  That didn’t stop me from dropping off it a bunch and making me really sore.  Bernie did a switch nose manny first try and followed it with a halfcab nose manual next try.  Wow.  John got one of his patented moves, front shove front nose on the bank to ledge.  We cruised around a bit too and played a game of SKATE that was to end the session.  I was the first one out.  Landing a 3 flip in the cold somewhat negated getting a letter on a front shove, but I was still bummed.I went over the ledge and skated it while Bernie and John finished the game.  I ended up having a blast on the ledge.  I got tricks like front 5-0, front 50 back 180 out, back 50, back crooks and more first try.  I went on to get quite a few of my ledge tricks.  Front smith, front 50 to front board (aka the Joe Hamilton), back 50 back shove out, back crooks to fakie, halfcab boardslide.  I also got a back 50 to front 180 out.  But I use so much angle to get into back 50s that Bernie coined it the “90 in 90 out”.  Pretty funny.  Bernie and John ended up joining in on the ledge session that went on for at least an hour.  John relearned front 5-0s and did all kinds of cool slappy noseslide variations.  Bernie tried front 5-0 kickflip out and fakie 5-0 kickflip out, but never landed them.  He also tried front smith kickflip out for awhile.  I struggled with an old staple of mine – the front 5-0 shove it for quite a while before landing a really bad one.  It was getting really cold though.  We left around 9:30.  Wow.  Lots of skating.  The ledge session at the end was my favorite.  Does it really take me all day to warm up now?

I got home from work and the females left for India’s ballet practice leaving Ollie and I to do whatever awesome dude things we want to do.  We chose the best possible options – playing skateboarding on the Wii.  Ha, no, we went skating over at the school across the street.  It was still kinda light out at first and Ollie was cruising around all over the back of the school with the biggest grin ever.  Ollieing over little piles of snow, the state of Florida (on the big painted map), body varials over cracks, ollieing into grass, totally being a kid.  I was taking it kinda mellow other than ollieing one of the sections of a four square game.  It measures out to a little over a six foot flat gap which aint easy for me.  Although i guess nothing but paint to clear makes it pretty easy.  I messed around with some wallrides at one point and Ollie started trying them too.  A couple tries later he rides away from one.  Then pretty much everytime he does them.  They aren’t full on legit wallrides.  He turns on the wall with his front wheels and pops it out somehow.  But he does them high enough that his back wheels are off the ground too.  He was so stoked on those.  So was I.  Before leaving I wanted to do 5 flippers real quick.  It wasn’t super quick , but I got kickflip, fakie flip, b/s flip and f/s and b/s halfcab flips and we rolled out.

Hurting from an awesome Valentines night with the Mighty LZA and a long day at work I didn’t feel much like skating.  Luckily Nate did.  It was pretty cold (upper teens) so we opted for Rampy.  Somehow both of us started pretty good and we moved into our harder tricks pretty quickly.  I got lots of tricks that aren’t normally first try tricks first try.  Yippee.  Front D, back hurricane, fakie front axle to rock ‘n roll.  Nate was doing front 5-0 fakie, fakie smith 270 out, fakie smith fakie, front D.  We were ripping for us.  I moved onto front feebles pretty quick and was trying them in a not so easy run for me.  Back 50, boardslide fakie, front smith, fakie front axle to rock ‘n roll, fakie pivot fakie then front feeble.  Never got them all and never managed to not throw in a few rock fakie/tail stall additions into that line.  But I did get the front feeble.  A couple of them.  And I was really hyped.  After that I tried blunt to pivots, but never got a good one.  I got tired pretty quick.  Nate was still ripping and worked his way up to feebles to fakie.  It took him a bit to put one down, but once he did I think he did like 5 in a row.  Fun session.  I’ll give some credit in my confidence to the DC’s.  I hate to admit it, but they are some of the best shoes ever.

It snowed a couple inches overnight, but it melted off and the street in front of my house was dry.  Jake came over and we got a little session going.  When we started it was cloudy and cold and neither of us started off too well.  I was feeling very old and stiff.  I was somehow landing some tricks, but they were really bad.  We eventually got things going pretty good and the sun had come out.  Other than almost getting hit by some lady who made a point to drive within inches of me it turned into an awesome session.  We each got a couple treflips which were harder than normal.  I blame the frozen bushings.  Not the lack of skating flatground lately.  I spent some time trying a line of 3 flip, heelflip, nollie 3 flip.  Never got the nollie 3 flip, but came kinda close.  Another line I tried for a long time was 180 no comply, fakie flip, fakie treflip.  The first few fakie flips were sooooo bad for some reason.  After awhile they were flowing ok though and I was committing to the fakie tres, but not landing them.  Jake battled the frontside flip for awhile and came up victorious.  We did quite a bit more than it sounds here.  It was fun.  Toward the end Jake was trying nollie fs bigspins and I was posing hardflips.  I say posing because I never truly committed although the board did flip right a few times.  Fun session.  Let’s do it again soon Jake.

Aint no Cosby sweater gonna save these shoes.

youtube nights are the best

I guess skating so much yesterday took it’s toll.  That and my new shoes seem to fit smaller than the last pair and I’m getting blisters on my pinky toes.  Yeah, I said pinky toes.  We started out at Southern Hills and it was super nice out.  Maybe close to 50 degrees and sunny.  That changed quickly and the clouds came in.  Ollie seemed really excited to skate.  He’s been way more into ever since we got that SKATE game for the Wii.  He ollied the 2 stair like nothing and tried a bunch of pop shove its.  He came surprisingly close.  I was sucking and sore.  The insane amount of rocks they put down in the last snow didn’t help my motivation either.  While ollie tried shove it’s I the back area with the bench up to picnic table.  I was skating so slow it was pathetic.  I managed an ollie up the ledge to front tail stall on the bench of the picnic table.  It was horrible.  I also managed a really basic line of front 180 off a ledge over some snow, back shove, kickflip into the wheelchair ramp, back board a ledge, varial flip and then halfcab flip.  All were horrible.We left for the Louisville park because Ollie wanted to go there.  After a quick lame session in the hockey rink we went to the bowl where Ollie didn’t want to skate after all when he saw another little kid there skating good.  It’s weird though.  This kid could do 10 minute runs of axle stall, roll in, axle stall, roll in, etc.  It looked robotic.  It’s funny that there are bowl robots too.Next we went to the little manny pad behind Mikes Camera.  I was so sore by then.  I wanted to try some more manual shoves out.  I was skating 2 mph tops and came close to a few.  It was cold and I wanted to stop skating, but Ollie started ripping like I’ve never seen before.  He normally can’t ollie up a curb, but he was and he was trying front 180s off.  I’ve never even seen him try front 180s before and he landed on his first one off a curb.  He also manualed a long section all easy.  It was so rad seeing him skate so good.  He was blasting ollies off the curbs like it was nothing (well I guess it’s not for an old fart, but damn, he’s 7) and smiling non stop.  He is is fun to skate with.  If it wasn’t for a first try kickflip manual there I would probably have left super bummed on my skating.  But I didn’t and the fact that Ollie skated so well made me think of nothing but amazing sessions for the future.  Skating with your kid is crazy.

More awesomeness.  Probably some NBD extreme walking tricks in there.

I don’t even know what to say about this one other than it’s totally awesome.  I was sold after the knee slide across the bench.  Too bad the budget is so tight these days ..