After a busy morning of visiting Chad Dad, birthday shopping for my dad, selling boards at Market and being hungover Ollie and I went to Spring Canyon for almost an hour. There was a lot of snow there so you couldn’t skate the manny pads from some angles. The pool was full of ice so that wasn’t an option either. Not that I would want Ollie to anyway. We ended up having a fun time. Ollie had lots of fun ollieing out of the kickers and kinda just cruising around behind me. I was having fun trying a run of ollie over a pile of snow, ollie onto the dragon thing, axle stall on the tight qpipe, then kickflip out of the kicker. Never even committed to the kickflip. I got a couple slow, but fun manny tricks on the potato wedge. Manual to side rock to manual and front board to nose manual. Skating with Ollie is so fun. He got a couple ollies up onto the low parts of the potato chip and a couple ollies up into board stall where it was taller. His ollies aint so good yet, but man he looks pretty natural on a board and he has a lot of fun. Awesome.

I’m writing this one a couple days late and feeling like crap. So basically I’m pretty sure this entry wont do the day any justice. It was way fun.Brian got to my house first. We started skating flat in front of the house since it was taking so long for others to show up. We played a game of SKATE where we started with some of our harder tricks right out of the gate and didn’t come close to landing any of them. It got really tech when we moved on to tricks like kickflip and fakie flip. Although it was enough to bring Brian to SKA off a failed attempt at double or nothing on kickflip. He got me with a 360 one foot kickturn. Pretty awesome. Not sure what else went down, but I think I won.Others showed up and we were off to Longmont. We all met up at the fun bank school. The crew was Neil, Brian, Jason, Jam, Dave, Fuzz, Carleigh, me and Bernie which arrived late. Since I’m totally blowing it on making this entry remotely interesting here’s what I remember.Neil was skating good right out of the car. Front tails, front lip on the ledge. Manuals and nose manuals on the weird round flagpole manny pad.Fuzz started slow but ended up skating so good everyone missed Brian do a “perfect impossible” when Fuzz was in the middle of a line. His line was something like front 180 (Nobody has a better front 180 than Fuzz), halfcab 5-0, backside flip attempt over the bricks on the bank.Brian was looking forward to Dave’s ramp and trying to drop into a rock on top of a ledge and not die.Dave had lots of cool pivots in weird places on the banks. He’s got really good boardslides to fakie on ledges, but was getting pissed trying to front lip the ledge. Mad enough to ask Neil to focus his board.Jason skated the ledge decent for him.Carleigh slammed super hard trying to ollie one of the medians on the bank. She didn’t complain and got up and did it even though here palm was nice and bloody. Rad.Bernie seemed pretty out of it and was skating really slow/bad for him. He couldn’t even land his staple halfcab flips. Seemed like he finally got it together right when we left and he did a front tail 270 out and a kick back tail on the ledge.I was skating kinda mediocre, but a few tricks were making it really fun. Kickflips up the curb and crooks felt really good. I couldn’t do 360 flips at all though. I struggled to manual the flagpole ledge and had all kinds of problems with front 5-0 shoves. I was still having a blast though. That spot rules. I tried a weird line over a gap onto the ledge and got it a few times. At the end of the session I finally got the ollie up the curb then kickflip to fakie. Followed it a couple tries later with backside flip. You can tell when you make a trick look really bad because no one cheers.After this we went to Dave’s ramp and Lazer, Jake and Nate joined us for another fun session. Jake killed it. Fuzz, Brian, Dave and Lazer killed it too, but Jake man, that guy is on the come up. Tons of new tricks in only a couple tries. Brian was almost getting front blunts on the curb side which would have been ridiculous. Jason slammed really hard on a tail stall and went outside to sit in his car with the heat on full blast. I got nothing. Carleigh had troubles with front Ds. Nate skated well and got front tails on the curb side. Neil can’t chop wood. Bernie continued his mellowness. The only times Lazer didn’t land something he seemed to go down hard. Dave has the best style in the world. Fuzz got noseblunts. Fun day and I didn’t even skate that well.

After a fun day off of work with the Mighty LZA at the Denver Art Museum I picked up Jake on a nice afternoon. We went to the Brian-Ball-Bush-Ollie building since it’s an empty building. We were getting warmed up and having a fun time trying lines to/from a kinda long and crack ridden manual. Unfortunately some stupid security guy came by and gave us the boot. Doh.Next we went to an old Boulder classic spot. Stonehenge. The snow hadn’t melted on the bank to curb so that wasn’t an option. It worked out though and we had a blast on the little loading dock. Jake went to work right away on nollies and got some good ones. Then we setup this weird pipe thing and tried to ollie it. Jake took a few tries and got it. It was about a foot taller than the loading dock. Neither of us are good at ollieing tall off of drops so it was scary. I bailed early on and kinda scared myself with a close call to the ankle. After a little bit longer I told Jake I’d get the ollie if he landed a good nollie. I bailed. Double or nothing and I got it. Pretty hyped because I was scared for sure. Jake got some good half cabs after that and I took a long time to get pop shove up the curb then kickflip off. Felt really good though and I did two in a row. I wanted to get a front shove off and it was taking awhile. Jake got a manny after cracking his tail on a halfcab. I finally got the sfront shove and followed it with a manual first try. I also got an ollie up the taller part and a kickflip off the lower part first try. We played 360 flip for awhile on top of the loading dock. Jake broke the record for getting as close as you can without landing it. I got 4 or 5, but should have done more. I really didn’t commit to many of them. Wish I would have committed to more of them. Either way it was an incredibly fun session.

Got off work tired, but was driving home looking at dry asphalt and totally wanting to skate for a bit. Turned into the neighborhood street and it was wet. Doh. I kept thinking it would get dry in the two more blocks to my house. Nope. I ended up not caring. It wasn’t too too wet and my setup is old. I did a few wet griptape kickflips, but ended up starting switch no complys until I landed a couple bad ones. Then I did a regular one backed with a switch one and called it a fun little session.

Brian’s old board sponsor. Gordon’s got the full scoop and one of his ad’s on Plaid Again.

Carleigh posted this on her blog.  So sick!

Tonight’s guests.  Brian, Lazer, Jake, Jeff Hulslander, and a late arriving Carleigh.  Jeff and Jake skated hard and killed.  Everyone else including me didn’t seem overly hyped and the session seemed a bit uninspired.  I blame myself.  I didn’t do much other than finally land a hurricane and slam finally committing to a back disaster.  Jeff had lots of crazy stuff.  Front salad, front feebs, front blunt, lots of almost tricks that he somehow rode out of.  Once Lazer lands a trick it seems like he never bails it again.  Although he slammed dropping in and catching on the edge I guess.  Doh!  Jake took longer than normal to get the stalepick, but when he did it was butters.  Carleigh got a front d quick like.  Toward the end Brian and I had a worst run competition.  I’m pretty sure he won, but we laughed it up for awhile.  Tricks like rock fakies 1 inch over the coping, switch willies, back 50s stalled forever, flatground failed kickflips, etc.

Another chilly, but skateable night in the lower 20s.  Nate, Jason and I rolled out with a little over an hour to skate before Nate’s indoor soccer game.  We started rolling around and ended up at the white ledge parking garage, but skated the sticky ledge in the back and cellar door thing.  Nate to a rock transfer which was pretty scary looking.  Jason did some fast front noseslides.  Then we cruised around a bit on our way to the parking block spot.  Ollies felt pretty good on the way.  I went the long way and went through the alley by the ice rink that’s normally an instant bust then ended up at the bank with a tall(er) flat bar.  I got a noseslide on it in a few tries which hyped me up because I’ve never even worked up the courage to try it before.  We skated the parking block area for a bit.  Nate and I got some bluntslides.  Then we ended back up at the flatbar.  Nate worked hard and got a sick front 50.  I got another noseslide or two and somehow did a tiny crooks.  Rad!  Then Nate and I attempted to get all east coast on a quick up to ollie over a little pipe to front tail.  Nate was trying his in a sick line of cali grind, nollie flip then the front tail.  He almost got it.  He had nollie flips almost every try though. Jason kinda just stood around for some reason.  I was trying cali grind, kickflip, front tail.  I came close too, but couldn’t quite get it.  We skated the ledge for awhile then moved over to the curved two stair.  Nate ollied a huge planter and I kinda manualed the 2 stair.  I also ollied onto a narrow ledge and rode around it which I’ve wanted to do forever.  Normally I go too slow and scrape the edge and bail.  This time I did it first try like it was nothing.  Jason stood around again.  Nate’s ollie was ridiculous because the landing was about 3 feet long before he had to roll off the curb.  With only a few minutes left before Nate had to take off we rolled to the boardslide ledge.  On the way Nate and I rode up some ice piles onto curbs.  So sketchy but really fun.  I got a front board popout on the ledge pretty quick.  Still slow and crappy like how I do them, but it’s a start.  Coming the other way I was trying easily the fastest boardslides I’ve tried there.  I was going fast enough that I was scared when I ollied up the curb for setup.  Rad.  Jason skated this spot and got into some long front boards.  Nate was skating it too, but I guess I missed what he did there.  We had to leave quickly anyway.  Really fun night other than feeling weird about Jason just standing around at spots instead of skating.