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I missed out on a SOL ramp session due to snowboarding/sledding with the kids (which was a total blast), but luckily Nate and Jason wanted to skate so we hit up Rampy.  Nate and I started slow, but when Jason showed up it seemed to go off.  Nate and I were landing new tricks and Jason was grinding so far his nose would hit the walls.  So sick.  I got a couple fakie boardslides.  They weren’t good, but they were a start.  I tried some with a backside revert, but never got close.  I also got some lame, but new for me willy stalls to fakie.  I wanted to learn the rock to willy to fakie thing, but just can’t comprehend it.  Jason had some legit back tail slides that blew us away.  Nate learned hurricanes.  At the end I did several fakie nosepick things.  I don’t no, it’s like a halfcab rock, but just put the front truck on.  I’ve done it before, but not intentionally.  I also got my first fakie pivot fakie in awhile.  Fun times.  So hyped on having Rampy this time of year.

Was busy running errands and watching Ollie while others got together and skated red curbs on a snowy afternoon.  I met up with Carleigh, Jason, Neil, Reed, Josh Steele and others and they were all warmed up.  Josh brought a bench and was killing it.  Noseblunts on it?  Yeap.  kickflip crooks?  Yeap.   He destroys.  Neil seemed pretty mellow and already done when I got there, Jason was skating the new bench really well, Carleigh seemed bummed, Reed looked rusty, but still killed it.  I started off slow and kinda just stayed that way.  It was pretty cold and it showed.  Reed and I tried doing mannies to rock no comply bonk.  He got it first and that ended that.  I tried some crooks on the bench, but never really got one.  I was trying to skate a bit faster and I’m sure it didn’t show.  I was doing fakie ollies then halfcab flips or faster then normal back 180s.  Felt good.  It’s hard to flip the board when the bushing are frozen.  We ended up getting kicked out right after I got a crappy front board to fakie on the bench thing and failed to get a 360 flip.

It was supposed to be my night off of skating, but my trip to Meta was cut short and I had nothing else going on.  Nate wanted to skate so we met at campus.  We met at the business building and I wasn’t as sore/tired as I thought I’d be.  I got there first and was cruising around kinda sucking as usual, but trying some lines and enjoying the warm weather.  Nate showed up and we skated the round manny pad for awhile.  I got one run with a manual one way followed by a really bad b/s flip up a curb to dead stop.  Sweet.  I had been trying nose mannies too, but we split when we saw a CU parking car park near us.  Nate was almost getting front 180 fakie nose mannies and switch front big heels.  Yeah, he’s good.We rolled to the covered engineering area and stuck around that area for the rest of the session.  We tried some ollies up/onto/over the brick area with the benches.  Nate did a rad manny to manny.  I did some 2mph ollies onto stuff.  We tried ollieing up the tall 3 and I couldn’t quite get it.  Nate did though.Lastly we played a game of SKATE that went on forever.  It had some of our better tricks in it though.  3flip (me), nollie 3 flip (nate), fakie 3 flip (nate), b/s flip (me), fakie bigflip (both), took forever to do a heelflip, switch 3flip (nate), and more.  We were tied at SKAT – SKAT for awhile and were both trying new stuff to end it.  Nate was getting close to front big heels and I was far from fakie var heel, switch hippy flip and nollie var flip.  We ended up getting exhuasted and I just did a nollie helipop thing and it somehow won the game.  Fun times.

ridiculous.

This part is so awesome.  Soooo many lines.

I met up with Nate and Jason at the ballpark ledges right after work.  It might be the first time we’ve all skate there since when we met Nate there a few years ago.  I normally suck if I try to skate right after work and this was no exception.  I have been really down on my skating lately so sorry if these entries bum you out.  I could barely noseslide or 50 the ledge.  Jason on the other hand was ripping.  Back 50, noseslides, almost crooks.  These ledges are not short.  I was trying a front 50 to front board, but never got the front 50 good enough to try it.  Nate was skating aight.  He can do back 50s like their nothing.   My flatground was doing ok.  I got a couple 3 flips, but I need to learn more tricks going faster. Anyways, it was pretty warm out and we wanted to skate more once it got dark.  Nate had to bail though.Jason and I met Carleigh and eventually Lazer at St Julien.  Jason and I started the session by doing possibly the most tricks back to back we’ve ever done.  They were basic tricks on the ledge, but it was cool that we pounded them out.  That spot is fun, I wish the lights were brighter though.  I actually had fun at this spot and wasn’t too bummed on my skating.  Maybe it’s because Carleigh arrived and was bumming more than me.  She rips though.  Jason worked on back tailslides forever while we waited for Lazer.  Carliegh got some front 50s and was working on front tails.  I did a lot of back crooks, tried some 2mph halfcab crooks and failed to do front 50 back 180.  Lazer showed up and within seconds had ollied the 9 stair while swerving through jason and I.  We rolled out and Jason and Lazer ollied a purple bucket first try.  I didn’t, but eventually got it while Lazer went 200mph and ollied it then did a straight wallride.  Have I mentioned that Lazer is good at skating?  Carliegh almost got the ollie, but hurt her foot and ended her night of skating.  Lastly we ended up at the white ledge spot where Lazer skated it so fast I thought it would set fire to the ledge.  maybe I should skate with Lazer more and learn to push a bit faster.  Jason got his run with the ollie off the bump and back 50.  I got it too, but it was kinda slow as usual.  Pretty fun night.

This is totally awesome.