I need to work on some life saving hair.

PJ Ladd is the king of fast tech skating done perfect and one of my all time favorites.

After running some boards up to MRKT I stopped by the new Spring Valley park with new shoes, a new deck AND new wheels.  Ultimate poser. With the fear of falling still pretty high I kept it mellow and just kinda skated slow mellow. Not much new there really right? I did a bunch of kickflips on flat and had to force myself to not clinch my fist to protect my thumb. Pretty funny. I got a couple board slide to nose manuals on the potato chip, but didn’t get the nosegrind out I wanted. Other then that it was a pretty basic pose fest for me. Felt really good to skate though and yes, even just one week off is too much.

Must be nice to be able to just do any trick ever.  Dude rules.  Can’t wait for the Battle Commander clip tomorrow.

This part is pretty epic.

Met Riley and the Sioux Falls crew at my house then headed to Rock Creek to meet John.  I had my hand wrapped up real tight again and basically just posed on the ramp while everyone else skated.  I did a few back 50s, but that was basically it.  Then John, Brandon and I dorked out trying flips into front noseslides and just only committing with the front foot.  Brandon got a couple big flips and then tried the real deal an may have actually done it.  John kills the one foot combos.  I got a kickflip front nose on footer.  Fun.  I should try real ones once I can skate with the option of falling down.  I went to film Riley do a ramp montage, but their friend “Dad” ended up rolling or even breaking his ankle.  Shitty.We hit a few Boulder spots for a bit after this.  No one really skated.  Next we went to Parker skatepark.  Jeff, Brian Bourquin, Bernie and Mikey met up with us.  Talk about torture.  That park rules and I couldn’t even really skate.  I did some front 50s for awhile.  Did one to front board and popped out.  But my hand really started to hurt so I basically just sat and posed out for a few hours.  I did manage to film Riley and Mikey huck themselves for awhile.  That was fun.  Look for a montage on the null site soon.

Wrapped up my hand all tight in an ace bandage so that my thumb wouldn’t move and attempted to skate.  It was horrible.  It’s amazing how much you use your thumb to balance.  It took me a long time before I could even manual the curb.  It was a horrible session.  Jason was ripping though.  He almost did cab front nose.  Rad.

So many good kids out there these days.  Matt Berger.

Huge crew. TF’ers Jason, Brian and Neil met up with Nuller’s Riley, Tyler and Bernie and Riley’s friends from Sioux Falls. We went to this blue angled flatbar to start. I played a bad game of SKATE with Riley and won! I beat Riley! But really both of us were sucking. Riley blamed it on his friend Cale loosening his trucks. Then I filmed Tyler and Riley huck themselves at this flatbar for hours. After that we did Honeys Hole for a bit before going back to the carwash bank in Lville. We put a sign in front of the curb and after two younger and less fat dudes rolled over it without problems I thought I’d be fine. Nope. I was going fast as hell too. SPLAT. The whole left side of my body still hurts. I actually thought I broke my thumb, but it’s just a torn tendon. OUCH. Still hurts really bad. Could have gone without that slam. Especially since they fixed the sign after that and it worked perfectly. UGH.

Skated Rampy for about an hour. Didn’t land anything new, but got most of the newer tricks I’ve recently learned. Got a good first try fakie back smith to fakie. Tried a bunch of fakie front pivot to rock fakie, but never committed. I’ve never tried that trick before. Had a good feeling front smith grind. Eh, wasn’t the greatest session, but Rampy rules.