Had to run some boards down to Continuum in Parker, CO so I hit the Aurora park for a bit before having to stop at 303 next.  The park is awesome, but always has a weird crowd.  I was feeling the effects of working all day then driving for well over an hour.  I took forever to land a boardslide across the flat bar.  I eventually settled in on trying a run.  Boardslide across the flatbar, no comply finger flip on flat, manual between the bowl/street course into the bank then no comply 270 over the hip.  Never got it.  Tried some other stuff, but overall it was a pretty lame session.After 303 I went to meet up with Chad and Chris at Commerce City park, but when I went by there the lights weren’t on and there was 500 families there picnicking.  No thanks.Met Jason at Louisville on the way back and raced the rain and lightning for awhile before we got rained out.  It was a really fun session with crazy lightning going on in the background.  I got some crooks pretty quickly and came close to backside nosegrinds on the little ledge pretty quickly.  I don’t remember trying much else, but I know I was all over the park having fun.  Damn rain.

Man this is awesome.

After my JDZ interview, then some hoops with Ollie I kinda felt like skating. Since I was lazy I decided to just hit Rampy. I found an old 90s mix tape and cranked it up for what became a totally tubular session. I was feeling pretty bummed at my lack of tricks and decided to try a bunch of new ones. The first one I wanted was a fakie back smith grind. I stall those babies all day long, but wanted to grind them. It ended up being really easy. Now I know why Brian hates on them. I got them to forward and to fakie. I also got a bunch of back 5-0s to fakie which I’ve never done on Rampy before. I didn’t do them Riley or Jason good, but this is me we’re talking about. My last new trick was front tailslides. I’ve never slid them intentionally before. I got a weak one and a not as weak one. Hyped though. Also hyped I got a lot of my other harder tricks right off the bat like back nosegrind, front smith, front lip. Couldn’t do the fakie pivot fakie though. I had a blast.

Almost two hours of me talking? Ha

Rick from John Doe came out with us on Saturday and took some photos and video clips that are on their site now.  There are a bunch more of everyone else so go check them out.  There’s also a clip of me landing a rare back tail on a somewhat steep bank.

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Little kids rip everywhere now.  Don’t you know skateboarding is hard?

Slept in late again.  India had some plans with a friend so Ollie was all alone for the day and we went to the Louisville park.  Basically no one was skating, prolly because it was very hot and sunny.  I dorked around while Ollie mongo pushed all over the place.  He was kinda ripping.  The only things I did that I thought were kinda good for first thing in the morning was front 50 across and down the hubba and ollieing into the bank off the manny pad.Next I waited for Josh Steele to show up and head to Denver to film some stuff for the Null promo.  We met up with Bernie, Sam and Jeff at the Speer ledge spot.  Bernie was already done skating due to the heat.  Ugh.  Jeff slammed really bad early on trying out a line and tore up his back a bit.  Ugh.  Josh, Todd and I found this amazing ledge that Josh tried to back nosegrind back 180 out.  He got close before getting served hard.  Ugh.  We headed back after that.  Tough day filming eh?Later on I skated at the school with Ollie and he was ripping even harder.  He took seven full mongo pushes and ollied this little two foot flat gap at full speed.  Pretty sick, but I think he’s inherited some of my pop, meaning a lack of it.  Ha.  I didn’t really do anything new, but kinda did my typical cruising around the spots there avoiding rocks.After making a last minute run to Target I picked up Nate and we skated the Ideal Market area for an hour or so.  Nate waxed up the lip of the banked sidewalk, but I don’t think we grinded it any longer than normal anyways.  I got the basic grinds down right away and then didn’t land anything else.  Nate got a disaster to fakie I think.  He also got a nose manny turned around to fakie which was gnarly since coming in fakie on that thing has a huge crack.  I ollied a water bottle on top of a curb at the end of the session and then we played a game of SKATE.   Well, we didn’t finish the game since Nate got too tired.  Ahh, poor 25 year old.  Ha ha!

The crew started as Brian, Neil and I.  After filming some intro stuff for Brian we went to a car wash bank spot that was gnarly.  Not a good warm up spot.  Unless your Neil.  The bank has a curb on the bottom and one at the top.  He got a line with a wallie then a no comply to tail on the bank.  No filming will ever do it justice to be able to keep speed up the bank like like that after ollieing up the curb.  I was screwing around trying to do manuals and kinda landed a couple that had some heel drag.  I took off at least two layers of my deck trying, but it was fun.Next we med up with I-Path John and went to the double sided curb.  This spot was on my list of to-do spots for off the couch.  Basically a flatground trick, slappy 50 transfer, and another flatground trick.  The 360 no complys and halfcab flips weren’t working so I started trying fakie bigflip and it just felt perfect.  A few tries in and I got my line.  Fakie bigflip, slappy 50 transfer, no comply finger flip almost primo make.  Sean and Mike from Ft Collins showed up with Jim and Rich from John Doe as well as Nate and we kept skating this spot for awhile.  Brian broke his board trying an acid drop thing over some tables.  Neil almost did switch wallrides.  Nate almost did a polejam wallride.  John got a sick ass run with a no comply, fakie flip, halfcab flip, noseslide shove and front shove revert.  Ridiculous.  Jim back tailed the ledge super good.We hit a weird bank spot that Nate had seen.  Sean 180’d a crate then half cabbed into a narrow drainage run out.  Next Nate found this crazy long loading dock with flat bars on the sides.  We all had fun boardsliding down it.  Neil got a halfcab boardslide.  Mike got a halfcab noseslide.  Nate closed it with a feeble.  Next was the steep bank spot.  Jim got pivot fakie and staple gun to fakie.  John slammed over and over on front tails.  Brian sat in the car then came out for a blunt fakie cameo.  Sean had some good backside ollies.Lastly we went to Honey’s Hole so Brian could get something he’s had on his mind for awhile.  Prior to filming it I got a back tail in the kinda steeper bank.  Kinda hyped me up.  Next I filmed Brian.  Others were ripping.  Mike got front shove to fakie and then did it switch.  Sean was popping ollies into the bank like it was nothing.  Then went front 180.  Sick.  John was killing it too.  Backside flip, some kinda sal flip thing, back d revert so many tricks.  Brian got his trick, but I filmed it bad.  Ugh.  He kept trying it, but never got it again.  I felt bad.Over all a fun day though.  Not even that hot out.

I only had about 40 minutes to skate before a date with Liz after work so Nate, Neil, John and I met at Neil’s spot where we all decided it would be best to suck as bad as possible.  With the exception of Nate I don’t know if any tricks were actually landed.  I was really bummed.  I even slammed on a flatground front 180.  Not even going fast.  I got into some switch backside boardslides though.  Almost got a crooks and came close to a front 5-0.  Lame session.  They happen.