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India has ballet on Tuesdays so I get Ollie all to myself for a couple of hours and I try my best to make sure he skates then.  Ha.  He chose skateboarding actually.  We went over to the schoool and just kinda cruised the front sidewalk.  I was trying the little downhill sidewalk to micro gap mannies.  Never got one, came closer to 180 fakie nosemanuals.  Also did a couple no comply 270 disasters then popped up onto the sidewalk.  The rain started coming down and we skated a tiny rock under a tree.  Ollie ollied it a bunch and almost ollied over to manaul.  That would have ruled.  I got ollie over to nose manny which I don’t think I’ve ever done before, kickflips, pop shoves, bad b/s flip, switch ollie then we bailed because the rain was too much.

The first “cold” night of the year.  My thermometer said it was 38.  I was in a hoodie and a beanie and super amped up to skate.  That’s probably because I was solo with no chance of having to film.  John and Nate had considered meeting up, but neither did.  I had a complete blast.  I love fall skating, it is the best.  I started off slow and warmed up kinda slowly as usual.  I did back and front board popouts, back and front noseslides, my best halfcab noseslides ever, front 50s and a first try front 50 shove moving pretty fast.  I also tried and failed at front 5-0s, front 50 to front board, front 50 kickflip out, kickflip back 50 and some real lame attempts at kick back tails.  I was skating really hard though.  Trying flip tricks and coming really close to switch flips.  I tried a run from the far side with kickflip up the curb, ollie off the loading dock then front 180 fakie 50 180 out.  Got that.  Then did front 180 up the curb, halfcab flip, ollie off the dock, front 180 fakie 50 180 again.  Stoked on that line for sure.  I probably ollied off the loading dock 20 times.  It kinda weirded me out as I did it faster then normal and had no idea how to bail.  I committed everytime instead of bailing as usual.  Not sure that I could bail even if I wanted to as my reflexes in the air seem to be gone.  Anyways once I slammed pretty good due to wheel bite and I just sat in the cold air thinking about how amazingly awesome skateboarding is.  I wish I skated like this when we were out filming.  I think I needed a good solo session though, it’s been awhile.  Oh yeah, one of my favorite parts was just a first try ollie up onto the escalator pretty high up.  I didn’t wallie up at all and landed it clean.  Felt super good.

So many good skaters out there.

Click the image or HERE and read the description and the comments.  Here’s a couple gems:WHENEVER I ACCIDENTALLY HIT THE CAPS LOCK KEY IN THE PAST, A LITTLE LIGHT WOULD COME ON. LITTLE DID I KNOW THAT LIGHT WAS JESUS TRYING TO GET AT MY BRAIN. BUT ONCE I LET HIM IN AND BURNED ALL MY BOOKS AND CONDOMS, I REALIZED THAT THE ONLY CHRISTIAN WAY TO WRITE IS IN ALL CAPS. OTHERWISE THE HOLY SPIRIT WON’T GET ACROSS TO ANYBODY!THIS IS A FANTASTIC BOOK BUT MY BOOKSHELF IS A BIT SPARSE AS AFTER READING IT I BURNED ALL MY OTHER BOOKS, INCLUDING THE BIBLES AS THEY WERE WRITTEN PARTIALLY IN LOWERCASE LETTERS, OR AS I LIKE TO CALL THEM, THE DEVIL’S RUNES. CAN ANYONE RECOMMEND ME A GOOD ALLCAPS BIBLE?..PROS:1) A REAL EYE OPENER, I USED TO USE MY 10 SCREAMING UNDERFED KIDS AS A EXCUSE FOR ALCOHOLISM BUT NOW; I VIEW IT AS A BLESSING FROM GOD AS WELL.2) WELL WRITTEN.3) VERY AFFORDABLE.CONS:1) WEIGHS SLIGHTLY MORE THAN OTHER BOOKS WRITTEN WITH LOWERCASE LETTERS.

TF filming day.  After a very long week at work Saturday started slow.  I had no board control and didn’t feel like putting in the effort on flippers.  Not sure why I was so out of it.  We went to the “new spot” which is a bunch of angled manny pads and some stairs.  It’s a super sick spot to say the least.  I wasn’t skating up to par.  Rob got a sick line.  I failed at a lame manny to 50 which I eventually landed.  Shortly after we went to Rock Creek where I had fun for awhile and was even kinda motivated to land some tricks I haven’t done there.  I landed a front d then resorted to filming for 3 hours.  Looking forward to cooler weather kind of.

Something smells fishy about this.  Ha.

The park was crowded on another super nice night.   We tried to turn the hockey rink lights on so Jake could learn 3 flips, but they never came on.  We skated amongst the crowds.  Jake got a sick line of a 5-0 to fakie then a f/s cab over the hip.  Rob was ruling it fast like with slappy feebles.  I was kinda just whatevs.  Not ripping, not sucking.  I couldn’t crook the ledge though which bummed me out.  I had a new board and wheels though and my last board had a square tail pretty much so the board felt huge.   We played a game of SKATE that ended with Rob heckling everything we did (sore loser) and me squeezing out the victory over Jake.  At the end Rob and I tried a bunch of backside no comply bigspins.  Rob got one.  I came close, but didn’t land it.  Would have been cool to land a trick I’ve never done before.

When the Popwar dudes were here and Tyler was riding with them he said that Dennis Durrant was the best.  I can see why.

I bet you can’t do that.