John, Nate and I headed up to the Fort pretty early.  We were skating Northside by 11:00 am and were the only ones there.  I was very slow to warm up, but ended up trying my same ol line.  Wallie the back bump thing, ollie a hump, roll in, back 5-0 the brick bank then pole jam no comply the new little pole jam.  Didn’t get the pole jam.  Played two games of SKATE with Nate and John.  Did horrible in the first one, but won the second one ending with nollie treflip.  Rad.Off to O-ledge in the heat and was stressing trying to get some footage, but never even got the camera out because I was sucking.  We kinda all were too tired and hot.  We played another game of SKATE that was pretty mediocre.  John bailed difficult tricks like pop shove, nollie shove and some other ones that he’ll probably learn if he keeps skating with us.Next up we hit the new Spring Canyon park.  John broke his board pretty quick on a treflip and I was borderline getting heat exhuastion, but kept skating.  I was trying a run of boardslide to nose manny the ledge, back pivot the qpipe, ollie onto the snake and axle stall the tight qpipe.  I got all the trick, but not together.  Nate landed some front board to nose manny 180.  Sick.  We woulda filmed it if we were closer to the car (read lazy).After some grub and a stop at MRKT we went to an old ditch spot with new quickcrete and it ended up being a blast.  Basically there is this weird bank with a wide curb on it so the curb is at an angle.  The quickcrete allowed you to ride up and grind the top.  The angle is tough and there were bikers coming through fast on the bikepath.  But that makes it fun right!  John was slaying the back smiths and got a run with a back smith and a 43 shifty.  Rad.  Nate was trying the back 5-0 to fakie, but that would have been insane to pull in.  I got a weird nosegrind over it and then filmed a run with a back 5-0, then front ride along then a backside flip.  I gotta go into more details though because it’s way harder then it sounds.  The ride along was so hard.  Basically I rode up the quickcrete then turned 90 degrees and rode on the sideways curb down a hill and then came off it on flat.  I almost took some bad slams just trying to get onto it.  After awhile I had it down though.  It doesn’t show on video how hard it is, but oh well.  I had been trying the run with a heelflip in it, but kept not getting the heelflip.  So on one attempt I decided to try a backside flip just cuz and landed it first try.  People, I never land anything first try.  This was easily the highlight of anything I’ve ever filmed solely because I did one of the tricks first try.  And yes the flatground tricks in my Off The Couch part are the favorite part of my part.  Sorry, I’m still in love with PJLWL.

Nate and I showed up to a crowded park.  My legs were really tired still from the kick back fail.  Was taking awhile to get warmed up, but almost got a line of tailstall on the top of the cradle, then crooks the ledge then manual back.  Didn’t get the manny.  We took a break to the gas station so Nate could nourish his ailing body then came back and the park was even more crowded.  We ended up skating the long ledge/cradle area the entire night.  Nate got some nose manny front 180s and almost nose manny front big.  I managed to manual it from the taller side which I’ve never done before.  I got a lot of tailslides kinda on the top of the cradle and a few crooks.  Almost some front nosegrinds, nollie tres, no comply back 360s, was having fun.  I also got on crooks before the end of the ledge and tried to pop out of it.  Didn’t quite get it.  Pretty fun session even though we only skated 1/20 of the park.

Kind of a late start the Icebox rounded up the Factory and we headed to Lakewood to hit some spots near Lazer’s place of employment.  We hit a couple sketchy/weird bank spots.  Kinda fun for sure.  Then the Icebox died and the rest of the day was spent pushing it and buying a battery and waiting,etc.  Get well soon Icebox.

Met up with Little Jack at Meta then went to the old little KGNU manny pad.  Jack was really sore from the day before and I was thinking of a line I wanted to get so I was guaranteed to suck.  At the manny pad I got a kick manual with no scrapes which is very rare for me.  Tried a few fakie bigspin manuals.  Failed.  I don’t even remember what else I tried.  Jack and I played a game of SKATE that I won.  Only because Jack was super sore and I landed a nollie treflip first try.  Sweet!  We went over to the ledge where I wanted to get a line and I couldn’t even land the first trick I wanted to do, front 50 front board popout.  Jack slammed hard a few times on some nollie lipslide things.  Neither of us seemed overly hyped.Next we went out to the Lville Tech area where I posed as a skater/filmer and Jack landed neat tricks.  After some lunch back in Lville we hit the ol’ 6 lots of flat 6.  I skated the manny pad in the back for awhile while Jack broke bearings and bailed ollies.  I got a 2 mile an hour run consisting of a manual then a nollie back tail.  But nollie back tail is a huge exageration.  It was a pivot on the front wheels while the tail slid across the curb.  Rad.  Jack ended up getting it together with the power of an extra bearing of mine and we filmed a bangin’ 1 -2 line.Next up we went to the carwash bank to curb.  I knew Jack would rip it and he did.  But not for long as I was getting close to kick back tails and Jack knew it was a trick I wanted for Off The Couch and he was kind enough to offer filming it for me.  I got into the first one.  I got somewhat close the second try.  I didn’t get as close the third try.  YOu get the drift.  It went downhill.  I got into a few more, but 2 hours later I gave up.  Yes, 2 hours.  Poor Jack.  It was easily the hardest I’ve ever tried to land a trick.  Ugh.  I felt sooo defeated.  Jack, thank you so much for filming me.  I will go back and get it sometime so you can get your kickflip lickety split.  Ha, as if that has anything with it.

Super tired from being up late then having to work on a Saturday.  Met up with Jeff and Mikey and went to the Eldo pool, but it still had a bunch of water in the deep end.  We skated the shallow for awhile, but nothing special for me.  Jeff as killing it.  We played a game of SKATE and Jeff won it.  After that we filmed at a couple spots, but they didn’t get their tricks.  Doh.

Liz’s friend from Omaha’s band.  Pretty awesome.  Go check them out.

Didn’t have the time or energy to go skate really, but wanted to break in some new shoes for a bit. I’ve been wearing them for a few weeks and they felt pretty good. I did 20 kickflips in like 23 tries or something. Doesn’t really count as a session, but whatever, kickflips are fun.

I’ve been wanting to skate Parker some night after work so bad. Tonight was supposed to be the night. Nope, everyone bailed. Ugh. Jason still wanted to skate, but was more into bitching about our spots then driving to a good park. Ugh. We hit up the curb by Neils house for awhile. I was tired and bummed. Next we went to Valmont and started the session off by waxing the ledge until it was red from the red candle. Then we embarked on a backside noseslide convention that lasted at least 30 minutes. It was pretty awesome and we broke the ledge in really good. After that I tried a hundred front 50 front shoves, landed on them all, but only rode away from the primo one. Somehow it landed on it’s wheels after my weight pushed it down. I was pretty tired overall, but we kept hucking at it. I was landing 3 flips pretty consistently and even got one after a crooks popout. I tried a bunch of fakie nosegrind 180s, but never got one. Got a few horrible front tails. Got into a couple kick back 50s. Landed a bad nollie treflip. It was pretty fun, stoked on that spot again. Lastly, the Romero shoes are already dead. They could be the worst shoes I’ve had in a year or two.

Pretty tired and lazy, but feeling fat and wanting to skate so I walked into the garage, rigged the lights to work and skated Rampy for about half an hour. Pretty uneventful session. I did a back pivot followed by a front 50. I normally just do rock fakies after back pivots. Yippe. The best thing to go down was a front disaster that was popped high enough that if felt like I could break the board when I landed. That’s not saying much considering I push 2 bills sometimes.

This made me laugh when a coworker sent me the link.Prolly wont be able to update much in the next couple days as I’m in a class.