Worked my ass off all day working from home and cleaning the house up trying to get it looking really nice for the kids and wife to return to. Nate said he wanted to skate, but never called. I was so rusty at first, but kinda got it going. I went back to trying the fakie bigflip, front shove, 360 flip line and never got it again. I did come very close though. I missed a lot of front shoves for some reason. Going the other way I was trying back 180, fakie flip, switch flip lines. Yeah, I know I’ve only landed one switch flip in my life but I hucked one and it felt like I should do it. I ended up credit carding my balls pretty bad though and had to chill for awhile. After that I just tried switch flips. I never got one, but I committed several times and put both feet on a couple. One of them was super close to a make. Sick!

OK, so it’s not funny, but it’s still funny.This dude rules.

This video is really good.  The colors are perfect, the filming is perfect, the spots are sick, the intro glass breaking skis are pretty funny. We should expect nothing less from a huge evil corporation.  I still hate Nike.  Watch it for free, don’t support them.Daryl Angel’s part. Maybe the only part I’m not that impressed by. Sorry dude.David Clark. Ripper.Shane O’neill and Theotis Beasley. O’neill murders it.Justin Brock is a ripper. The Real video is going to be insane.I’m putting Grant Taylor’s part last because it’s my favorite part in the video.

So it’s finally summer in CO.  Hot dry days and warm nights.  After work Little Jack and I rolled to Denver and met up with Jeff.  We drove around for awhile trying to find a rail, but ended at a fun alley bump spot.  We didn’t stay long.  I got a couple ollies and was thinking it would be fun to kickflip, but we split to the rail we were trying to find earlier.  I filmed Jack do a back 50 and then we got booted.  Next we ended at a fun wallride spot that Jeff almost landed a front wallride on before we got booted by some dude.  Last we ended up at a crazy wallie spot that Jack wallied and Jeff got his back with a wallride.  Rad.Jack and I hit Commerce City on the way back.  We messed around on the planter for awhile then skated around.  There were lots of dudes trying flyouts so skating the ledges kinda sucked.  I settled into trying a run near the entrance of a no comply to tail, manual, cali grind.  I got it once with a scrape on the manual and the no comply to tail was kinda whack too.  Oh well.  Jack and I went to play flatground SKATE, but there was some dude bumming us out so bad.  He was swearing at the top of his lungs, throwing his board, demanding everyone’s attention and letting us all know he wasn’t having a great day.  Ahhh.  Then the lights shut off.  They were filming too.  At that point the dude said to the filmer, “You better erase every one of my tricks or I’ll break that tape.”  Classic.

This Dinosaur Jr timeline article rules!  It is a must read!  Did you know that J Mascis turned down being the drummer for Nirvana?  Yeah, that article is filled with tidbits of Dinosaur Jr nerd facts like that.  Go read it!

Psycho Unity and Dino part at the beach.So funny!  Turns out there is going to be a few more strips added to the mix, so this isn’t the last one.  Awesome!

After a nap and a huge dinner I picked up Jason and we went up to the hill to meet Nate. We were down by the tunnel ledge waiting for Nate and I just kinda set my board up on the ledge and attempted to roll around the whole ledge and ended up hitting the top ledge and diving to the ground right in front of Nate. Rad. I was laughing before I even hit the ground and somehow it didn’t hurt.We ended up staying there and trying to skate that weird ledge. Jason got some really good front noseslides. Nate did some really good front 50s and nollie front tails. I did a couple mediocre front 50s and rode into a cali grind on the last part. This took us all about an hour. That ledge is hard to skate. Oh yeah, my tail was already cracked really bad and spongy. At the end we were messing around trying tail stall shoves and stuff and I cracked it way more.Next up Jason and I went down into campus to the plastic ledge. It took Jason awhile to get a boardslide and I never got one. Ugh. Jason landed the best crooked grind I’ve ever seen him do and some good noseslides too. I was going slow trying to man up to crooks on that ledge when the cops came and we left with a warning.We haven’t been to Lville park at night in a long time. It was really crowded. I mostly just skated the ledges. Got a few crooks and a quick back 50. Couldn’t get the front 50 back 180 out. Argh. Then I settled in on trying back nosegrinds on the low ledge. I haven’t done that trick in forever, since the Vans park was around. It took awhile, but I got into a few and rode out of a couple that probably had little back truck scrapes. I couldn’t just land it perfect you know, because it’s me and lately I suck on a skateboard. We left when the park closed.

Looks so fun

The left side.  I already blew it picking Jaimie Thomas over Busenitz.  I just thought The Chief was a better contest and flatground skater.  They are both sick.  Busentiz is the best ever though.Yes it reads right, I picked Jimmy Carlin and Jerry Hsu as the top 2.  I just hope it’s not Cole or P-Rod that wins it.

After a late night and a huge lunch Jason, Neil and I headed to Longmont.  We went to Skyline HS which has a sick ledge in the back of it.  It was kinda shady which was good, but the heat was still intense.  Neil was trying a sick line, Jason was trying a tall front nose and I was trying some random stuff, but we never pieced it all together.  We left to look at the Longmont contest and chill for a minute.Next we went to the ‘chocolate chip’ bank spot.  I remember skating this about 20 years ago before I could ollie.  Ha. Jason killed the front boardslide and Brian had the one foot front kickturns.  I was sucking, but had a fun switch b/s kickturn and tried to manual out of a regular kickturn.  Came close, but never got it.  I got a back rock after a lot of tries.  It was easy when I finally committed, but scary up til that point.  It shouldn’t be that hard.  Oh well, blame it on the heat?  Oh, and the fact that I suck at skateboarding.