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.
Busy at work, busy with Null, didn’t have time to make it to Rock Creek and meet everyone so I skated flat for about 30 minutes in front of my house. After some dorking and warming up I kinda settled on a couple run attempts. Going one way backside flip, halfcab flip, 360 flip. The other way kickflip some cracks in the road then nollie treflip. Well, I almost ended up getting both in one. I did a backside flip, halfcab flip, 360 flip, kickflipped the cracks then landed on nollie tre, but didn’t ride away. Doh! Stoked on that run though. Stoked I was landing backside flips most tries too. I can probably account the decent skating to the fact that I had my mp3 player on to the album of the decade – Farm. Seriously, the best album since 1991 (Green Mind). Maybe even better then that. Who know and who cares. Farm rules and skateboarding ist very fun.
Several years ago my friend Turkey D (RIP) brought in the mp3s for this cd of pranks and we laughed our asses off at every one of them. Just look at this pretense:
From the CD liner:Every day for a year, Matt Besser answered around a dozen “wrong number” phone calls made to his apartment. These strangers believed they were calling a technical support operator in Houston, Texas, but actually they had neglected to dial the 1 before the area code. Instead of instructing his fellow Manhattanites of the honest mistake they had made, he decided to help them with their computer problems and record their phone calls. Just to make sure that what goes around comes around.
And remember, they called him.
Four of the mp3s are on this page here. Sooooo funny.
Rippers everywhere these days.
