Pranks like this give me faith in humankind.

Little Jack and his little brother skating for fun.

Some new indoor park in Sacramento, CA. Looks amazing. Team Pain may be my favorite skatepark company these days. They did the new CO Springs park too.

Someone I work with brought in a huge bag of these because they didn’t like this flavor. I don’t know what’s wrong with them, but these are now my favorite Tootsie Pops of all time. Just thought you should know.

Super warm night.  T-shirt weather.  So awesome!  Jake picked me up around 8pm and we headed downtown.  My first few warm up ollies felt horrible.  Jake just pushed fast down a street and I was trying manauls and kickfips and stuff.  I catch up to him and he’s staring at me like a longboarder stares at you when they pass you.  Ha.  We went up into a parking garage and ollied this weird kicker.  Jake got it quickly, but it took me several tries and I got really frustrated.  Ugh.  We rolled down the garage and that was fun.  I kickflipped at one point going a decent speed and ollied onto a manual pad going too fast and thought I was going to die.  Somehow I survived.  We kinda cruised around a few spots before settling on a lot of parking blocks.  Jake manned up and ollied over two blocks with a gap in the middle.  Pretty sick.  I attempted it, but can’t ollie.  I had a fun boardslide transfer and kickflipped a parking block a couple times.  I used to be able to kickflip parking blocks like they were nothing.  Now it takes more effort/courage.  Ugh. Nate met up with us and added to the stoke.  He ollied the gap too.  Damn 20 year olds.  Ha.  Before leaving the parking blocks I tried a few b/s feebles and hurricanes on a parking block.  I’ve never actually tried feebles before.  It wasn’t remotely close, but it felt cool to try it.  Next up was a game of SKATE on Pearl.  Things were going pretty good until I did a 360 flip first try out of turn and then hurt my foot trying to do another one.  Ugh.  I hit the bone in my foot I think I fractured a bit last year.  Hope it heals up before SF!

I can thank Corey Duffel for introducing me to this one.

Little Jack sent this one to me. So good.

After a decently long hike with Liz and Ollie in the morning (India was still at a sleepover) I met at Brian’s and we were off to Ft Fun.  We started at the jersey barrier spot and Brian, Neil, Jason and Lazer killed it.  I got wallrides both ways on the barrier and a b/s flip on a mellow part of the nearby bank.  I used to have that trick on lock.  Ugh.  Next up we skated the O Ledge.  It was funny because for some reason the ledge seemed huge.  None of us got on it right away.  Eventually some boardslides and noseslides were landed and Neil no complied it.  It was not a pretty session.  I ate shit on a front 50, but managed front 50, front 50 front 180, front 50 shove and a front 5-0.  I wanted a front 5-0 shove, but it didn’t happen and that ledge is tall.At this point we split up and Jason and I rolled with Sean to a street spot while the rest of the Factory skated the Northside skatepark.  The spot was so close to being epic, but the main surface was 20 year old rough ass asphalt.  Nothing worthy went down, but it was fun.  

India was had parties to attend all day so Ollie was with me and he seemed hyped on skating with the old dudes.  We went to Southern Hills.  Brian, Neil, Jarad and I played a game of SKATE.  It wasn’t the best game to go down and to prove it I won it.  I didn’t skate for crap and was lacking any sort of drive, but Neil and Jarad were ripping and Ollie was cruising around with a huge smile on his face.  Toward the end Neil, Jarad and Brian took off and it was just Jason, Ollie and me.  Jason and I were working on front noseslide back 270s out.  We both got them, but they weren’t great.  I was also doing a flip trick everytime and managed to get a nollie threeflip and heelflip.  At this point I almost think heelflips are harder.  We left because Ollie was bored and went to the Boulder ditch.  Jason did some rad stuff, Ollie smiled a ton and I went on sucking.  Not the greatest day for me.

After my last temper fit I went and got some fake vulc shoes.  Circa Riots.  I had wore them all day at work and skated Rampy with them and they kinda felt ok.  Josh, Jason and I drove through snow and wind to get there around noon.  It wasn’t warm and warming up wasn’t easy in those moonboots with cupsoles.  I’m as picky as it gets about shoes.  I figured cupsoles would be great on my upcoming trip to SF, but my god, breaking them in is like risking your ankle every second of skating.  I hated it.  Josh was killing everything in sight.  So sick to watch.  After skating around for quite some time and sucking we started skating the weird banked spot that seems straight out of Barcelona.  Josh was doing every 360 flip variation there was.  jason and I were trying some weird grind transfer tricks.  I got a back 5-0 270 transfer thing.  It was pretty dumb, but probably ended up being my favorite trick of the day.  Around now Mikey, Chris and Chad showed up and brought crappy weather with them.  It got way colder and it was snowing off and on.  At one point I was just riding down a flat bank and came off my board and almost died.  It was at that point that I decided it was in my best interest to never skate cupsole shoes again and I went straight to the car and got some Vans I had brought with me incase the cupsoles sucked.  All of a sudden skating started becoming fun again.  Unfortunately this was also about the time the snow really started coming down and sticking.  Ugh.  After a huge bag of Zesty Combos and an hours drive Josh, Jason and I stopped at Parker skatepark and were met with intense cold.  We didn’t even roll around the park twice before leaving.  If nothing else I relearned a valuable lesson, cupsoles suck!