Nate, Josh and I left for Denver on a cool morning that was supposed to be super warm. Right out of the gates Josh was ripping and I was sucking. I ended up continuing to suck and having problems ollieing a tiny flat gap or attempting anything on the benches. The saving grace was a decent front board on the bench and doing ok in a game of SKATE.We met up with Mikey and went to a gap that I think I filmed decent enough, but Mikey didn’t get his trizzle tre on the ground.Next I filed Jeffrey jump over a bush and filmed it kinda mediocre. Although there was no filming that would do it justice unless he would have done it multiple times so we could get more angles.Next was a pretty much epic session for others at an abandoned hotel with a very tight pool and a bunch of crackhead squaters. I wanted to skate the pool, but a few dudes were lurking with us and talking incoherently and I had my camera backback and didn’t want to leave it’s side. Josh killed it with a carve over the lightbox, Jeff, Greg, Nate and Mikey killed it too. The locals we’re straight trippin’ when Mikey ollied into the pool. I would have loved to film that, but I should be happy that my camera is still my camera.Then we ended up at a curb going down a long 5 stair and after about 50 tries Nate and I boardslid it. It was super scary to me showing I guess, just how bad I am at skateboarding. Mikey, Josh and Jeff we’re doing whatever they wanted on it. I also almost cali grinded it too, but ate shit instead. All in all it was a fun day even though I skated horribly. I just have to remind myself I was injured for awhile and am getting back in to it.

Wow. No wonder he won 1st place on the Berrics Bang Yo Self contest. There must be some bummed out pros out there.

A virtual pee game?  Only in Japan.

Tired, but Ollie wanted to skate. But once I started getting warmed up Ollie wanted to kick a soccer ball. Oh well, I wasn’t skating good anyways.

The Mighty LZA in the first steps of grouting.  We finished the grouting Monday night and have to let it sit for 3 days.  In the meantine we’re finishing the caulking, repainting, etc.  I think Liz is getting pretty sick of the caulk/cock jokes.  Yes, I am 12 years old.

One of the finest bands around these days and the new album comes out on April 7:They had the song of the day on NPR and it kills it!

 

Yeah it’s not believable, but I thought it was pretty funny.  I love the Photoshopped photo of Ollie’s rock fakie on Rampy turned into a pivot fakie on the mega ramp and the Rodney Nullen scientist name the most.  Fun times.

Somewhat chilly night in the 30s Nate and I hit red curbs around 9pm.  Man I love being able to actually skate again and not have my foot killing me.  I was definitely still skating like crap, but it was fun.  We skated mostly the curbs and I felt like I was relearning 50s and crooks.  I couldn’t lay into a crooks on the 2 stair ledge to save my life although I would somehow land it almost everytime.  I can jib a crook everytime but I hate it.  Trying to grind it doesn’t seem to work for me.  I just pop right out everytime. Argh.  We tried some other stuff too.  I’m really trying to learn how to ollie so I went around ollieing the yellow flat bars over and over then tried to ollie a orange thing that was kinda tall.  Never got it.  Came close though before getting too tired.  I ended up ollieing it off the curb which is still somewhat hard because of the quick setup.  I suck at ollies.  Nate was killing back 180 fakie 50s, but had wrecked himself trying the ol’ front 50 back 180.  It got real cold come leaving time.  Skating ist rad.

SPIN – SXSW 2009: Dinosaur Jr. Interview
FARM JUNE 23!!!!!!!!

So many fun looking spots and I can’t believe how hard Jeff slams on them.