Song Of The Day. Getting hyped to see Conor play on my birthday. His live solo shows kill it.

Had a late night skate date with Nate for almost a week and we made it happen even though it was cold outside. We decided on going to the Ideal Market area as neither of us have skated there much and we felt like exploring. It took us about 30 seconds to find a sick plastic bench that I wasn’t warmed up enough to skate. But we kept at it. It’s a tall ledge in a narrow walkway with a handrail behind it so it’s not the easiest thing to skate at all. I did a couple weak backside noseslides and boardslides before trying a crooks and somehow locking in perfect and grinding really far with a pop out. Wow. I ended up getting a few more crooks that weren’t as good and some front 50s. Neither of us could get 5-0s at all. Doh. Sometimes those plastic benches stick a bit too much. Nate got some really good back 50s though.Then we skated this angled sidewalk that could be insanely good for grinding/sliding with a little bondo over a crack and some wax at the top. But we still had fun and ended up hitting it in a line. I was getting frustrated as hell, but ended up linking a bunch of bad tricks: kickflip on flat, barely ollie a tiny gap over a curb, front slash on the angled sidewalk, ollie up the tiny gap, 180 another one like it then a fakie flip. I should be fakie flipping over the gap. I suck at gaps! Nate and I then played a game of SKATE that started very slow, but toward the end got pretty good. I landed a decent b/s flip, 360 flip, heelflip, fakie bigflip near the end of the game. Unfortunately the lights shut off and we had to move the game when it was T to T. I think I won it with a varial flip at that point. Lame.We headed up into a parking garage and cruised down it, checked some stuff out. Found a nice ledge you can cali grind down a six stair. I tried it a few times in the dark, but it was too sketchy. At the end we skated a ledge that should be skated more and Nate did some really good front board slides on it. I was wanting to quit for the night, but ended up giving a few a try and landed some horrible ones. We ended the night after I slammed trying to kickflip a crack on the downhill approach to the ledge. Fun night. Skating new spots is the best.

This is getting me even more excited to skate SF in TWO WEEKS! Whehoo!

I’m still hyped for Tyler so I feel I should hype the Hype and say hype as much as humanly possible. This clip is Tyler’s teammate and this clip hypes me up to go skate some streets. Hyped!

It was supposed to be my day off skating, but oh well. Little Jack came over around 9pm and I skated with him for a bit while he warmed up to film a little web montage. I skated pretty crappy, but then again my legs were totally dead. At least I didn’t fall. It was cool seeing Jack have problems with Rampy at first which always reminds me how hard it is to skate. But it didn’t take him long to bust out some moves and film the following little montage.Since Jack is one of the few people that reads my blog I should probably at least make fun of him in some way. Jack, there are tic tacks at :31 and :39 and you had already stopped sliding before putting your front foot on the no comply tailslide. Weak sauce dude. Weak sauce. Ha ha you know I’m joking.

Still on an older Thermals kick.

Wow. This part is pretty much non stop amazingness. Speed, good style, tech, long lines, new spots. Man, so good.

Wow, there are rippers everywhere these daysThis Mag Minute impressed me enough to look for more .... and I found this shop part. Wow. Dude rips.

No matter how late I stay up the kids still get up at 7 and wake me up.  This week I don’t have to be to work until after 9am so I had some time to kill after the kids went to school and it was warm out so I chose to skate the Boulder park and write this run on sentence about it.  I didn’t feel like ollieing really and kinda just cruised around for awhile before kind of focusing on a line: Drop in on the 8′ bowl, 5-0 out of the roll in, rolldown the steep wall, ollie the nipple thing, go around, ride over the table top then backside ollie the weird hip, turn and frontside ollie the pyramid hip.  I didn’t do any of them worth a damn, but it was a fun way to start off the day.Later on Ollie and I were skating Rampy before dinner.  Things were going decent in between Ollie’s 20 minute runs of pumping until I slammed insanely hard trying to recover from a fakie 50 fakie.  I don’t know what happened other then I tried to bail, but stepped right back on my board.  SUCK! 

Click the image and watch one of the best web clips in awhile. The whole team is ridiculously amazing and the filming/editing is top notch. Could be some better music though. Oh, you can download the Quicktime of it which I highly recommend since it loads so slowly.