Been way into older Thermals again lately. It’s just so fun! They have a new album coming out in April, hope it’s as good as the last one.

Seems like Monday’s are becoming my solo skate night over at Table Mesa shopping center. I love skating by myself sometimes. Unfortunately it became all to clear right away that skateboarding was going to be very difficult when I bailed ollieing up a curb. Ugh. I pretty much skated like crap, but tried lines at a couple spots until I got them. Over by Play It Again Sports I did a front shove on flat, nollie back tail on the curb (the worst one that’s ever been done), ollied over a weird parking block, ollied up a curb, ollied a little flat gap, nollied up a little curb, kickflip on flat, front tail the curb I started on. I had to sit down after that one and rest awhile. Every trick was done horribly, but it was fun linking them together. Next I went over the some painted curbs that were freshly painted and did my best to remove the fresh paint with my trucks. I put a few tries in to manual the pad in front of it then slappy grind the curb. This was hard because the ground between the manual pad was rough as hell and I wanted to go fast enough that I didn’t push in between. Before long I did probably the fastest manual I’ve ever done followed by a slappy 50 then turned around and kickflipped up the curb. Rad. Sat down for awhile again. Then I hit King Soopers via the fun downhill sidewalk gap thing. I want to try and link a line there next time: some flipper into the sidewalk, ollie the gap, make the turn onto the sidewalk, kickflip off the curb, then front lipslide a parking block. Next time maybe? Anyways, before I left I started to really lose it from being tired and spent a bunch of energy trying to quick up to ollie onto the bench in front of Tandoori Grill. I got it a couple times, but it was weak. I blame the lack of light though. Ha. All in all I skated bad, but I skated hard and sometimes that’s fun enough.

Such a good game. PJ still rules.

Got picked up by the Factory in the Icebox around 1 and we headed out to the Broomfield area. First spot was a weird metal beam/ledge thing that I didn’t hit as it was too tall for me. I was feeling pretty out of it and just did a bunch of kickflips in a row to try and get my feet moving. Then a game of SKATE with Rob that I don’t think we even finished. Next up was a weird small bank to rails spot. Brian and I tried some pole jams to fakie and didn’t get close then I tried to carve around the bank and launch out of the side. I didn’t make the carve and my board went under the rail, but then came out after a ledge. Impossible to understand in words I suppose, but I ended up getting a weird sideways hippy jump while holding onto the top bar. It’s ridiculously stupid, but super awesome at the same time. Jason and Rob killed it too with some stall tricks on the lower bar. Jason did a alley oop fakie 5-0, but the TF cameraman recorded over it. Suck! Next we skated this one section for awhile where Rob, Jason and I skated a little hip for a second. I got a no comply 360 over it and a couple kickflips. Nothing special, but it was fun. In the same lot was a metal angled thing that we ollied on and did tricks off of. Rob did a super sick bonelss off. Jason almost got a manual up to 5-0 down I think. I got a boneless 180 off and then slammed and lost a lot of drive to continue skating it. Next up everyone skated the bumper of the Icebox for awhile. My noseslides sucked, but we filmed the end of the video. Lastly I skated a tiny little gap that I could barely ollie, then filmed a bit and almost fell asleep in the van. Fun day.

It was about 25 degrees and almost still snowing.  Brian and Neil picked me up and we went to a gnarly little bank thing that Brian wanted to blunt fakie.  After almost getting hit by a bus filming him and freezing our asses off we split to red curbs.  There was a run I’ve wanted to do for awhile and that’s basically all I tried.  After awhile Brian was kind enough to film it and surprisingly I landed it on film.  Front 5-0 on a curb, noseslide 270 on the ledge, no comply 270 back tail on a curb.  Very hyped on it.  That was basically the whole session for me, and filming Brian get a sick line.  Pretty rad day considering how cold it was.  

Prolly the first time we’ve skated Rampy and Ollie didn’t learn a new trick.  I was still fighting a cold and kinda just chilled.  Don’t remember anything in particular that I landed, but it was fun.  

The slow motion section at the end is a bit much, but man the kid can skate.

Got bitten by a bad cold that even kept me home from work.  After a day of lounging around and napping I had felt a bit better and decided to roll around on rampy for a few minutes.  Didn’t really care about trying tricks so much, but ended up trying alley oop back 50s.  I would get into most of them, but not grind because Rampy is too narrow.  At the end I got a weak little fakie 50 and decided to call it a night.  I’d love to get that one good like Jason.

My new goal in life.  To stay at The Glen in Gillingham, England!  Can’t wait to make my reservation, “What’s your name sir?”, “Glen Gillingham!”  Ha it’s gonna be so sick!

After a fun time playing catch with a nerf football we headed out to Rampy for about a half an hour.  Ollie had some problems with his halfcab kickturn things for awhile then started spinning them around perfect.  He claimed he wanted to do them to rock fakie.  I didn’t think he had it in him, but I should have known better.  Right as India and Liz roll in to say dinner was ready he lands it.  Sick!  I did a few of my basics before settling on back tail attempts.  Only a couple were close.  Gotta get that trick.