So many rippers out there today.

Completely exhuasted from snowboarding the last few days.  Ollie wanted to ride the ramp.  I couldn’t do anything and gave up from exhaustion.  Ollie learned fakie kickturns, ie halfcabs without ollies.  He also did a couple more intentional fakie ollies above coping.  Ridiculous.

Skated Rampy before my trip to Utah.  Was tired as hell, but wanted to skate since I wouldn’t be able to much after that.  I tried to do every trick I’ve done before on it.  In the end I may have done most of them, but somewhere in the middle I went down on a front smith grind and totally ate it.  I went off the edge of the ramp and missed getting my hands on the corner so hit my face right on the tranny.  It hurt super bad.  Not only did I hit the side of my face, but it scraped up my neck and ear pretty good on the side of the ramp.  It hurt really bad.  I kept skating, but wow.

Having a blast snowboarding.  This photo pretty much sums it up.  Powder, blue skies and fun times.  More when I have energy.

This is throw away? Can’t wait for the Real video.

Setup a new board.  This time an 8″.  Felt good.  Ollie and I skated for awhile.  Time for skate dad bragging time.  He did three new tricks.  Backside pivot/slash grind, backside ollie and fakie ollie to manual to the other side.  He also did a fakie ollie above coping.  It was kind of on accident but sick!  I didn’t do anything special, but got a couple fakie front smith fakies.  Later on Reed, Lazer, Elijah and Elliot came over to film some stuff for Grind TV.  Ha.  I sucked.  Those guys ripped.  I really sucked.  And I sucked at the acting they wanted me to to.  OH well I felt like crap.

Best game of SKATE at the Berrics yet. PJ rules. He pops his tricks so high with such good style.

Steven Webb. Some whack tricks in there, but for the most part it’s amazing and my god the kid can do anything.

Had a blast playing with the kids and hit Rampy after reading the kids to sleep.  Skated ok.  Got a few more of those fakie front smith to fakie stalls.  Tried to do front smiths and front d out of axle stalls and finally got them.  I’m really trying to get out of my rock fakie/tail stall rut to set up for everything.  Did a lot of back 5-0s, couldn’t do an ollie.  Way too tight, I have no idea how Lazer does it.  I got really tired quickly and decided my new trick would be an easy one – switch rock ‘n roll.  I rock creek’d it real good too.  I tried a few out of front disaster, but eh, too tired.

It had snowed a bit and was cold in the morning, but somehow the sun came out and it ended up being pretty warm.  Jason and I met up with Neil, Fuzz and the Meta crew at an amazing ledge spot.  Everyone else was warmed up so it was kind of a bummer to start of sucking like I was.  But it got fun quick.  I tried a front 50 and ended up locking into 5-0 and shoved out.  I also got a sloppy front 50 front bigspin out.  I was feeling pretty good at that point, but then kinda went downhill for awhile and could only do front 50s.  Lame.  The ledge is really fun though, it’s fun to grind for a long time.  Fuzz freaked out and focused his board and a jug of water.  Neil landed a first ever front tail shove out.  Jason killed a long front noseslide.  After a long drive we ended up at a really fun tight little bank to ledge.  Jason straight killed it.  Back smith, back tail, everything quick.  I got a wallie out of the ledge, front rock, front smith stall and somewhat close to a kickflip pivot.  I ended the day with another wallie.  So fun.