After a night of celebrating Obama winning the election I may have actually had a hangover for the first time in forever.  But it wasn’t much and I was hyped to finally be able to setup a new deck.  I had been waiting on account of the election to see how to decorate my griptape.  I went the emo “YES WE DID” route.  Whatever, I’m not about to be embarresed about my excitement on Obama being our next president.  Anyways, my flaground was pretty weak, but getting used to a new board isn’t easy for me.  It was fun and Ollie joined me for a bit at the school.  He manualed a section of sidewalk and landed by rolling off the curb.  Pretty rad really.Later on it was Neil, Brian, Gordon and me meeting up with Chris, Chad, Grant and some other Ft COllins heads at the Longmont park.  It was a rad session until Brian, Neil and Gordon wanted to go home way before I wanted to.  Oh well, it was cold and I was tired anyways.  I got into a few noseblunts on the flatbank and maybe even started getting an idea of how to land them.  I also landed a smith grind on the little ledge.  It was a weak one but I’m hyped that I’m starting to get that trick.

I was too sick to go.  Ugh.  Looked fun.

This was taken from cnn.com on Nov 3rd.  We’ll see how accurate they were in a day or two.This one is from RealClearPolitics.com

Danny Way’s stuff is beyond incredible.  And I’m normally a snowboard jump hater.  360 flip manual seriously?  Putting Wenning right after Way is a bit odd and boring.  Oh well.  For the most part this promo is sick.  Sheckler has some big stuff, but it’s not enough to shut me up.  There is a better quality clip on the Plan B site.

Geto Boys – Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta

Met Nate up on the hill for a late evening campus session.  Another nice night in the upper 40s.  We rolled by a few spots before we ended up and some tiny yellow curbs that were perfect for slappies.  We had a blast trying some weird variations and lines.  I tried a few slappy crooks but never got one.  There were so many leaves on the ground in spots.  We were cruising down a sidewalk and at times you couldn’t tell where the sidewalk was versus the grass.  It was dope.  We hit all kinds of fun little spots before ending the session a couple hours later.  Another fun night.

Brian, Neil, Travis, Simpson, Fuzz, Lazer, Gordon and I at Northside in Ft Collins once again.  We warmed up at the taco thing in Loveland for a bit before getting the boot.  I had been trying front shove wallrides, but not really.  I took forever to warmup up at Northside and was rather embarresed since everyone else was killing it.  I eventually started having fun.  I tried to carve frontside on the brick bank and boardslide the inside of the bench, but couldn’t get my weight right.  I got a few axle stalls on the mellow part of the jersey barrier then started trying a run.  Wallie into the north shallow bowl thing, axle stall on the mellow jersey barrier then back 50 the east wall quarterpipe.  Pretty fun.  I closed the day be getting pink slipped by Fuzz in SKATE.  Although I did land the worst 360 and fakie 360 flips ever done.

Today’s song of the day.  So sick.  I remember when they premiered this on Mtv and people freaked out.

Mikey, Chad, Riley, Bernie and I headed to Aurora park on a super nice warm day.  I had the day off work and after selling some boards we went to Aurora park.  Riley, Mikey and Chad skated the kicker to mellow bank so ridiculously good.  Riley put down all types of grabs before moving on to a second try kickflip that was textbook.  Mikey put down a pop shove in seconds and a nollie heel shortly after.  A few tries later Riley put down the steeziest backside flip I’ve ever seen.  So ridiculous.  I was having one of those really timid days where I was too tired to put much energy into my skating.  When I’m tired I suck at skating.  I tried a run where I’d boardslide the flatbar, manual down this ledge thing and kickflip the hip.  I never quite linked all three together.  Doh.  I sucked, but watching the Nullers kill it was fun.

Skated a little bit with Ollie at the school across the street.  I was very tired and just kind of goofing off.  Ollie managed to manual across the country.  Ok, the painting of USA they have on the cement.  Pretty rad though.  Later on Brian and Neil picked me up and we met Sean and half of Ft Collins at the Longmont park.  Neil straight killed it.  The only good that came out of the session for me was boardsliding the entire little ledge at full speed and getting into frontside noseblunts on the flat bank.  Oh and a fun game of SKATE with Sean, Neil and Brian where I finally landed a decent backside 360 no comply.  Rad.