Good skaters all over the place these days.

Jason and I headed over to Nate’s to pick him up.  While waiting we found a remotely fun bank to curb.  By bank to curb I mean there was a bank up to a curb.  It’s only a curb high.  Jason almost got back tailslide on it.  I tried a few front 50 back 180s and back 5-0s to fakie, but the crack at the bottom was too much.  Then we drove to Longmont and met up with Bernie and Riley at a curb high manny pad that had more to offer than just a straight manny pad.  Riley murdered it.  Fakie flip fakie manual, sw heel and switch flip to switch nose manual, nollie heel nose man, etc.  Rad.  I was sucking and I’m gonna blame my shoes.  I got some $6 Vans Geoff Rowley Shambles and they suck.  Well, they were good for about a week, and now I’m on week two.  Over them.  All I got was a manual, a front shove and kickflip over the gap.  Yippee.  Next we wet to a pole jam spot that Riley had made.  I cruised around sucking at ollies for awhile until I fell back and my neck started acting up again then skated the pole jam.  For a long time it was bent all weird so there was about a 6 inches of vertical before it bent to an angle.  Riley murdered it as well.  Switch polejam front 180.  Wow.  We got rid of the bend so it was a straight pole jam.  Steeper, but straight.  It was sick.  I got one no comply pole jam and Nate learned pole jam front 180s.  So sick.  Fun night, I need to skate better though.

Probably shouldn’t have skated at all due to a really sore neck, but I did.  Mostly in front of the house or across the street at the school with Ollie.  I really didn’t land anything special, but have been trying to skate faster and that aint easy to do with a stiff neck.  The weirdest thing is nollie and switch flips flip really well with the 8″ board.  Now I just need to put my feet on them.

I don’t know Angel personally, but he’s nice and he skates hard.  I’m assuming this means he’s turning pro.  Good for him. Keep reppin’ the CO!

Wow, Greg wasn’t joking when he said that Ben Raybourn rips.

Took Ollie and a buddy to Stonehenge in the morning ( aka the bank to curb spot ). They wanted to go to a skatepark, but I didn’t feel like watching over two kids worrying that some stupid BMXer would run into them or something. Plus my take on kids at skateparks is that you should be able to skate before you go to them. The session was actually quite fun. I got a front smith fakie which I haven’t done in forever. I also put a rock after the loading dock and would move it out further everytime I landed an ollie. I got out about 5 feet which is pretty weaksauce. Whatevs though, it was fun.I setup a new deck that the kids decorated for me then went out again around 8pm since it was so nice outside. I ended up at this weird/stupid area that has a tall bench surrounded by cracks and some crack ridden manny pads. I was trying to piece together some lines, but ended up getting kicked out. Oh well, sleepy sleep sounds good.

Fuzz, in Crocs.  Wow.  And yes, it’s a joke.  Hopefully anyway.After a pretty long wait to get the crew together we met at Brighton park with some decent cloud cover. Some were ripping, but I officially could not skate for shit. I wasn’t the only one though.  At one point Lloyd and I tried to play a game of SKATE and gave up after 4 failed kickflips. I had to fight back the urge to focus my board constantly.Next we went to a bank spot that needed to be swept and waxed up. It was a frustrating session to say the least. No one was really feeling it. It was kinda weird because half the crew didn’t even skate which surprised me. It’s a mellow bank, who doesn’t want to at least give it a try? The only thing I did was land a couple back 5-0s to fakie that were horrible.Next we went to the infamous boob spot. So hard to skate. Fuzz, Lloyd and Neil were killing it immediately. Melons, stales, anything they wanted. I was still fighting the urge to focus my board. I eventually landed a wallride and a smile finally emerged on my face that I couldn’t hold back. Wow, I was having fun! About time. I failed at several other tricks then went back to the wallride. Skelly was working on wallies and bet me a beer for whoever landed it first. I pulled through somehow. A few tries later and Sean got taken out with a horribly bad rolled ankle. Ouch. Lloyd slayed that spot. Wallie front 180 into the bank. So sick. Felt great to skate a full day again even if the first 3/4 sucked miserably.Lloyd trick of the day.  Wallie front 180.

Pretty much just hung out with the kids all evening, but skated flatground on the street for awhile while Ollie and his buddy Cooper skated the sidewalk.  It actually went kind of ok for me.  I mostly just tried the basics but going faster than I normally do, which isn’t saying much.  Ollie ollied (I’m gonna have to change his name) a skate deck which kinda hyped me up.  I got lots of kickflips with a bit of speed and shove its.  Sounds weak, but somehow it was fun.  Been trying lots of nollie flips again lately too.

Legs were dead, tried to skate the ramp.  Didn’t go so well.  Not wanting to fall on my hip combined with lack of skating lately equals lack of skills for me.  Fun crew though.  Worst journal update yet.   By far.  I should at least list some tricks or something.  Nah, even Jason was struggling on the ramp and he owns ramp.

Was browsing the Slap message board and saw a link about Danny Gonzales.  That dude rips.  Screw whoever for blacklisting this dude, he rips.