I tried to get the kids to play basketball or baseball or something other than skateboarding, but Ollie was insistent that we go skating.  We went to the school across the street.  India rode her scooter and Ollie rode his skateboard.  Behind the school there is a little drainage ditch that is about 2 feet long with grass on one side.  Ollie tried over and over to ollie it.  Pretty rad, he was actually snapping his tail pretty hard.  My legs were dead once again, but I joked around and did a front shove and kickflip over it into the grass.  It’s so fun skating with Ollie because I can totally just goof around and try tricks I’d normally be too embarrassed about.  Ollie ended up doing a halfcab ollie into the little ditch.  It was quite rad actually.  He started asking me how to do shove it’s and kickflips as well.  I told him to get his ollies down first so he doesn’t end up like me.  Ha.  I spent at least 10 minutes trying flatground manuals with back shoves out.  Never got one.  Decent time for what it was and how sore my legs were.

Met Nate at the little manny pad.  Pretty tired.  Pretty sore.  Took me about 10 tries to get a manual.  Almost over it, but kept going.  Nate shows up and does manny, nose manny and front 180 nose manny first try.  Kids these days.  I ended up just trying kickflip mannys over and over and ended up getting a couple.  Other than that I put down a few flippers I haven’t since before the hip.  Ok session.

So I have to confess, I started this crossfit workout thing in the morning with my homie Zach and it’s killing me.  I don’t know that my legs have ever felt this sore.  Instead of resting or chilling I went skating with Ollie out at the mellow bank to curb.  At first even a backside stall was difficult.  After seeing Ollie ollie (yeah I know, I didn’t really think that threw when we named him Ollie) off the end of the loading dock and land it I figured I better step it up. But even that wasn’t enough to give my legs any pop.  Before we left I was finally able to do a few basic tricks on the bank to curb.  Ollie was doing nosestalls on it and did a rock fakie by putting his front wheels up on the fence.  So rad.  He’ll be better than me in no time.

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And that’s saying a lot.  I had run a mile earlier in the day and was super sore.  Ok, ridiculously sore.  I couldn’t hardly ollie at all.  I ended up just riding down these four long stairs and manualing out of them.  Stupid, but kinda fun.

Skated red curbs due to the rain. There was puddles everywhere, but it was still fun. I couldn’t really do flippers at all due to my hip still feeling weird, but it was fun. The only two things I did remotely cool were a front 180 over a puddle followed by a switch 180 to front 50 and an ollie over puddle to manual to noseslide fakie. Yipped. Filmed a bunch which hurt bending down but the old guys came through with some bangers.

Hyped to see Greg being promoted, but bummed to see it’s the same footage I filmed years ago.  Oh well, he does look good in that Null shirt.  Oiii!

Brighton has a new Site Design skatepark. It looks decent, I wasn’t able to skate though due to my hip hurting. The bowls look fun, the street course is a too tight, but it’s got some ok stuff. Click on some of the pictures for a bigger image.Brian Ball crailslide over the deathbox.Brian Ball front rockJason Heidecker front noseLloyd Albright frontside flipLloyd Albright smith grindMore Lloyd front tailThe park is located at: Brighton Skate Complex1101 Judicial Center ParkwayBrighton CO 80601Google Map it

Jason has been my main skate homie of the last 10 or so years.  Wow.  It was a Friday and we were celebrating his 37th birthday by going skateboarding all day.  We started at Windsor skatepark where Jason skated the best any of us have ever seen him skate.  It was amazing.  He did front board fakie and front board down one of the rails, powerslides on everything, feebles on the flatbar, basically, he didn’t skate anything like you would think a 37 year old should skate.  Jason rules.  Myself, I didn’t skate all that hot.  I tried several no comply tailslides on the bank and rode out of a couple bad ones.  New trick for me so I’ll take it for now.  Jack, Nate and I played a game of SKATE that Jack ended up winning while beating me with a switch flip.  Not only did he say “ok Glen, here you go” before doing it, but he made it look like it’s as tough as rolling off a curb.  Basterd.  One day I’m gonna land it though, and then I will also win a million dollars in the lottery.Next we skated a fullpipe.  It has all these sketchy bolt things sticking out every 8 feet or so.  I hit one.  I slammed.  Hard.  3 days later and my hip still hurts and is all black/blue.  Ugh ugh ugh.  No more skating for me.Then it rained and we ended up at the covered manny pad.  Gabe, PJ, Chad.Jason was the last one skating.  From the left, Jack, Nate, Chris, Jason, Gabe, PJ, Chad all sitting while the oldest dude there was still skating.  Go Jason.Nose manny like he’s only landed a couple.  Oh wait, he has only landed a couple.  Rad, Jason killed it.

Congrats to MRKT on getting the location they’ve wanted for awhile.  The grand opening party has Gonz artwork, Krooked/MRKT decks, New Belgium MRKT brew.  Party!