A night hanging beers with JP always guarantees a rough next day and this day would be no different. We started at Rock Creek and it went alright. I got some fakie pop rock creeks on and Josh regained most of his arsenal like back tails and front disasters all steezey.After two huge burritos at Chipotle we set out for Commerce City. This didn’t go so well. Between the two of us we might be able to add the decent tricks on one hand. Ugh, hangovers suck.

Josh Pluger was visiting from the city of angels. The heat was kicking and the crew was large. First spot was red curbs. Josh is a bit shy like me and I felt a little bad about the crew being so deep at 8. But everyone is old and fun so it was cool. About the only tricks I landed worth a shit are crooks on the 2 stair ledge, front 50 back 180 out, front 180 nose manual and got a nollie front shove up a curb although I wanted it to land in manny.Next we went to Boulder ditch. Jason showed me up on a back smith stall and I sat down as did almost everyone.Rock Creek was the final destination and man it was a blast as usual. On top of not sucking on the ramp as bad as normal I managed to beat Fuzz at SKATE for the first time. I got lucky though.

Headed up to Fort Collins with Brian, Jason, Lazer and Gabe to skate a new “bowled in” mini that Skelly invited us to. Got there a bit late but it ended up being a blast. Brian and Lazer killed it. Christopher was there and he and all the young rippers killed at too. I got a few basic tricks, but had fun doing them. It’s nice having finally learned back 50s.Next we went to a bank to ledge that’s been around forever. Took awhile to get warmed up, but Jason, Skelly and I were the only ones that really skated it. Brian and Lazer tried to sleep in the car. Those dudes are really old. Especially Lazer, he’s like 45 years old already. At the end Sean was trying to no comply the ledge, I was trying to kickflip axle stall and Jason was going for back tail revert. The loser was to buy Gatorade for everyone. Sean got his trick and I got his back. Jason didn’t and he didn’t buy us Gatorade. Huh.Late night skating is the best.

VOX will be coming through Colorado July 20th & 21st. I might make the Boulder one. Who knows. Kind of a stupid name for a tour in my opinion, but one things for sure, VOX is sick and skateboarders should support companies like VOX as much as they can.

Guess I’ll posts some jokes on here now and then too.Rabidplaybunny87: Okay, so my neighbors officially hate meGarbageStan23: why?Rabidplaybunny87: Well, me, david and andrew were having a bonfire in the backyard, and we were making s’mores and all… and suddenly we here sirens, and see a firetruck turn into the street in front of us.Rabidplaybunny87: So we all went running to see what was up, and our neigbor’s house was on fire!GarbageStan23: oh shit!Rabidplaybunny87: Yeah, and when we got there, the wife was crying into her husbands arms, and we were just kinda standing there, and then she saw us, and then like for 10 seconds, gave us the dirtiest look everRabidplaybunny87: Turns out, we were still holding our sticks with marshmallows on it, watching the fire….Rabidplaybunny87: talk about bad timing…This came from here.

The Nebraska state motto is “The Good Life” and I’m pretty fond of Nebraska these days so buying this hat was a must.Upon further inspection of the hat it’s got some famous people in the lining like Slick Rick, HR from Bad Brains, some dude from Gwar and more people I don’t know about that Sam from Meta laughed at me for not knowing. The weird thing is none of these celebrities are from Nebraska. I don’t get it. If you’re gonna make a hat with the Nebraska state motto on it, why have celebrities that aren’t from Nebraska on it? Maybe it’s because there are no celebrities from Nebraska? I don’t know. But I do know that Omaha is pretty awesome and some of my favorite people in the world to skate with live in Nebraska. Anyways, I like the hat and I’m happy representing Nebraska without having to wear anything to do with the Cornhuskers.Speaking of Cornhuskers, if you are ever in Nebraska you have to play the Cornhusker game. It’s like Slug Bug, but with Nebraska Huskers logos. Anytime you seen anything Huskers you punch the person next to you in the arm and say ‘Huskers’. Prepare to have a sore arm because entire families dress in Husker gear out there. Seriously it’s insane, half the trailer hitches on pickup trucks have little Husker stickers on them as well. It’s insane.

Does it even count? Did a few kickflips and front shovs while waiting for a friend to show up. Still digging the little board.

The whole Real team is sick, but Busenitz is like way up there in my skate nerd godliness. I was at 303 the other day and they were building a crazy quickcrete bowl/ramp/banks/hips/ledges little skatepark that looks pretty much fun as hell. Can’t wait to watch them skate it.

This is about the 4th instance of me doing a skate journal. Maybe this one will last again. It’s mainly for me to look back and remember the fun times I have skating and for my skate buddies to nerd out on as well.Been pretty frustrated with my board feel lately and have been obsessed with the idea of setting up a small board to try and regain some board control. Luckily I have the luxury of walking into my room and picking from a pile of 200 decks. I have been skating 7.875 for over two years straight which isn’t even a big board by todays standards. But hey, I’m extra uncoordinated ok. Anyways, the shape of the 7.625 looked perfect so I went with that.Good ol’ Nate was down for skating as usual and we met up at the little manny pad that I’ve been flailing around on for years. The new board felt pretty much great immediately. Great, now I don’t have any excuses for sucking! The session ended up being a total blast. I landed a bunch of 360 flips and put down a few heelflips which I haven’t landed in forever. I was hucking all kinds of tricks and even landing some. Nate is good and did tricks like nollie back 180 switch manual to swith front 180 out. Damn kids these days. I got a nollie front shove manny (over 35 make) and a nose manny back shove out and came close to a fakie bigspin manual.All in all a great session and I’m digging the new board. I promise to try and make these posts less boring.