After the first night of not raging we woke up to rain. \u00a0Figures. \u00a0It was just showers though. \u00a0I skated some flat in front of Gordon’s house after it dried up. \u00a0I did like 20 kickflips just trying to get them to feel right. \u00a0They kinda started to finally. \u00a0Neil was landing pretty much everything he tried. \u00a0I managed an ok backside flip and a couple other flippers that gave me hope of being able to skate that day. \u00a0Next we went to the skatepark which was pretty crowded. \u00a0Nate, Jason and I stuck to the bottom corner and messed around on the jersey barrier. \u00a0Brian too. \u00a0I got my first ever rock ‘n roll on a jersey barrier. \u00a0I guess it’s a skatepark so it’s not legit, but it seemed pretty rad. \u00a0Brian got a good front rock on it. \u00a0Jason, Nate and I tried to do runs with wallrides on the barrier followed by manuals on the nearby ledge. \u00a0Nate was able to do all that with a nose manual. \u00a0Damn kids. \u00a0Jason and I could hardly ollie up the ledge. \u00a0It was soooo frustrating. \u00a0I threw a bit of a fit, but maintained myself. \u00a0Jason came up with a good list of reasons why we couldn’t do this. \u00a01. The ledge was slippery. \u00a02. There was \u00a0a crack. \u00a03. We’re old. \u00a04. Dennis Busenitz was skating the park. \u00a05. Brian Anderson was skating the park. \u00a06. We suck. \u00a0Ha. \u00a0After awhile I did a wallie front tail on the little bank hip that was there too and then resorted to just fanning out on the 100 pros that showed up for the Omar Salazar party. \u00a0Brian Anderson was the most impressive. \u00a0He was so rad that he would start lines outside the park doing slappys and end up inside the main area doing front lips on the huge bank. \u00a0Dude was ruling it so hard. \u00a0Such a casual style. \u00a0Such a rad dude.Next up Fuzz, Jason, Nate, Neil and I took the BART downtown to hopefully skate EMB area. \u00a0First we sessioned the wallride bank at the BART for awhile. \u00a0When we got off at Civic it was raining though. \u00a0DOH. \u00a0We walked and walked and walked and ended up at Hubba\/EMB and it was still wet. \u00a0Ugh. \u00a0We finally just went to eat dinner then we went back to the shop. \u00a0I skated flat in the shop for a bit. \u00a0Basically just did kickflips until they felt right which they finally did.After that we went to the Nike party and party partied. \u00a0Photos from that soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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