Is today’s song of the day.  

Solo mission to the Basemar shopping center which is only about a mile from my house.  There is a weak little bank along a bikepath that I started out on dorking a few tricks like disaster reverts and stuff.  Then I went to the ollie bump for awhile and amazed myself at how impossible it is for me to ollie higher than 3 inches. It took me at least 5 tries to get a decent ollie over a cardboard box.  Ugh.  I had a little run where I manualled the landing of the kicker then ollied into the bikepath bank and 180’d out of it.  Yippee.  I was about to try stuff over the cardboard box when a drunk bum popped out from a dumpster and scared the crap out of me.  He was stumbling all over the landing and stuff so I was over it and rolled over to the curved ledge nearby on campus.  If I ever manual that thing I would be so happy.  I ended up getting kicked out after only a couple warm up ollies.  Then it was flatground time where I almost rolled my ankle on a 360 flip.  I don’t know how I didn’t.  It was one of those weird bails where I thought for sure my ankle was done.  Thankfully not.  The area I was skating is uphill one way, downhill the other.  I have had this phobia of downhill skating all my life and decided to just deal with it.  It ended up working out and I even put together a few lines.  kickflip, b/s 180, halfcab flip, frontside flip.  front shove, varial flip, fakie big flip.  heelflip, no comply finger flip, 360 flip.  Most everything I landed was landed horribly except for a few heelflips.  For some reason heelflips felt amazing.  Fun solo session.

Beat from two nights of camping and not much sleep we arrived at the Cheyenne park at around 3 in the afternoon.  Skating didn’t go well.  I filmed Brian for awhile, but a huge storm moved in and we split out.

We didn’t even find out campsite until 1:30 the morning so everyone was a bit groggy.  We ended up at Wingers in Laramie to eat breakfast.  Yes, Wingers.  It wasn’t good, but then again it’s Laramie.  Right about the time we were finishing up lunch it started raining.  Hard.  And it lasted for a few hours.  Suck.  I took advantage of the down time and went and saw Napolitano.  So rad.  After awhile it stopped raining and we all went to the Laramie skatepark and dried it up using PJ’s squeegies and some towels and whatnot.  A really fun session went down.  It started for me by losing in a game of SKATE to Fuzz, but Napolitano was the first one out so I can finally claim I beat you Eric!  Ha!  Neil skated non-stop, PJ had the lines, Fuzz slayed all, Brian got a banger and Lazer rips.  I spent the first hour just cruising around the skatepark doing kickflips up and off the curbs there.  It was a total blast.  After awhile I finally skated the tranny and got a back 50 that was about 1/20th as cool as PJs.  Right before leaving I landed a f/s halfcab flip off the taller of the curbs.  Rad.  Then we went camping and to my suprise my tent was dry.  Pictures of the party should be up here soon.

Started with a big crew of old dudes at the Egg & I in Loveland which I’ve never skated before.  Was having a blast and getting into tricks like front noseblunt and kick back tail and then Neil wanted to film.  Filmed for awhile, then after that couldn’t skate as well.  Doh.  Next up was this big taco/rainbow ledge thing that none of us have skated before and man it was way tougher to skate then we imagined.  Some tricks went down though and Fuzz killed it.  He did a ton of tricks and ended it with a blunt.  So sick.  After about 20 tries I got a front rock and then later put down a clean kickflip wallride somehow.  Cool.