Started the day off skating with Ollie at the school for a while.  We mostly skated the yellow curb above the four stair.  It’s pretty fun trying to do every stall I can do.  I got nosepick disaster smith 180.  Ha.  Ollie started trying halfcabs off the curb and it blew me away.  He was actually popping them pretty high.  He never rode out of one, but it still blew me away.  I started trying no comply finger flips off the curb and eventually got a few.  I’ve never tried that trick down a curb.  It felt slightly different, but it was fun and put a smile on my face.After going to the CU game with India and then a nap I met up with the Trick Factory about the time sun was setting.  They all wanted food and stopped at Wendys.  Travis and I rolled over to the Grease Monkey because there is a rock on top of a manny pad there that could be moved around.  We pushed it off the curb and started wallieing up it onto the manny pad.  I eventually got a couple wallie manuals.  So hyped.  Off to Valmont.  Skating there sometimes really bums me out.  I skate there a lot and not landing tricks bums me out there more than normal.  Anyways I tried a run for awhile.  Knowing the camera was in the car and that trying it on film would fail seemed to bum me out too.  After awhile Fuzz, Brian and I played a never ending game of SKATE.  It ended up being a blast.  Seeing Brian attempt flip tricks rules.  He landed a front foot impossible.  First time I’ve ever seen him land it.  I landed a nollie treflip.  Best feeling trick ever.  Well, maybe not, but I don’t believe I’ve ever had a bad session that involves a nollie 360 flip.  Up next was a game of SKATE on a metal crate propped up against a wall with Brian and Gabe.  Once again this game never really ended, but it was easily one of the funnest sessions I’ve had in awhile.  We did rock ‘n rolls on the sides, wallies off the sides, rock ‘n rolls, Gabe and Brian did rock fakies, and we got to the point of doing axle stalls on the top which was pretty hard actually.  I somehow pulled off a back smith stall then was gonna try back smith to fakie, but kinda hurt my foot.  I called it at that, but Gabe, Brian and Fuzz started joking around only doing tricks that they could get speed for by tic tac’ing.  It was hilarious.  

The first day of skating in a long sleeve is typically one of my favorite days of skating each year. Not this year. Jason, Gabe and I went to the rainbow ledge area. I could not do anything. This might be partially due to me having a new deck, but it was pathetic. I was sucking so bad on the ledge that I chose to just film Jason who was killing it. He did every trick I’ve seen him do there. Jason is 37. He rules.