Went to Louisvllie park with Jason and only 2 other people were there.  We were hyped.  Then we tried to skate.  I don’t know what was wrong with me, but I felt the least coordinated I’ve felt in a long time and that’s saying a lot.  I tried and tried to get warmed up, but nothing was happening.  Jason and I decided to just skate the bank to curb thing.  He killed it and I didn’t.  Although it did somehow seem to warm me up a little.  I landed a few crooks and a front 50 back 180.  Tried a bunch of 5-0 shoves and didn’t get close.  This teenage kid showed up and killed the place with tons of energy.  If I had 1/10 of the energy he had I would have been stoked.  Damn kids.

After the Omaha Botanical Gardens with Liz and her parents and some minigolf with Liz’s Dad I headed to Fremont to meet up with Joe, Dan and Matt, aka, the raddest dudes ever.  Ok, well maybe not ‘ever’, but their up there for sure.  We all met at the ledge of fall ledges, Linden.  20 feet long and about 10″ tall it’s a beauty.  Warming up was fun, I came remotely close to front smiths, but Dan and Matt were killing it and showing their home town spot who owns it.  Dan and Matt ended up doing the raddest Broflip of all time.  You’ll have to wait for 411 to come back to see it.  Then Matt strapped on his camera feet and attempted to film me doing a line.  I don’t think he knew what he was in for.  The goal for me was to do a nollie 360 flip then a front 50 back 180 out.  I think it took at least 50 tries to land a nollie 360 flip and when I did it was a bad one.  I’m calling ‘over 35’ though and Matt is the man for spending 18 hours filming me.  Then we filmed a skit for my Off The Couch part that will surely make one or two people laugh.  Not only is the Fremont crew fun as hell to skate with, but they can even act better than Heather Graham.  Thanks again Matt, you rule for filming so much.  

Nebraska .. The Good Life. 

You know it’s on when you see a car like this on the way to the park.  The rear window was cut at an angle to fit and the right rear light looks like it was taken from a contruction site.  So funny and so Council Bluffs.  Matt and I saw this car a couple blocks before the park.  I was pretty sore from side spasms, sore neck and golfing with Liz’s dad that morning.  I haven’t golfed in 18 years and managed to not get any better in years of night trying.  That’s about what I would expect.  We met up with Drew and started cruising around the park.  Before long Joe and Dan from the Fremont crew showed up too and the session was in full swing.  Joe killed the ledge.  Matt can kickflip into 50 but can’t land them on flat.  Drew was killing everything.  Dan was almost doing manuals to front board everytime, but somehow not doing them.  I was there landing a few basic tricks here and there.  Toward the end Joe, Dan and I played a game of SKATE.  I was losing pretty bad and blaming it on my sore everything when out of nowhere I put down a nollie treflip followed by a treflip to out everyone.  Word!  The session was really fun and that park is awesome.After some crappy food at McDonalds we headed to downtown Omaha.  By then my side was acting up too much and no amount of Tylenol would help.  I really wanted to skate, but basically just watched everyone.  The funnest thing was bombing a hill.  Drew was killing it though and he’s got a great attitude toward skating.  Rad.  Good session even though I didn’t skate that well.