It was supposed to be my day off skating, but oh well. Little Jack came over around 9pm and I skated with him for a bit while he warmed up to film a little web montage. I skated pretty crappy, but then again my legs were totally dead. At least I didn’t fall. It was cool seeing Jack have problems with Rampy at first which always reminds me how hard it is to skate. But it didn’t take him long to bust out some moves and film the following little montage.Since Jack is one of the few people that reads my blog I should probably at least make fun of him in some way. Jack, there are tic tacks at :31 and :39 and you had already stopped sliding before putting your front foot on the no comply tailslide. Weak sauce dude. Weak sauce. Ha ha you know I’m joking.
Still on an older Thermals kick.
Wow. This part is pretty much non stop amazingness. Speed, good style, tech, long lines, new spots. Man, so good.
This is pretty much the worst skate harassment ever. If that was me getting the ticket I don’t know how I could have held back the anger.
Wow, there are rippers everywhere these daysThis Mag Minute impressed me enough to look for more .... and I found this shop part. Wow. Dude rips.
No matter how late I stay up the kids still get up at 7 and wake me up. This week I don’t have to be to work until after 9am so I had some time to kill after the kids went to school and it was warm out so I chose to skate the Boulder park and write this run on sentence about it. I didn’t feel like ollieing really and kinda just cruised around for awhile before kind of focusing on a line: Drop in on the 8′ bowl, 5-0 out of the roll in, rolldown the steep wall, ollie the nipple thing, go around, ride over the table top then backside ollie the weird hip, turn and frontside ollie the pyramid hip. I didn’t do any of them worth a damn, but it was a fun way to start off the day.Later on Ollie and I were skating Rampy before dinner. Things were going decent in between Ollie’s 20 minute runs of pumping until I slammed insanely hard trying to recover from a fakie 50 fakie. I don’t know what happened other then I tried to bail, but stepped right back on my board. SUCK!
Click the image and watch one of the best web clips in awhile. The whole team is ridiculously amazing and the filming/editing is top notch. Could be some better music though. Oh, you can download the Quicktime of it which I highly recommend since it loads so slowly.
Been way into older Thermals again lately. It’s just so fun! They have a new album coming out in April, hope it’s as good as the last one.
Seems like Monday’s are becoming my solo skate night over at Table Mesa shopping center. I love skating by myself sometimes. Unfortunately it became all to clear right away that skateboarding was going to be very difficult when I bailed ollieing up a curb. Ugh. I pretty much skated like crap, but tried lines at a couple spots until I got them. Over by Play It Again Sports I did a front shove on flat, nollie back tail on the curb (the worst one that’s ever been done), ollied over a weird parking block, ollied up a curb, ollied a little flat gap, nollied up a little curb, kickflip on flat, front tail the curb I started on. I had to sit down after that one and rest awhile. Every trick was done horribly, but it was fun linking them together. Next I went over the some painted curbs that were freshly painted and did my best to remove the fresh paint with my trucks. I put a few tries in to manual the pad in front of it then slappy grind the curb. This was hard because the ground between the manual pad was rough as hell and I wanted to go fast enough that I didn’t push in between. Before long I did probably the fastest manual I’ve ever done followed by a slappy 50 then turned around and kickflipped up the curb. Rad. Sat down for awhile again. Then I hit King Soopers via the fun downhill sidewalk gap thing. I want to try and link a line there next time: some flipper into the sidewalk, ollie the gap, make the turn onto the sidewalk, kickflip off the curb, then front lipslide a parking block. Next time maybe? Anyways, before I left I started to really lose it from being tired and spent a bunch of energy trying to quick up to ollie onto the bench in front of Tandoori Grill. I got it a couple times, but it was weak. I blame the lack of light though. Ha. All in all I skated bad, but I skated hard and sometimes that’s fun enough.