I was super tired from working earlies all week and felt somewhat let down by my initial viewing of Mind Field.  Nate and I skated at Google for a bit until Brian was ready.  We ollied into the downhill pad a couple times then started goofing around on the little one foot tall flat bank on corrugated metal.  Before long I was trying feebles to fakie.  And then quite awhile later I was still trying feebles to fakie until I finally landed one.  Nate got a backside blunt.  Cool.Then we went and picked up Brian and headed to campus.  A cop rolled by as we pulled in.  Not a good omen.  We were rolling around and started to mess around on a rock when another cop pulled up and just kinda stopped.  Brian had read an article that campus police were cracking down on skateboarding so we split and went back to the Google flat bank.Brian immediately put down tricks that Nate and I had taken awhile to get.  I tried to get another feeble to fakie and after about say 100 tries I got one.  Then we ghetto lighted the spot and setup a camera while Brian did a blunt fakie and I did feeble fakie.  Doubles!  Brian did a bunch of amazing tricks like hands in the pocket blunts, front blunt to pivot, front blunt to 50 to fakie, etc.  Nate ollied onto the ledge near the bank then ollied into the bank.  Way harder then any documentation will ever show.  I got a nosepick pop out thing.  Nate closed it with a blunt shove out.  Banger!

I haven’t been this excited for a video basically ever.  There is at least one totally new J Mascis song and at least 3 Dinosaur Jr songs.  Sick sick sick!  Check out the soundtrack listing here.  Mikey Taylor and Omar Salazar are skating to some extremely good Dinosaur Jr songs.  Sick sick sick!!!  Can’t wait to get my copy in a few hours ..

It’s been a long time coming for Tyler.  Can you feel the Hype?  Ha ha, it’s such a fun name to say.  But seriously, Tyler, I’m hyped for you.  Ha ha, I just can’t resist.  

Greg is a rad dude.  He’s got one of the worst anxiety issues I’ve ever seen, but he’s got a good heart and he calls it like it is.  Greg, I’m stoked for you.

Not the best recording, but you get the feel of it. I’ve been on a big Drive Like Jehu kick again lately.

Brian, Nate, Jam, Travis and I headed out from IBM around 4pm on a super nice February day.  It was around 60.  Insane.  We arrived at Northside after sun had started going down.  Being my lame self I got frustrated right away even though I haven’t been skating much lately.  I tried manualling the MJ ledge and after only about 50 tries I got it.  The dark settled in real quick, too quick to document Brian’s hurricane season.  Travis, Brian and I messed around on the end of the jersey barrier for awhile.  Brian got a blunt fakie, Travis did a few rad front pivot crailish tricks.  I did a back pivot.  Whoopie.  Before leaving Nate and I played a pretty bad game of SKATE.  Nate put down a perfect nollie tre which I couldn’t get, but I somehow prevailed with all of my fakie flip tricks.  And once again, this is only because Nate is nice and doesn’t do all the tricks I can’t do.  Ie, everything switch and nollie with the exception of nollie tres.We hit Longmont park on the way back and it started off about as rad as it could with Jam rolling into the bank by the rail.  He was hyped.  We were hyped.  The session wasn’t so hot for me.  I had to promise myself no sex on Valentines Day if I couldn’t ollie flyout over a cone which I barely was able to do.  Whew!  Not much more went down except me slamming hard on a back 50 attempt until we went to leave and a couple games of SKATE came out.  The first one was between Brian, Nate, Travis and I and it was a whatever game meaning no complies were good, bonelesses, whatever.  I missed basically every single trick.  It was rough.  After Nate and I got out Brian went on to land a treflip backed with a front foot impossible then a back foot impossible and even his new trick for the night – front powerslide shove.  Sick!  Nate and I played a regular flip trick game that went on forever and somehow I won.  Neither of us could land a treflip to save our lives.  Ugh!  

I guess J has some footage at the start of Omar’s part in Mindfield.  Great, as if I wasn’t already dieing to hear the new J Mascis songs enough already.  Dude’s my hero. This ones funny.  Nice mall grab J!

Hadn’t street skated in a long time so brought Ollie to Stonehedge. It wasn’t that great. I couldn’t even kickflip onto the manny pad. After a bit of complaining from him we went to Louisville Skatepark, aka the park filled with dumb bikers. And I don’t mean dumb bikers because I hate bikers, I mean it because none of them can do anything worth a shit. We started off in the hockey rink. Ollie was having fun. I was just sucking. Then the light shut off and we went to the park. I basically just skated the ledge. It was crowded so Ollie was just trying to ollie the manhole and he was hyped on that. I started off ok getting 50 shove right away and a few crooks and a crooks fakie. But then couldn’t put much down after that. We hit the bowl for a bit and rolled out. Ollie had some good kickturns which he’s never really done before on anything other than Rampy. 

So many rippers out there today.

Completely exhuasted from snowboarding the last few days.  Ollie wanted to ride the ramp.  I couldn’t do anything and gave up from exhaustion.  Ollie learned fakie kickturns, ie halfcabs without ollies.  He also did a couple more intentional fakie ollies above coping.  Ridiculous.