It was super nice and warm in Boulder and Neil and I headed up to Cheyenne for the annual St Flattys Day contest. For some reason or another I’ve missed all of Rich’s contests due to work or something, but I had no excuse this time.  Of course it was windy up there.  Ugh.  Anyways, dudes were ripping.  Bernie and crew showed up as well as some Ft Collins crew.  Neil was skating good.  I’m basically skating in dork mode until my foot heals up and am lot allowing myself to do flip tricks at all.  Such a bummer.  Especially because they had a game of SKATE that I would have loved to enter.  I doubt I would have gone far, but whatever, I definitely wished I could have entered.  At one point I had a little line going basically copying what Neil did, but not as good.  Ollie into the flat bank, ollie the hip, no comply tail on the stepup bank, then a ledge trick.  But I never got a ledge trick.  figures.  Dorking around some more on the green pyramid I did a manual up, nose manual the flat, manual down.  Dorky, but fun.  Neil and I skated the bowl for awhile too.  We had fun just cruising around and it warmed us up.  Damn that wind!  Before turning into a judge Neil and I skated the tiny little quarterpipe that goes up to the kinked ledge.  I had tried a couple nosestalls and some kid decided he had to show me he was better and did it.  Pretty funny.  After that I tried Front 5-0s to fakie and ended up getting a couple where I even grinded.  Stoked.  Now I need to do it on Rampy.  Fun day.  But screw that wind.

Went swimming at the Longmont Rec Center with India and Ollie and it’s right next to a little skatepark in Longmont.  Ollie saw it while in line for the diving board and from that moment on wanted to skate that park.  After some lunch and icecream we drove all the way back to Boulder where we left India to a friends house and drove back to Longmont to that park.  The bummer was the city removed a couple obstacles for some dumb reason.  Ollie was ripping.  Dropped in on the little quarterpipe and also got a rock fakie on it.  It’s funny because I had gotten him a new flannel and he looked so stylee in his gear.  Cracked me up.  Anyways, my foot was not doing well and I was SUCKING.  Between not being able to ollie and not being able to do axle stalls to fakie on the little quarterpipe I got really pissed off.  Not cool when your just out skating for fun with your kid.  After awhile we left because Ollie was bummed they took out his favorite obstacle (the pyramid/funbox thing).  We went to the ledge trick (called the “rollerblade” park by some) and Ollie amazed me by pushing pretty fast into the rollin.  He was HAULING ASS and rode out of it.  The father part of me was scared, but the skater part of me was hyped.  I continued to suck it up.  It took me like 10 tries to ollie over the low flat bar.  Ugh.  I can’t wait for my foot to get better.

My foot is still messed up.  Ollie and I went across the street to the school and cruised around for awhile.  I was really hurting at first and just hit the little yellow curb.  I did a front smith stall front 180 out.  Never done that before.  Does a new stall trick on a curb count?  Is it pathetic that I actually know I’ve never done that before.  I tried a few crook stalls to back 5-0, but ended in back d everytime and bailed.  Then we went to the side of the school and Ollie ollied up a curb.  Sick!  I was trying manuals to wall and push back doing a fakie manual.  If it wasn’t 10 feet long I may have gotten it.  Next we went behind the school and I just tried fast ollies and tried to actually lift up my legs.  Maybe two of them were better then my normal ollies.  They also repainted the USA map on the concrete and it was really good for power slides.  Fun fun.  Felt good to skate, but I’ve imposed a temporary no flip trick rule and that makes skating not as fun for me.