Seriously, enough already.

This makes me want to skate. Damn snow!

Brian and I med up with Bernie, Matt and some Cheyenne heads at the Louisville park. We were warming up there a bit. I didn’t do much, but I got a bigflip and a no comply big spin on the flat bank. My legs actually felt good. Then we went to Honey’s Hole where I haven’t been since Fuzz freaked out on the home owner that lives a few feet away from the ditch. Brian was kind enough to ask the guy if we could skate there and he was super nice about it and the guy was really cool. It was a pretty mellow session. Brian, Bernie and Matt did some cool stuff. I slammed on a feeble fakie pose.

So ridiculous

Jason picked me up before 9 and we raced the lights shutting off at the park for about an hour. At first there was some really annoying kids there throwing stuff at their car and acting there age and all that. Geez, don’t they know skateparks are for old people that don’t like loud noises. Ha. Anyways after awhile there was just about 5 of us and the other dudes were rad. Jason started off in bad shape. He couldn’t even get onto a backside boardslide on the low part of the flatbar. It was kinda funny, but he got it going quickly. I wasn’t exactly skating great either. Jason and I ollied a cone on flat. Jason 2nd try. Me 5 or 6 tries. Felt really good though. We mostly skated the ledge. I finally landed some crooks again. Did a few to fakie. Got a few back 50s and almost one with a shove out. Tried a bunch of front 50 back 180s and finally landed one after like 50 tries. Couldn’t get a 5-0 shove so started just trying 50 shoves and kept slamming. Then the lights shut off.

It’s been 15 years since Kurt died.  I can still remember the day like it was yesterday.  I was up at Copper Mountain with some friends when I got a call from my homie Josh.  We were so bummed to say the least.  Nirvana is still one of our favorites.  Pitchfork put a little compilation of different Smells Like Teen Spirirt covers up here and this one was my favorite.

My 36th B-day.  Yeah.  Had a fun day doing the Easter thing with the family, but was messed up from eating so much candy and fatty food.  I kinda wanted to just go out for a beer, but Nate and Jason wanted red curbs (it was raining).  So there we go.  Started about 8:30 and Jake met us too.  I could hardly kickflip to save my life and Nate was having the candy problem too, but it was fun.  Jake landed a front lip.  Jason landed some back tailslides!  New trick for him so hyped.  Nate tried to ollie a 5 foot cone.  My highlight was a nose manual followed by an ollie over the rock gap.  I’ve never ollied it before, just wallied the rock.  Later on I got a fakie bigspin up the curb and Jason got my back with a full cab up.  WTF?  He’s never even done that trick before.  Nate was killing the back 5-0 shoves grinding the whole curb.  At the end I started hucking fakie front crooks and landed one where I didn’t grind at all.  Does it even count if your going 2 miles an hour on a curb?

My last day of being 35.  I’m feeling pretty old these days, but Jason is older than me so I have no excuses.  We went to the long metal ledge that is really good frontside.  Warming up sucked as usual and I was pretty frustrated at times, but kept skating.  I got front 50 shove in a crappy run, a few back crooks and came close but never landed a bunch more like front 50 kickflip out which I haven’t done in forever.  Nate and Jason did front lips all good.  Next we went to the US Bank brick bank spot.  It’s kinda like LA High, but steeper, taller and not as good.  Either way it was still a blast.  Nate and Jason killed that place.  They both got super long back boardslides.  Jason did a pivot to fakie for crying out loud as well as back tailslides over a hip.  So ridiculous.  I started slow but managed to start having a blast and got a few tricks.  Back boardslide (only a few inches compared to the multiple feet Nate and Jason were doing them), back feeble over the edge, back nosepick, back axle to fakie, ollie to frontside wallride trying to be all Grant Taylor but it wasn’t at all, and ended with back smith stall.  Super fun session.  Jason and Nate killed it.

Met Nate on a nice Friday aftern0on and we decided to hit campus.  We parked over by Silvermine subs since we don’t normally skate that part of campus.  We ended up hitting the curved ledge thing that is insanely hard to skate.  No setup, downhill runway, uphill ledge.  We ended up getting noseslides and crooks and Nate added back 50s to the mix.  Then we went under the tunnel and were surprised to find a whole section of new ledges just waiting to be waxed and skated which we did.  Not the best ledges, but we couldn’t believe they weren’t skated yet.  I was full on sucking and that’s how my whole session went.  I can’t ever seem to skate right after work and downhill runways bug the hell out of me.  We got three different sections to grind really good and I put together a horrible looking slow run.  Front 50, back board, front 50 front 180.  Yippee.  We played a pretty bad game of SKATE where I lost on a switch front shove then decided to kickflip into the bikepath hill.  I ended up slamming multiple times on the kickflip then focused my board.  Such a horrible way to end an ok session.  At least my board was dead.

 My uncle Frank’s album Two Headed Fly is available on the internet now.  There are samples and you can buy it here.  This cd has one of my favorite tunes of his, ‘Tough Times’, on it which is pretty appropriate these days.  He sent me this info on it: