Josh sent me a link to this today. That is one hyped up crowd as they should be. Dinosaur Jr – In A Jar – today’s Song Of The Day and a classic.
After a busy early evening of being Mr Mom doing laundry, dishes, cooking dinner I wasn’t really feeling street skatintg and it was too late for Louisville. Nate called and suggested Rampy. It warmed up quick in there and we sweated our asses off in between runs and listening to the Nuggets game on the radio. Yes, I’m a jock. Anyways we were both skating OK. I took too long to relearn front pivots which scare me way more than they should. I got most of my tricks and at the end actually slid some front lips. Rad. Nate learned back blunts. Sick!
First thing I thought when I saw the start of this clip, ‘Is that Brian?’ But then I realized it’s some other dude farting into the camera.
As Brian would say, I’m a jock and jocks like flatground, so I was hyped to to a game of SKATE at the Boulder park with Berrics rules (ie, no no complies). I was pretty sore from the day before and skated Rampy for a bit with Ollie to get loosened up. Didn’t even really try any tricks, but it was fun. Then I went out and did a few tricks in the street before leaving for the Boulder Skatepark. Got to the park and played a couple chaotic games of SKATE with Little Jack, Nate and Big John. John killed it! They were fun games and then came the real game. Nate and I made the mistake of chilling out while we waited for our games to begin. It was 4 people and the top 2 advance. I played the worst game of SKATE ever missing tricks like front shoves 4 times in a row. Luckily no one else could hardly land a trick and I got to round 2 where I was pink slipped by 4 tricks I’ve never done before and a bailed 360 flip. Ha. Oh well.The rest of the day was spent messing around with the curbs, mini quarterpipe and more games of SKATE. It was a blast.
Mikey and I rolled to CO Springs on a nice, but windy morning in Boulder. Get to the Springs and it’s windy there too, but cold as well. I’ve come to realize it’s never nice when I go there. We played a game of SKATE to get warmed up that went on a long time and put me on my ass a few times. Ouch. I still can’t land nollie tres anymore, but got treflip pretty quick. Skating the park was weird at first. I was sucking. I even fell rolling into a flat bank at one point. Ugh. I almost just wanted to leave there, but we kept going and eventually I had fun. We skated the weird pyramid thing and Mikey and I started our ‘back to back’ trend for the day. I learned a bluntslide to fakie transfer and he backed me up with a nollie backside flip over the hip. Next up I backside flipped on a flat bank and he switch 180’d the stairs (steezey as it gets). Lastly Mikey nollie shove manualled the downhill manny pad and I manualled it (which was scary to me). I took a break for awhile then we ended up at the backyard pool bowl and Mikey killed the ollies to fakie up by the light. I did some lame carves. Then we played a couple more games of SKATE in the rain/wind and split out as the temperature dropped 20 more degrees.
Nate and I figured we should play some SKATE since we were gonna do the SKATE game on Saturday. In almost an hours time we only played two games and probably spent 20 minutes trying varial heels. Both of us got close, neither of us rode away. The tricks I had a lot more trouble with than I should have were fakie flip, fakie big flip and nollie treflip. One surprise for me was a fakie treflip second try. Nate has some bangers like nollie big heel, switch var heel ,etc. I need to skate flatground more, it’s fun. Especially now that my feet don’t hurt as bad since I don’t wear tiny vulc shoes anymore.
I plan on entering the game of SKATE. What’s the chances I get pink slipped in the first round? 100 percent.
Both these contests have Null goods as prizes. Can you think of any possible reason greater than that to enter? Me neither.
The second Psycho Unity comic
