Pretty solid.

Really tired and run down, but felt like I should go do some flippers so I don’t get pink slipped in round one of SKATE on Saturday.  If I skate like it did just now I will hopefully be the laughing stock of the entire world.  The only remotely decent thing was landing on 360 flips as I still haven’t really done that trick much since hurting my foot in March.

Went to Game 1 of the Nuggets – Mavericks with my parents and Ollie.Ollie was super excited for the game.  He’s a total 7 year old boy these days amd man it’s fun.Rocky the Nuggets mascot got pulled by huge cords to have enough speed to dunk it from the ramp ..Blurry photo of Rocky mid- air dunk.  Bringing your boy to the game is beyond awesome.The Birdman killed Game 1.  This was taken during the timeout in the 4th quarter after the Nuggets fast break that resulted in Melo dunking it.  The place went berzerk.  Best game I’ve ever seen.

Minus the stupid way over done logo at the start this looks radical.

New shoes.  Can’t deal with having the Herman’s that are too small for me.After one of the funnest days ever going to the Nuggets game with Ollie and my parents I had to go to Longmont to pickup the phone from work.  I went around 8 and picked up Nate on the way.  It was raining/wet/sprinkling all the way to the park which had some puddles, but was mostly dry.  And no one was there!  We started out on the mellow bank as it was the driest and ended up staying there for awhile doing flip tricks.  Nate threw done a lot of tech ones.  I was happy with a few first try tricks like fakie varial flip, halfcab flip and maybe another one.  Tricks that I was hyped on were a fakie treflip and a first time fakie bigspin flip. Now if only I could do these on steep walls.Then we kinda skated some other stuff.  Some ollies over the hips and whatnot.  The main ledge was wet so we didn’t skate that.  At the end we tried to 50 the long C ledge.  Nate got close.  Then we started a game of SKATE that ended early due to the lights shuttig off.  I got a treflip first try.  Sweet!

6th Saturday in a row of crappy weather.  Went to red curbs with Jason, Brian, Neil, Rob and Nate.  Warming up went ok.  Can’t think of anything special that went down.  Then we busted out Rob’s box that he brought.  It’s so funny, it’s basically the height of red curbs with angle iron.  In other words a blast.  Nate killed it with like 20 tricks.  I hadn’t done a nosegrind in a long time, but landed one, then two, .. then Neil and I did double nosegrinds (his was backside).  So fun.  After that my tiny shoes started hurting my feet and I had to sit for awhile.  I ended up trying to play a game of skate with Rob and Nate and man that went bad.  I think I won, but it was brutal.  Can’t wear those shoes again.

The greatest band in the world update their website with an mp3 from the forthcoming album Farm.  I only listened once because I’m weird like that.  Basically I don’t really want to hear the new songs until I hear them in the context of the new album.  Is that nerdy or what?  That being said the new song sounds excellent.  Sure it’s kinda mellow, but so are songs like Thumb and Get Me that are some of Dinosaur Jr’s finest.

After a frustrating night at the homestead and missing out on a Rock Creek old man sessoin I went to campus around 9pm.  I got out of the car, put the mp3 player on the new Thermals and pushed as fast as I could for about 5 minutes and ended up at the bottom of campus in no time.  So bloody fun.  I’m not sure why I’ve been angry lately but Liz had called me out on it earlier.  I think it’s just so frustrating never getting to skate when it’s light out and missing out on so many sessions with friends.  Anyways, all my frustrations were gone quickly after pushing fast enough to get speed wobbles.  The first place I ‘sessioned’ is the newer parking lot southwest of the basketball stadium.  I found a quick up to flat gap that I posed at for quite some time.  It was super fun just ollieing up the curb as fast  as I was.  I never really landed the gap.  It was about a 5 foot flat gap with a curb at the end.  One time I ollied to axle stall on the curb and pulled out of it somehow.  I committed to the whole thing once,  hung up on the curb and somehow just walked out of it.  Rad.  I was also hitting this little manny pad and just doing fast manuals and landing a few flip tricks nice and slow or posing ollies over a bush.  Then I hit this lame long two stair thing for awhile until I ollied up it and down it.  Then I cruised around for awhile again just trying to push fast and ollied a manhole, landed in manny and went like 20 feet to the street.  Nothing special, but it felt really cool because it was just some impromptu trick I didn’t even see coming before it happened.  I ended up at some new loading dock at that is the height of a six stair (you can walk up the six) and I took my sweet time landing a 2″ ollie off it.  I haven’t ollied off anything that tall in awihle and the first few attempts freaked me out.Before leaving I wanted to do some flipper and ended up at this small little area that is lit really well and has super smooth concrete.  I stated doing 2 or 3 of each trick just going down the list until I was happy with how they felt.  Shove its, kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, varial flip and then snapped my board on a second heelflip attempt.  Doh.  Deck was super old though.  Fun night.  Needed to skate.