Super good.  In high school I remember skating at Chad Benson’s house a few times.  He ripped back then too.

This error message came up earlier today at my corpo job:SQL0407N  Assignment of a NULL value to a NOT NULL column “TBSPACEID=2, TABLEID=8, COLNO=2” is not allowed.  SQLSTATE=23502Pretty rad huh?  That’s pretty much the reason why Null is called Null right there.

and the spots look super fun.

Insanely tired and sore from a long day of skating on Saturday followed by late night beer drinking Chief and I set off for some downtown Boulder action.  We met up with Nate and Jake at St Julien and got things rolling.  I didn’t expect much of myself, but when Chief is in town you can’t be lazy.St Julien was a fun warmup.  Chief nailed some no complys over the curb thing and we cruised it for awhile.  I put together a little run with a front 50, ollie a small box, then no comply 270 back tail the ledge.Next up we hit the rock parking garage area with the rock ride, manual pad, and other stuff.  We were there for awhile and it was fun.  I got a run with a kickflip up the curb, manual then varial flip into the bank.  The kickflip up the curb was fun because it was into the curb cut so it felt kinda neat.  We all did some more tricks into the bank.  Chief got a fast as lighting pop shove, kickflip and no comply.  Maybe more.  Nate did a switch flip to raise the tech gnar factor.  Jake may have just recently learned kickflips, but he put that down.  I got a frontside halfcab flip after about 50 tries and a first try fakie bigflip.From there Jake bailed out and the three of us hit the little Wells Fargo banks for my favorite part of the evening.  I started off sucking but got lucky on a back 5-0 fakie and a horrible and lucky first try back hurricane.  After that I just started trying new stuff and somehow landed them.  I got a first try back nosegrind.  Probably the best back nosegrind I’ve ever done.  I got a bluntside to pivot kind of too and a front 180 nosegrind 180.  Although I didn’t grind it.  Before leaving I got my first ever back tail on tranny.  HYPED!  Nate and Chief were up in the session too.  Nate perfected the back 5-0 to fakie and Chief drilled out a bunch of alley oop fakie 50s.  So sick.  Pretty fun night for how tired I was.

Man, I don’t even know where to start on this one, so many awesome things aligned for this Saturday.  First, it was sunny.  It’s seriously been a minute since we’ve had a sunny Saturday.  Next the lineup for the crew was pretty out of this world.  Chris Jones was in town with Kit to do some photo essay on how skateboarding keeps you young and wanted to take photos of me all day.  Next up my homie Chief was coming to town who I haven’t seen in a couple years.  Hyped!  And in other rare appearances GABE (who’s name will be all caps throughout this update since he states that he reads these updates daily) was gonna be in town for one day too.  Sick!Things got startes with a Rampy sesh with Chris, Kit, Chief and I.  A good warmup that got the sweat flowing.  After playing in the street we headed to a new pool near Boulder we had heard about.  The crew at this point was John, Neil, Rob, Chris, Kit, Chief, Jason and me.  Rolling deep, and it would get deeper.So I’ve never skated a realy legit backyard pool before.  We had to bail it out and everything.  Super fun.  The whole thing was fun.  We skated it for a couple hours.  The shallow is wide with two main corners that are really tight and a deepend with even tighter corners.  While the deep end dried up we mostly just carved the shallow corners.  Super fun.  Neils of Fire straight killed it with lots of carves over akward lights and stuff.  Chief was having a blast.  Jason killed the shallow carves.  Chris was shredding the whole time too and he ended up getting a few bangers.  Boneless in the deep end, front rock in the deep and ollied into the waterfall.  So sick.We left to go to a game of SKATE at the boulder park, but were too late.  Next up was the Neil ledges with an even larger crew.  We added Fuzz, Lazer, Bernie, GABE, Jake, Nate and Squeeks to the crew.  Maybe even more.  I didn’t really skate well and no one was super into the ledges.  We played a couple large game of SKATE in which I was quickly eliminated.  I got a 3 flip first try though so I can’t really complain much.  Chief and Bernie had to take off and then we all went to Rock Creek.  Some serious shredding went down there by people other than me.  It’s pathetic bad I am at skating anything other than rampy.  It was fun though and I can’t even begin to document all the ripping that Chris, Fuzz, GABE, Lazer, Jason, Squeeks and John laid down.  I ended my Rock Creek time by trying boardslide to feeble attempts with Nate on the flat bar.  I came close to a couple and Nate landed it.Exhausted beyond belief we had to skate Rampy for a minute because GABE has wanted to skate it forever.  It was Just GABE, Kit, John, Chris and I.  GABE went off and did so many of his rad tricks.  All his cool rock fakie willy things.  What are they called?  So many tricks.  My favorite was the blunt to staple gun.  Day over.  Finally.  Beer drinking at Lazer’s went down.  Fun fun fun day.

Was gonna hopefully go meet up with Bernie and crew at the Longmont park later on, but it looked like rain.  Stopped at Valmont for a minute and it was wet.  Skated across the street and it was dry.  Skated around for a bit trying to do a bunch of ollies and sucked as much as humanly possible.  I’m not sure why I can’t even ollie these days but it was horrible horrible horrible.  A nearby flash of lighting scared me enough to bolt to red curbs and continue sucking.  But the good thing was I now had a fresh sheet of grip tape so I knew that at any minute I could just focus my board and be done.  I didn’t last long.