Ollie and I went to meet up with Brian and Neil for their Saturday morning skate lessons. We were late, but didn’t want to harsh their barge anyways and it ended up being just Ollie and I skating for a long time. So fun. He was ripping. He rolled in on one of the hubbas like it was nothing, was carving the little bowl pretty good and doing some ollies and stuff. I didn’t expect much that early in the morning, but had fun watching Ollie and cruising around. I got a run with an ollie onto the ledge, ollie into the bank, axle stall, ollie the hip. Then tried to do the same run with a b/s flip at the end, but stopped trying when Brian showed up with donuts. Brian is a wonderfully nice dude. Next up we chilled at Rock Creek for a bit since it was too crowded for Ollie to skate.After some lunch we went to Southern Hills which is under construction. Seems like the school will be slightly better to skate for the most part once they get rid of all the rocks and debri. We found a new little fly out spot on the road behind the school. We setup a couple thing to ollie over and I was hating life. Could barely ollie over a little 1 foot tall flower pot. Ugh. We went back to the main area where I struggled to ollie up the 2 stair. Ugh. Ollie started ollieing down it like it was nothing though. Rad! Before leaving I ollied some pipes and made myself do 5 flipppers as the rain started. It took awhile but I ended up getting frontside halfcab flip, b/s halfcab flip, fakie varial flip, varial flip and 360 flip. Gonna setup new shows and trucks because the ACE trucks bushings are totally shot, wobbly and the axles slip. Going back to Thunder. Wish me luck. Skating with Ollie is pure awesomeness.

Worked at home and was completely surprised in the early afternoon that the new Dinosaur Jr album showed up 4 days before release date! So after an insanely loud first listen of that Chief showed up to go skate. He was a showing the effects of a long vacation and not feeling so good. We picked up Jason and headed toward campus. We started out at the Naropa hip, but the grass roll out was too thick to consider skating down. I guess all the rain we’ve been having is having an effect. We skated some weird wood contraption on the stairs, but no one really landed anything and the session was kinda uninspired. Next up we hit the plastic pool cover ledge spot. I got a front 50 front board popout really quick and a front 5-0 shove out, but spent an hour trying back 50s. Ugh. Hate that trick. Nate showed up and killed it pretty quick. Back 50 first try, back 5-0, back nosegrind, probably a bunch more. We headed into campus next and I messed around on this ledge drop to drop thing. Rolling off the upper ledge onto the lower one scared me. I finally got it and added a 2 mile an hour front 180 off the second one for bad measure. Next Nate and I tried ollieing up a 3 stair for while. Nate got it clean, I got it with both hands down. Chief wasn’t really skating at this point, too tired. Lastly we hit the long plastic bench where Nate nailed a long back board 270 out and almost got back board biggee out. Sick. I landed a noseslide. Yippee. I’ll miss skating with you Chief. Thanks for driving toward Boulder so much.