My new shoes.  Emerica Herman 2s.  Those DCs didn’t last long at all.Neil, Jason and I went to go meet Carleigh, Brian and Fuzz for some street skating in Longmont.  We met up with Carleigh at the little under cover manny pad near Playa Azul.  Jason and I both got first try mannies.  I guess it helps to have new shoes, wheels and a deck.  Wow that’s a lot.  The mannies went well.  Neil and I both got the long way nose manual and manual.  I tried to throw in a 180 at the end, but never got it.  I almost got a kickflip manual the short way.  I say the short way, but it really was still like 20 feet which was about 2 feet two long for me.  Doh.Carleigh had to bail so we went on to Longmont, picked up Brian and met Fuzz at the OG Off The Couch spot.  Some Longmont heads were there and built a gnarly wood contraption that Jason and Fuzz rolled over.  That was enough it was sketchy.  I was sucking, but luckily Brian was ripping trying the craziest curb transfer trick.  Back 180 pivot bigspin.  Or something.  I attempted to film it for awhile, but the cops came and Brian got denied.  Doh.Next we went to the Longmont ditch where I was having the worst session ever for the first 30 minutes.  I was being a baby I suppose.  Fuzz, Lazer, Jason and Brian were ripping.  Oh yeah, so Lazer had joined us.  Fuzz was trying a ridiculous line of front 5-0 then back noseblunt on the other side.  Jason was locking into his pattented best back tails ever.  Lazer did a front smith grind which really isn’t possible on that thing.  I was  bailing back 50s.  Ugh.  I finally got a couple and a back 5-0.  Tried a few back 50 reverts, but didn’t get them around and just gave my wheels little flat spots instead.  At the end I got a little back nosegrind in only a few tries to make it not the worst session for me.

Nate and I headed to the Springs as I had the day off work and well, he’s unemployed and needs to skate more.  We stopped for a good and surprisingly cheap meal at Fazollis (SP?) then hit up Proper to sell some boards.  The sun was out and very bright and we didn’t feel like dealing with crowds so we hit the old park where there was only a few other people skating.  Everyone was in a sun daze.  It was super hot and no one was really talking or going all out.  Nate and I mostly skated the little ledge/manny pad.  We were trying little runs where we would do a kickflip on the bank then a trick on the ledge.  I got a few kickflips followed by back 50s.  I wanted to do more, I just never landed more.  I wanted to try back 5-o front shove out.  yeah right.  i wanted to do back 50 no comply out but never got that either.  Nate did a front 180 nose manual first try and then did a nollie front 180 nose man.  Ridiculous.  The other dudes there had the worst setups.  One dudes wheels were so small he looked like he was skating on carpet.  They were fun though.  I can’t remember what else went down.  We skated for awhile and had fun, but the sun was so hot that nothing too memorable went down.Next we hit up good ol’ Harrison High.  They put a fence up around the banks and knobbed them in the waxed spots, but we still had fun.   I skated mostly in lines for the first hour.  Ollied up the two stair, backside ollie the hip back 5-0 to fakie.  Then tried front 180 up the two stair, frontside halfcab flip, backside ollie, back 5-0 to fakie.  Don’t think I quite got that one all together.  Then coming the other way this one took awhile because I was scare of the kickflip.  Frontside ollie on the bank, alley up fakie 50, kickflip the two stair.  Hyped on that one.  Nate was doing proper back 5-0s to fakie as opposed to my late reverts.  Oh well.  Then I just kinda worked on new tricks and got a few.  Alley oop fakie 50 to fakie.  Alley oop fakie nose grind.  Then started trying fakie alley oop back 5-0 to fakie.  Then kept trying it.  Tried it so many times, but couldn’t lock in.  Doh.  Would have been really hyped on that one.  Fun day.