Super tired from being up late then having to work on a Saturday. Met up with Jeff and Mikey and went to the Eldo pool, but it still had a bunch of water in the deep end. We skated the shallow for awhile, but nothing special for me. Jeff as killing it. We played a game of SKATE and Jeff won it. After that we filmed at a couple spots, but they didn’t get their tricks. Doh.
Liz’s friend from Omaha’s band. Pretty awesome. Go check them out.
Didn’t have the time or energy to go skate really, but wanted to break in some new shoes for a bit. I’ve been wearing them for a few weeks and they felt pretty good. I did 20 kickflips in like 23 tries or something. Doesn’t really count as a session, but whatever, kickflips are fun.
I’ve been wanting to skate Parker some night after work so bad. Tonight was supposed to be the night. Nope, everyone bailed. Ugh. Jason still wanted to skate, but was more into bitching about our spots then driving to a good park. Ugh. We hit up the curb by Neils house for awhile. I was tired and bummed. Next we went to Valmont and started the session off by waxing the ledge until it was red from the red candle. Then we embarked on a backside noseslide convention that lasted at least 30 minutes. It was pretty awesome and we broke the ledge in really good. After that I tried a hundred front 50 front shoves, landed on them all, but only rode away from the primo one. Somehow it landed on it’s wheels after my weight pushed it down. I was pretty tired overall, but we kept hucking at it. I was landing 3 flips pretty consistently and even got one after a crooks popout. I tried a bunch of fakie nosegrind 180s, but never got one. Got a few horrible front tails. Got into a couple kick back 50s. Landed a bad nollie treflip. It was pretty fun, stoked on that spot again. Lastly, the Romero shoes are already dead. They could be the worst shoes I’ve had in a year or two.
Pretty tired and lazy, but feeling fat and wanting to skate so I walked into the garage, rigged the lights to work and skated Rampy for about half an hour. Pretty uneventful session. I did a back pivot followed by a front 50. I normally just do rock fakies after back pivots. Yippe. The best thing to go down was a front disaster that was popped high enough that if felt like I could break the board when I landed. That’s not saying much considering I push 2 bills sometimes.
This made me laugh when a coworker sent me the link.Prolly wont be able to update much in the next couple days as I’m in a class.
My uncle frank has some illustrations in an online novel/blog about the swine flu in New York. You can read the whole thing online and it’s still being written. Go check it out now. In the Gallery section you will see two sections for Frank Zirbel. They contain such amazing pieces as:
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Digging the art? Then contact Frank via email and work it out so you can own some of his wonderful art.
Pat’s shop in Boston just put this dude on their team. Wowzers.
Pretty much awesome. Click the image to see the teaser. Then go enjoy the sun.
Found this posted on the 303 site. Man there is some good skateboarding going on in the 303!