A tired/hungover crew of TFers headed to the Westminster park after a late night of celebrating at the premiere.  The crew was Jason, Jake, Fuzz, Brian, Lazer, Gordon and me.  The first few minutes were pretty funny.  Fuzz slammed so awkward trying to boardslide a ledge.  It was like nothing I’ve seen him do before.  He was trying to boardslide a ledge on top of a step up but his back foot didn’t even make it up the step up.  It was hilarious.  I tried a weird dork trick nose manny into someting on the qpipe and ended up doing the weirdest trick.  Rock to nose manny to board to tail and somehow survived.  After awhile I played a game of SKATE with Lazer that quickly turned into a game of SKATE with Lazer, Brian and Jake.  Brian was out quick which I’ll blame on the hangover and Lazer quit so it was Jake and I.  I got a 3 flip something else to close it off in the end.Then we went to Rock Creek.  We played a huge game of SKATE.  Well, since I easily suck the most on the ramp I believe by the end of it that I had spelled SKATEBOARDER MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION RENEWAL.  It was fun for the most part, but it was definitely embarrassing and frustrating not being able to land any of the tricks.  It was probably good for my ramp skating, but ugh, I suck at ramp.  The only new tricks I got remotely close to were fakie rock to smith and the same thing regular.We ended it with a flip trick session and Jason did some kickflips for the first time in as long as I can remember.  Fuzz got some hard heelflip variation.  Front 180 heel and b/s halfcab heel.  I got a couple 3 flips, heelflips and fakie bigflip.  Couldn’t do nollie tre.  Fun day for how beat we all were.

Nate, Pat, Pat’s friend Charlie, Jason and I headed over to the Lville park for some pre-premiere skate action.  I started off slow.  Really slow.  After awhile we played a game of SKATE on the bank to ledge.  I bailed a couple easy ones, but got a kickflip pivot first try.  Pat won the game of course.   After awhile we headed over to the hockey rink for some flatground SKATE.  I kept up the sucking for the first couple games.  Nate gave Pat a run in a couple of the games.  The last game we could only do tricks we hadn’t done yet which somehow worked out for me as I didn’t lose right away and got at up to SKA.  I don’t remember all what I landed, but I know everything took a bunch of tries and I couldn’t do tre’s or nollie tres.  Then we went back into the park and shredded around for awhile.  I was tired and starting to get a bit stressed about the premiere, but managed to do one of the better lines I’ve done there.  Manual the ledge by the pool (first time I’ve ever done that), ollie onto the little ledge and into the bank, kickturn, kickflip over the hip.  Most of those were done horrible.  The session ended when Jason stomped a back tail over the bank to ledge.  Sickness!

There’s no way I could go to Fremont and not play Joe in a game of SKATE.  He had to be to the church for the wedding by 11am so we got out and played some SKATE in front of his house around 10.  Joe started pretty slow and I started super slow for what may have been the longest game ever.  Joe had me SKAT to S, but couldn’t seal the deal and I eventually came back and won it.  Flip tricks felt really weird.  Mostly due to my legs being messed up from sitting and editing for the last two weeks, but the new setup was partly to blame too.  After the game of SKATE Eric and I did slappy curb tricks for awhile.  Then I dropped those guys off and went to Linden.  I took a long time to warm up, but got a new trick somewhat quickly.  Front 5-0 to front board.  I got a lot of back 50s too which is hard for me.  Back 50, back 50 back 180 out, back 50 back shove out, back 50 horrible front 180 out.  I also tried a lot of front nosegrinds and front smiths.  Never got the nosegrind, but pulled out a couple short smiths.  Fun times.

In Fremont for Matt Rief’s wedding, but still exhausted/destroyed from so many late nights of editing the Fremont crew and Pat Hickey headed to Linden.  It was cold and and I had new shoes, new board and new wheels.Hey, I figured Off The Couch is done so why not start fresh?  My other gear was busted anyway.  Joe went to work immediately and seriously busted every move he’s got and some new ones.  Front lip to front 50 to front board.  back shove front 50 front shove out.  Back 50 back board 27 0 out.  The list goes on and on.  His new trick was a fakie front 50 turned into a back 50.  Ridiculous.  Matt was taking it mellow for obvious wedding reasons.  Pat wasn’t ripping as much as normal, but both of us were really tired/sore.  Glad we skated.Eric took a few fun long exposure photos. Not sure how he was able to capture this rare front 50 as I only did about 50 of them.Maybe these initial are cooler then sskfbts – ncbt.  no comply back tail.  I’d post some more photos, but Eric has them posted in a copywrited site so I gotta screen capture each one ..