Headed out in the cold solo style around 9pm after dinner and hanging out with the inlaws and family. Pretty fun, I even got a little nap. I was pretty sore, but rusty for sure. I had these visions of finding a fun line ollie’ing over piles of snow when I drove to find some area that was dry enough to skate. I ended up over near Circuit City area. I had a few cruises around looking for a line to try and I wasn’t even cold. I settled on a line where I back 180’d a manhole, did a switch front 180, wallied from a parking block to the sidewalk, rode off the sidewalk, pushed and tried to do a quick up to gap over a long pile of snow. I got this over a smaller section of the snow then went back and tried to start with a kickflip over the manhole. Both the kickflip and back 180 took too long.THE SLAM. Anyways, so I got to the point where I was to ollie the long gap, but at the last moment decided to turn so I also ollied up over a small section of snow and then ollied the snow gap. Not good. I did my patented shitty ollie and landed in kind of a manual dragging my back toes. Since I as actually moving more than 2mph for once I was hurdled toward the pile of snow I was trying to clear. I stuck out my hand to discover a hidden parking block under the snow that damn near broke my wrist. In trying to save my wrist I had to stop putting any weight on my left hand and my left shoulder and face took it to the concerete. I got up quick covered in snow in disbelief of what just happened. I debated just leaving my board behind and quitting skateboarding forever. Seriously, I’m 36 and I still can’t ollie. Unfortunately I like skateboarding too much and I got up and tried again. The kickflip over the manhole felt better than normal, the rest of the line worked out and I ollied the stupid pile of snow. The best part was landing in the debris from the slam which caused me to slide a bit in the ice that had formed.I skated a bit more and jumped over some other snow piles before moving on to a really well lit area in front of Office Depot to lay down some flip tricks. It started off good as I had 6 tricks down in 7 tries (shoves both way, kickflip, fakie flip, varial flip ,fakie varial flip), but then it went downhill. 360 flips took forever, heelflips took forever and I slowed down more with each bailed attempt. I landed most of my basics and called it a night. The DC’s I have are lasting forever. At times I feel the difference in cupsoles not having as good as board feel, but for the most part I am digging how my legs/feet don’t hurt as much.

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I missed out on a SOL ramp session due to snowboarding/sledding with the kids (which was a total blast), but luckily Nate and Jason wanted to skate so we hit up Rampy.  Nate and I started slow, but when Jason showed up it seemed to go off.  Nate and I were landing new tricks and Jason was grinding so far his nose would hit the walls.  So sick.  I got a couple fakie boardslides.  They weren’t good, but they were a start.  I tried some with a backside revert, but never got close.  I also got some lame, but new for me willy stalls to fakie.  I wanted to learn the rock to willy to fakie thing, but just can’t comprehend it.  Jason had some legit back tail slides that blew us away.  Nate learned hurricanes.  At the end I did several fakie nosepick things.  I don’t no, it’s like a halfcab rock, but just put the front truck on.  I’ve done it before, but not intentionally.  I also got my first fakie pivot fakie in awhile.  Fun times.  So hyped on having Rampy this time of year.

Was busy running errands and watching Ollie while others got together and skated red curbs on a snowy afternoon.  I met up with Carleigh, Jason, Neil, Reed, Josh Steele and others and they were all warmed up.  Josh brought a bench and was killing it.  Noseblunts on it?  Yeap.  kickflip crooks?  Yeap.   He destroys.  Neil seemed pretty mellow and already done when I got there, Jason was skating the new bench really well, Carleigh seemed bummed, Reed looked rusty, but still killed it.  I started off slow and kinda just stayed that way.  It was pretty cold and it showed.  Reed and I tried doing mannies to rock no comply bonk.  He got it first and that ended that.  I tried some crooks on the bench, but never really got one.  I was trying to skate a bit faster and I’m sure it didn’t show.  I was doing fakie ollies then halfcab flips or faster then normal back 180s.  Felt good.  It’s hard to flip the board when the bushing are frozen.  We ended up getting kicked out right after I got a crappy front board to fakie on the bench thing and failed to get a 360 flip.

It was supposed to be my night off of skating, but my trip to Meta was cut short and I had nothing else going on.  Nate wanted to skate so we met at campus.  We met at the business building and I wasn’t as sore/tired as I thought I’d be.  I got there first and was cruising around kinda sucking as usual, but trying some lines and enjoying the warm weather.  Nate showed up and we skated the round manny pad for awhile.  I got one run with a manual one way followed by a really bad b/s flip up a curb to dead stop.  Sweet.  I had been trying nose mannies too, but we split when we saw a CU parking car park near us.  Nate was almost getting front 180 fakie nose mannies and switch front big heels.  Yeah, he’s good.We rolled to the covered engineering area and stuck around that area for the rest of the session.  We tried some ollies up/onto/over the brick area with the benches.  Nate did a rad manny to manny.  I did some 2mph ollies onto stuff.  We tried ollieing up the tall 3 and I couldn’t quite get it.  Nate did though.Lastly we played a game of SKATE that went on forever.  It had some of our better tricks in it though.  3flip (me), nollie 3 flip (nate), fakie 3 flip (nate), b/s flip (me), fakie bigflip (both), took forever to do a heelflip, switch 3flip (nate), and more.  We were tied at SKAT – SKAT for awhile and were both trying new stuff to end it.  Nate was getting close to front big heels and I was far from fakie var heel, switch hippy flip and nollie var flip.  We ended up getting exhuasted and I just did a nollie helipop thing and it somehow won the game.  Fun times.

ridiculous.

This part is so awesome.  Soooo many lines.