This part blows me away.  Kickflip back noseblunt pop out in a line.  Halfcab back 50 on a flat bar.  This front 50.  Wow.  Click the image and watch the movie.

Horrible music and some plaid shorts, but damn!

Quite possibly the dumbest griptape job of all time, but I totally love it.  I started off attempting to make some type of artsy mosiac then came up with this.  Awesome.Brian, Lazer, Jason and Nate all came over a little after 7pm and we hung out for a bit while Nate setup a board before we skated Rampy.  We started out with a somewhat organized game of SK8 that involved me giving everyone a letter on back 50 to fakie.  Even Jason.  Blew me away.  Ha, it was over quick though and everyone was having fun.  For some reason Rampy was super slick and Jason was slamming hard a lot.  He ended up leaving because he hurt a finger.  Nate was tearing it up for him.  Totally awesome sketchy crazy combos.  Brian did two frontside halfcab to backside rock ‘n rolls in one run.  So sick.  Lazer did every trick possible in two runs.  I got a lot of my tricks pretty quick and when I went into my typical ramp funk about 15 minutes in started trying several of Brian’s fun looking front truck bash tricks.  I ended up getting quite a few of them.  Frontside front truck bash, frontside truck bash to fakie, frontside truck bash rodeo clown out (270) and eventually even a front truck bash to front rock.  So stoked.  those are the funnest tricks ever.  I am officially in the Brian Ball ramp tricks fan club.  Nate got a few of them too.  backside nosebash to rock fakie, frontside nosebash to rock fakie all which were easier for him then just a regular frontside nosebash.  Ha.  I even got a line of backside nosebash, frontside nosebash, frontside nosebash to fakie then after a few tailstall/rock fakies I got a halfcab nosebash.  So fun.  In the mix somewhere I got more of my harder tricks within a few tries.  Front 50 to front D to back smith, front 50 yank in first try, fakie pivot fakie and 20 or 30 rock fakies per run.  Super fun session.

After a late dinner then grocery store duties Jason, Nate and I met at Red Curbs.  It was cold, but not super cold.  Warming up was going decent and the vibe was super fun.  I was hititng no comply 270 back tails pretty much every time.  I tried one of my Off The Couch lines (with the no comply 270 back t) but couldn’t get the noseslide 270.  Then we mostly skated the manny pad.  Jason did a manual back 180 out.  I’ve never seen him even do that before.  Sick!  Nate got a few manual 180 combos.  I landed on, but didn’t ride away from a manual back shove out.  It felt really good.  I even popped the trick.  Doh, if only I would have rode away from it.  We setup a cone to ollie over in a line.  Nate and Jason of course had no problems with it.  I ollied it first try surprisingly, but it wasn’t easy.  A few tries later I landed on the tail and snapped the tail clean through.  Felt pretty cool to ride away from the trick with a snapped tail, but I was bummed I was done skating.  I watched Nate and Jason do boardslides on the knobbed flatbar for awhile then we left.