Still looks fun though.

I had way too much energy after a frustrating night of fatherhood.  Would have liked to have skated outside, but it was cold and snowing.  Went out to Rampy and started off having the worst time, super angry and bummed.  Not sure why, but it sucked.  I had put Pissed Jeans on the boombox and I don’t think it helped.  After awhile I gave up skating Rampy and just kinda tried switch flips hardly moving for awhile.  I landed on one that would have counted on defense in an over 50 game of SKATE, but since I have such a high standard for myself (total joke duh) I didn’t count it.  I got back into the mix of the ramp and after putting on Farm things got better.  I’ve never really intentionally tried to do from smith stalls before, but apparently they are easy as I did almost everyone of them.  I tried a few runs where I don’t setup as much as normal.  Axle stall, front disaster, rock fakie, Joe Hamilton.  The Joe Hamilton on ledges is front 50 to front board.  But on ramps it’s fakie front axle stall to rock to fakie.  I have never committed to rotating that way before.  I got close, but never rode away.  Another silly trick/run I did was back 50 to fakie followed by fakie rock revert.  Or maybe it’s a switch rock ‘n roll.  But I’m pretty sure I do it bad enough that it doesn’t look switch at all.  To end the session I did a few 360 flips on flat not moving.   None of them were landed well and I don’t think I’ve ever landed a stationary one before.  Which is kinda funny considering how slow I can skate.

I kinda wonder why I live in Boulder sometimes when I drive to Longmont both days of the weekend.  Ollie wanted to skate and he seems to only really like parks.  We can’t go to the Boulder park because it’s too fast of a park and I don’t want to worry about him getting nailed by some biker.  So we went ot the “Rollerblade” park.  I was rocking some new shoes.  Seeing as how the last pair was the best pair of shoes I’ve maybe ever had I got another pair.  DC Crew S in pretty burgundy.  They have that good cupsole support with decent board feel.Anyways I was really tired, not too into skating hard, but Ollie was ripping.  He did a rock ‘n roll on one of the dumb concrete qpipes 4th try.  He’s never turned out of a rock before.  Rad.  I started showing him tricks on the flat bank and he got all of these first try.  Body varial, ollie to fakie, fakie ollie, backside kickturn, frontside kickturn, backside ollie.  Took him a few tries to get a f/s ollie but he did it.  Besides, if you’ve seen me skate the term ‘ollie’ is a stretch anyways.  Ha.  At the end I did a run where I ollied up the tall ledge, ollied off, did a kickflip to fakie on the flatbank then ollied a flatbar.  Not so bad considering how many days I’ve skated and how sore my legs were.Next we went to the little concrete hip park.  I was so sore at this point and basically just did tailslides over the hip and had a blast doing it.  I even got a couple b/s tailslides.  I manualled the deck near the hip once and Ollie did the same.  He did it like it was nothing.  Then he started trying to manual longer from bank to bank.  So sick.  What blew me away though is once he manualed the deck then kept it in manual down the bank to the flat.  He had the biggest smile and didn’t stop skating until I made him as it was totally dark out.  Such a fun time.  Again, skating with your kid is crazy.

Neil, Jake and I met Brian and Lazer at Brian’s in Longmont.  We went to one of the schools with the banks and stuff to ollie onto and over.  Warming up took a bit as usual until I found maybe the funnest line of my life.  Dropin on a bank, manual a sidewalk into a downhill dirtride, across a bridge, pop a little ollie off a kicker, kickflip into a downhill bikepath.  So fun!  Fun enough that even Lazer did it a couple times.  Jake was feeling it too.  After a bit we started dorking around on this weird obstacle that was pretty fun.  Neil and I were feeling it.  Neil was ripping it.  He got an ollie up onto the box, front popshove turn around then manual off.  I almost got ollie up, backside kickflip, manual.  It’s a cool, weird place to skate.  Unless your Lazer, then it’s just plain a stupid place to skate.  Jake, Neil and I were trying tricks into the long bikepath bank when Lazer came up and said “Can we go somewhere fun now?”  So lame.  I had gotten a fakie flip in 2nd or 3rd try that hyped me up.  Unfortuantely 360 flips were not being that nice.  I think it had a bit to do with my toes coming out of my shoes.  Anways after that everyone but me proceeded to ollie over a gate to the hockey rink before leaving.  Jake and I got a couple last minute tricks into the bikepath.  Jake got kickflip and I did a rollover scraping b/s flip.  Oh well.Next we went to Dave Fuller’s ramp which is pretty much the best ramp of all time.  It’s about 3.5 feet tall, 12 feet wide.  One side is parking blocks for coping. Dave is 41 and has one of the best styles on a skateboard ever.  He was ripping.  As was everyone.  Doing any tricks on the parking block side was a blast.  Back 50s were so fun.  Brian and Neil did every trick I’ve seen them do.  Which is like 100 tricks for Brian.  I got a lot of my tricks and even quite a few on the parking block side.  Highlights were a first try front d on the coping side, every single back 50 on the parking blocks, front smiths on the coping (at least i think they were smiths) and back 50 to fakie on the coping.  Toward the end I was trying front d’s on the parking block and wasn’t close.  As I dropped in once Brian says “Do it this run and I’ll learn nollie tres”.  I landed it.  How’s the nollie tre coming Brian?  Funnest ramp ever.

Black Friday so I went shopping starting at 4:00 am until 11am.  Joking.  Got back from my parents around 11 and met up with Neil, Brian, wasted Carleigh and Lazer at my house.  Some dorking around in the street went down before going to Boulder ditch where I started off sucking as usual.  That place is hard to skate.  Brian and I played a game of tranny SKATE on the little kid bank to curb.  As expected Brian pink slipped me pretty easily, but it was still a fun game and it lasted awhile.  Brian did 4 blunt combos to get me to T and a front 5-0 to fakie to end it.  In the middle somewhere I got a disaster on it and a front crail thing which I’m pretty sure was the first time I have ever done that trick.   Probably the funnest time I’ve had at the really hard to skate Boulder ditch.  Lazer did like 50 tricks before getting a headache.  At the end I noseslid to fakie the new ledge there and Carleigh got a drunken boardslide on it.Next we went to a new area behind all the car dealers on Pearl/Foothills and explored a bit.  There was a decent low ledge, but no one else was into it.  There was some narrow ride on ledges with drops.  Kinda dumb, but I had fun attempting to ollie up from shitty asphalt then ride along a ledge, drop down a level and ollie off.  I managed to hang up a lot landing in the crappy asphalt and skinned my knee up even more.  Awesome.Brian, Lazer and I made a quick Ash ramp run at the end of the day.  Those dudes ripped it.  I didn’t at all.  Big mellow ramps are so foreign to me now.