8pm at Meta.  Killer.

There is an Off The Couch page here now with the whole video except the great intro and credits.  If you like it, buy it.

Woke up with this song stuck in my head.  Not sure why, but it’s a great one.

Got a phone call from Lazer early in the day saying he wanted to skate downtown instead of Rampy which got me really hyped. Had one of these ok days at work, but I was stuck at my desk on the phone for a few hours so I was really looking forward to the freedom of skating outside. Got off work and it was really nice out, but I decided to wait to skate until Lazer got off work. Then got about 20 phone calls/texts about how cold it was and how we shouldn’t skate outside. Ugh. It wasn’t that cold in my book. We kind of agreed on Circuit City with Flatty and Ledgy. Word got out and quite a few people showed up. The single file aspect of skating a flatbar and a box in a parking garage bummed me out. I was skating horrible. Lazer seemed bummed. Jason was even having troubles. Nate was ripping at least. Everyone else was skating pretty good. Some dude named Dan had some tech tricks like front crooks and front hurricanes. Rad. After awhile Jake showed up and we played 360 flip for awhile. Which turned into awhile longer, and then even longer. It was sick. Jake was attempting to break the 5 tres in one day barrier. I was struggling with them at first, but after a few tries started getting quite a few. One way I would try 3 flips, the other way I would try halfcab flip then nollie treflip. Jake was trying tres one way, f/s flip then fakie flip the other. His frontside flips are proper now all the way 180. Jake got to 4 treflips and got stuck for quite awhile looking for the 5th, but it came eventually and there were a few others you could count too. I got 13 treflips total and the halfcab flip – nollie treflip run. Cool. Some of the halfcab flips felt really good. At the end I was too tired to keep trying treflips and managed a few ok backside flips. The treflip marathon was really fun. So hyped Jake has that trick.

Click the image to see a sick clip of Sid Melvin.  The whole clip is incredible, but man, that kickflip over the bar is ridiculous.  He catches it with the back of his foot.  So sick!

Went over to Creekside with Ollie when it started getting dark. Pretty much everything was wet, but the poor lighting hid the horrendous amount of pebbles everywhere. We stayed in the front for a bit until the janitor saw us so we went to the back of the school. On the way I did one of those little slide into back lip and ride out off a curb. Pretty fun. In the back it was only lit in a little area. Ollie did a funny trick where he rolled to a wall jumped off his board and kicked the wall with his front foot then landed back on the board. I tried it too. So hard! Ha. He also started lifting his front foot and jumping with his back foot while rolling. I tried and almost died. We ollied the little ditch into the grass a few times. I attempted some no comply backside wallrides which seem impossible and Ollie started trying regular backside wallrides. So sick! Other then ollieing some puddles and hititng some rocks that was about the extent of that session.Later on I went to the Steelyards manny pad to meet up with Nate.  I was pretty tired from working earlies and warming up wasn’t easy.  Nate arrived about when I bailed ollieing up the huge 6″ curb and shot my board out past the parking lot.  Brilliant.  Things picked up though.  I mannied the long way pretty quick and after a few not even close nose mannies did on the long way.  After that I started trying more trick up, trick down since I can’t do that with mannies.  Kickflip off went down quick.  Kickflip up and b/s flip off went down 2nd try which I still don’t believe.  B/s 180 up, fakie ollie off.  Front 180 up, sw front 180 off.  kickflip up nollie back 180 off (or as brian would say – a 180 off the nose).  I started trying halfcab up to 360 flip off one way and manny front 180 the other way.  Never got the 360 flip, but was happy that I actually committed to it and did get the manny 180.  Nate was ripping too.  Manny front 180 perfect.  Front 180 nose man, switch man, almost nose man nollie bigspin.  He did a few nollie f/s flips up the curb.  Sick!  He even got kickflip up and off first try.  He had to leave real quick for a soccer game and I stuck around for a few more minutes.  Got a manny rock off, tried manny front shove and almost died.  Then just wanted a good clean kickflip up and down which took awhile, but felt really good.  Fun times.

Went out to Rampy for about 30 min after the kids went to bed. Sucked it up and was bummed on skating. Took a bunch of tries to do a front D. Eventually just started trying hurricanes again. I may have landed one, if it was it was the tiniest grind. I landed most of the attempts at least which were just deck rock ‘n rolls. Feels like the motion is closer at least. Listening to old 90s mix tapes is fun.

Awesome stuff Chad.

Koston still looks weird in front of a camera.  Cory Kennedy destroys.  And the Denver park still blows.

A Willy Wonkaish skate movie with Rick McCrank!  Wow!