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So last night the family was sitting down for dinner when two truckloads of skiers pulls up to the school across the street and start getting their gear out.  My kids said something about how there was some big jumps they saw at recess.  Kids were sliding down them.  Seeing as how the school is totally flat I thought it was a bit odd.  Turned out they have one of those wakeboard winch pulley things to get speed.  After awhile they turned on the generator and lights and started filming some “grinds?” over the fence in front of the school.  Ollie and I went out and watched for awhile.  It was pretty funny being a lurker after how bummed I’ve gotten on people lurking when I film the Null kids at night.  Anyways, a couple of these guys were pretty good.  They would go up, turn, slide about 15 feet then do 180s or 360s (helis?) out.  I say ‘heli’ because that’s what skiers called spins back before snowboarding became so popular.  And what’s with their gear?  Their pants sagged all the way to their ski boots.  Their jackets went to their knees.  Is it kind of like rollerbladers trying to prove how cool they are at the skatepark by sagging so far?  I don’t know man, they looked like clowns to me.  Maybe I’m just old.After awhile the cops ended up coming and it was funny because I’m pretty sure the cop hadn’t seen anything like that before.  I mean you know, if I haven’t seen it before (and I’m insanely hip to Xtreme culture being a skateboarder right?) then I’m sure the cops haven’t either.  The cop gave them a few more tries and told them to shovel up their mess and shook their hands when he left.  Neat.

I work the early shift this week which means I have to be at work by 7:00am.  That’s wayyyy too early for me.  The one advantage is I get out early, but half the time I act old and go home and take a nap.  This time I picked John up and we went over near the bikepath bank.  We were skating the parking lot for awhile.  John was ripping out of the gates.  I was sucking.  BAD.  John ollied the parking block gap all easy and then we skated this huge snow gap.  Ok, so it was tiny.  John back 180’d it and followed it up with a sick run that included ollieing the parking block gap and a treflip.  I kickflipped the snow gap.  But it wasn’t no ordinary kickflip.  I took off too late so the nose hit the snow and it went flying.  Somehow I still landed the kickflip and it may go down as one of my favorites ever.  As John said, it was like a kickflip with fireworks.  We ended up getting kicked out so we moved over to the bank where Nate met us shortly.This is where I got real pissed.  The most pissed I’ve been at skating since the days of the kick back fail.  I don’t know what happened, but I could not even do ollies at all.  I was tripping.  Wanting to focus my board.  Being a drama queen.  It sucked.  Nate and John were ripping.  I eventually kinda got over it and just skated mellow, but man, I was bumming.  I think it was one of those I’ve-been-skating-too-much-and-I-am-burnt-out moments.  John did a bunch of 270 no complies onto the bank, frontside 270 ollies onto it, back 180 onto it, f/s ollies, f/s crailslide, amazing backside ollies and a nollie shove he stole from Nate.  Rad.  Nate did some ollies then moved on to pop shove fakie, nollie shove, nollie 270s, f/s ollie over some snow then ollie back onto the bikepath etc.  My finest moment was a 2mph pop shove onto the bank only because I’ve never done it before and I did it pretty good.  I did have fun carving over some snow too.  My other tricks that took way too long were ollie up over some snow to f/s ollie back to the bikepath, f/s 180 onto the bank and ride in to fakie, kickflip over some snow onto the bank and b/s and f/s ollies.  Man, somedays I really suck on a skateboard.