This clip makes me want to go skate so bad. Great tunes. Great skating. No shitty dolly camera angles. No HD slow mo. Crappy midwest skatespots.I think it helps that I was really into Violent Femmes when I was in high school in Rochester, MN. Eiter way this clip rules the internet this week.
Worked the late shift again at work then went home and was the babysitter for India and two of her friends. Ollie was elsewhere and Liz went with Carleigh to go see the Black Keys. I had about 40 minutes of sunlight left probably. I started off dorking out trying to learn ollie body varials so I could be as cool as Short Bus Jack and landed one bad enough that I figured I should count it. I worked into some basics and was stoked on how kickflips were feeling. Unfortunately heelflips and treflips didn’t feel so good. I never landed a tre and eventually ended up cracking the tail super bad with a front shove. Doh. The board was cracked pretty bad already so oh well. Time for a new deck ..
I’m bored at work and it’s been awhile so here we go.1. Dinosaur Jr – You’re Living All Over Me2. Dinosaur Jr – Farm3. Nirvana – Bleach4. Mudhoney – Mudhoney5. Dinosaur Jr – Bug6. Pissed Jeans – King Of Jeans7. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning8. Dinosaur Jr – Green Mind9. Drive Like Jehu – Yank Crime10. Dinosaur Jr – s/t
Was super sore from the last so many days of skating and kinda wanted to take the night off. Instead after going to Meta to sell boards I stopped by the Boulder park. Jake and Max were there as well as some other Boulder heads that are fun to skate with. I really didn’t do much the whole time but carve around a little. For a bit I tried to back tailslide up the nibble bump thing, but never actually slid it. I posed a couple frontside flips over the pyramid that I should have just landed. Oh well, it was mellow which I needed and my legs were happy not trying tricks.
Wow!
Watch the drummer. So awesome.
After a long day of wishing I wasn’t at work and pancakes for dinner John and Carleigh came over and we headed to Brighton on a cloudy, but nice evening. We got there around 8:30 and there were less than 10 people skating. Cool. John and I cruised around for a bit then skated the mellower bowl while Carleigh skated the bump to bar. John had a mesh hat on backwards and skated like it. Lots of slasher grinds and front rocks while keeping his speed and flowing good. I was trying some back 50s around a corner and never got it mostly due to the coping being deathly fast instead of me just being a pansy. Actually not joking for once.After a bit John and I headed over to the street area with Carleigh. She was almost landing front 180 nosegrinds on the bump to bar. Ridiculous. John was ripping everything too. Ollies everywhere. I was skating ok, just kinda dorking. Took me a few tries to get the boardslide on the ledge yank up into the downhill ledge thing. After that John and I tried doing f/s board transfers. I eventually got one after kickflipping up the ledge to setup. That little line stoked me out enough to keep a smile going regardless of how bad I skated the rest of the night. The three of us had a kickflip race up the euro that John won. Caleigh landed it which is pretty good for a girl. Ha, that’s what the dude said that was posing kickflips and not even getting close. Carleigh went on to also land a perfect heelflip up and a front shove. Sick. I failed at b/s flips as well as manualling the tall pier 7 replica. I tried ollieing into all 3 of the banks on the downhill section and did the scariest tail scrape ollie into the third one. I thought I was gonna die.After the lights shut off we played SKATE in the parking lot. John won the first game. I could not land a 3 flip at all. Argh. In the second game John hit a rock and bailed and came up so angry he almost focused his brand new board. Doh! I think the second game just fizzled out and we left to get some gummi bears and sugar tea and drive home. Yum.
After a gruesome Memorial Day drive down the mountains I met up with Nate. Feeling a little sad about not going to Co Springs with the Factory I didn’t think anyone would be around. Not that the family vacation wasn’t totally awesome, but passing on a skate trip with the bros aint easy. Nate had just gotten back from Portland and was willing to take some time off work for a hour or so session so I met him at google. I had new shoes:
Supra Sports aka the Tom Penny shoe. I’ve had these shoes before and they blew out quick. This time I super glued the stitching though. Anyways, I met Nate and we went to the KGNU manny pad. Nate killed it out of the gates. I think he did 5 different manual tricks before I landed a nose manny (which I had to resort to because I couldn’t land a regular manual). Nate did so many tricks. Halfcab manual back 180 out, halfcab nose manual nollie b/s 180 out, f/s nollie 180 noseman, nollie nose man, so many more. The one that got away from him was the nollie back 180 nose man 180 out. He came close though. I was hyped to get a sw front 180 manny (with heel drag) and kickflip manny heel drag. Came close to nose manny shove and then out of the blue did a slow nollie front shove manny 3rd try. That trick made my day. It was hot and we sweated and it was fun.
On the way to the hot springs we stopped by the park for a 15 minutes max session. Out the gate I sucked. Out the gate Ollie ripped. Enough that the mongo pushing old dudes that couldn’t ollie just watched him rip and and me flail it. Ollie ollie’d off the pyramid like it was nothing, took runs on the ramp, did rock fakies while making funny faces, etc. I sucked though. I spent most of my time trying front tails on the 3 foot qp and landed one well after Liz had honked the horn indicating the 15 minute timer. Ugh for me, but pretty rad to see Ollie skate so good.
