Nate received his Trick Factory pie to the face.  Carleigh pretty much punched him in the face with it.  So funny.

Picked up Jake and met John at Nate’s place around sunset.  Instead of going inside to watch the new Blueprint video we started skating the basketball court.  After some warming up, a dog barking at us and chasing our boards, me accidentally shooting my board at Jake’s ankle (it barely missed) and Nate and I complaining about our hangovers a game of SKATE ensued.  Although my head was hurting, my legs felt better than normal.  Interesting.  The game went on for awhile.  Nate was being nice.  I ended up winning.  My favorite tricks were treflip, a solid f/s halfcab flip and a really good feeling heelflip.  Shortly after the game Nate did like 5 tricks that would have easily taken all of us out.  He landed triple flip, nollie double flip, sw double flip, so much.Next we cruised nearby to this little kicker to downhill then on to a new banked ledge.  It was pretty dark, but we skated it for awhile anyways.  Jake learned front blunts.  John did back blunt, blunt to pivot, his patented back smith.  Nate killed it.  Boardslide to fakie, boardslide regs, front boardslide fakie, blunt fakie.  I had fun there.  Back 50, back 5-0, front slash, boardslide regs, and came close to boardslide fakie and noseslide.  We hit a kicker spot for a tiny bit.  I got a kickflip.  Jake got sw front 180 and Nate cruised around ollie’ing some stuff.  John hung up on a crack and slammed hard, lost his shit and focused his board.  John is the nicest dude until he hits a rock or crack and goes down.On the way back to the car I ollied a little curb to parking lot gap and then 180’d it after boardsliding a parking block.  Nate ollied a taller part of it all steezey.  In front of Taco Bell I got kickflip up the curb, kickflip off.  Fun.  We hit the little bank halfpipe in the middle of 28th st for a bit.  John borrowed Nate’s board and did blunt pivot fakie.  I did a pivot fakie with my patents late revert style.  Fun night.  Then Nate and I watched the blueprint video which is pretty incredible.

Had a busy Saturday going and it was super hot, near 100.  Liz and I were having some friends over for dinner so I had to get my skating in after running some errands and before dinner.  Jason was down so I met him at the ballpark ledges.  We both dorked around for awhile to warm up by going super slow and stalling noseslides as long as we could which was harder than we figured it would be.  Eventually we got to “real” skating which isn’t much faster for me, but it now included bailed grind attempts as well.  Jason got his run a few times.  Back nose the first ledge, front board the second, chinese crack fakie ollie body varial, front noseslide.  Best run!  I mostly tried back noseslides to crooks.  Got pretty close once which is cool because I’ve never landed that trick.  I want to learn that one.  Other then a few landed 360 flips I mostly bailed everything and couldn’t ollie high enough to grind the ledge good.  Doh.

I just finished reading this book.  So funny.  It’s a story about a dumb man’s adventures in Callisto, KS and pokes some fun at the government.  I highly recommend it.