I was super tired for some reason and didn’t feel like leaving to go skate, but I also didn’t want to have a sick day.  Thanks Rampy.  For some reason I thought of Lazer doing front smith to 50s and decided to try it.  I didn’t do much of anything else and it took me about 20 minutes to finally land one.  If nothing else I think it helped my front smiths.

Business in the front ..Man I hope these things don’t catch on.

I don’t get how kids these days can have every trick in their bag.

After a long day of listing stuff on ebay, taking the kids swimming at The Bay in Broomfield and having a nice dinner with Liz I wanted to go skating.  Carleigh was at the Broomfield park, but I didn’t want to drive back there again so I just went over to the Table Mesa shopping center for what turned out to be a totally awesome session.I started out behind King Soopers at the crazy downhill sidewalk with the two stair at the end.  It took me a few tries to even ride off it, but then I started scoping out a different way to hit it in a line and had a blast.  I started out trying ollies on the nearby sidewalk bump, riding down the sidewalk and ollieing the 2 stair then manualling the crappy manny pad down below.  At one point I landed a gap and barely made the corner and did an accidental powerslide.  That felt amazing.  Then I started trying kickflips on the bump which was hard because the landing was downhill and had a bad crack.  I eventually got a few kickflips and followed one up with the whole run.  So fun.  After slamming on the King Soopers 3 stair I ended up at the long flat gap by the auto store.  It took me a bunch of tries but I ollied it and that felt great too.  Next up I ollied the umbrella stand at the cafe that I’ve ollied a few times.  I tried a taller one, but since it’s six inches taller it’s basically a mountain and I failed.  Last part of the evening was spent doing a few flippers at slow speeds.  I did front shove, heelflip, 3 flip, another double flip, nollie shove and came close to a few nollie flips.  Fun night.  Street skating is the best.

One of the best days of Null sales ever.  Hit Meta and MRKT before going to Northside.  Carleigh and I met Chris and Miking and other Boulder old dudes Darin, Louis, CJ, Brian were there.  Not many people were there when we first got there and I ended up getting some of my stuff right away for a change.  I had a run with wallie out of the bank wall in the back of the park, ollie on the hump, roll in, back 50 china bank, wallie over the low part of the jersey barrier.  Other highlights were kickflip on a hump, axle stall on a jersey barrier and first try no comply pole jam.  Chris was ripping the pool section and got a gnarly switch polejam 180.  Carleigh got her tricks on the ledge and got her first polejam at Northside.  Mike did a ridiculous switch no comply polejam.  WTF?After filming Chris for a bit we found ourselves at a very hot Edora session.  And by hot I mean total sun and 95.  Andy from MRKT was there as well as a bunch of the Ft Collins pool shredders.  Carleigh and I took a while to warm up (uh, it was 95 so I guess I mean it took us a long time to land anything).  I tried a bunch of wallies in the low part of the snake run, even landed a couple of them.  Andy was kickflipping and b/s flipping up the euro like it was nothing.  Mike had some cool lines.  I started trying a run of kickflip up the euro, ollie the little hump, 360 no comply a bump, then blunt shove the triangle.  Technically I landed all those tricks, but certainly not well, and certainly not all in a run.  Oh well.  I played a game of SKATE with Andy and Mudgit and totally sucked it up.  I got letters on front shove, back shove, b/s flip, halfcab flip and couldn’t even get a treflip in two tries to stay alive. Oh well, it was hot.Carleigh and I rolled back to Boulder.  I was falling asleep while driving, so beat.  I had plans to go skating with Ollie and my buddy Zach and his son Marcus.  So I picked up Ollie at a Bday party with his friend Sam, met Zach and Marcus and we went to the bank spot off Folsom.  The kids all had fun.  It was cool to see Zach try some stuff.  I was really beat, but managed a few things that made me happy. Kickflip pivot to 4 wheel drive over a curb, ollie up the awkward two stair like it was really easy, another double flip on flat and a shove out of a tail drop on the bank to curb.  Exhausted, but had a good day

Still one of the funnest dudes to watch ever, but I’m so sick of the BATBOX commercials.

Got out of work kinda early and felt like skating. Neil and Carleigh were down and we met at my house. I was warming up while waiting and eventually started hucking double kickflips. They started to feel close and as Carleigh pulled up I landed one. When Neil showed up I told him I learned double flips then proceeded to land another one that try. Hyped! If I remember right I landed the very first double flip I tried over five years ago, but never came close again. And the first one was just a huck. But these felt good and I felt like I learned the trick instead of just getting lucky.We rolled out and parked near the south side of campus, but went toward some apartments instead.  One the way we skated a weird rock thing for a bit.  Carleigh pushed for two miles at full speed to try and wallie out of the rock.  Neil got some front pivots on it.  I kinda wallied out of the rock, pivoted the rock and took a good shinner trying to ollie onto a rock.Next up was a mini mini bank to curb.  And by mini I mean it was a regular curb with a bank up to it.  So a one foot long bank up to a curb.  In spots there is a couple inches of yellow curb showing so you can do grinds.  Carleigh did 5-os both ways.  Neil slashed it.  I had fun too and was hyped to get a front 5-o revert.  Around the corner we hit an awkward 5 stair.  It had a downhill runway.  We sent Carleigh off first since she doesn’t know how to bail and she stacked pretty hard first try.  Ha.  Neil and I bailed a few times and Carleigh landed the ollie and started moving on to pop shove.  I eventually got the ollie which surprisingly kinda hurt to land, but felt good.We cruised and found this weird double sided curb on a mini handicap ramp.  I tried a ollie over the curb down to a yellow curb, landed in front tail and ate shit.  The yellow curb looked old and crusty, but it slid so good and I wasn’t expecting it.  Ouch, my wrist has been hurting.  I resorted to trying ollie over to front 50 while Carleigh tried kickflips over the curb to drop.  Neil chilled.  Luckily it took Carleigh awhile to get it because in the meantime I did my first ever kickflip front board.  Granted it was a curb and I was going super slow, but that’s number one for me.  Carleigh landed the kickflip and we ended it.  Hyped to land two new tricks in one day.

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So sick.

This is really messed up.