My favorite new band.  Here’s a clip from the show Liz and I went to a couple weeks ago. One of the best shows I’ve ever seen with the proof in the fact that I have yet to stop listening to them.

Another gorgeous fall evening.  Worked late, everyone else skated Broomfield early, had a nap and watched Leave It To Beaver with India.  Such an awesome show.  Ha.  Was driving to downtown, but saw campus on the way and went for it.  I skated around for awhile with Titus Andronicus on the mp3 player and found a new parking lot with all kinds of awesomeness.  I quickly picked a couple lines and tricks I wanted to do.  First one was kickflip up a curb, front180 down a narrow 3 then sw front 180 off the curb.  That came pretty quick.  Next up was an ollie off a narrow ledge over a sidewalk then ollie up the 3.  That one took awhile.  Getting the courage to push fast enough on the narrow ledge and actually go for the ollie was hard for me.  I was definitely a bit tired.  I eventually got it, followed it by a quick up the curb, ollie up the 3 then front 180 off the curb.  All pretty fun.  The last trick was to ollie onto a different narrow ledge and ollie a little gap.  The gap is basically only a three stair, but the narrow ledge setup was soooo hard for me.  I eventually took my headphones off because they kept falling off anyways.  But I couldn’t get the narrow ollie so I started trying it in a line.  Ollie over a curb to manual a sidwalk (not just up a curb, but over a curb that dropped down to a sidwalk), heelflip, narrow ledge ollie.  I eventually added halfcab flip to the start of the line and managed to get the whole line.  It came with the price of a cracked board on the narrow ollie.  After landing it I wanted to try it again and get a treflip after.  Halfcab flip sketchy, manny good, heelflip on point, ollie onto the ledge, hang up and who knows what happened but my kneecap started swelling up real quick.  I guess I hit it on the corner of the ledge or curb after the gap.  Ugh.  The highlight was lying there in pain and the goth lesbian couple asking if I was ok.  I tried to walk it off back to the car, but as I write this the pain is pretty intense.  Ice, Ibuprofen and a bit of whiskey might help.  We’ll see.

So tired from the long weekend of skating, work, then having to go to 303 and brithday shopping for India.  My legs were shot.  Excuses, excuses.  I wish I already had 300 days under my belt.

Sore from the long day of skating before, but it was a really nice Sunday.  Ollie wanted to go to the Arvada park, but we didn’t have the time so we decided on the scooter park.  When we got there it was crowded with 10 kids going in circles non stop.  So dumb.  Ha.  We just got in their way a lot and they eventually left.  I tried a bunch of kickflip back and front tails.  Came close the the back ones, but no where close on the front.  Other then that I mostly just did some mannies around the way.  Tried some full cab flips, but didn’t get close, tried an alley oop fakie front bigspin and got it.  I guess it was probably more like a fakie front shove with a tiny angle, but whatever, it was new.  Ollie and Sam mostly pushed down the hill fast and flew off into the grass.  Ollie did a few high speed carves that were pretty cool.

Another one of those saturdays that has nothing short of 20 phone calls just to go skate.  A large crew assembled at my house while Jake and I played a couple games of SKATE.  I won the first one and was feeling decent.  The second game kind of dissolved as it was time to move on.  The crew was Bernie, Sam, Rob, Brian, Lazer, Jake, Dean, Carleigh, Jason, Neil and me.  Whew.  Three cars.  The first stop was the OG Louisville tech spot.  Double sided curb and lots of wood pallets to pile stuff up.  Lazer and Brian got some crazy ollies over a wood hip.  Bernie was manualling a pallet (two pallets tall and for some reason very awkward) then trying front tail 270 out.  Jason was doing 200 foot long boardslides.  Sam was skating as well as I’ve ever seen him skate.  Rob and Dean were doing their thing.  Carleigh was setting up a board.  I wasn’t skating too well, but kept at it and ended up getting a line full of poorly landed tricks that still made me happy.  Ollie up a curb, kickflip off, heelflip on flat, front 50 the ledge, nollie treflip no speed landing.  After awhile Lazer got crazy and tried to back 180 the wood pallet hip.  He paid a bunch, but eventually got it.  So sick.  Neil was doing some ollies off the pallet, manualling the two tall pallet and trying crooks shoves.  I tried front shoves out of the pallet for awhile, but didn’t get it or even commit.We were gonna leave, but Bernie was trying some crazy wallride on the top of a pallet.  I brought my camera over and he did it in like two tries.  So sick.  Carleigh, Sam and I skated the ollie into the bank then the little gap for a bit.  We all got the easy route, Sam got front 180 quick and I eventually followed.  Some more skating around the area went down.  Jake was trying to ollie two cones, but never got it that I could see.  Rob was doing some cool b/s shifties off the little kicker.We eventually left for the mellow bank to tall ledge/wallride spot.  Some sat around.  Dean rolled his ankle on a no comply.  Neil worked up to manny to the bank, no comply tail.  Jason did sone rad alley oop front noseslides. Bernie made us all feel old with a first try kickflip pivot.  I got a couple front 50 stalls quicker than I would have thought.  Tried back 50, but didn’t get close.  Rob was trying too and didn’t get it.  Jake took awhile to get a front 50, but when he got it it was gold.  Sam was ripping nose mannies.  Brian tried alley oop front wallrides for a long time.  Lazer got front smith stall.  Carleigh was popping some nice ollies and almost got a back nosestall on the ledge.  After awhile I tried wallrides and came remotely close.  I committed, but can’t figure out how to not land primo.  People were ready to leave, but no one could come up with a plan so I just skated flat for awhile.  Treflip, heelflips, halfcab flips were on.  I think overall I was 50% on treflips for the day which is really good for me.We eventually left and went to Broomfield park.  I was sore and did nothing but dork around for the first 30 min.  The park was super crowded so I really didn’t see much of what anyone else did.  Lazer and I had a crappy game of SKATE on the quarta potty that was mostly just interrupted by kids standing in the way.  He did get me to finally do f/s pivots on it though.  I did some slappy mannies on the blue ledge and put one into 5-0 and got the shove out.  Rad.  Did one slappy manny into back lip and tried to shove out.  It was goofy times.  Derek, Chris Jones and Daryl were there too as well as other buddies.  I eventually started actually trying to skate and did a few things I was hyped on.  Back 5-0 shove out, double flips, front feebs on the qp.All in all one of my better days of skating.  Dean took these photos with my camera.  He’s a way better photographer than me.