Ft Collins dudes love the tranny.

Got this photo emailed to me and I’m not even sure who sent it.  It’s either Jimbo, Matt or Shaun from Cheyenne.  Thanks dudes.  This was taken over the summer when we went to Brighton. It’s a weird no comply jammer. It was fun.

Another busy day at work.   I stopped by Meta after work to get the new Habitat video and then home to eat and do the Null 3q taxes.  The taxes went by quicker than I thought so I peeped a bit of the Habitat video before picking up Jake.  Wow.  Austin Gillete and Janoski had some amazing footage.  It was rainy and felt like the first skate day in the 40s.  But it ended up not feeling that cold and Dahr, Ray Ray, Scotty and Dan where there warming it up.  Those dudes are fun to skate with and super positive.  I was a little worried about how my knee, but it came through fine.  Everyone was skating hard.  Ray Ray was making back lips look really easy so about when they left I started trying them on the corner of a curb.  A few tries in I did a couple weird sideways mannies and felt like back lip was possible. A few more tries later I put one down with a little squeek sound from the slide.  So hyped!  I’ve wanted to try back lips forever!  Jake had done some really good front lips and got back bluntslides already before he got some on the back lip game too.  He got a little squeeker too and we were hyped.  Other things I was happy about.  No comply 270 back tail, crooks on the ledge almost every try, being able to ollie, first try no comply over the rock, having fun.  Jake and I played a game of SKATE.  He got me with treflip and frontside flip, but I won it with fakie flip, halfcab flip, heelflip and b/s flip (he double or nothing’d the fakie flip and bailed it).  At the end I tried a run for awhile of front tailslide, 360 flip, back smith a curb.  I got a few tailslides which is good for me, some of the worst 3 flips ever and possibly a back smith.  I’ll keep working on that one.  As we left I told myself I need to man up and ollie the median finally.  A few tries in I committed, came up a bit short and still somehow rode away from it.  Good enough.  So hyped to be able to skate for real again!

India has been planning out her party for weeks and it was non-stop kids kids kids all day.  From playing Beatles Rock Band to swimming laps at the pool to having 11 kids screaming in our house all day there was no way I was gonna get some skating in after India went to sleep.  Awesome day though. India is amazing.

Hopped in the Meta van in hopes of shooting photos second angles for the upcoming Meta video.  The first spot seemed really fun.  Max was trying a back 180 the hard way over a rail into a bank that was super gnarly.  He didn’t get it.  Next up was a steep bank spot where I posed a tail stall, Brian did some frontside grinds, a cool 360 carve and made fun of Jack for waxing it.  Neil and Lazer had some good ollies too and Neil through in a sick no comply.  Then I filmed Jack try his ass off for a front tail back 180 out.  Next up was my favorite metal ledge in Denver.  After some food and watching I grabbed the skateboard and was super excited to find that I was able to somewhat comfortably ollie.  It’s on!  Ha.  I did a few basics on the ledge like front 50, front 5-0, front 50 180 while Max tried tricks like front lip to switch crooks 3 shove out.  Ridiculous.  Neil killed it with some back crooks shove and front lip shove.  Carleigh had some good front 50s.  Brian was saving his energy for a manny pad.  Jack was was listening to Rocky Mtn High in a smokey van.  After awhile of this I got in Carleigh’s car with TF and we went to kook infested skatepark.  I don’t know the name of this park, but it has the lamest people.  Lots of scooters, fly out kids, bikes, thugs, etc.  Anyways to say I was hyped as hell just to be able to skate was an understatement.  I boardslide the little rail, tried to copy Brian’s awesome tailslide transfer, did a couple little grinds and basically worked myself up so quickly that I was out of breath and felt like I was gonna pass out.  Guess I’m out of shape.  After all the shredding we did the TF staple and ate at Tres Margaritas.  Don’t get their fish salad.  It’s not good.

Knee was buggin.  Met up with Derek and Mikey to film them.  Before we met Mikey, Derek and I skated a jersey barrier spot for awhile.  I did a few warm up tricks like back slash, back rock, front rock, rock fakie.  Might be fun to go back and do more some time.  We went to a couple other ledge spots where I filmed lines and had to squat and push a lot which seemed to be good for the knee.