A decent Thanksgiving Day minus the wind. Ollie and I rolled up to Southern Hills and the wind seemed to kick into high gear. I had some new wheels (null 53mm regular urethane (hey, I have to skate the crappy stuff since people want to buy the superthane)) to break in. I dorked around for awhile before trying to do 15 flip tricks in the smooth section. That ended up not being so hard. Ollie was trying back 180s and shove it’s everywhere. I wasn’t really watching too close then watched him push up the handicap ramp and throw down a perfect pop shove out of the bank. It was so sick! So sick! I’ve never seen him land a clean one before and this one would make Carleigh jealous (ha, just joking Carleigh). I was definitely hyped to see that. I tried some ollies up, off, benches, but mostly wasn’t feeling it because of the wind. Ollie rules.

The coldest day of the season in the 20s, but it wasn’t snowing like they said. Carleigh and I rolled out and parked on the North side of campus for a change of scenery. We started out at the long red curved banked thing. We skated it kinda weird though where we ollied onto this curb nearby and tried to survive the cracks then ollie onto the bank. I got rock ‘n roll and rock fakie in lines of slow kickflips and sw 180s. Next up we hit a building I’ve never really noticed before. I got a front 180 over a little gap. Next up was a parking lot near the rec center where we stayed a long time. Whenever we thought it was warming up it would get colder and when the snow looked to take over it would let up. Cool. Carleigh 180’d this weird curb and then we worked on lining it out. I got a kickflip over the curb, then ollied a little flat gap. Then we went even further back. Carleigh almost got ollie a median, pop shove, front 180 the curb. I got front 180 the median, f/s halfcab flip (took awhile to land this), kickflip over the curb, ollie the little flat gap. The kickflips over the curb where scary because I was actually going faster for once. After that Carleigh worked on switching up varial flip for pop shove, but never got the varial flip. I was doing nosebonks over the little median. It’s possible I’ve done something like that before, but those felt like the best nosebonks (maybe the only ones?) I’ve ever done. Stoked. I tried to change up my line for no comply over the median then ollie a bigger flat gap (7 foot). I kept going to slow and did the stupid reach for it thing where you almost wreck your ankle. I sure wish I could ollie. A few ollies later we were back in the heat of my car.Later on Nate came over for a Rampy session. I was pretty sore and tired and not feeling it initially, but Nate kicked it into gear pretty quick. Hurricanes eluded me again, but I managed fakie hurricane, fakie pivot fakie, front lips and a couple fakie frontside tough guys (maybe they are fs chink chinks? but I’m not fakie ollie’ing at all). Nate rules Rampy. The best out of control trick hucker ever. He can’t do a back 50, but he can to a fakie smith 270 out. He did quite a few new tricks, but I don’t remember anymore. He skated good and we had a blast. After we went to Community then played some poker at Brian’s.

Went to Louisville park early and met up with almost all the Null kids and they put on sort of a mini demo for Brian and Neil’s skate camp kids. I was pretty sore from the day before and felt like taking it easy. After a “warm up” game of SKATE on the bank to curb where I only landed rock ‘n roll, front rock and front 50 and where Jack landed a lot, but slammed on his ass so bad he could hardly skate, I basically just hung out and filmed a little. Got some good clips. I’ll probably update the Null site tonight with photos, video, etc. Peep Carleigh and Jack’s blogs for photos. After this we skated Casey Middle school where I filmed Derek do a line and Chad NotDad do a speedy varial heel. Next up was campus where Monico did a bangin’ line and Greg and Jack got some tricks. Man, this sounds more like a filming log that a skate journal eh? My knee was really sore though. When it got dark we headed back to my house and skated Rampy. Carleigh, Jack, Chris, Derek and me. Man it was fun. One of my favorite Rampy sessions. Derek killed it. Bigspin back pivot and bigspin back tail. Blunt pop shove to fakie. Ridiculous stuff. Carleigh and I seem to have ended the tradition of only one of us being able to land front disasters. Jack had some good front 5-0s to fakie and Chris had some mean chink chinks. I landed most of my Rampy tricks including a hurricane which normally eludes me. Fun times.