Had a pretty constructive morning doing some cleaning and updating the Null site.  Neil and Brian showed up around 11 then we went to Meta to meet Max.  Him and Davis piled in and we went to the Google area for a gap to manual Max had dreamt about.  The flat gap is about 5 feet and then it’s about 20 feet to a drop off a curb.  Sam and Bernie met up with us.  None of the old people with the exception of Neil ollied it.  It was just too early.  We messed around nearby too.  The little weird ditch thing entertained for awhile.  Davis had a cool ollie in, back 180 out.  I dropped in and kinda wallie front 180’d out.  Back to the main attraction Sam slammed really hard trying to ollie it.  I filmed with my new tripod while Max went for front 180 to fakie nose manual.  He got it.  Hotness.  Bernie backed him up in a few tries with a kickflip manual.  I filmed Neil get a line then we headed out with no spot in mind.So I drove to the ballparks as I wanted to boardslide around the bikerack on the ledge I waxed up the other day.  It was awesome.  We waxed it some more and Brian, Jason, Neil, Lazer and I broke in the boardslides.  We would get a little further each try.  Jason was taking some huge slams though.  Some of the worst falls I’ve seen him take.  I guess he earned it though and was the first to get the boardslide.  I was second with the same style pop out at the kink.  Brian and Lazer were next with boardslides across and down.  So sick.  They tried it holding hands while most skated the main ledge in the back.  Apparently they slammed super hard.  Bernie was kinda chilling doing nothing.  Sam was doing some noseslides.  Davis was keeping it kinda mellow.  Max was trying some funny front board bigspin to manual things.  Neil was just chilling.  Jason and I ended up skating that ledge really good for us.  For me, maybe the best I’ve ever skated that ledge.  I did a bunch of back crooks.  Front 50s were coming really easy.  I was trying a few runs.  Back halfcab flip, crooks, attempted to go around the corner and get the boardslide.  Couldn’t get the angle with speed on that one though.  I also did front 50, chinese nollie, first try treflip.  My favorite line was a fast (for me) pop shove, back noseslide then treflip.  Other tricks I got on the ledge were front 5-0, the best back 50 I’ve ever done there, front 50 back 180 out and front 50 to front board.  I had never done the last two tricks there before.  It was seriously a blast.  At one point I even landed on front 50 bigspin out.  Flatground tricks were on point too.  Heelflip first t, lots of treflips, a couple slow double flips, the best f/s halfcab flip I’ve ever done.  Jason was killing it to with his textbook front noseslides, trying to crooks the shorter ledge and front boards.  Fun day.  I guess it’s proof that it’s good to take a day off skating once in awhile.

Wow.

I’ve been fighting a cold all week and having to work earlies.  I felt pretty run down and Liz and I were to go on a date so I didn’t have a whole lot of time.  I probably would have skated if the wind wouldn’t have prevented outside from being an option.  Instead I sat home, watched a movie and setup my filming board since my kids gave away my old one on accident.  I’m super hyped to skate it.  It’s more of a cruiser than a “filmer” board though.  The wheels are some OJ III softies.  60mm and like 72 durometer.  Slap some old Indys and it’s gold.

Pretty epic.

Love the songs too.

Be there.

Man I love watching real street skating.  The ollie up 3, wallride, front 3 down stairs line blows me away.

Got off work early and The Mighty LZA had said she’d prefer if I skate right after work instead of after dinner.  Happy to oblige I was going to meet John at the 28th & Iris ledges, but he had to bail so I went to the ballparks knowing there is a decent chance Jason would meet up there.  He ended up having to work though.  There is a bunch of construction going on at the mall behind the ballparks so they had the sidewalk behind the ledges closed.  Ugh.  I really like doing flatground lines to the ledges.  I went with the Broomfield “10 ledge tricks to get warmed up” theme.  Only problem is this ledge is twice as tall, chunky and the runway has lots of cracks.  I basically sucked.  Bad.  Crooks came easy again surprisingly though.  Well, crooks for a few inches that is.  Not the real deal where you lock in and grind.  I ended up getting ten tricks.  They were all basics.  Front noseslide to fakie (little if no slide), back noseslide, back noseslide to fakie, back crooks, back boardslide, front 50, front 50 front 180 out, back 50, halfcab back noseslide and lastly the one that took the longest, front 50 front shove out.  I was having problems with some weird truck shifting that felt like what Indy trucks do everytime you squat down.  I did force myself to try front 50s faster.  Sometimes I would, most the time I’d bail out and sometimes I’d just ride past the ledge laughing at how much I suck.  When it got dark I waxed up the ledge out front real good thinking it’s possible to boardslide around the bike rack.  Oh yeah, and I ollied the low part of the bike rack which took way too long.  Stupid cracks.  Five more days til 300.  I hope I make it because I’d really like to start resting my body a bit more and having more drive when I skate.

Tired and feeling sick I had to run some errands which brought me to Mikes Camera.  After bumming them out by staying at least 3 minutes past their closing time of 7pm I went across the street to a parking block that kinda sucked.  It had a sign in the way, wasn’t lit too well, wasn’t slick and otherwise perfect.  I started trying front boardslid to front 270 transfer out.  It sounds cool sure, but really I was sliding for about an inch, leaning on the nose and pivoting about 90 out before tic tacking my way to 270.  I got one pretty quick, but it was horrible.  I then proceeded to slam a lot.  This is because I was wearing my black khakis.  For whatever reason I have nick named them my painful pants and never remember to not skate in them.  I ended up getting a better one then called it a night.

Candles had been burned for a memorial for Dylan Janvrin a couple days ago and there was wax all over the park. It was my first time skating there since hearing about the tragedy and there was a bit of an eery feeling in the air even though I didn’t know him. It was really cold out and slippery.  Maybe even more slippery than Denver park in spots.  I didn’t feel like being cold and layering so I just wore a winter jacket.  That ended up working out pretty nice.Anyways, Jake and I met up with Nate, Fuzz and several of the Crisis locs. Fuzz and Jake started out at the tight vert qp in the back of the park. I didn’t want in on that to start so went into the main street area and Nate rolled up right away. We started with the ol’ “10 tricks on the blue ledge” to get warmed up. Second try I went for a front board and slammed so hard due to the wax everywhere. Ouch. Nate was ripping. His warm up tricks are my enders. Nosegrinds first try. Nosegrind shoves, back 5-0 front shove, front 5-0 back 180 out, back lip, etc. Ok you got me, those aren’t even my enders, they are fantasies. Ha. I got quite a pretty quick like front 50 back 180 out, halfcab board, hc noseslide, hc crooks, slappy front tail, front 50 to front lip and a few more that I had to look to Nate to see if they counted.  I also got a fakie pivot to fakie on the quarta potty.Jake and Fuzz joined us as well as the Crisis kids.  Some neat tricks went down.  Fuzz got all Brian on me and said “If I land this will you blog about it?” then went on perform the funniest slam of the night.  Fakie front 50 front cab out attempt to chest dive scorpion slide.  Sick Fuzz!  He did go on to rip though.  Front blunts on the quarta potty, powerslides across the blue box, back 5-0 to back tail and I’m sure a lot more.  Jake was going for the elusive back blunt on the quarta potty.  I kinda cruised around the park since the blue ledge was so crowded.  I don’t think I’ve complained about the non-superthane wheels I have enough.  They suck!  Well, they do have good pop and feel like a classic spitfire or something, but they are slow, flat spotted and it’s a bummer how much I can tell the difference between 52mm and 53mm.  I could lay into one slide I’m sure and finish those wheels off already.Back to skating.  I tried a line of kickflip, front 50 the pier 7 like ledge, manual the black ledge.  None of it came easy and I never linked all three.  Jake and I ollied the six.  I kept getting wheelbite due to that extra 1 mm of wheel (Yes I’m joking) and posed the double set a few time.  Fuzz tried to hype me up saying he’d throw down a free Crisis hoodie if I landed it.  Wow!  I still bailed though.  Ugh.  Oh yeah, I had a new board finally.  It had mad snap so I had absolutely no excuse other than it was really cold out, my wheels are flat spotted pretty bad and I am still Glen.  Nate and Jake posed it a couple times too, but none of us put it down.  Nate and Fuzz split out as did most everyone.Jake and I finished with a quarta potty session where the back blunt continued to elude him, but he got several pivots to fakie.  I did a front disaster to fakie and Jake told me to try sugarcane.  I never got a legit sugarcane, but I did do front disaster then turn it over to back smith.  So stoked!  Then I did it fakie.  Fakie rock to back smith and eventually pulled it to fakie as well.  Fun night of skating.  We followed it by going to a little art show in Boulder then the Downer for a couple beers.  Totally a fun night even if I feel like crap now.  Not from the beers, but from so much time in the cold.  Is it spring yet?