Then nothing will. Busenitz rips!

Saturday! It was supposed to be 58 and sunny, but when I first woke up and looked outside it was cloudy and flurrying. So lame. That kinda brought my mood down a bit. Eventually it was a little nicer out and Carleigh, Jake and I went to meet Lazer in Longmont. Only he had left Longmont by the time we got there. We pulled into Rocky Mtn Elementary and it was windy and not very warm. Ugh. I had done what every poser does to make them feel better after a session like I had the last time I skated. I setup a new board. To complete the series I had a brand new Start Choppin’ board. It felt really good. Warming up was pretty funny. We all were sucking. Carleigh had the only valid excuse having not been able to skate much lately due to her foot injury. At one point Jake bailed a kickflip, Carleigh bailed a pop shove and I bailed a halfcab. Pretty epic. Carleigh kept at a run of ollie’ing a sidewalk section then doing noseslides on the ledge. She started trying them to fakie claiming she’s never done them before and got a few of them. Jake may have gotten a front tailslide, front 50 and lots of kickflips. For some reason I started with front board pop outs and got one kinda quick. I tried a run of halfcab flip then front 50 and got that. Coming the other way I was dropping in then doing noseslides. I tried crooks too, but never got a real one. It was a quite session for sure. I tried to manual the round ledge/flagpole thing and may have done that once. I got a line I was kind of happy about dropping into the long narrow ledge, 360 flip then front 50. I managed a back 50 at one point too and tried to back it with nollie treflip, but never landed a nollie tre.Next up we went to Dave Fuller’s amazingly fun ramp.Dave skated really good.  He has a huge bag of tricks and style so it’s always fun watching him skate.  He’s good enough that Brian and him had to debate trick names.Brian killed it too.  Kind of surprising after his first run which consisted of an odd looking dropin to full on slam on the first wall.  He busted out the sugarcane in less than 5 tries which rules because he worked super hard on it (huh huh I said ‘hard on’) last time we were there and came up short.No need to debate the trick here.  Axle stall.  Even though I was having fun I wasn’t skating too well.  My basics were ok, but I had to work for anything more then that.  The front feeble on the metal coping side took forever as did the front disaster on the parking block side.Neil, Carleigh and Jake skated good too.  Neil had some long runs out of the gate which always amazes me.After the ramp session we went for a fun ride in Brian and Neil‘s new mini aka short bus.  It’s epic.  Super epic.  Click the photo for much more on Carleigh’s blog.  Can’t wait for a road trip in this one.Somehow Jack, Neil, Carleigh and I ended up at Crisis that evening to watch some skate videos.  Fuzz had had a few by the time we got there and an epic night was in store.  We drank some beers, watched Go Big Shred, Escapist and went spot lurking nearby.  After that things got crazy as Fuzz decided it was time to pop the red curb cherry.  Oh man!The grin on Fuzz’s face says it all. He was in rare form, just ask the bathroom floor.After Jack teased the curb for awhile Fuzz gave it a go. He didn’t want any ollie in action, just slappies. Funny thing is Fuzz apparently can’t do slappies. At least not several beers deep.I started giving frontside slappies a go. But this curb is totally square and not easy to slappy ..One of Fuzz’s finer quotes of the night after looking at the curb destruction. “No wonder people don’t like us skating their stuff.”And I landed one!The truck carnage was hilarious!There was pieces of paint, concrete and wax still on the truck.In between naps Neil managed his patented nose manual.Carleigh introduced the curb to slappy noseslides.And her board to the wall.Again, the grin says it all.Fuzz nose pick.Jack did a ton of tricks including a bluntslide over his wallet that he had just lost falling down.Which he did a lot ofWe went back to trying regular slappies. Jack was getting close when he unleashed the slappy willy.But then he did the real deal. Sick!And I got his back!Fuzz on the other hand.Wow, what a fun night. Thanks Fuzz. Rumor has it Fuzz stayed up and repainted the curb already. Ha. Guess we get to skate it for the first time again some time. Can’t wait. But seriously, such a fun night.Thanks for all the photos Carleigh! Go to her blog now and see many more photos.

Kinda like this kid.

And still RIPPING!

Had a decent day at work. Fell asleep on the couch after dinner, then woke up and tossed a nerf football around with Ollie. My legs felt great. It was nice outside. I went skating around 9. Campus again. This time I decided to push faster down the little hill from where I parked. I started doing some little crack ollies then SLAM. Right on my left elbow and hip. Elbow starts bleeding again. Great, I gotta remember to bandage that up before Liz gets mad at me again for bleeding all over the sheets. Anwyays, it didn’t bum me out that much. I ended up at the little median by the rec center. I felt decent still. It’s only about two feet long so I don’t know if you can actually count what I did as “manuals”, but I did manny, manny front 180, sw 180 manny, fs 180 nose manny, nose manny and a halfcab manny. I moved on, feeling better than last night, but still a weird feeling in my head which I guess is depression. I ended up at the little ledge drop thing behind the Library I tried to ollie a bunch when I was with Fuzz, Bernie, Greg, Jake and Ollie. I almost didn’t try to ollie it, but reminded myself I’m not supposed to back away from ollies I can do anymore. I landed it. I moved on and before long was behind the student center. I decided on trying a line ending at the ledge with the low handrail next to it (as the ledge gets longer the rail gets lower). This is where it went south. I tried to start with kickflip up the curb. I couldn’t do it. When I finally did it I tried to follow it up with a no comply 180, then f/s halfcab, then ollie onto the ledge and who knows what on the handrail. I doubted that I would actually commit to anything, but I thought it would be fun trying. WRONG. I could not ollie up the stupid ledge. It’s got a downhill approach with cracks, but still. I started questioning how the hell I could suck at skateboarding so bad. Instead of leaving my dumb ass kept trying it and getting more and more bummed. I almost left the spot walking and leaving my board behind. Instead I pushed mostly to the car. I went home so depressed. Luckily I am married to an amazing woman though and she did her best to cheer me up. It may have worked, but I don’t plan on skating for a few days. I have no idea how I could possibly have skated 312 days last year. I had entertained thoughts of going for it again as I’ve only missed a few days so far. No. Never again.

Clearly the same artist that did Farm. So sick. Less than two months til the March 15 release date!

Had one of those long, boring and draining days at work which left me wondering what I’m doing wasting my life away.  After a nice dinner with the family I sat on the couch and listened to Green Mind on vinyl.  It sounded great.  It was super nice out so I decided to go skate and campus seemed fun.  When I got there I set the board down and didn’t even go for that extra initial push to have a fun cruise down the hill to get things started.  I knew I was doomed at that point.  I started in the new art building where I did a couple kickflips before going to the nearby 3 stair and did a little line to it.  Fakie ollie, sw 180, ollie the 3.  Feeling a bit more warmed up I ended up at the parking lot west of the 14 which had just been repaved.  Sick!  They got rid of the jersey barrier that ruined the flat gap so I tried to ollie that.  For some reason my flat gap ollies have gone to total shit and I couldn’t do it.  I got so mad.  So mad.  My head wasn’t into skating.  Argh.  I kept at it for awhile.  Coming down the hill I started trying flatground kickflip or pop shove, a speedy manny then ollie the little double curb thing near the main street.  I actually did a couple of those and felt good for a second.  Some of the mannies were fast enough that I was a bit scared to even ollie up the curb.  Cool.  But the stupid flat gap ollie kept eluding me.  After I bailed that I would pick up my board and push at the tall ledge surrounding the parking lot and pose ollies over it.  A couple felt remotely possible which would be huge for me.  Eventually I did the whole line.  Front shove on flat, manny, ollie, turn around, ollie the flat gap.  I wasn’t even stoked.  I just picked up my board and walked to the car.  Ugh.

This is the kind of clip that makes me want to run out and go skateboarding immediately.

People I work with think this will happen to me since I’m the only one here that texts.  Yes, they are all old and probably couldn’t text and walk without falling down.

Wow, the first time I’ve woken up still buzzing in forever. I drank enough water over the course of the evening to not feel hungover, just tired and disoriented. We met up with Bernie and Sam who were skating the new manny pad we found the week before. I had new shoe blues. Literally, some new navy blue es square twos. Stoked. The kids had fun ollieing off the ledges and stuff. Sam nose mannied it easy. Bernie was trying fakie manuals, but didn’t get it. I was getting tech trying manuals. Ugh. It took a long time to land one. After that it took a long time to land nose mannies. Neil had shown up. He got my back with a nose manny too. Rad. I went on to get a kickflip manual pretty quick. There was some toe drag when I landed in manny, but I was too stoked to care. Neil went on to do one foot manny first try and nose mannied it from high to low. Bernie was trying halfcab flip manny 360 flip out. Never got it.We left for a gap in and out manny pad.  When we got there we found a sick kicker gap, but it needs some treebranch trimming.  Maybe next week, it could be super sick.  Anyways the gap in /out got the best of me.  I got so frustrated with just an ollie and I almost freaked out.  It sucked.  I finally landed just a stupid ollie and went right to the car and got out the filming board to get Bernie.  It worked out as Bernie got a super sick line.  Kickflip manny gap out then ollie a big pile of snow.  Neat.  Sam and Neil ollie in/out several times.Bernie and Sam left.  The rest of us went to the two stair area, but got booted quickly.  Next up was the bird bank.  I was tired and didn’t really do much.  The kids had a blast and cruised around the area.  Ollie had a couple cool body varials on the bank.  We left shortly as Sam was uttering “I’m hungry can we go now?” about every 5 seconds.  Not the best day, but considering last nights activities it went pretty well.