Before dinner I put the space heater out on Rampy to battle the freezing cold (-10 F).  I think the space heater was fighting a losing battle, but it probably helped it from being below freezing in there.  After dinner Ollie and I went out there for a bit.  I sucked it up again really bad.  I even slammed super hard on a front 50 that hung up and had the board hit me in the head after.  Awesome.  To add insult to injury Ollie beat me to rock ‘n rolls both ways and got another frontside scratch grind.  He also felt more like skating the flat bottom (or lack there of) and did pop shoves and fakie pop shoves.  Sometimes he would end up on the tranny a bit so then he started intentionally trying pop shoves to fakie.  He got one.  He wasn’t up the tranny very much, but then again he is related to me and you will see a photo of a Glen ollie in about two paragraphs.Ollie and I went in and still no one else had shown.  I put the space heater on again and almost fell asleep reading the new Transworld magazine.  Eventually Lazer showed up and we hung out reading magazines while Ollie played Nirvana songs on Itunes.  Fun.  Eventually Chad and Carleigh arrived and it was time to get our shred on.  Lazer killed it out of the gates once again.  This was Chad’s first time skating Rampy and it showed.  He had a lot of trouble getting used to it, but would eventually lay down some sick stuff.  Carleigh had another night of skating good.  She did her main bag of tricks quickly, laid down another kickflip rock fakie and came close to fakie shove disasters.  Wow.  I was skating decent finally.  It only took two hours of warming up I guess.  I did most of my tricks like front feeble, hurricane, fakie hurricane, fakie pivot fakie, front lip and more boring tricks.  Near the end Carleigh took some photos.Chad was doing huge ollies to fakie by the end of the night.I’ve been working on my ollies and clearly it shows. Just look at the height on this one! I mean clearly, Carleigh blew it taking the photo. Had she taken it at the peak I’m sure it would have looked more like:Yeah, watch out Fuzz.Anyways.  The end of the session was Chad trying frontside flips until he got a good one and me failing kickflip pivots until Chad landed his trick and we could call it a night.Go to Carleigh’s blog for many more photos of striped sweaters.

Liz and I went to the Denver Art Museum last week and were both touched by the exhibit of photos by Robert Benjamin.  Not only were the photos amazing, but his comments on them were so positive.  It was cool to see an artist  focus on the beauty of life and avoid angst.  So cool.

Such a good style.

Worked at home all day to avoid driving in the snow. Was gonna have Nullers over for more filming on the Rampy montage, but Liz ended up being busy so I needed to play dad. Right after I got off work I put the space heater out in the garage and Carleigh showed up for a short session. Carleigh almost did all her tricks on her first run. I on the other hand, was sucking. Bad. I guess I can blame it on my neck, but it wasn’t really hurting too bad. It was still depressing. I basically took the whole session to land a front tail. Which, although I had tried it 100 times it was first try on camera (I jokingly asked Carleigh to film it so she stood there pretending to hold a camera so it was first T once it started counting. Oh and to make it even funnier she was using both hands like she was holding a bowling ball or something. Geez). Anyways, Carleigh ripped it. She even did her patented kickflip rock fakie.

Sometimes I still get the same stoke I had when I first started Null and I would see someone I didn’t know skating a Null board. I know Adam, but wasn’t expecting this sequence when I browsed Pat’s site to see his latest photos. So stoked.