WOW! PJ vs Albert in this Sundays game of SKATE. I might be routing for Albert.

** UPDATE ** So apparently The Berrics isn’t allowing people to put their free clips up on youtube anymore. So lame. Berra, you suck. Here’s a direct link to the BERRICS SITE. You happy now douchebag?

It’s been a rough couple of weeks since SF. I hurt my foot then I got sick. Ugh. I also had to deal with rebuilding several websites and the in laws were here (which was a great). So I haven’t skated much and I’ve been feeling really run down and not my normally chipper self. I hate feeling run down and I haven’t got much done lately. Ugh, cry me a river. Anyways, it wasn’t cold out, but it wasn’t very warm either. We started out pretty mellow and ended up near the parking block spot. Snow removal messed up the funnest one, but we made due and ended up linking the manual pad down the block into it too. Oh yeah, I had almost new everything. Another pair of bright red Lakai Manchesters, a new Lung deck and the worst of all, new trucks. They are purple Thunder Titaniums though. Purple! They look great on the Dinosaur Jr colored deck! Yes, I am a poser. I did recruit my old bushings though. I’ve never done that before. The trucks still felt tight, but not so bad and they are Thunders so you know they are the best (that sentence is solely for Fuzz’s entertainment and maybe even Jacks. He’s on a Indy kick too. And I suppose even the Fremont dudes might take note since they have Indy tattoo’s and claim “Indy For Life!” and all that. Who gets a logo of a truck company tattoo’d on them anyways? Especially a heavy truck that squirms all over the place). Wow, back to the skating. Carleigh showed me she learned fakie body varials. So rad. I got a line of ollie a parking block (hammer!), boardslide a parking block (hammer!), nose manual a curb high manny pad (hammer!) and finally a noseslide on a tall ledge at the end of the block (boring). Going the other way I tried sw 180 manuals (put my front wheels down everytime) and then front blunts on a parking block. Did a couple where I actually slid. Neat.

We moved on. We hit the downhill brick area a couple times. I was pretty hyped to get manual, back 180 up the curb, sw 180 on flat, ollie the 3 stair, ollie up the 2, front 180 off the two. All basics, but fun. I wanted to go back and spice it up a little, but security was lurking. They didn’t seem to care, but we left after Carleigh made fun of her rocket ollie down the 3 stair.

We went by the manual pad at Wells Fargo. Carleigh tried slappy nose manuals while I pretended to skate like Busenitz with a manual, ollie up a curb, ollie up the ledge in the alley then kickflip off. I had to go super fast (for me, but probably slower than Busentiz (who rides Thunders) has ever gone) on the manual and before the ollie up the curb as I didn’t want to push before the ledge. Even then I still almost ran out of speed when I got the kickflip.

Lastly we went to the white ledge as I was really itching to break in the new trucks. Carleigh looked like she was gonna bail out of trying to grind it, but ended up going for it and getting a front 50 a few tries in. Sick! She also had a pretty bad slam on one attempt. I did lots of bad back 50 dances and would come to a halt and a couple where I actually landed still moving. At the end I got a couple crooks that felt great. Why don’t we skate this ledge more? On the way to the car I was pushing somewhat fast and hit a nasty crack and slammed on my wrist. Ouch. Other then that I had a blast and felt happy skating again.