I haven’t seen a video this awesome since 1991’s The Wagon.

Still sore from the hike the day before, but not as tired. I had to drive up to Silverthorne and back in the morning to pick up my kids from my parents. I got back, ate some grapes then met Jason and Carleigh at the Mikes Camera manny pad. Carleigh took awhile to show and it took Jason and I forever to land manuals. We were all pretty mellow and it was not a heated session at all. When it was all over I guess I had actually done a decent number of tricks for me. I think I may have touched on a few of these, but they were close enough for me to say they counted. Manual front 180 out, nose manny shove (3 of these), kickflip manual, sw front 180 manual and a couple horrible b/s flips up the curb. Came close to nollie flips on flat. The new trucks were being weird again. Carleigh and Jason also got manuals.

Jason has been fighting a bad back for a long time now and didn’t want to skate anything with impact so we agreed on Stonehenge. I’m not sure what happened to Carleigh on the way, but she got all moody on us and wouldn’t even try to skate the bank to curb. Jason and I had a decent time on it. Besides the basics I got a few kickflip back tails. Jason was having trouble popping frontside and kept landing before the curb. It was funny. After that we went to campus because I wanted to do something silly for the Crisis best trick contest and this was all I could think of doing.

For those of you not in the know, Fuzz and I have been having some fun dissing on each other’s trucks of choice. He likes Indy and I prefer Thunder so here is yet another jab in the saga of two dorks battling over supreme truck company. Make sure you watch that clip with the sound on. Ha. In all seriousness though the whole “Thunder” part of this wasn’t the intention at all. I just figured it would be rad to support Fuzz and try a trick I’ve thought of for awhile. Jason was kind enough to film and throw something at me. While I was trying it Carleigh was doing nollie, fakie and switch front shoves on flat. Radical. As we were walking back to the car I saw a 4 stair with angle iron off the side and cali grinded off it. Felt pretty neat.

Another day where I felt run down and tired. To help out my tiredness Liz and I went on a super long hike. It was all smooth, but it wore me out. After hitting Community and some slacking I picked up Carleigh and we went up to MRKT. Fort Collins rules and as always a large crew went out to skate. The Sunny Daze crew was in effect. MRKT heads were in effect. Fun in the making. I was way more sore then I thought I would be though. We started out at the 3 flat 2 flat 2 flat 1 flat 2 flat 2 flat 2 flat 2 flat 2 flat 4. I made it most of the way down but start filming Chris Jones. He got a sick line (well, maybe it’s not “sick”, but it makes me want to go skate). Mudget did some crazy stuff too like first try fire cracker every stair. Carleigh wanted to land them and was getting so close over and over then did all of them so easy it didn’t look hard at all. Mike showed up and got all of them too. Some crazy stuff was going down at a 7 stair when I got filming. Carleigh was trying pop shove. Daryl was trying a line with switch back 180. CJ had apparently 50’d the kinked rail. Bonner was trying a line. Chad was filming it. I saw that Skelly was solo’ing it over at the double manual pad and joined him. The only thing I got was a manual on the top one. Ugh. Skelly had a good fakie back tail. Chris joined us for a minute and did the double manual super easy. It got dark and Sean and I headed over to a long pipe that people were skating. It was sick and we heard that Carleigh got her pop shove and Daryl got his line. Rad. Eric Likewise was there doing nollie back lips. AJ had some long boardslides and almost popped over. Mudget had ruined his hand. Mike and I did slides from the crack. Carleigh got some long slides too. After that we got some good grub. I was so tired. Carleigh ripped it.

More wind. Ugh. Wanted to skate flat a bit before going out to dinner with Liz and then seeing Black Dots, but it was really windy. Ended up attempting to skate Rampy, but man it felt tight and I was struggling. The new trucks weren’t turning too well for me. It never fails, as soon as I talk trash it haunts me. I make fun of Indys and comment on how Thunders are the best so of course my new Thunders treated me like crap. I did a few basics though (the magic formula for the next 5 tricks is to subtract the kickflip): Kickflip front 50, kickflip front smith, kickflip back 50 fakie, fakie kickflip pivot fakie, kickflip front rock. I gave up after all those flippers and started trying switch flips in flat. You don’t have to subtract the kickflips on this though since I didn’t land any. I did get super close multiple times though and quite a few felt like I knew what I was doing (don’t worry I still don’t).