Silly me and my stupid trick lists. Anyways, this one has been in my mind for awhile. I want to be able to say I did some of the Boulder basics. I want to put 10 tricks on the list. Is it a reality to get all 10? Probably not. But here is a rough list. I have a week to finalize this garbage.

1. Manual at Wilville. Never done it. Come close, but the last kink throws me off.
2. Front 50 Sussex ledge. Once again, close, but never done it.
3. Ollie a bench gap at Southern Hills. Yeah, I landed on one like 8 years ago, but never did it. I can’t ollie.
4. Kickflip the “Dentist 5” stair. The one trick on here I’ve actually done before, but Max wants me to do it again.
5. Ollie the St Julien 9 stair. Considering I’ve never ollied over 6 stairs before this one is the scariest.
6. Ollie up, backside flip off at the elementary school on the hill. Thanks Jack.
7. Nose manual nollie treflip out at the Mikes Camera manny pad (or any manny pad). All I can say about this one is “Yeah Right!” If I ever even got close I would probably still freak out.

Not sure about the next three. Some rough ideas are:
– Treflip challenge. A line with treflip, nollie treflip and fakie treflip. Yeah so switch tre should be in there too, but this is me we’re talking about.
– Kickflip back 50 ballpark ledges? Probably not gonna make the list.
– I should probably have a tranny trick on the list. Something like finally doing a front smith on something other than Rampy. But maybe I’ll save tranny stuff for when I’m over 40. Ha.

Anyone got any ideas? Hit me up. Thanks!

Still playing Mr Mom. India was at a friends, but Ollie had said he would go skateboarding with me once i was done pretending do work (at home). His friend Sam was over though and that kid was not in a good mood. He’s the youngest teenager ever. Anyways, after Ollie and I ate some nachos he bailed on wanting to skate and got upset with me for not wanting to play basketball. The compromise was to play basketball for awhile then I would skate flat in front of the house. You might think this is good parenting, but really I was just thinking it would be good for warming up my legs. It failed two fold though. First, Ollie was bummed once I left the basketball court. Second, I was one uncoordinated idiot. I had thought of treflips and how I didn’t do one for some reason when I skated flat for hours on Saturday. So I was like “I wonder how many I can do in a row?” The answer, never more than 1. Actually, I only landed one. I could not do a treflip to save my life. UGH. I tried a bunch of nollie treflips too. Everyone of them felt good, but I never rode away. Ugh, I’m approaching a year closer to 40 and feeling it.

Went out to Rampy after putting the kids to bed. Actually had a blast. Tricks didn’t take too long. I didn’t skate for too long, but did some front and back smiths and tried back smith revert. I did one, but I’m not sure if I was in a real smith. Probably not knowing me. I started getting tired quickly and called it when two ollies in a row did not leave the ground. I kinda miss forcing myself to skate everyday. Glad I went out there.

This whole Mr Mom thing is tougher than I thought. It’s one thing for a day or two. But a week deep I’m exhausted. Anways, on Saturday I got up early, got India going to some DI thing, collected Ollie’s friend, drove to the wrong school to see India’s performance, played basketball with other dad’s while waiting, ate pizza with several other parents then was responsible for Ollie and his buddy Sam. They used to like skateboarding, but now they just want to play legos, lego star wars on the wii or basketball. Ugh. And they don’t even want me along for the basketball part anymore. So I skated flatground in front of the house. I was kinda unmotivated and it was sunny and hot which I wasn’t used to so I downloaded some silly “skate dice” app to my phone (since I lost 1/4 of the read dice) and failed a bunch of tricks. I would try tricks I’ve never landed 10 times just for the heck of it. Tricks I’ve never done that I got close to were front 180 heel and nollie frontside flip. Tricks I did that I haven’t done in forever were halfcab heel, fakie treflip and frontside flip. The only new trick i did was nollie cab. And boy was it a bad one. After awhile Derek and Carleigh stopped by since Derek wanted a board. We did some more skate dice and then I beat Derek in SKATE. Sick! At that point it also became apparent that both my kids would be having sleepovers elsewhere. Awesome! Carleigh mentioned that Black Dots were playing Petes in Denver so I was down. I had to bring boards to Community on the way. So around 8:30 we started skating. First spot was a buddist temple or something that had a no runup 4 stair to brick landing. Normally not so bad, but warming up is hard for me. Carleigh did it in a few tries. I took a bit longer, but on the first commit I went down hard. So hard. I guess my board shot out, but I certainly wasn’t expecting it. Ouch. That threw me for a loop to say the least. We walked by Petes and saw John. He was hyped and wanted to show us a ledge he saw nearby:

John killed it pretty quick. Some long front 50s and front 50 front 180 into the bank. Carleigh killed the noseslides and then went noseslide shove bolts. I however was sucking. It took like 20 tries to land a front 50, but once I did things got better. Powerslides down the parking garage was a blast. The funnest thing I did was an ollie onto the ledge then ollie somewhat farther down into the bank. Soooo fun. Carleigh was almost landing 180 nosegrinds. I got a front 50 front 180 out and then we went to Petes and enjoyed the show.

Man I haven’t laughed this hard at a youtube clip in awhile.

One of my favorite April 1 updates yet.

Today was the first day of being Mr Mom for a week as Liz is in SF. So I’m coming home from work early to get the kids when they get out of school. The stars aligned and both kinds went to friends houses so I went skating for about 40 minutes. I went to ballparks where I was to meet Carleigh after awhile. My warming up was bad and lasted until about the time Carleigh showed up. She was a wreck again. Man, I hope things get better for her soon. I ended up having a decent time. Last time I was in the Springs with Null kids I did a noseslide at Harrison and for whatever reason hucked a bigspin out. It wasn’t close and didn’t resemble a bigspin, but it triggered a thought to try it again. Somehow I finally remembered. I actually got super close. Even kind of landed one where I came to a hault at 90 degrees. I know I skate like I’m 12, but surprisingly I’ve never really tried that trick before. I also got some front 50s, accidental front 5-0s and some mediocre flip tricks. I hope I land that trick sometime. Seems possible. Carleigh got some noseslides, but mostly looked out of it and bummed. Doh.