After a long drive down from Buena Vista in the morning, a nap in the afternoon heat and a few phone calls I met Jack at Meta, picked up Rob, then met Brian at Crisis. We went to the jersey barrier spot where we would stay for most of the day. Brian got to falling right away. Jack was ripping right away. Rob brought his east coast steez to the spot. We all got in a groove and did some stuff. Brian skated the “adult barrier” for the most part and did tricks like front feeble fakie and hurricane while the rest of us “played” on the easier barrier. Jack did back big d. I started trying fakie pivot fakie which is a trick I’ve wanted to do there forever. Rob was trying tailblocks and we were both taking some time so we raced to it. Loser had to buy the other a margarita. Although the term “race” is a bit of a stretch. Especially for me. You should have seen my switch mongo pushing. It was in effect and horrible. Later on that evening Jack got on my case about it pretty hard. So no more switch mongo for me. Instead of bad style pushing it will be horrible beginner looking pushing from here on out. According to Jack this is more acceptable. So blame him when you see it. Back to the skating. I did a fakie back smith to fakie. Not a pivot. Brian wanted to count that and I said it didn’t count. He told me I just wasn’t used to winning. But he said it in such a great way that made me feel like I never land anything. So funny. I did get the pivot version next try to end any controversy I had in my head though. Shortly after Rob got his tailblock perfect and I even filmed it for him with his little digital camera. Brian was going for blunt fakie on the adult barrier and was slamming so hard over and over. I don’t know how he does it.

Around now Fuzz, Carleigh and the Crisis kids arrived. Lots went on for awhile. Jack was doing lots of late shoves/late 3 shove/late bigspins/board breaking/ankle rolling out of the barrier. I was trying a line of kickflip off the curb cut (way harder than it should be), ollie up the curb (starting to get worn out after two tricks) then front 50 on the ledge which I never got. I went back to skating the barrier for awhile. Jack was filming Carleigh do feeble fakie. I guess she had already landed it, but was slamming pretty hard when I was there. I somehow managed another fakie pivot fakie and Jack filmed it with his fancy camera and pronounced the start of a new G Nut part. Great. Fuzz joined and started putting down trick after trick. Fakie noseblunt (or switch blunt? looks more fakie then switch), switch pivot fakie and almost front noseblunt. Brian finally manned up to skate the kiddie barrier (ha) and was putting down front blunts, but not riding away for various reasons like wheelbite or his board was not under his feet. He got so close.

I went and played a game of SKATE with Conor which ended up being a blast mainly because he was nice and didn’t do all nollie and switch tricks. He won it of course, but I got a couple letters on him and the last trick he got me with was fakie bigger flip. I wasn’t close on the first one, but the second one was super close. So I tried a lot more and eventually landed a bad one. Hyped though, new trick! Jack almost wallrode over some gas lines before we got the boot and moved along. We went a few blocks to a marble ledge and most of the younger crowd rolled right by it, but Fuzz, Brian, Rob and I skated it for awhile. Tech tricks like boardslide and manual went down. Rob went nuts though and combined the two. So sick. We moved on again and ended at a two stair area with some benches and I sat down exhausted while others skated. Fuzz, Conor and Jack did some rad bonk/grind/slide to manny combos. Then it was time for dinner and my free marg at Illegal Petes. Yum!

When we arrived back near the car Rob, Fuzz, Jack, Brian and I sessioned the banked ledge for awhile. Rock fakie, front rock, stuff like that. Jack shut it down with manual to rock fakie, back d fakie, pivot to fakie, etc. I was happy to get a front slash on it. Fun night. I wish I had more energy then I did, but it was a blast for sure and the crew was awesome. I’m gonna hit “Publish” now without any proofreading ..