Woke up to sunshine and a forcasted high in the 50s. Awesome! Then got called for work and was stuck with that for a couple hours. Had been hit up by Bernie, Dean and Neil so we met up and went to the school out on Arapahoe to get things started. At first it was just Dean, Neil and I. The first few attempts at manuals were pretty bad. Warming up when your older is no fun. But we did it and Bernie and Garret showed up. I had a switch front 180 up a curb to no comply 180 off that hyped me up. Neil can ollie more times per minute then anyone and was ripping. Dean slammed going up the long 3 and almost hipped himself on the top one. Sketchy! Bernie can manual off of something before he can ollie off it. Garret is young, but still fun to skate with and smiles a lot while making relatively hard tricks look easy. Neil put a trash can on it’s side after a curb and everyone except me did tricks over it. My ollie has turned to crap. People lost interest and went to the back area.

In the back I tried to ollie this a few times, but failed until Bernie tried it and didn’t get it first try. Then I got it. Only because I had to show up Bernie. Ha, it was just cool that it was tall enough for him to actually take more then one try to ollie it. Which him and Garret both did after that and blasted huge ollies unlike mine where as you can see I somehow popped it under the takeoff? I didn’t think that was possible.

Then we found this surprisingly good bank to wall. I say surprisingly good, but it was actually really bad, but somehow better then we thought it would be. Neil wasted no time wallriding it. Dean got close. Bernie did a cool wallride to fakie before getting super close to f/s wallrides (above). I can’t do a regular wallride to save my life. I did manage a couple wallrides to fakie which I’ve never really tried before. I tried kickflip wallrides for a bit and just kicked the wall a few times. Tried f/s wallrides where you have to ollie up the curb first. Obviously didn’t get too close to that. On the way to our cars I tried to ollie the trash can still while everyone looked on. I’m sure they were like “come on already land it” and I eventually did after slamming up the curb the time before to get me pissed enough.

Neil and I picked up Jason and brought him to the next spot above. Well, he chilled in the car, but I’ve never been to this 3 up 3 down before. It’s got lots of runway for b/s, but almost none for f/s. When we got there Bernie was trying manual varial flip out and got really close. Then he tried manual 3 shove out and got closer. Also kind of close to manual b/s bigspin out and lastly almost a manual double flip out. So yeah, that means we were there for awhile and lots of skating went down. It’s narrower on the top then I would have thought. Neil and I both took a few tries before we could ollie up it. And if Neil has troubles with it, you know it’s weird. Ha. He got quite a bit. ollies or no complies up. One foots or “Neil comply boneless” down. Couldn’t quite commit to nose manuals or back 50s on the second step. Deano skated the middle stair with me a lot. Got front 50 to front tail on the lower one. Almost front 50 shove and front 50 bigspin. Garret spent a lot of time pointing the camera at Bernie, but got in some good manuals when he wasn’t. I skated about as hard as I could and had a blast. Got some silly tricks like front 50 on the middle ledge to front tail the low one, almost got front 50 to front tail to shove out. Back 50s on the middle stair. Ollie up kickflip off took forever and was hideous when I finally landed it. Funnest trick was a front 50 on the middle one to nose pick (Bernie called it front crooks but that’s just silly) to fakie on the lower one. Got front 50s on the top some with ride out, some with front 180 over the stairs. I think everyone there but Neil could have skated there all day. Instead we moved on.

Bird bank! When we first got there Bernie busted huge b/s, f/s and ollie to fakie. They were so sick. Him and Garret then raced for tricks. Garret won kickflip fakie but couldn’t get close to f/s flip which Bernie ended up not getting either. Garret got a sick treflip fakie. I took a long time to get a b/s flip. Dean and I did some stall tricks too. Dean almost got back tail, did a sick no comply to tail. Neil did a bunch of ollies, no complies, etc. After awhile Jake showed up and joined in on some fun. We were all winding down, but he got us skating. We tried some manuals across the lower parts. I went through a slam real hard phase. Dropping in or landing manuals, didn’t matter, I’d slam. Jake and I were to wallie manual the pad, then ollie a couple railroad ties around the corner. Not sure he got the manual, but I guess he got the ollie. I finally got them too. Bernie did a crazy wallie to fakie manual turn around to manual down. So sick! Jake and I did some f/s ollies on the bank before a game of SKATE that took awhile, but I ended up winning on a treflip. Day over. Totally awesome. Not a razor scooter in site all day.

Totally cold and dreary day. I had intended to hit a couple shops, but got called for work then became rather lazy. I was able to talk Ollie into skating Rampy for a bit before dinner. He rarely shreds the gnar anymore, but he still had a blast. He did most of his tricks. B/s & f/s scratch grinds, rock ‘n roll, body varials, fakie ollies, coffins, cannonballs and a new one, fakie cannonball. I was pretty tired from skating so much recently and the weather, but was hyped to be out there with Ollie. I skated ok, but the only trick that stands out was a first try hurricane. Sweet.

Ran some boards to 303 in Denver and it started to rain. Chadman was down to skate so we went to a parking garage that the fine dudes at 303 recommended. Chadman got a nice kickflip manual to hill bomb before I could even ollie then we got the boot. Doh, the garage looked epic. We walked to one we saw nearby that wasn’t so epic, but it had concrete and slick parking blocks so what more do you need? Chadman did his best to shoot is board into the wall after ever boardslide attempt. Pretty bad Chad. Ha. It was only 34 degrees outside according to my phone, so pretty darn cold. But we skated and had fun. Chad did some crazy lines ollieing parking blocks into a narrow space between the blocks and the wall then do a trick on them. Fakie ollie one to f/s halfcab boardslide was tight. Also the wallride into the sketchy wet downhill was gnarly. I didn’t have much for tricks. Managed a couple halfcab boardslides to fakie, bluntslides, kickflips over a manhole and b/s 90 flips off a little bump. We ended with a couple games of SKATE. Chadman killed me on the first one with impossible tricks like switch heel and hardflip. No repeats on the second one which I beat him with sketchy tricks like treflip to skier landing, etc. We had fun.