Fuzz and I met at Brett’s house somewhat late on a cold Wednesday night. We hung for awhile, checking out Brett’s place, talking about old videos and stuff. We went to Rocky Mountain Elementary, aka my favorite street spot in Boulder County. The school was dark, but we went to the fun/weird stair/ledge spot below. Warming up was harder than normal for me as I had long johns on for only the third time I’ve ever skated in them. It messes with me for sure. Fuzz had new trucks (he’s confused in life and got Indys). Brett went to work cracking his board right away. Doh. I love that spot though. Fuzz led the pack with ollies up the 3 stairs and he even manualed down the next 2. Brett got up all 3 second. I was last, having to push of course. Fuzz did some up/down lines that were pretty cool. Brett hucks a lot of tricks. Some of which are pretty crazy. I managed a b/s 90 flip up a curb that was really bad. But I was hyped to manual the ledge onto the 2nd stair then almost ollie up a long 1 into the downhill. The call to move down the the hockey court to play SKATE was made so I went for the ollie without the line and got it. Not a small ollie for me. I was stoked. The game of SKATE didn’t go so good. We started oldest to youngest. I’m the oldest. I went kickflip. Brett broke his board in half and Fuzz ate shit. Game over. Time to go setup a new board for Brett.

Then we went to this spot that Brett has been raving about for awhile. Warming up again was tough. It was in the low 30s. I guess that’s not that bad, but it gets old this time of the year. Fuzz was the first to ollie the gap. Brett and I followed. For quite a while we struggled getting setup for tricks. The flat gap might not look big at all, but with the limited setup and goose shit everywhere (luckily it was frozen and easy to clear out with our shoes) it felt big.

For quite awhile dork tricks were the norm. Front disasters. Ollie to rock reverts, etc. Fuzz and I got front 180. Fuzz got switch front 180. Brett slammed so hard on a back 180 attempt. A few tries later he went for an ollie to transfer of some sort, bailed, then went to push away and slammed pushing. Turns out his front axle had fallen off as his kingpin is really loose. So funny to watch someone try to push a board without the front wheels.

I went for front shove for awhile. Sometimes I wasn’t feeling it and I would just pose it, sometimes I would commit and slam hard. A couple of those slams seemed to hurt my front ankle. I started just ollie’ing the gap one way then front shove it the other. The ollies gave me confidence and I eventually got the front shove. It felt great. I turned around and went right for kickflip and boom ate shit! Went for a few more kickflips and slammed so hard every time. I tried a few of flat and that’s when I started to realize my ankle was hurting pretty bad. We ended up calling it a night. My ankle was not good. It’s a weird inside roll, but it’s gonna be a few days before i can skate again (luckily it’s snowing so I wont be all that bummed).

Went to SOL after work. Originally Dave and Fuzz were supposed to come, but instead it was just me. I played foosball with Allan for awhile then went back there and straight sucked it up. It was like I had never skated a ramp before. I bailed out of kick turns on the vert wall so many times. I slammed on rock fakies. I didn’t land anything I hadn’t already landed there before. Near the very end I almost just gave up and skated flat for awhile. I at least had fun with that. Got a few 3 flips and came the closest I’ve ever come to a hardflip. That would have been cool. I did manage a couple runs near the end where I did most of my tricks, but still couldn’t do anything new. Skating flat was way funner.