Been wanting to do this for awhile. After Nothing came out I figured I should treat myself with a new complete. So after a little delay here it is. Suciu board, PJ trucks (Highs), Vincent Alvarez wheels (50mm stoked!!), Venom soft bushings, Bones Swiss bearings. After an intense game of indoor basketball with Ollie I went out to Rampy for a bit. I definitely had some awkward turns due to trucks that aren’t broken in, but I had fun. I avoided revert tricks so I wouldn’t flatspot my new wheels. I struggled with front tail. I was supposed to avoid flatground too, but that board flipped good. It’s supposed to be an 8.1 which are the same size I skate with Null, but it’s clearly samller then the Null 8.1. Anyways I liked it and landed every kickflip I tried, got a 3 flip and came super close to nollie flip. I ended with a couple longer Rampy runs for me and ended with a f/s ollie that was near coping.

After watching the Broncos game with Ollie on a super nice day in the 60s I had to get out and skate. I stopped by Meta for a bit then rolled to the little granite ledge behind the parking garage. I like that spot for warming up. I could tell I wasn’t going to skate great. Whenever I skate it I try to do something I haven’t done before. This time I did switch front 180 to front smith. Not good or anything, but whatevs.

After some blah pushing/walking around I ended up here. It’s normally a quick bust, but since the NFC championship was going on I figured I could last. I started with a warm up line of ollie up the curb, kickflip on flat, ollie the 3. The kickflip took a few tried and i quickly realized there was a ton of gravel near the stairs. Ugh. I tried to clean it a little. Then I went for a line of back 180 up the curb, halfcab flip on flat and front 180 the stairs. Between the back 180 and the halfcab flip it took me like 30 minutes to get this basic line. Ugh. It did feel good to get it though.

I went across the street into this alley and found a basic line i wanted to try. Manual a curb high manny pad, ollie a little curb down a hill, then front 50 the ledge. The f’ing manual was almost the death of me and it took forever. I was getting so frustrated. I finally started to get them and I landed a manual, looked up and there was a cop walking towards me, I said hello and she said hi back, rad, I went right by her and ollied the curb, turned quickly to avoid a big pile of ice and landed the front 50. Cracking up at the fact that I just went right by a cop while skating downtown I decided I’d walk back and see if she was intending to kick me out. Nope, we talked about how nice of a night it was and she told me to have fun. Little did she know that after this I decided to try some flippers on a rough little section of concrete and got super frustrated again. I had told myself I had to do 10 flip tricks before I could leave. I got kickflip, fakie flip and varial flip quick. Nothing else came quick. I added halfcab flips both ways, fakie varial flip, 360 flip, heelflip, b/s flip and f/s flip. The f/s flip was horrible and the fakie varial flip and 360 flip took so many tries. Ugh. All in all a pretty bummer night, but somehow when you go out and street skate it just isn’t as lame feeling as having a bad night at a skatepark. The line passing the cop to the ledge was a great feeling.

After way too many phone calls/texts/etc I met Neil and Blake at the little ledge/manny pad spot by his old house. The ledge was covered in snow. Doh. I did a few 180’s and stuff, but that was about it before we went to Wilville to meet Jack and Carleigh. It was t-shirt weather out! Wilville was busy with students which annoyed people like Carleigh and I. Others seemed fine. Neil liked the young scenery. I continued my flatground woes as of late and struggled to have any confidence. Getting used to new insoles is weird after using the same ones for over 5 years. Neil did a bunch of one foots in. Jack manualled up and down at will. The high speed ollie up the bank to nose manual the top was so sick. I’m not remembering a whole lot more from this.

Off to the wonderful research center it was. Jack suggested we wax it like crazy so we did. I slammed super hard on a noseslide right away. Ugh. No one seemed to rip it right away. I will say that Jack ended up slaying it though. So many tricks. Fakie tre up the curb, noseslide nollie heel out, tried back 50 to wallride, kickflip noseslide, f/s flip up the curb, back 50 to nose manual maybe? and probably 100 more things. Carleigh landed more kickflips then I’ve ever seen her land in one day, but managed to be totally pissed off about it. Not sure I’ve ever seen her that upset before. Doh. Blake had a really nice front 50 shove, heelflips, and a bunch more front 50s. Neil did his patented lipslide all quick, had a bunch of kickflips, actually did a noseslide, but did a lot of sitting. I skated alright and did the ol’ line of front 180 up the curb, halfcab flip on flat, crooks. That’s a fun one. Tried some longer lines with kickflip off the curb, 3 flip on flat or something, but never quite got it all. Got a few back 50s. A nollie varial flip. Tried kick back 50 and failed. At the end I was trying this little quick up a curb gap onto the sidewalk, slammed and my board when in the manhole!

Then we went to this wood bank spot that Neil, Blake and I had never skated before. It didn’t take Blake long to rip it though. We didn’t ollie up, just threw down and had one push at the bank. Blake did feeble, axle stall, back smith, maybe more and did a front 50 off the ledge drop. Carleigh got feeble and axle too. Maybe even a rock ‘n roll and some front 180’s off. I got an axle stall, rock ‘n roll and a few boneless to f/s wallride things. One followed by a kickflip which I thought was fun. Neil did some kick turns then retired to the car. The Jack demo was in effect at this spot. Pivot fakie, front rock, front pivot fakie, no comply to tail, back disaster. Most followed by tricks off the drop too. 360 flip, impossble, switch varial heel, switch heel, fakie tre. So good.

I met Neil after a long day of work at a very crowded Broomfield park. Everyone in the video was there and ripping. I landed my first kickflip of the day which hasn’t been happening much lately. I skated ok overall. Neil kinda hurt his knee and sat down most of the session. Ro was there and back noseblunted the double set rail. Geez. Made me feel great as I was struggling to back 50 the black box at slow speed. I didn’t land anything new, but felt ok on my board and was glad to get out for a bit.