This made my day

On the way back from our family vacation in Allenspark we went through Nederland and stopped at the skatepark. Ollie and I cruised around for awhile before the stoney baloneys came and bummed out Ollie. He was cruising around pretty good then did the 50-manny-50 and I felt like dad cam’ing it. So there it is above, for your viewing pleasure. Ha, the thing I’m actually the most stoked on is the backside carve after. I’ve never really seen him pump a corner like that. I was feeling pretty out of it and tired for some reason. I guess a few hikes and the higher altitude was messing with me. Plus, that park kinda blows. I managed some lines with front slashes since I’m trying to listen to Grosso and learn frontside grinds. I had a few front 50s on the ledge there and was trying to put together a line, but king stoner sitting on the ledge was bumming me out. I did a few back 50s on the mellow 7′ part of the deep bowl of poorly poured concrete. So anyways, yeah, not the finest session.

After unpacking, a nap, dinner, chilling I went out to Street League park and met up with Fuller, Dave and Matt. I didn’t skate well. Well I guess I actually kinda started ok with some front 50s and crooks on the ledge, but then after that ollie’ing was super hard. The only other thing I did I was remotely hyped on was kickflip to fakie on the wedge kicker thing. John cruises that park pretty well. Did front shove fake on the wedge, front 50s on multiple ledges, ollied into the euro and was extra chatty. Ha. Dave put down some textbook front smiths on the one qp, got a ollie up to fakie back 50 on the wedge and I can’t think of much more, but he was skating well. Matt back 50’d the entire main ledge 2nd try then tried to say it was hard. He front 50’d the one on the other side later, had a lot of solid tricks throughout the park and back 50’d the big hubba. Gnar! We ended with a game of SKATE that didn’t go so well for me, but was fun and John ended up taking it with an impossible.

Today was the first day of vacation I’ve used all year at work. We were going to head up to the foothills and stay in a cabin after lunch so I felt like skating early in the morning. Ollie was down to join. We went to Broomfield thinking there wouldn’t be a big skate camp there. Wrong. So then we drove to Westy and basically had the park to ourselves until the last couple minutes. I had new shoes. Those Adidas did not lost long at all which is pretty lame considering you look like a jock in them. Speaking of lame, my new shoes. Emerica Provost’s. They are not good shoes. But it’s what I ended up with this time around. I didn’t skate very good, but did a few things that made it seem alright. Like 50’ing that hubba (it’s so low to get on), front 50 the taller cement ledge at the park and ollie the flat gap. I was gonna boardslide the tiny rail if I landed a threeflip first try, but still wussed out when I did. Doh. Ollie was skating well for him. The boardslide was probably the highest one he’s done. He pushed regs a little, manualled some funny things, had come nice halfcabs and seems natural flowing around the park. Fun kickoff to our family vacation.

Up early in the morning again. Roxborough is a TF favorite and we thought the Fremonsters would enjoy. Rob and Neil met up and we took off with Ollie too. The drive was a pretty one and the park was almost empty when we showed up. It’s been way too long since the session to remember what to write about. Eric mostly skated the bowl he’s dropping into. Dan came through with the surprise again and fakie tail stalled the stallion. Sick! Joe and Dan were boardsliding the rails easy. Matt was popping up onto the ledge too. Rob, Neil and I were just kinda cruising doing lines. We tried some ollies on a hump at one point. Ollie was carving around good and having fun, but his allergies went nuts and he had to go chill in the car. Doh. It was a fun session, that park is a fun warmup.

Then we drove back to Boulder, dropped off Ollie and picked up Lazer and went to the research center ledge. Matt went off. Long front tail, nollie front 5-0, and filmed a banger line. Joe did a textbook fakie front 50 bigspin out amongst like 100 other tricks. Lots of chilling went down. I was the opposite and got super mad at skatebaording, but once I was done acting like a baby it started to be fun. Just in time to go.

Then we went to Longmont for one of our favorite spots in the area. We ended up staying for quite some time and closed out the trip there. Several others joined us and people would be skating the bank while others were skating the ledge while others were skating flatground. I was so sore that I decided an Ibuprofen was in order. It helped a lot. I was almost going to sit, but ended up skating alright for me. Beat Joe and John in a game of SKATE, got front 5-0 shove on the ledge and had fun. Dan manualled all of the ledges. Joe did front lip to front 50 to front board. Take that Lakai! Matt almost did nollie heel noseslide, almost b/s double flip over a median, so much more. Lazer died on a crooks. John did a bunch of no comply boneless variations on the bank. Eric skated the bank too and filmed for awhile. Near the end we had a game of CHODE which is only dork tricks. Basically the funnest thing ever. Then the night was upon us and we bolted for a fun get together at Fuzz’s. The only bummer is it celebrated Neil’s going away. Which means he moved. Which means he wont be the first person to text me ever Saturday. Gonna miss him! Epic times with the Fremont crew, they are some of the greatest people to skate with. Can’t wait to skate with them again soon (I hope).