Totally awesome dude, totally awesome part. Buy the darn DVD already.

Slept in kinda late after the Fort Collins session. I was less sore then I thought I would be. I can probably attribute that to stretching and doing a foam roller when I got home. It was the first Saturday where Neil was gone. I was sad. I played some nerf guns with Ollie, went to Meta to sell boards and did some cleaning around the house. I got out skating around 2pm on a cloudy and cool June day. I love cloudy days. I started slow, then eventually got into the whole ‘try a line forever until you get it’ mode. The first line was to ollie onto the bench in the top photo band back 180 off, then halfcab noseslide the ledge. I eventually got this. The ollie onto the first bench was hard for me, I was getting on at the crack. Next line, and I still can’t believe I did this one, was Front 50 the ledge in the bottom photo, front 180 up the 2 stair, halfcab flip into the handicap ramp then front board pop out the bench in the third video. That one took me awhile. Then I kinda messed around with flatground and ledge tricks for awhile. Did a bunch of crooks, a bad front nose, a backside axle stall (no grind, I’m terrified of back 50s on these benches for some reason), almost nollie var flip, sw var flip. Then I went to battle with the bench to picnic table combo in the second photo. It’s so hard for me. I was getting so sore and tired. I got onto the table a few times, but would barely make it and kind of roll the back trucks over the edge of the table. I wanted a clean one, but alas, I ended up going with one where I don’t even really know what happened. It wasn’t clean at all, but I got onto the table and I made it off. Good enough for me. Kind of a bummer I couldn’t land a treflip, but I was hyped that I skated as hard as I did. This spot is awesome.

Headed up to the wonderful city of Fort Collins on a friday night. The plan was to drop off boards, skate for awhile, then check out Taylor Dehart’s photo exhibit. After MRKT we parked a couple blocks away and found some random curb cut to dork around on. Jack did a cool slappy thing. I tried to copy and ATE SHIT. I guess I ran into part of the opposite curb cut and just slammed right into the uphill one. It hurt really bad.

Then we went to the mini slappy curb spot. The paint had chipped away quite a bit making it not quite as fun as when Chad and I discovered it a few weeks prior. Everyone was kinda doing their own thing. I had a run with a bad crooks and some slappies that ended up past the three stair area and down below. So fun, but I was still hurting pretty bad and wasn’t able to put my all into skating. Andy joined us! So stoked. Him and Rob were getting into some rad tricks on the ledge. Rob did back 50 then back smith and was looking like he was in the groove when disaster struck on a front 180 nosegrind and he slid out to his back and wrist. It was a brutal slam. Carleigh was doing slappies and skating flatground. Jack was doing long lines of flatground that were pretty amazing and Andy and I enjoyed the heck out of watching it. Back bigspin off the curb, halfcab flip, treflip, kickflip, cruising. We kinda skated the boardslide curb on the other side of the tracks. Jack did some cool 180 crooks, kickflips, bluntslides. Then we went back across the tracks and skated flat for quite some time. Jack, Rob and I played a game of SKATE that Jack won. We did a lot of 180 variations, I did my best 43 shifty ever, Jack and I got 3 flips, all 3 of us got b/s flips, Jack eventually won in the end with fakie tre. Rob and Andy chilled. Carleigh was doing kickflips followed by varial flips and put down a heelflip or two. Jack did a swtich tre, a fakie bigger flip, fakie cab bigspin and probably a million other tricks. I finally somewhat wore off the pain from the earlier slam. I fell a lot and some of them hurt way more then they should, but it was fun. I got a line of fakie flip, halfcab flip, b/s flip. Also managed fakie bigflip, f/s h/c flip, some more and finished with a treflip. Could have gone without the harsh slam in the first minute of skating, but other then that it was fun.