JP edited together some footage of us at Burnide from the epic Portrandia trip. And yeap that’s me skating a parking block.

Easily one of the best bands out. They just reissued their first album and made this amazing video for the incredible song Boring Girls. Love it.

thornton park

Had the day off work. Left my house by 9am solo looking forward to a day of no schedules or anything. Drove to this Thornton park sipping on a smoothie listening to the new J Mascis album loudly. It was awesome. Arrived at the park and there was only a couple dudes there. Had a tougher time warming up then I would have thought, but finally settled into some lines until I got them. Fakie flip on flat, tiny f/s halfcab over a hip, front slash the tight qp. Halfcab flip, kickflip over the hip, feeble stall the qp, bean plant the hip. Switch front 180 into a mellow bank, ollie up the euro, front 50 down the ledge on the back of the qp, f/s flip the hip (only landed one with my hand down). Tried to ollie the three stair then b/s flip the hip, but never got the b/s flip. Another older dude had shown up and was killing some ledges which was rad. He was rocking headphones on a solo tip. I really struggled at ollies again. Couldn’t front 50 a regular ledge to save my life. Struggled on the qp, got a front d. Rolled into the 4 foot section pretty easily.

Went to Lafayette for a short session after work. It was super nice out. When I got there Blake was there. Super hyped to see him. Matt met up too. I had new shoes. Another pair of the NB+ Startfords. They skated pretty good out of the gate. I haven’t seen Blake skate in awhile and he was ripping. Long slappy willy grind on the bank curb. You can tell he skates there a lot. Matt treflipped up the euro pretty quick. My legs were feeling beyond horrible. Basically the only thing I did the whole time that felt worth a crap was a flatground treflip slightly before Matt did a switch treflip. Matt had some good lines with like front lips on the marble flat bar, back tail the back of the toilet bowl ledge. Blake has moves. Good seeing him again.