Rat was on the Tyra Banks show yesturday...

Life isn't easy being steezy.

A skate plaza 5 miles from my house. To bad I'm not allowed to skate it.

Let me give you a run down of the last week.

Drove to the falls Monday morning. The reason behind this is for multiple reasons, but a BIG chuck of it was 2 tricks I wanted to do. I didn't know if I could do them so I figured if I could to them I might as well try at the park in the falls. I know in one of my earlier blogs I talked about how much I don't like entire videos based at a skate park. It's not that I wanted them to be ay a park, but it's easy to have what you need right there. Every single day. It's a lot different trying a smith on a box then trying a smith on a real ledge not ment for it. Peopel who skated pre-parks understand. Anyway, I got there and went to the park right away. Bought some beer and skated around. Chris made an appearance and I ollied the launch. I haven't ollied that thing in like 4 years haha. Next day I tried going to the park five times and everytime I started to drive there it rained. Finally fed up with it I drove to the park and drank in the car waiting for it to dry. Chris showed up and talked about how im hoping for something that wont happen. So we left.
The day I was to leave was amazing outside. Woke up at 9 and was at the park by 10:30 and got to work on my first trick. After a couple tries I realized it wasn't gonna happen. Did what I needed to to get the second one going and tried it. I did it, after an hour of trial and error. I was happy to do it on camera finally. I know it's not the greatest, but it's something not everyone tried to do. Landed it and drove home and now I'm really sore.

This video was of the day or two before I left. Adam filmed some new tricks here and I was pleased. Joel made an appearace(!) and kinda got a trick or two.




It's hard to explaine how hard these banks are. Steep and small. EVERY trick is hard and when you do a trick you should be proud. Adam and I were talking about how every trick that can be done on them have been done, yet everytime we go there shit always comes out.

This video is soo close to being "done" it makes me mad. By some act of god. I hope we can pull it out. Just looked at my part and I got almost 3 minutes. Pretty pumped.

Long time coming. This week has had a lot of downs and not very many highs. Last week my car broke down and I had to push it to a auto shop from Wally Mart. After pushing uphill and having Joel drive into the other lane while cars would have to try their shot at defensive driving we got it there. 314 big ones down the drain. Later that week I took Adam for a little skate mission to the roofs. Assuming it was freezing out and no one would be at a park by the Mississippi, we would be golden. Drove there only to finds dozens of people in huge jackets all under the roofs next to a big fire. I guess they could have stayed home, but why waste the energy.

We left and made our way to the high school were the boondoggle guys call home and if you have the time, wathc the end of fully flared when they pan up and throw their boards at the no skateboarding sign. yea, that's where we skated. Adam got a sick cliche Adam powerslide trick that always is cool and I got a run that ended with a combo trick. Not bad. If we would have got a trick every weekend It wouldn't be this bad for the video. Lets hope we3 can get some tricks for some other people this weekend.

Last saturday I filmed 2 weddings. The first one is for Pure Bliss. Took 2 hours and got the big payout of $50 bucks. The other was a gig I picked up and man did it pay off. I got there early and shot the wedding and some extra stuff. I really only filmed for like a half hour and got a hundo for it. So nice not going through someone to get the extra cash. It only backed up me wanting to start my own video buisness witrh Eli and Joel.



Skating outside with Adam is usually fun. One person does something and we run with it. This time it was curbs. I got this board stall to nose and was really pumped. I might try this on a mini within the week.

Went to the skatepark today. For the first time in a week the sun was out. The news also said it would be 60. I headed out knowing I need to film stuff for this video that might not drop. (on on that later). Got to the skatepark and 1 guy was there. At the Mendota park you're either good or bad, Me being the only one that is dead middle. This guy was amazing and soon left. I quickly ran to my car and grabed the camera and tripod. Set that shit up and got to work. At first I didn't think I would do it. I have tried this trick on many curbs and decided to give it a go. Couple tries later I got it, and was really pumped. As you can see in the video of my ride away. The scream is not something I do a lot so you know im pumped. The devil horns was something I did and now that I watch it, it makes me fell pretty stupid. Oh well. Watch the ride away.





This "video" is another story. I personley don't think it's going to be done. I'm trying to get a part for me knowing I can, but it's hard filming myself. People just don't want to skate on the weekends when we need to. The worst part is everyone is free Sundays. No one works and no one cares. It's always hard to make a video though. My videos are notorious for being filmed in 3 months or less. Another contributing factor is there is hardly any park skating in videos. I'm the only one who usually does and you can't just go out on weekdays and film at places in the cities. I know Al hates skatepark footage in his parts and Adam tries not to get any. I would rather not have much skatepark footage in the videos anyway. Just seems kinda easy? is the world im looking for I think. You dont have to worry about getting tricks fast, the grounds perfect, and you skate the same stuff day in and day out. Lets hope this video gets done though. I made a rough edit of Al's stuff and he was happy with it. I'm not. It's all good, but he needs a couple things it feels like.

A picture of my Dr. Pepper bottle. I love this stuff. This picture proves how evil this shit is. "I'm pretty sure Dr. Pepper is Satan's blood."- Todd Mortenson :) Look at how that bottle is just smiling at you.

I like this trick almost or then anything I have ever done. It looks cool and it felt cool doing it. I actually did it pretty well too.

Nothing really to report on. For the first time in almost 2 months we got rain, and it is currently raining for the 3rd day in a row. Bummers.



Went tot he Mall and Lauren Conrad was there. Among the MILLIONS of girls waiting to get there book signed and meet here, there was this man.

Only in Minneosta.