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.

Sweet sheet

I found this a bit ago. It's Davis Torgerson skating around Minneapolis showing skatgespots and most of them are were we skate. Pretty sweet. Watch it for the spots. It feels cool knowing we skate the same spots are pro skateboaders.

http://etnies.com/blog/2009/9/24/rollin-with-davis-torgerson/

Here are some clips from spots in the video that I have some footage of.
Parking garage.



Government building.