skate journal: Honey’s Hole (feb 7)

Posted in Skate Journal on February 9th, 2009 by corpo

Jason, Brian, Neil, Rob and I headed to east from Boulder with no clear plan.  The Neil ledges had cars and dirt so we went to Honey’s Hole.  Named after a GPS thing that Jason found naming it that.  I attempted kickflips to fakie forever and never landed one.  SO LAME.  Not digging the little wheels (50mm).  I just don’t want to have to order 52mms yet so figured I’d conserve.  Never again.  Anyways, Jason had found a fun line throught this tight little part of the ditch and cleared out a part at the end to grind.  Just carving through it was a blast.  Neil was blasting huge backside ollies on the tight little wall.  So sick.  Jason was going mach 20.  I managed getting a back 5-0 to fakie on it.  Hyped.  Brian even filmed it well.  Thanks!  Next up was the industrial center bank to gap.  I wasn’t feeling that, but wanted to skate more and ended up getting super frustrated trying to ollie a curb.  Yes.  I got so pissed I threw my board.  Suck!

skate journal: Brian’s birthday flat bank session (Feb 6)

Posted in Skate Journal on February 9th, 2009 by corpo

I was super tired from working earlies all week and felt somewhat let down by my initial viewing of Mind Field.  Nate and I skated at Google for a bit until Brian was ready.  We ollied into the downhill pad a couple times then started goofing around on the little one foot tall flat bank on corrugated metal.  Before long I was trying feebles to fakie.  And then quite awhile later I was still trying feebles to fakie until I finally landed one.  Nate got a backside blunt.  Cool.Then we went and picked up Brian and headed to campus.  A cop rolled by as we pulled in.  Not a good omen.  We were rolling around and started to mess around on a rock when another cop pulled up and just kinda stopped.  Brian had read an article that campus police were cracking down on skateboarding so we split and went back to the Google flat bank.Brian immediately put down tricks that Nate and I had taken awhile to get.  I tried to get another feeble to fakie and after about say 100 tries I got one.  Then we ghetto lighted the spot and setup a camera while Brian did a blunt fakie and I did feeble fakie.  Doubles!  Brian did a bunch of amazing tricks like hands in the pocket blunts, front blunt to pivot, front blunt to 50 to fakie, etc.  Nate ollied onto the ledge near the bank then ollied into the bank.  Way harder then any documentation will ever show.  I got a nosepick pop out thing.  Nate closed it with a blunt shove out.  Banger!