skate journal: Loveland/Fort with Jack (go skate day)

Posted in Skate Journal on June 22nd, 2009 by corpo

Fathers Day and Go Skate Day all in one. After fun filled family activities like basketball, napping and lunch at Wahoos I picked up Jack and we rolled toward Ft Collins with the end goal being their video premiere at Northside. In my last update I mentioned I couldn’t stand the ACE trucks anymore. The bushings had blown out so bad that they squiggled all over the place. And you can’t just setup new trucks. I had a new board, new trucks and new shoes. Basically I was guaranteed to suck.Yeah, so I have mall shoes. But isn’t DC more legit than Vans? I mean their both owned by huge corporations. At least DC was started by skaters though. And DC has PJ Ladd.New trucks = rough.We started off at the Egg and I spot. I was struggling big time, but ended up getting a bit used to it. Jack was killing it. Lots of weird tricks, lots of good tricks, etc. He did stuff like ollie and put the back foot on the 3 stair ledge, kickflip over it, front shove pivot fakie, kickflip, fullcab, b/s flip into the bank. I forget what trick he did but it hyped me up enough to get a kick back tail on the bank. I also got a b/s kickflip on the bank where i didn’t do the back wheel shuffle on the bank.moneyAfter some filming we ended up at the newest of the new Ft Collins parks where we skated the new sculpture stuff for a long time. So fun. Ollieing up one the whoopty doo thing and doing tricks on the q-pipe is fun. Not easy, but fun. I only got front rock and axle stall on it, but that was fun. Jack did boring tricks like blunt fakie, front pivot and rolled into it. I almost did a complete circle in a manual on the potato wedge thing. It was fun. I can’t really remember any other tricks I did, but it was fun trying anything. Jack got a manual front shove and a bunch of other stuff that looked fun. Fun day. Hope I get used to the new stuff soon.