skate journal: co springs with nate (July 17, 2009)
Nate and I headed to the Springs as I had the day off work and well, he’s unemployed and needs to skate more. We stopped for a good and surprisingly cheap meal at Fazollis (SP?) then hit up Proper to sell some boards. The sun was out and very bright and we didn’t feel like dealing with crowds so we hit the old park where there was only a few other people skating. Everyone was in a sun daze. It was super hot and no one was really talking or going all out. Nate and I mostly skated the little ledge/manny pad. We were trying little runs where we would do a kickflip on the bank then a trick on the ledge. I got a few kickflips followed by back 50s. I wanted to do more, I just never landed more. I wanted to try back 5-o front shove out. yeah right. i wanted to do back 50 no comply out but never got that either. Nate did a front 180 nose manual first try and then did a nollie front 180 nose man. Ridiculous. The other dudes there had the worst setups. One dudes wheels were so small he looked like he was skating on carpet. They were fun though. I can’t remember what else went down. We skated for awhile and had fun, but the sun was so hot that nothing too memorable went down.Next we hit up good ol’ Harrison High. They put a fence up around the banks and knobbed them in the waxed spots, but we still had fun. I skated mostly in lines for the first hour. Ollied up the two stair, backside ollie the hip back 5-0 to fakie. Then tried front 180 up the two stair, frontside halfcab flip, backside ollie, back 5-0 to fakie. Don’t think I quite got that one all together. Then coming the other way this one took awhile because I was scare of the kickflip. Frontside ollie on the bank, alley up fakie 50, kickflip the two stair. Hyped on that one. Nate was doing proper back 5-0s to fakie as opposed to my late reverts. Oh well. Then I just kinda worked on new tricks and got a few. Alley oop fakie 50 to fakie. Alley oop fakie nose grind. Then started trying fakie alley oop back 5-0 to fakie. Then kept trying it. Tried it so many times, but couldn’t lock in. Doh. Would have been really hyped on that one. Fun day.