skate journal: Downtown Boulder exploring with Nate (Nov 2, 2009)

Posted in Skate Journal on November 3rd, 2009 by corpo

Met up with Nate after a day of feeling nauseous and dizzy at Petes downtown Boulder.  It was cold and definitely probably not a good idea to go skating.  It ended up being fun though.  We started off hitting the NE side of Pearl St which we’ve never scoped before.  Didn’t really find anything other than a weird plaque thing that we skated for awhile.  You could ollie onto it and to rock fakies if you were Nate.  If you were me you would ollie onto it then shoot your board out and fall on your back while your board flies into traffic.  I’m pretty sure my slams were more entertaining to watch.  Especially to the Jeep that drove by right as a rifled a board at them.  Both Nate and I dropped in on it too and somehow got all 4 wheels down when it was about 2 feet long.  We moved over to a new building that didn’t have much to offer other then some curb high mannies and a drop that I rode off of.  I was having one of those nights were my legs refuse to leave the ground when I ollie.  Not so fun.  We tried wallrides on this new bank to wall that needs to be quickcreted so bad.  Neither of us got them.  We didn’t really seem to hit much for awhile after this and then ended up at Boulder High.  We putzed around for awhile before ending up trying a run of ollie the 4 stair then gap to manny the flat gap.  It took me a few tries to land the 4 stair, but I still managed to somehow beat Nate to getting the gap to manny.  That has to be the first time I’ve ever beat Nate to a manny trick.  Next we started trying this weird flat gap that had all kinds of dirt and leaves in the way.  Nate put it down first and slammed hard.  He got up, brushed himself off and did it again, but stomped it clean.  Rad.  Next up we ended up at the dumb little banked curb on Broadway.  Nate did a million pivots to fakie and I did one.  Lastly we ended up at St Julien and skated the little wood crate manny pad that has been there forever.  Nate did some rad tricks like manny front 180 up, nose manny both up and down and front 180 fakie nose manual down.  I got a manny up followed by a manny down then gave into the dizziness sick feeling and called it a night.  Fun times skating a lot of new/different stuff.

Bert Wootton

Posted in Amazing skate clips on November 3rd, 2009 by corpo