skate journal: Southern Hills then the banked loading dock spot with TF (Nov 21, 2009)
On a nice Novemenber day Brian, Travis and I started messing around in the street before others showed up. Nothing great went down. We were just chilling, but it was fun.After Fuzz, Jake and Neil showed up too we went to Southern Hills. We ended up staying there a long time. Fuzz and Neil were trying crooks on the picnic table bench then noseslides on the ledge then something. Brian was bumming on the spot for awhile before doing one of the best wallrides I’ve ever seen followed up by a sick backside no comply 360. Jake was doing fakie bigspins into the handicap ramp everytime and following it up with either a tailslide on the ledge, or a slam. Carleigh and Nate showed up too. I was kinda all over the place. Somehow managed to quickly get a caligrind to manual on in two tries, kickflipped into the handicap ramp pretty easily and got a front noseslide to fakie on the ledge. I also front 50’d it first try and got a few crooks. I’m scared of those ledges. I got a treflip on flat first try that felt really good. Good enough it made me not feel bad taking so long to land it the other night. Jake and I played a game of SKATE. I got Jake with fakie bigflip, treflip, halfcab flip, front shove and maybe the best nollie treflip I’ve ever done to win it. Then Carleigh and I raced for lines and she got hers first. Kickflip into the handicap bank and a long noseslide on the ledge. Sick Carleigh! After that Fuzz and I raced for a tallcan over fakie treflips and I came out the winner of 24oz Coors Original. yum. Thanks Fuzz! Perhaps the first time I’ve ever won a bet against Fuzz and maybe one of the best fakie tres I’ve ever done. Fun.We left and went the four loading dock/banked manny pad spot. I started off sucking. It took at least 15 tries before I manual the curb high pad. ugh! fuzz was killing as usual, Neil was killing nose mannies as usual, Nate was getting tech, Carleigh got a manual. Since I couldn’t manual the stupid curb high pad I decided to try a run. Ollie up the tall part of the dock and ride down it, 360 flip on flat, then kickflip off the uphill pad. Believe it or not I did it second try. Unheard of. If the camera would have been out I never would have landed that treflip. Ha. We all started dorking out at the end and I intentionally cracked my board while Fuzz accidentally cracked his then focused it. Then the cops rolled up and had plenty of opportunity to bust us, but instead were super cool and we were out for the day. Fun session. Landing the treflip in the line second try made me feel really good.