skate journal: Freezing in Omaha! (Dec 21, 2009)
Mr Joe HamiltonIn Omaha for Christmas Joe and his friend Zak picked me up. We drove around for awhile trying to find a dry parking lot which we eventually did. We started off hitting up a kind of longer speed bump for awhile and it was fun. Joe got things started with a run which I’m totally forgetting right now. Something like halfcab flip, front 180 over the bump, fakie bigspin. We all did them. We were all having a ball trying tricks in a run. I think at one point I got halfcab flip, 180 of the bump, fakie flip, fakie varial flip. Fun! Zak was killing the fakie/nollie shove combos. We both eventually got kickflips from the bump to flat, which was much harder than it should have been. I blame it on the cold.
New Fremont recruit – ZakWe pulled Joe’s flatbar contraption out after awhile . Joe and Zak killed that thing. Both did front 50s, front boards, front smiths and front 5-os like it as nothing. I managed a crook quickly, but other then that totally sucked on it. Then we started lining out to it. I tried a run of kickflip off the bump, heelflip on flat and crooks the ledge. Don’t think I got that one. Joe and Zak got a couple sick ones. Zak did something like 180 the bump, halfcab heel, nosegrind. Joe got front shove, 180, halfcab flip, front smith. Zak also got a line to front smith and Joe did a long line to front lip that involved a swith front shove and a fakie big on the way. Sick! I eventually kind of got a line with 180, no comply 180, halfcab flip, croseslide (crook noseslide combo).Before freezing, I mean leaving, we played a game of SKATE. I ended up getting a lot of my tricks and won it. I think I got halfcab flips both way, fakie bigflip, varial flip, fakie flip, treflip and won it with a heelflip.
We left after Joe attempted to boardslide a rail into the snow and did a funny dive into the snow. Ha. Another super fun session involving the Fremont crew where the attitude was always positive and everyone skated hard. Awesome.