skate journal: bikepath bank with john and nate (Feb 23, 2010)
I work the early shift this week which means I have to be at work by 7:00am. That’s wayyyy too early for me. The one advantage is I get out early, but half the time I act old and go home and take a nap. This time I picked John up and we went over near the bikepath bank. We were skating the parking lot for awhile. John was ripping out of the gates. I was sucking. BAD. John ollied the parking block gap all easy and then we skated this huge snow gap. Ok, so it was tiny. John back 180’d it and followed it up with a sick run that included ollieing the parking block gap and a treflip. I kickflipped the snow gap. But it wasn’t no ordinary kickflip. I took off too late so the nose hit the snow and it went flying. Somehow I still landed the kickflip and it may go down as one of my favorites ever. As John said, it was like a kickflip with fireworks. We ended up getting kicked out so we moved over to the bank where Nate met us shortly.This is where I got real pissed. The most pissed I’ve been at skating since the days of the kick back fail. I don’t know what happened, but I could not even do ollies at all. I was tripping. Wanting to focus my board. Being a drama queen. It sucked. Nate and John were ripping. I eventually kinda got over it and just skated mellow, but man, I was bumming. I think it was one of those I’ve-been-skating-too-much-and-I-am-burnt-out moments. John did a bunch of 270 no complies onto the bank, frontside 270 ollies onto it, back 180 onto it, f/s ollies, f/s crailslide, amazing backside ollies and a nollie shove he stole from Nate. Rad. Nate did some ollies then moved on to pop shove fakie, nollie shove, nollie 270s, f/s ollie over some snow then ollie back onto the bikepath etc. My finest moment was a 2mph pop shove onto the bank only because I’ve never done it before and I did it pretty good. I did have fun carving over some snow too. My other tricks that took way too long were ollie up over some snow to f/s ollie back to the bikepath, f/s 180 onto the bank and ride in to fakie, kickflip over some snow onto the bank and b/s and f/s ollies. Man, somedays I really suck on a skateboard.