skate journal: The funnest Rampy session yet? (Feb 24, 2010)

Ok, there’s been too many amazing Rampy sessions to say one is the best, but this one was one of my favorites for sure.  The crew was Brian, Kurt, Dave and I initially.  After awhile Lazer and Carleigh showed up and after awhile longer Nate showed up.  Jake also stopped by briefly to say hi.  Good seeing him.  Jason was also in attendance for awhile, but just to watch.I was pretty tired/sore so it took me awhile to get going.  Dave and Brian were killing it pretty much out of the gates.  It was Dave’s first Rampy session and he seemed to take an interest in the short deck side.  Trying to fakie rock fully decked, manuals, etc.  Anyways, this session is going to be pretty much impossible to fully document.  Everyone was ripping.Lazer and Carliegh get their own little section since they left before the camera came out.  Carleigh and I played tag with front Ds.  We can’t seem to both land them, only one of us has them at a time.  Carleigh also put down feebs to fakies easy and came real close to her patented kickflip rock fakie.  Lazer was Lazer killing everything.  I don’t remember any new tricks.  But when you have a bag that deep it doesn’t matter.  Front tail block, f/s airs, back lips, millions of rad tricks.Gonna start with Kurt.  He is in town from Austin, TX visiting his girlfiend.  He started out ripping quickly and finding new and dangerous ways to fall and scare everyone on the deck.  Don’t get me wrong, the dude is rad and rips hard, but as I’m sure he’ll say he’s got kind of a reckless style and goes for broke.  Dude gave Jason a run for the money on longest grinds on Rampy and took away Nate’s title of scariest shoot out potential at the same time.    Nate takes better photos than me – Kurt front lip.Kurt Front Rock – photo by NateBrian got so tech we had to put the camera in movie mode.  Brian helped make this session as amazing as it was.  Lots of laughter, tons of great skating and non stop fart jokes.  He even landed a front blunt.  Ok, well he landed it well enough to make it into an older Zero video.  Tons of one foot combos.  One foot tough guy, one foot cross over front rock, one foot tail on his first run, I don’t even know how many more.Dave Fuller is a legend in my book.  Over 40 years old and amazing style.  He did so many tricks I didn’t even know the name of.  Backside no comply 5-0, backside chink chinks, the best back disasters ever,   layback nosepicks, indy nosepick, 5-0s to fakie, back tail reverts, backside & frontside sweepers, bonelesses, so many rad tricks.  On top of all that he showed us you can be over 40 and learn new tricks.  So sick.  This photo is a layback grind to tail or something.  Who knows.Dave front bonelessNate Front Tail.  Nate was killing it.  His sketchiness has gone away a bit and he’s got the basics down better.  His new tricks were fakie front pivot to rock fakie and lien to tails.  But my favorite was when he got up onto the deck right in between Brian and I who were clearly having a fart off.  Who gets up onto the deck between two grown men aiming their asses at each other?  Ha, Nate took it in stride.  My other favorite trick of his was the fakie pivot to shifty out.  He’ll never do that again.  Other than that he did most of his tricks pretty quick.Saving the best for last.  Ha ha yeah right!  Here’s Brian giving me the thumbs down for bailing a front feeble.  Like I said, I started off super slow because I was tired from skating so much lately, but we ended up skating over three hours and it was a total blast.  I landed close to every trick I’ve landed on Rampy.  Fakie pivots to fakie were coming easy for a change, but front disasters were lost to Carleigh for most of the session.  My new trick for the day was front tail revert landed with enough speed to almost get to the tranny all the way on the other side of the ramp.  Other tricks I was hyped on were front feebles, the front tough guy to front rock combo, back 50s to fakie and backside crooks.Me fakie pivot fakie.  Photo by the man formerly known as the sketchiest skater on Rampy.My favorite new trick – front feeble.  Love this photo.  I actually like how the trick looks, Brian has some awesome BGPs and Nate Dog took it.  It’s good all around.