Expedition at the Berrics

Posted in Amazing skate clips on April 4th, 2010 by corpo

This is pretty ridiculous.  Everything in it is sick, but Matt Miller wow.  Nollie heel noseblunt and the 3 flip are bonkers.

skate journal: Southern hills and bank spot with Ollie and Sam (April 3, 2010)

Posted in Skate Journal on April 4th, 2010 by corpo

On a very windy day I brought Ollie and his buddy Sam out skating.  I had some new shoes.  Yeah yeah I know, I only had those Circa’s for a bit and the DC’s are mall shoes.  Well, those Circa’s were very thin and I skated them everyday for two weeks.  The DC shoes are really good.  I wish I could have worn them longer to break them in, but oh well.We went to Southern Hills.  Pushing hurt more than it should have initially.  I have some type of problem going on with my left groin.  Probably due to skating so much and rarely pushing switch.  I dorked around for awhile trying to push switch to loosen up.  It was kinda fun and the new shoes were feeling decent.  Ollie and Sam were having fun cruising down the little sidewalk that leads into the courtyard of the school.  Ollie was going really fast.  Pushing as hard as he could (mongo of course) and trying manuals down the handicap ramp.  He eventually did the whole thing without a scrape.  He also tried front boards on one of the benches, but never really got anything more than the front wheels up on it.  I settled in to trying a couple lines.  Coming down I would try cali grind, noseslide the tall ledge, kickflip into the handicap ramp, front board pop out on a bench.  After getting the front board popout first try before trying the line I thought it would be easy, but I would never land it again.  Ugh.  Coming the other way I tried to manual a bench, crooks a bench, then b/s flip.  I never got any of the tricks other than the crook.  Man I suck at skateboarding.  Back to the front board pop out line I gave up and just tried to ollie onto the bench and 180 off, but the wind gusted up crazy insane and we just left.Back to the ol’ mellow bank spot with the curbs at the bottom on Folsom.  We rolled in and noticed a homeless woman not looking well at all.  It’s always weird rolling in where someone is resting.  She looked really bad.  She mumbled some stuff and we kept skating.  The kids instinctively kept their distance.  I continued to suck.  Sam is just learning, but started doing some things like rolling off a curb, turning around, slappy disasters, etc.  It’s funny because he pushes goofy footed, but totally looks like he should be regular footed.   Ollie was totally ripping.  He wallied over a parking block onto the bank then turned around and 4 wheeled over the block.  He also carved backside over parking blocks to slasher grinds on the top.  High ollies off the curb, f/s ollies on the bank and put both feet on a back shove on flat.  So sick.  Oh yeah, the homeless lady had left for awhile then come back.  I decided to be nice to her and talk and it ended up being rad.  She was grateful to watch us skate and kept saying how much of a natural Ollie was.  It was cool.  Throughout the whole session I skated, but didn’t do much worth remembering.  Some manuals onto the bank, a wallie onto the bank where I accidentally manualed back into a 4 wheel over the curb.  We had fun.

skate journal: I pink slipped Bernie in SKATE (april 2, 2010)

Posted in Skate Journal on April 4th, 2010 by corpo

Went to film Bernie at the industrial bank in Longmont after work.  I warmed up for a bit while he warmed up.  I dropped in about 3/4 of the way up the bank, but that’s not much.  I did a kickflip first try for him on flat saying he would land his trick first try if I did that.  But he didn’t.  Two hours later after some hot cocoa to warm up from sitting in the cold filming I played a game of SKATE against Bernie.  I felt bad, but apparently not as bad as he did after running down the bank 50+ times.  I think a switch front 180 even got him a letter.  I did nothing to brag about, varial flip was probably the techest trick.  Why do I sponsor him?  Ha ha, just kidding.  Bernie rules.  Tricks into that bank are gnarly.