skate journal: Longmont park with John, Nate and Bernie (April 6, 2010)

Posted in Skate Journal on April 7th, 2010 by corpo

I’m definitely starting to feel the effects of skating so many days in a row.  My legs feel totally shot and I am burnt out on making multiple phone calls to skate.  So I already feel bad for not calling Brian or Carleigh to skate with us.  Sorry.  Anyways, Bernie said it wasn’t windy in Longmont so I picked up Nate and then John and we got to the park shortly before 9pm.  A couple kids were there for a bit, but that was it.  We had the whole park to ourselves mostly.  My warming up sucked.  Like I said, my legs are shot.  Bernie, Nate and John were ripping through.  Nate rattled off like 20 tricks on the ledge.  John can so slappy switch noseslides bigspin out.  So sick.  One thing good that came out of the first hour for me was switch heel attempts.  They were super close.  So close that I was committing and getting one foot on a lot of the time.  Man I’d be hyped to land that trick and I can’t even believe it’s flipping after so many years of not getting close at all.  Thanks for the foot placement tips Jack!After awhile John had Bernie film a line of 3 flip, no comply 180, halfcab flip, ollie the hip, b/s flip on the flatbank, but totally shattered his deck on the b/s flip.  Doh!  He still cruised around on Bernies filmer board though.  Bernie and I tried some lines.  I was trying tiny ollie over the hip, b/s flip on the flat bank, crooks the ledge, front 50 shove out the ledge.  Finally got it.  Bernie backed me up with a real ollie, f/s flip on the bank, nose grind, kick back tail to fakie and like 10 flip tricks.  So sick.  Nate got a bunch of back lips, 20 other tricks and a few b/s 5-0s front shove out.  I got a front nosegrind and came close to halfcab crooks.Last part of the session was on the q-pipe without coping.  I got a front tail and rolled in.  Nate got a bunch of front lips and rolled in.  We both also wallied up the ledge.   Bernie did a front tail from the q-pipe onto the ledge then off into the hip.  Sick!  Fun session.  Hope I land a switch heel at some point.