skate journal: Longmont with Nate, John and Jake (April 26, 2010)
After a long day at work, dinner and a nap I picked up Jake and Nate and we cruised to Longmont to meet John. He was at the checkerboard manny pad so we me him there. John was doing nose manny 180s into the bank when we arrived. Nate quickly manny and nose mannied it as well as manual front 180 out to straight leg landing. Ha. Jake went to work on some lines. Front 180 up, frontside halfcab off. Front 180 up, sw front 180 off. Ollie up, nollie off. John tried nose manny slappy tail back to nose manny and got kinda close. I never got a clean manny or nose manny. The only thing I did I was hyped on was getting close to a front bluntslide on the parking block. We left after some dude at a nearby apartment went on a rampage swearing at us asking us if we could read the no skateboarding signs. Oh well.We went to the park which was more crowded than I thought it would be considering it was pretty chilly. The four of us started off with a game of SKATE. I haven’t skated flatground in awhile, but luckily it didn’t show as bad as I would have thought. The elders (John and I) made quick work of the young ones (Ha). The tricks were decent. 3 flip, fakie flip, heelflip, sw flip, b/s flip, halfcab flip, fakie bigflip and more. John beat me in the end with the b/s flip.For awhile everyone was kinda doing their own thing. I wasn’t skating well, but was at least skating harder than I’ve been able to lately. I noseslid the bank to tall ledge, b/s flip on the flat bank, kickflip fakie on the bank. After awhile a ledge session ensued. John has such a cool bag of old guy meets young guy tricks. Slappy sw noseslides shoves out. Stuff like that which is awesome. Jake did a bunch of back 50s and put down some crooks and front 5-0 front 180 out. I got some slasher grinds (smith attempts not dipped enough), back 50s, back 5-0, halfcab noseslide, crooks and a lot of tries on front 5-0 shove out. Nate was trying to back lip the whole darn ledge. So sick. he almost got it.Next up a hip ollie session went down. John won that one. Nate came in second and I clearly took last. I love how I’ve been skating 20 years or something and can’t ollie over a hip and get more than a foot of air. Oh well. At the end of the session Nate and John ollied up and down the step up, I ollied the step up and I did 3/4 360flips before the light shut off. I landed the last one as the lights shut off. Felt cool and a fun way to end a fun session.