skate journal: Broomfield TF style (Aug 24, 2010)

John picked me up a bit before 8 and we went to Broomfield on a beautiful night.  Neil and Fuzz were already there and Carleigh and Jason showed up a few minutes later.  Things got started with a blue box little qp session.  I was super exhausted for some reason and warming up was difficult.  Fuzz got to ripping pretty quick.  Switch pivot fakie on the qp, fakie 5-0 on the blue ledge.  John nose mannied down the angled ledge, no comply 270 back tail front big out!  I got a front feeble that was fun and a kickflip 5-0 to funny fall off, no comply 270 back tail that slid for a few inches and a nose manual on the blue box.  Then John, Fuzz and I played a long game of SKATE that I won.  Tricks I was happy to land were b/s flip, halfcab flip, fakie var flip and the winner fakie bigflip.  I couldn’t get my new trick double flip and I didn’t get close at a treflip.Then we skated around.  I saw Carleigh get a front shove out of the bank, Jason do a million front boards down the rail, manual the black box and pivots to fakie on the brick qp, John ollie the rail into the bank, ollie over the corner of the wallride into the bank.  Fuzz ripped and tried kickflip manuals up the step up, but never quite got it.  I did some f/s flips on the mellow bank at the top then manualed the black box and eventually tried to ollie over the tiny rail.  Jason showed me how easy it was and after a few tries I committed, but hadn’t gotten it.  Jason back 180’d it in a few tries so I had to get his back and finally landed the ollie.  So hyped.  I have never ollied any downhill rail into a bank before.  That was fun.  At the end I managed to manual the micro mini first try (never even tried it before) and landed a couple 2mpg double flips.   Slow start for me, but fun session.