skate journal: Ollie learns front rocks and front slashes on Rampy (1/10/2011)

Posted in Colorado area skate photos, Colorado Skate Videos, Skate Journal on January 11th, 2011 by corpo

Ollie and I went out to Rampy after dinner on a really cold evening. Cold enough that the garage was even pretty cold. For some reason I was really hyped to skate Rampy again. I had thought about trying more kickflip pivots and wanting to try backside blunts all day. Did I land either of them? No. Did I even try them? No. I got stuck in a fakie hurricane rut, did more front smiths than normal (of course they still look like crap as documented in the clip above although I’m pretty sure some of them looked better), struggled at front ds again, had some horrible attempts at ollies, argh. I was thinking it would be funny to take a photo of one of my ollies and put it next to the photo of Fuzz’s ollie and say that it’s my goal by the end of the year. I wouldn’t write a love letter about it like Chad though. That’s just plain weird. Ha. Ollie on the other hand was doing backside scratch grinds which I haven’t seen in awhile then started trying frontside kickturns faster and faster and started getting close to little frontside slashes. He eventually got a few. So sick. Then at one point he did a front rock. He’s never done it before, just did it first try like it was nothing. So sick. After awhile we started getting tired and since I want Ollie to get sponsored by Mountain Dew soon I knew we should documents his new tricks. We filmed/shot photos for a bit more and laughed a bunch. Ollie rules.Front slash captured a tad too late.Front rock.Ollie has a knack for taking photos of me at awkward moments of tricks. Maybe he’s trying to show his style is already better than mine or I perhaps maybe I just look that awkward on a skateboard. Nah, that can’t be it.