skate journal: flatground with Carleigh OUTSIDE! (Feb 11, 2011)

Posted in Skate Journal on February 12th, 2011 by corpo

We got it pretty good weatherwise in CO, but the last couple weeks have been rough.  I haven’t skated outside since Jan 27th.  Wow.  It hit 40 today and it felt super nice out. I left work early, picked up Carleigh and we attempted to find somewhere dry to skate. After a couple nothing spots we ended up at a smooth new parking lot that had a narrow strip without too much sand from snow removal. There was a section of snow we could ollie and a chunk of ice to do tricks over too. Nothing too special, but it was sunny and it felt nice.As I mentioned in the last entry I broke my board trying to ollie a cone.  My shoes were getting really flat and soggy so I didn’t want to do the new board / old shoes thing.  I’m sitting on some shoes right now so I busted out my third pair of eS Square Two’s in a row.  Love these shoes.  To add to the mix I had some new 52mm supernullethane.  This is partly because I’ve had the same wheels forever and partly because I wanted new wheels before SF in 3 weeks, but not brand new wheels in SF.  Aight, so now that I’ve posed out long enough it’s time to talk about skating.After some warming up I settled on a couple runs.  One way no comply 180, f/s halfcab flip, treflip.  Other way ollie the snow, kickflip the ice, nollie treflip.  I never got either line although I did get close.  I gave up at one point and did back 180 a small section of the ice, halfcab flip (horrible) then heelflip (new boards and heelflips are a match made in heaven).  I had landed a couple treflips at one point and even landed with some of both feet on a switch flip.  Carleigh worked on some runs too and was ollieing the snow pile really good.  She bailed a lot of kickflips which bummer her out, but did a line of ollie the snow, ollie the ice, pop shove, front 180, fakie pop shove.  Sick.  She also did ollie the snow then pop shove the ice.  Both of us were having more problems ollie’ing the snow then we thought we should.  Carleigh also through down a few heelflip attempts.  She should do those more.  Or maybe I’ll just go the direct route.  Carleigh, please do more heelflips, you got those.  Pretty fun session.  Nice to be outside.  Warm weather on the way.  Melt snow melt!