skate journal: flatground weirdness (Feb 13, 2011)

Posted in Skate Journal on February 14th, 2011 by corpo

What a weird day.  It started off hungover at Scotty Goodale’s memorial service.  What an incredibly sad event that left me in a funk for the rest of the day.  I didn’t know him very well, but I still felt inspired by his positivity and at the same time destroyed by the situation his family is left with.  Argh.  Life is trife.Late in the incredibly warm afternoon I skated flatground in front of the house.  I skated ok and after some warming up I started trying two lines going back and forth.  One way was halfcab flip, nollie treflip, b/s flip.  Never got the nollie treflip.  Other was was frontside halfcab, heelflip, treflip.  Never got the treflip.  When I would mess up the line I would try some other trick which was normally switch flip.  A few were close.  I think it’s time to curb the beer again.

skate journal: All day skateathon in warm weather (Feb 12, 2011)

Posted in Skate Journal on February 14th, 2011 by corpo

There is a photographer in town working on a photo book about female skaters and naturally he was given Carleigh’s info so around noon they picked me up and we went on a quest to find something dry to skate other then flatground.  A few failed attempts in Boulder had us driving out the Lville tech center where we found the new manny pad mostly dry.  There was a bunch of snow in the landing so we skated it differently.  Carleigh put some benches after the low part to do tricks over.  She ollied them super easy then went on to do front 180, kickflip and pop shove over too.  Pretty awesome.  I did nothing but ollie them, but I did get a fun run for myself.  Ollie the benches (there was two in a row) then a 360 flip on flat then a quick up a curb to tiny ollie off the drop over a puddle.  I also managed to ollie over a bench up on to the manny pad.  That was not easy for me.  Hyped.Next we went to the ollie into the bank then gap spot where Derek joined us.  I dorked around for a bit doing tricks on the curb before ollieing into the bank and doing the gap.  Carleigh and I had only ollied it when Derek showed up and did 3 tricks down the gap first try.  Pop shove (what Carleigh wanted to work up to), kickflip and 360 flip super easy before tweaking his ankle and reinjuring it a bit.  After that he slowed down.  Carleigh ended up putting down the pop shove super quick and getting a front 180 in a few tries after cracking her brand new board.  I got hung up on trying a line of halfcab into the bank then front 180 the gap.  The first few felt close, but then I started to get worse at halfcabs and very frustrated.  I finally got to the 180 and then slammed super hard.  Ugh.  A few more tries and I gave up.Next we went to the mellow bank to tall ledge spot.  Derek was still hurting and decided to break in some new shoes trying no complies and fakie bigspins over and over.  He also did nose stall and front 50 on the bank to ledge.  I got a backside nose stall and a back crooks.  Carleigh worked for a backside nose stall and got it.  Sick.  At the end I was over the ledge part and just tried to manny the bank which took several more tries then it should have.After this Julian (the photographer) had to leave so Carleigh gave him a ride back to Boulder while Derek and I went to the Lafayette park.  Max and crew were there and I was hyped to see that Dave Fuller was too and we skated the rock section for awhile.  He tried to get me to do rock fakies on the pillar, but I only committed to pumping to fakie most of the way up.  We skated the rock area in ways I hadn’t before.  Dave and Max had some moves.  I tried a front feeble on the 1′ qp and almost did a front 180 out so I started trying it.  I finally landed it and Max ordered some little kids to cheer for me.  Pretty funny.  After that Dave and I started trying front hurricanes.  Apparently he has never done one either.  He got it way before me and did a bunch of them before I finally got one avoiding the freshly fallen goose crap that littered the park.  Dave went on to do a bunch on the lower marble slab too.  So sick.  I took awhile, but finally got a backside flip on the taller marble slab.  Max was doing 20 trick lines that were ridiculous including tricks like front pivot fakie, switch front blunt, etc.  Kid rips.  I was getting super tired and after Dave left I kinda just dorked around a little.  Did a front D in the little bowl finally and did some sketch transfers over the pointy spine and left after Carleigh showed up.  We went to the Bones wheel premiere which was easily the worst premiere I’ve been to.  No crowd in a huge venue and bad projection quality.  The video might be sick, but you couldn’t really tell from that premiere.  We had a fun time at the after party, maybe too much fun as this would result in my third weekend in a row with a hangover.  Not stoked on that.