skate journal: marathon skate day with lots of idiotic falls (Feb 16, 2011)
More on this clip later (who said moron?). I took the day off work as it was supposed to be 60 degrees and I was tired from being up late seeing SEBADOH. I woke up late and headed to the Lafayette park around 11 where Carleigh would join me in a bit. Almost no one was there initially and I tried to take advantage by actually carving around and skating the snake run a bit. I was skating ok. Real tricks weren’t going to well, but cruising around was. At one point I tried to front smith the little ledge and slid out and almost hit the back of my head on the corner of the ledge. That could have been soooo bad. That would be the first slam of the day. Carleigh wasn’t in the best of moods and it showed. She had some good noseslides, but more slams then normal. I posed some attempts at front 50 down the Hubba, but for some reason that terrifies me. I’ve never been good at the downhill. Actually other then finally ollie the 3 stair and try to noseslide the ledge over the 3 stair I didn’t really skate all that well. It was fun cruising around though.After slinging some boards I found myself at Cheeseman park in Denver with Jack, Chad and Daryl. That place is awesome. We were all kind of doing our own thing and warming up again was not easy for me. Derek showed up after awhile and put down a crazy good line pretty quick. Front 180 up 4, fakie bigspin, b/s flip down 4, halfcab down 4. Daryl switch ollied up 4. Chad yelled a lot and almost got kickflip up the 4. I settled in to trying a run of ollie up 3, heelflip, weird sideways gap to boardslide. I got about as close to getting the run as possible before the man showed up and I walked off unscathed to my car.After this we ended up at some wallride spot by Daryl’s house. Yes, you guessed it, the one in the clip above. I had done a couple basic wallrides before settling in to a long kickflip wallride attempt marathon. Daryl had some awesome wallrides to fakie that he either landed or stuck and dove into mud. Jack had some crazy tail drops. Chad was catching up with homies then decided to film me with his phone before he left which resulted in the funny fall clip above. It was funny because Jeff had just pulled up randomly and was walking over to say hi. Derek starting trying the kickflip wallrides with me too and we would pose switch flips on the way back to the starting gate. Jack eventually came over and did it in a couple tries trying to show how easy it was so we could leave and get food. No luck, it still took awhile. I ended up getting Derek’s back (I think?) with a really bad one.After a burrito and a trip to Crisis to buy plane tickets to SF (YES!!!) we hit the Broomfield park. I was sore and saw Neil do a little wallride at the top of the bank by the six stair and thought it looked fun. So I started doing that then Brian joined and started doing cool tricks. Then Fuzz joined. They started trying wallrides where you take your back foot off the board and push on the wall then back on the board and land it. I was in on that game too. Well after they had moved on to other tricks. I did eventually land a couple though and tried to back it with a noseslide down the double set hubba. I failed poorly all three times. The last being apparently the most amusing and painful as I landed on the last stair and shot out. I was hyped to finally try it and if it wasn’t almost closing time I would have tried some more, but I wanted to skate the ledges a bit. Although I didn’t really land anything on the ledges until my very last line before lights shut down. Ollie onto the U ledge, front 180 off, back crooks the black ledge, horrible b/s flip on flat. At the end Brian and Fuzz were almost doing b/s sugarcanes on the brick qp and Carleigh was getting really close to varial heels on flat. Skateboarding all day is fun.