skate journal: Omaha suburb bank spots (July 24, 2011)
After a long day of heat playing mini golf and other family filled fun I met Matt, Joe, Dan and the rest of Fremont at Dan’s place. We went to a bank spot to start it.
This place was pretty cool. The bank gets taller further down. On top of a fun session that was going Drew met up with us! So stoked to see that dude again. He’s still the same genuinely nice ripper he has always been. We had a fun session. I almost got a wallride, but am not Neil. Drew got a floaty jibby one on the front wheels. Joe and I got back to back tricks on the bank (joe front shove, me kickflip) and some other neatness went down. No one quite got an axle stall on a narrow edge of the cinder block.
We went to a double bank spot after that. It was pretty sick too, but kind of awkward to skate. I don’t remember much going down, but that spot has lots of potential for sure. Next up we went yet another bank spot. This one Drew knew about. This spot is sick! There was a truck on one of the banks which took away from it, but we still had a blast. I may have flatspotted some supers for the first time ever doing a back 50 to fakie, but I slid down the rough concrete sideways the whole way down. It’s not enough to notice in the streets though. Drew ripped it. Front 50, alley oop front 50 and maybe front 5-0 on the yellow bar. Whoa. Man I can’t remember much more here. I know pretty much everyone did back smiths. Joe and I had fun ollieing into the mellow bank to start our “runs”. Matt almost got noseslide on the yellow bar. Dan and Cory manualled between the banks. At the very end Joe made us ollie the middle part of the bank. He did it easy. I didn’t because I’m a pansy on gaps. We were rushed out of there by rain drops and some gnarly spinning clouds that didn’t amount to anything. Good skating though.
Oh yeah, I had new shoes in effect:
Another pair of es edgar’s. This time in gray.