skate journal: a couple spots with Jack (Sept 27, 2011)

Posted in Skate Journal on September 28th, 2011 by corpo

I picked up Jack around 8 and was greeted with some guacamole that Jack made. Jack makes guac? Yes, and it’s super good! Ladies take note. Anyways, we drove for a bit eating chips and guac with no place on our minds and ended up at a new school that has some three stairs, a somewhat tall pyramid ledge and a lot more. I was feeling really rusty. After boardsliding the side of the ledge, Jack and I started playing some weird transfer front board games over the ledge. Jack got front board to hurricane transfer. Ok, front board is a stretch since we were stalling. I eventually got front board pop over to fakie and Jack got my back with a front board to hurricane to shove transfer. We high fived and moved on. Some more chips and guac and we ended up at the ledge spot off 30th & Pearl. There Jack did about 5 million long back 5-0s to back 180 out that were all amazing regardless of what he says. I struggled at back 50s like I always do when there is a downhill approach. I got a couple noseslides one was followed with a little kickflip to fakie on the bank below. And a couple crooks. One was followed by a b/s flip on the bank. Fun. Jack tried a bunch of back 5-0 bigspins, but ended up approaching Max’s fall down record. I wish I would have had more energy then I did. Oh well, it was fun and we played a mediocre game of SKATE before eating the rest of the chips and guac. Yum.

skate journal: Table Mesa area tiredness, but no knee pain! (Sept 26, 2011)

Posted in Skate Journal on September 28th, 2011 by corpo

Finished up Nullozine issue one the night before and got home around 2:30. So I was eat at work and after getting home I took not one, but two naps. I went for a quick skate nearby. On the way I cranked the crap out of Mudhoney – If I Think to get me hyped. It worked. I got out and pushed around and there were cars or people at all the warm up spots I normally start with so I went to the brick wallride area and long manny pad. All day I had thought of b/s flips up a curb all steezy like Janoski does them. I got one up a curb, but it was nothing like how Janoski does them. I was actually going fast enough into it, but when I landed I skidded to a halt. That didn’t stop me though as I wanted to line it out and did a sw front 180 to wallride then pushed for a kickflip off the curb. Neat. Going the other ways I was trying manuals the whole thing. I got pretty close, but never did the whole thing. OH yeah, there are some benches around the corner now that have potential for someone that can ollie. I got a boardslide pop past the curb (kind of). Someone good could do manual pop past a bigger gap. Hint hint null kids. All in all a fun night since I wasn’t in pain! I wish I wasn’t so tired though.