skate journal: more durango park, this time not so bad (go skate day (the pseudo holiday, not how every day should be) 2012)
Woke up early on another sunny and hot day in Durango. Waited forever for Ollie to wake up and lost a bit of my motivation. For some reason I had been craving skating the six foot qp all morning waiting for Ollie to be ready. We stopped at the Board Haux to show them Four/Null and they were super hyped on both, even bought some boards. Sick! The park was almost empty. Luckily no parents yelling at kids or razor scooters. After some basic carving around for warm up I actually started skating ok. I got a little line of f/s ollie over a nipple bump, manualled the long section and then back 50 on the qp. I also got a line of switch boardslide to regs on a parking block, noseslide down the hubba (came out early though) then ride over the pyramid, pump to fakie the big qp to setup and get a fakie bigflip over the hip. Ollie cheered for that one so I guess it must have been ok. Ollie was cruising around, mostly just joking, but still skating. He had some little 180s (the hard way) on the hips, early grab cannon ball airs over the nipples including a switch one and the gnarliest trick he did was manual up, over and down a nipple. I seriously have no idea how he did it. He wasn’t even going fast. So I sucked it up on the qp after that. This always happens to me. Anytime I think of something I want to skate I can’t do anything on it. Since I had been thinking about all the tricks I wanted to do on the 6 ft qp I was doomed to not land anything other than the basic back 50. I tried hyping myself up by doing flatground before it and even landed 3 treflips in a row at one point, but no, I could not land a front disaster and eventually had to just leave because Ollie was bored and we were supposed to go tubing down the river. Oh well, I guess the fact that I was able to land several 360 flips outweighs not being able to land a tranny trick.