skate journal: Flatground for a bit before dinner with the family (Oct 19, 2012)

Posted in Skate Journal on October 22nd, 2012 by corpo

Super nice day. Meant to bring my skate stuff with me to work so I could skate right after, but I forgot. So I went home and the family was running errands so I decided to skate a little before they got home. I kinda wanted more then just flippers, but was so limited on time. I did manage to do some manuals on the sidewalk and ollie a little sidewalk crack gap out of a curb cut I’ve never noticed before. Didn’t get too tech on the flippers and a 3 flip took forever.

skate journal: solo campus tired fun (Oct 18, 2012)

Posted in Skate Journal on October 19th, 2012 by corpo

New board day!

Went up to Meta to sell some wheels then rolled into campus. I have been really tired lately. I don’t know why, but I think I need to stop taking a naps because every morning I wake up too early. Anyways, it was pretty nice out. I just cruised down the main path for awhile. The new brick section is pretty fun. I ended up in front of Macky auditorium just kind of dorking around ollieing up/off/onto curbs and trying to get warmed up. I haven’t stretched as much lately since apparently it’s not good before skating so my body felt weird. I managed a first try manual across from Macky Dr then found a jersey barrier to wallride and another shorter one to do a little noseslide to fakie on. Some more pushing and I ended up at the new area that Nathan Fantasia did the awesome gap to nosegrind on. Someone waxed up the edges of the ledge nearby and I skated that for awhile. I would do a kickflip over a little flat gap before backside tricks. I got boardslide, noseslide, noseslide fakie and crooks (kind of) before trying noseslide shoves. The frontside side is a little taller. I got front board and front nose to fakie before trying front 50s which would have been pretty tall for me. I got into it, but never grinded right or landed it. A couple other skaters showed up. They were really weird. One of them had half a ski pole with a GoPro mounted on it filming his friend who as far as I can tell didn’t actually land anything other then back 180s. They asked if I had wax so they could wax up a picnic table that was on top of a curb but the dude couldn’t get even close to skating it anyway. It was weird. They were nice enough, but when he tried a front 50, got way closer to me, then beamed me and said ‘oh that’s not so hard’ I decided to leave. Like I said I’ve been really tired lately which makes me more cranky then normal and I was on a solo mission anyway. I ended up near on the north side of the basketball stadium. I haven’t skated them before, but I had remembered there were a few sets of stairs down a little hill and that seemed kind of like fun even though my knees were hurting pretty bad. Turns out it was 4 flat 4 flat 3. All seperated by a lot going down a not-so-steep hill. I thought it would be pretty easy to ollie all of them. Then I remembered I can’t ollie or skate fast. Doh. The top 4 has a big crack right in front. So instead I would hit an awesome yellow curb, ollie up the sidewalk for the second 4 then the 3. Well, that was the goal anyway, basically all I did was do slappy front tails, front 50s and a front 5-0 on the yellow curb followed by bails down the 4. Until I did a good 5-0 then I finally committed to the 4 and scooted off the 3 terrified. Oh well it was fun. I walked back towards the car thinking I might call it a night. But then I ended up at the art building that has the great concrete, did a kickflip and decided I should skate flat for awhile which ended up being really fun. It’s slightly downhill and I did back 180 then halfcab flip. Better/faster back 180 followed by fakie bigflip. Pop shove followed by treflip. Heelflips. That’s about it. I contemplated skated after that but instead I went home.

skate journal: Old guy sunday Louisville spots (Oct 14, 2012 aka the day before Dinosaur Jr)

Posted in Skate Journal on October 15th, 2012 by corpo

Got a random text from Ft Collins Jake wondering about skating for the day and invited him along with the old guy sunday crew. It was rad. Neil, Jake, Ft Collins Jake and me initially. This was the first spot near Neil’s house. Not sure why we’ve never been there. It’s basically as skatepark. Metal curbs and a flat bar as well as the blocks. Warming up was tough for me, tougher than normal. I had some back 50s on the curb, boring slides on the weird flat bar and managed to ollie up the tall ledge. Neil was all over the place landing a lot as usual trying to line things out. Front shove then boardslide the tall part of the flat bar then a manual or something. Tall Jake (Ft Collins Jake) tried some hard stuff. Little Jake (ha) had a few clean ollies up the tall ledge, manuals and kickflips. We didn’t stay too long.

Then we arrived at this ditch. It needed some cleaning and luckily someone had left a broom/dustpan to get it done.

We stayed here awhile. Tall Jake busted some big f/s ollies! Neil had some nice backside ones over the bush too. Jake did front tail and front pivot on a sketchy rock. Neil also had some sick lines with ollies, no comply bonelesses (?), no comply to tail, etc. He was ripping. I had a b/s flip on the bank super easy like second try then couldn’t do it again. Weird. I mostly tried to do tricks on the weird double bank at the far end and failed. Bernie showed up and did some neat stuff like front rock on the steep part, some good ollies and stuff. After this we went to a weird wallride spot where nothing really went down other then Bernie doing some cool manual combos on the medians and me doing some powerslides.

We saw this spot on the way to the wallride spot and decided to go back to it. It ended up being a super sick spot. Neil and tall Jake sat it out as they were too sore though. My legs were super sore too. In particular my knees. It was more then just soreness though, clearly some arthritis flare up was happening. I didn’t care, the spot was too cool. That doesn’t mean I skated good, I had to work hard for everything and seemed to skate even slower then normal. Tricks I got on the ledges consist of some real tech ones like front 50, back board, back nose, back nose fakie, back crooks. At the end of the day I also got front noseslide as I felt it necessary to try and bring a little Jason into the session. I did kickflip up the curb several times to setup for backside stuff. My highlight was a run of fakie bigspin up the curb, crooks the ledge and kind of a kickflip off the other curb. The fakie bigspin hyped me up though. Almost got a line of front 50 then treflip off the curb. I was going so slow though. Ha. Jake was slaying it. Front tail, front 5-0, back noseslide, back noseslide shove and a line of front tail then kickflip off the curb. Bernie had a ridiculous line. Kickflip up the curb, front tail the ledge, front nosegrind the other ledge then back 180 into the parking lot. I think it was actually crazier then that, but I can’t remember. Bernie rules it. I seem to have forgotten that it was 70 out and sunny. So nice out! Fun day, these “old guy” days are fun even if Neil and I were the only somewhat old ones.

Please move the deer crossing signs to slower traffic areas

Posted in Random Funniness on October 15th, 2012 by corpo

Amazing. Completely amazing.

skate journal: Campus with Neil after the rain clears up (Oct 13, 2012)

Posted in Skate Journal on October 14th, 2012 by corpo

Woke up wanting to skate. It was nice out too. Watched a couple videos, texted people and listened to the new Dinosaur Jr. It started looking like rain and plans hadn’t formed so I went and skated flat in front of the house for awhile. I was just getting kind of warmed up before the rain settled in. Doh. Chilled for a few hours then it cleared up. Headed to campus and it was still pretty wet so I skated under the engineering building. The fun double downhill bank spot was blocked off because of construction. Doh. I found a bench that was decent and started trying to skate it. Things started out real slow, but at one point I felt like I was skating great. One way I was doing kickflips over a little crack gap then trying boardslides to fakie. I’ve never been able to do that trick on ledges and once again it stumped me. Coming the other way I would try front noseslide then b/s flip over the crack gap. Never did a good f/s noseslide and never got the b/s flip. Neil called and was gonna come meet up. I moved to the top of the engineering building as it had dried up and hit the double downhill manny pad section. I mostly dorked around, rock walked down the stairs, posed some ollies down the 5 stair, bailed flip tricks and didn’t get the manual. Neil showed up. Rad. We would do a trick then hit the manny pad. Neil ended up getting ollie over a cone on it’s side, manual then nose manual. He did it a couple times. So good. I took awhile to get the manual, but did get it. Then got a line with kickflip the little part of the cone on it’s side, front 180 onto the first pad, sw front 180 off, kickflip up the next one, kickflip off. Pretty hyped on that. Then we moved slightly west were Neil ollied a little gap first try and I would take several tries. I lined it out with a manual. Yippee. Then we kind of headed up campus looking at new stuff until Neil had to leave and I just did soft rock kickflip out on the drama building escalator loading dock. I did quite a few of them. Cool. I was super sore for some reason. It kinda sucked, but I skated hard and had fun. The downhill ride to my car at the end was really fun with lots of little ollies.

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Posted in Sponsor Me! on October 14th, 2012 by corpo

He’s got a mean back 180 and it looks like a private amazing ramp??? Those varial flips look a lot like mine. Ha.

skate journal: Filmer Glen in Denver

Posted in Skate Journal on October 14th, 2012 by corpo

Had a friday off work and couldn’t deal without work so decided to work all day as Filmer Glen. Ha. We started at this spot above. Crew was media heads Blain, Cameron, Dean and me. Nullers were Chad, Derek, Connor and Josh. Nullers crushed it immediately. Connor did gap to lip all quick. Josh did quite a few things. Derek almost did back lip on the inside. I messed around for awhile before filming and did an ollie onto the tall one (which was really hard for me) and then a front 180 off the little one. Then it was film mode. Josh slammed really hard. Connor got close to a good trick, but then we got kicked out by a furious building owner. Dude sucked.

Then after some driving we ended up at this building being tore down. That’s me in the hole. I filmed the whole time. Nullers went off and landed tons of tricks. I have like 250+ clips to go through. Yikes.

The night cap was some fun with this hill. I probably hit it 15 times. It wasn’t very steep but it was fast enough that by the end I would have to run out. Not derek though, that dude would just hang a right into traffic. Him and Daryl did some sick ollies over a curb cut kicker at full speed. Daryl added switch 180 and Derek did back 180. Everyone else was cruising downhill too. I had fun doing some with powerslides, some with manuals, etc. Got a really long manual for me then pointed the hill to run out before traffic. So fun. Great way to end the day.

skate journal: 18th & welton awesomeness (10/9/2012)

Posted in Skate Journal on October 10th, 2012 by corpo

After many a texts and gchats the evening finally got organized. Carleigh and Jack would run to Crisis to bring some new Null stuff. I was at home with Ollie til about 7. Carleigh and Jack ended up also saying they were cool with going to pick up some pool coping that will hopefully work as a fun old man upgrade to Rampy. So kind of them! They ended up bringing injured Fuzz with them for morale and scratching up my cruiser/filmer board. Jake and I rolled out a little after 7 and decided we’d wait for them at one of the funnest spots in Denver, 18th & Welton.

Jake and I did some rock ‘n rolls on the easy ‘creted barrier then we moved on to lining out some other stuff. Wallride on a barrier (without crete), over a little curb then trick on the banked ledge. Jake got his line first as the others were showing up. Back wallride, ollie, wallie bluntslide. So sick. I started with wallride too then would try to kickflip the curb and kind of tweaked my knee. This was party because I had new shoes and it’s rough getting used to new shoes:

Neat huh? Lakai Brea’s. Fuzz made me eat a couple Doritos crumbs that dried up my throat and almost killed me. Jack warmed up by falling down a lot which apparently works because he slayed it. We ended up staying in the area the whole night which was fine with all of us. Fuzz couldn’t ollie yet because of a rolled ankle but killed it on my filmer board anyways. Lots of fun dorking around popping the board up and running along the ledge, boneless tricks, etc. Even some new ones for him that I don’t know the name of. Jake got a lot of tricks on the banked ledge. Tons of bluntslides, slappy back 50 and hurricane. Whoa. Jack had a solid back 270 to front tail, wallies out of the barrier all easy, blunt to fakie the ledge, rock to fakie, whatever he wanted except pivot to fakie. Ha. He also tried a bunch of dark slides and would slide them, but he couldn’t get out of them. This destroyed his griptape which didn’t bother him, but Fuzz was cringng every time. So funny. Carleigh was smiling and having a good time. She’d never done a boardslide pop out before, but worked on it until she surfed one out all awesome. Kudos Carreigh. I had given up flippers for awhile due to my knee, but it seemed to work itself out and be ok. I tried a ton of tricks, few of which I came close to landing. Slappy back 50, back feeble were landed. Had fun starting at the opposite corner of the street and doing ollies or switch 180s off the curb cut, then doing alley oop (kind of) front 180s up the curb and trying switch boardslides. Got kinda close a couple times. After awhile I could flip my board again and started trying (posing) back feeble kickflip out. Never got close. I would do some flippers on the way back like fakie flip, halfcab flip, fakie var flip which were fun because of all the cracks I had to avoid. Tried a few front lips and somehow didn’t crack a board or get close. At the end I tried a few kickflip front boards and got into a few of them, didn’t pop out though. That would be neato. All in all the night was super fun. Street skating in downtown Denver is the best of the best. Thanks again Carleigh and Jack for running my errands and you can come skate Rampy anytime. But not you Fuzz.

skate journal: All day street spot awesomeness (Oct 7, 2012)

Posted in Skate Journal on October 8th, 2012 by corpo

Woke up to sunshine and a forcasted high in the 50s. Awesome! Then got called for work and was stuck with that for a couple hours. Had been hit up by Bernie, Dean and Neil so we met up and went to the school out on Arapahoe to get things started. At first it was just Dean, Neil and I. The first few attempts at manuals were pretty bad. Warming up when your older is no fun. But we did it and Bernie and Garret showed up. I had a switch front 180 up a curb to no comply 180 off that hyped me up. Neil can ollie more times per minute then anyone and was ripping. Dean slammed going up the long 3 and almost hipped himself on the top one. Sketchy! Bernie can manual off of something before he can ollie off it. Garret is young, but still fun to skate with and smiles a lot while making relatively hard tricks look easy. Neil put a trash can on it’s side after a curb and everyone except me did tricks over it. My ollie has turned to crap. People lost interest and went to the back area.

In the back I tried to ollie this a few times, but failed until Bernie tried it and didn’t get it first try. Then I got it. Only because I had to show up Bernie. Ha, it was just cool that it was tall enough for him to actually take more then one try to ollie it. Which him and Garret both did after that and blasted huge ollies unlike mine where as you can see I somehow popped it under the takeoff? I didn’t think that was possible.

Then we found this surprisingly good bank to wall. I say surprisingly good, but it was actually really bad, but somehow better then we thought it would be. Neil wasted no time wallriding it. Dean got close. Bernie did a cool wallride to fakie before getting super close to f/s wallrides (above). I can’t do a regular wallride to save my life. I did manage a couple wallrides to fakie which I’ve never really tried before. I tried kickflip wallrides for a bit and just kicked the wall a few times. Tried f/s wallrides where you have to ollie up the curb first. Obviously didn’t get too close to that. On the way to our cars I tried to ollie the trash can still while everyone looked on. I’m sure they were like “come on already land it” and I eventually did after slamming up the curb the time before to get me pissed enough.

Neil and I picked up Jason and brought him to the next spot above. Well, he chilled in the car, but I’ve never been to this 3 up 3 down before. It’s got lots of runway for b/s, but almost none for f/s. When we got there Bernie was trying manual varial flip out and got really close. Then he tried manual 3 shove out and got closer. Also kind of close to manual b/s bigspin out and lastly almost a manual double flip out. So yeah, that means we were there for awhile and lots of skating went down. It’s narrower on the top then I would have thought. Neil and I both took a few tries before we could ollie up it. And if Neil has troubles with it, you know it’s weird. Ha. He got quite a bit. ollies or no complies up. One foots or “Neil comply boneless” down. Couldn’t quite commit to nose manuals or back 50s on the second step. Deano skated the middle stair with me a lot. Got front 50 to front tail on the lower one. Almost front 50 shove and front 50 bigspin. Garret spent a lot of time pointing the camera at Bernie, but got in some good manuals when he wasn’t. I skated about as hard as I could and had a blast. Got some silly tricks like front 50 on the middle ledge to front tail the low one, almost got front 50 to front tail to shove out. Back 50s on the middle stair. Ollie up kickflip off took forever and was hideous when I finally landed it. Funnest trick was a front 50 on the middle one to nose pick (Bernie called it front crooks but that’s just silly) to fakie on the lower one. Got front 50s on the top some with ride out, some with front 180 over the stairs. I think everyone there but Neil could have skated there all day. Instead we moved on.

Bird bank! When we first got there Bernie busted huge b/s, f/s and ollie to fakie. They were so sick. Him and Garret then raced for tricks. Garret won kickflip fakie but couldn’t get close to f/s flip which Bernie ended up not getting either. Garret got a sick treflip fakie. I took a long time to get a b/s flip. Dean and I did some stall tricks too. Dean almost got back tail, did a sick no comply to tail. Neil did a bunch of ollies, no complies, etc. After awhile Jake showed up and joined in on some fun. We were all winding down, but he got us skating. We tried some manuals across the lower parts. I went through a slam real hard phase. Dropping in or landing manuals, didn’t matter, I’d slam. Jake and I were to wallie manual the pad, then ollie a couple railroad ties around the corner. Not sure he got the manual, but I guess he got the ollie. I finally got them too. Bernie did a crazy wallie to fakie manual turn around to manual down. So sick! Jake and I did some f/s ollies on the bank before a game of SKATE that took awhile, but I ended up winning on a treflip. Day over. Totally awesome. Not a razor scooter in site all day.

skate journal: Shorty Rampy session with Ollie (Oct 6, 2012)

Posted in Skate Journal on October 8th, 2012 by corpo

Totally cold and dreary day. I had intended to hit a couple shops, but got called for work then became rather lazy. I was able to talk Ollie into skating Rampy for a bit before dinner. He rarely shreds the gnar anymore, but he still had a blast. He did most of his tricks. B/s & f/s scratch grinds, rock ‘n roll, body varials, fakie ollies, coffins, cannonballs and a new one, fakie cannonball. I was pretty tired from skating so much recently and the weather, but was hyped to be out there with Ollie. I skated ok, but the only trick that stands out was a first try hurricane. Sweet.