skate journal: marathon red curbs session with Fullertron (Feb 6, 2013)

Posted in Favorite, Skate Journal on February 7th, 2013 by corpo

crunchy

Had a really tough day. Was busy at work and trying to finish up Brian’s front rock edit while at work. It was stressful, but it all worked out. I got out of work and headed to Crisis. Was gonna do some bidness, shoot the shit awhile then go to Lafayette park before Brian’s birthday dinner. But it started raining. Since when did it rain in Feb in Colorado? Oh well I’ll take that over snow any day. It was still cold though, in the upper 30s. I still had some time before dinner and decided to hit Red Curbs. Fullertron said he was down to skate there and a super fun session ensued. I got there first. I warmed up with mostly some slappys. Dave showed up. I got a line of slappy front tail, front lip, 360 flip on flat. Hyped! Dave went to work on slappy crooks and laid down some really good ones. He stands up on them way better than me. I tried kick front 50/5-0s for awhile. Got close, but no cigar. No kfbsts either. Dave had some good 5-0s, long boardslides to forward, fakie or 270 out. We hit the manny/grind corner section for awhile. It was fun. Dave did front 5-0 to nose manny. Manny to back 5-0. I got manny to tail (no slide), manny to front 50, nose manny to front lip (sketchy), manny to switch crook stall, back 50 to nose manual to slam my back on the edge of the curb. Ouch. We just kept on skating. Dave got 180 nose manual and switch 180 manual. I slammed on a 180 nose manual where I probably only had about half and inch left to manual. We wallied the rock once or twice. It was funny because Dave had to put some styrofoam in the rocks in front of the big rock as he was scared of the gap. He would end up getting it without the styrofoam in the end though. I might have wallied it in a line with a nose manual. I ollied some styrofoam boxes for a bit. Got kinda tall for me. I should try to ollie stuff more often. It’s hard. We skated a newly waxed short edge by a pillar for awhile. Dave got front lip and back 50. I got back 50, back 5-0 and a good slam. Dave tried halfcab boardslide combos for awhile while I tried kickflip up / b/s flip off. He landed a bunch. I didn’t get the b/s flip. That was pretty much it for me. A few more failed kfbsts. Dave was grinding the rougher curb (above) and got a back 50 back 180 out. Of course he was flying when he did it. Turns out we skated over 3 hours. Awesome.