skate journal: more parking garage fun with dave and fuzz (March 10, 2013)

Posted in Favorite, Skate Journal on March 11th, 2013 by corpo

Dave had been wanting to do a Denver parking garage mission for awhile and made it happen today. We met at Crisis and rolled to Denver around 6pm on a cold day. We started at a Chase parking garage with lots of yellow curbs and manny pads. Warming up took me awhile. We were all kinda doing our own thing. Dave ran into a random dude he knew from running a shop in Alaska. I starting trying flip tricks and on the first heelflip snap went my tail off. Crap. First spot, 20 minutes in. I knew I should have setup a new board after cracking it so bad the day before. It was too late to make a run to 303, but luckily Dave had his vert setup in the car. It was a pointy nosed, square tailed deck with 59mm wheels. So quite a bit different then my normal Venture low, 52mm setup. Ha. I skated it though. Not so much at this garage. Fuzz slammed really hard shortly after that then we got the boot by an angry security guard.

We ended up at some hotel garage for awhile and hit this weird slappy to slappy curb. Fuzz did it frontside. Dave did a long one backside. I did some silly boneless to tail over it. Then we got the boot by another angry security guard. We checked some other spots out for awhile. Fuzz had some sick downhill mannies in one before another really bad slam trying a powerslide on rough concrete. It was really bad. After that we dorked out on one of those plastic speed bump things. Lots of chinese ollies/nollies/180s/grabs/etc. Fuzz slammed yet again on a gap to 50 attempt. He was hurting. I tried Jason’s crack trick of fakie body varial chinese fakie ollie, but never committed. Dave did a sick switch back 180 version. We rolled a bit more then ended up in another garage where we lasted a long time and it was super warm. Mid 60s probably. Sweet!

fuzz nosesride

Some fun hillbombs in this one. Ended up finding this tall ledge that Fuzz noseslid, front boarded and front 50d it. So sick.

fullertron goes caveman

Fuller got buck with a caveman front 50 too.

what the hell are they pointing at the curb for?

After a hillbomb I found a little hip that led to a couple parking blocks. We slappied one for awhile. Dave did the best, steeziest, slappy crooks ever. Fuzz and I were in disbelief. I don’t even want to try that trick anymore after that. Then we moved one of the blocks around as you can see in this picture with two dudes pointing at the block. Why they pointed is a mystery to me, but the curb put a beating on us. I slammed hard on a wallie to manual attempt where the big ass wheels i was riding just went over the parking block and into the gap before the curb. Ouch. Dave had some pretty bad slams too on tricks like no comply to manual. We had a blast though. Dave got no comply manual. Fuzz learned no complies up. I wallie manual and almost no comply to manual. Dave tried a bunch of crazy tricks. Wallie back 180 nose manual. Switch no comply. He didn’t get them, but came super close. I had started going some flip tricks on the vert board and managed a b/s flip over the micro hip and a halfcab flip. It’s gonna be so easy to flip my little board after that. We eventually got kicked out by a security guard that really didn’t want to kick us out, but had to do his job. That was pretty much the evening. Dave did a downhill back 50. I kind of bombed a hill. Dave slammed pushing. Then we got some yummy pizza and headed home. Super fun night.