How to get shown up 40 times

Posted in Colorado Skate Videos, Colorado Skateparks on May 2nd, 2013 by corpo

Since I’ve posted it everywhere else, gotta post it here too. One of my favorite days ever. So many of my favorite people. Such an awesome time. Thanks to everyone involved and be thankful I made it easy for you. Ha ha.

skate journal: parking garage fun on a cold and snowy February, I mean May night (May 1, 2013)

Posted in Favorite, Skate Journal on May 2nd, 2013 by corpo

gotta admit, i hate the cold, but i love parking garages

It took two days to heal from my 40 trick day. But I was feeling good and extra motivated for multiple reasons. First, listening to that PJ Ladd song (the first song in his part was too short so we went with the after credits song which I almost like even more) reminded me of the PJ part. So I watched it. A bunch. When PJLWHL came out I was probably at my most motivated point in skating. So I kind of had that vibe going. And my 40 trick clip had me motivated to be a better skater and skate faster. I still feel like I should have cared about the tricks I was doing a little more for that clip, but oh well, it was a blast. Okay, longest intro ever for an hour long parking garage session. I had to break my ‘not wearing a beanie anymore because it’s supposed to be warm” pledge. I started out cold and pushing around the place fast. Ollies over the parking blocks were hard initially. After a bit I felt warm and started trying some lines. First one was was ollie onto the far left sidewalk, head to the right then front tail to fakie on the parking block, halfcab flip then kick back lip on another curb. Didn’t get the last trick. Started trying a different line starting with back tail instead, then treflip then kick front 50. Came super close and was hyped on how fast I was going on the treflips. The back tail were barely even skidders though. I ollied the newspaper rack a few times again, once even in a line after manualling the above sidewalk which didn’t leave me much setup space. Another line I tried was ollieing a crack to crack gap, slappy back tailslide, front lip a parking block. Didn’t get all 3. Was able to kickflip over the parking block really easy. Got a front shove first real try. Almost got backside flip over it. Got a fakie bigspin. Did a lot of tricks cruising around faster then I thought I could. Ended by front lipping a parking block then trying to ollie the newspaper stand again and landing right on it. Ha. Super fun session though. Wish I always had that much energy and motivation.