skate journal: broomfield park with fuzz and carleigh (June 17, 2013)

Posted in Skate Journal on June 18th, 2013 by corpo

Super nice night. Carleigh and I arrived at a mostly vacant park and Fuzz showed up shortly after. My legs weren’t feeling very good and it showed quickly. Ollies were hard. I mostly just skated the quarta potty and did slappy noseslides, some with 270’s out which felt pretty neat. After a bit the three of us settled into a quarta-potty and blue ledges session. Carleigh was trying back disasters on the qp and front tails on the ledge. Then she did her second front board ever on the downhill blue ledge. Then her 3rd. 4th, 5th, etc until it basically looked like she had it on lock. Rad. Fuzz looked pretty rusty initially and had some sketchy looking slams. He was doing different tricks on the qp then doing back 180 fakie back 50 on the ledge. Sometimes to fakie, sometimes with a 180. I was skating the qp decent, but couldn’t land a ledge trick to save my life. I guess I had a couple crooks on the up/down blue ledge and some front 5-0s down it. Oh and I got a few switch back noseslides down the blue ledge too. I was hyped on that! I started hucking and managed a kickflip back noseslide. This is where it gets awesome. Fuzz said I can call it a “slide” because it slid off the ledge and I’m 40 years old so everything counts. Yes! I must admit a bit of pleasure in calling “I’m 40 that’s a make”. I should add a “with shitty arthritis” in there too unfortunately. It was almost lights out already and everyone kind of broke up and skated other stuff. I almost rolled my ankle on a crooks on the black ledge. Argh. I saw Carleigh trying back tailslides on the hump above the flowbowl and get a first try front d on the brick qp. And some surfer style frontside ollies too. I wanted to get to the qp with a f/s halfcab flip then a kickflip into the bank, but I couldn’t commit to the kickflip. Doh. Fuzz did some crazy tricks on the brick qp. Then the lights shut off. Doh. But since the softball players are allowed to have their lights on the park had some light. We all skated the quarta-potty. Fuzz and Carleigh were trying to learn backside hurricanes. They both had a couple spills. Fuzz got his first. Carleigh got one after getting in a sour mood because of some tool in a jeep playing dumb music. I did a bunch of tricks I’ve done before, but would try a 3 flip or f/s flip after every trick. Had 4 treflips in a row at one point. Felt great. Fuzz went on to learn frontside hurricanes too and did a bunch of them proclaiming it as his favorite new trick. Rad!