skate journal: Research Center / FFFFF with TF (Nov 27, 2013)

Posted in Skate Journal on November 29th, 2013 by corpo

After a hectic short day at work I met up with Neil, Brett, Rob and Carleigh at the Research Center. We started at the manny pad. Neil had manny and nose manny quick. Rob too, and he added a manny drop to manny. I never got a manny. Brett had a bunch of no complies up, 180s, and all too naturally acted like he had tourettes. Then I started skating down the hill again trying tricks. My flatground game was not on though. I landed quite a few of my tricks, but they didn’t come easy. I cracked my tail pretty bad on a 3 flip, but luckily the board was still skateable. I managed one line with fakie bigflip, front shove, heelflip. Geez, that’s it. Carleigh was doing front shove, kickflips and nollie 180s. Brett was on the 180 and no comply program. Rob manualled for a quarter of a mile and almost nose manualed that long too. Neil was ripping, I just didn’t seem to notice him and then I’d realize he made it all the way down the hill and would crooks the ledge. We ended on the ledge. I tried kick back 50s and failed. Carleigh had a good noseslide or too. Rob had some front noses. Then a CU cop game and told us not to skate there. Doh.

skate journal: arvada park with ollie (Nov 26, 2013)

Posted in Favorite, Skate Journal on November 29th, 2013 by corpo

The kids have the week off of school and I randomly asked Ollie if he wanted to skate and he said yes. Cool! So we went to Arvada around 7pm and a pretty chilly night. We warmed up in the typical area in the corner on the bank to curb stuff. Ollie beat me to front rock. He also seemed to have lost nothing by not skating for a couple months and did his little front slash grinds on the noping, front 180s off the kicker, rocks both ways on the bank to curb, etc. I struggled for a bit, but ended up getting some decent lines for me. Hurricane the noping, front rock the elevated qp, front lip the noping, kickflip to fakie on the bank. Front 180 fakie 50-50 to forward, front d the elevated qp, front tail the noping, kickflip fakie the pyramid bank, then tried to noseslide the 3 stair hubba, but over shot it.

Then we played on the blue bank area for awhile. My favorite thing there. Unfortunately people kept standing on it, so I just skated it anyway and bummed them out by almost hitting them over and over. I started with a series of tricks all first try that surprised me. B/s flip, kickflip fakie, fakie shove, bigflip. Ollie did a lot of his front 180 off the bank to the manny pad with halfcabs off. Or ride up the bank to manny the manny pad. I ended up getting a lot of flip tricks on that bank. I started hucking cab flips and got one! It was sloppy, but I was still hyped. I tried to get a better one and may have gotten another one, but I think I slid it around too much. I also got halfcab flips both ways, f/s flip, better bigflip. So fun.

We skated the Pier 7 area for a bit. Nothing notable went down there. We left after I ollied the marble flat bar thing as my ‘ollie something everytime you skate” regimen Neil has me on. Fun night. Hyped to skate with Ollie again.