skate journal: downtown denver with neil, matt and the crisis crew (Feb 23, 2014)
Headed to Denver on a snowy/cold day that was supposed to be in the lower 50s. By the time we got to Denver the sun was coming out and the temperature warming up the sunny areas. We were to meet the Crisis dudes around Tabor Center. We parked pretty far away and had a mostly downhill skate to it. I was still feeling pretty arthritic and stiff. I hit a rock and bailed and Neil went right past my board. Ha. Matt did like three treflips before we even got to a spot. Geez. We met the dudes at Tabor and they were chillin’ on the other side waiting for Chris to get a line. We went over and skated the Connor ledges while we waited. Man they are tall. Not for Matt apparently though. He did front/back 50s, front tail, back noseslide all easy. Neil was motivated briefly. Had some cool pop shoves off a curb and no comply tricks. Fuzz and I god a line of back 50 on a curb, ollie off a curb cut, kickflip, noseslide. I eventually got another line of slappy crooks, back 180 off the curb cut, halfcab flip on flat then a really bad noseslide. Ro popped over a fire hydrant like it was nothing and slappy noeslid the ledge? So crazy.
We moved on to a couple other random spots while the Crisis dudes stayed put. Hit a little manual pad for a bit, got kicked out. Got kicked out of the 2 stair black area. Skated a crappy marble ledge for a bit. Headed back to the car to go to Denver Art Museum area with the crisis dudes. They were all skating the fun bump to wallride that I skated with Nate and Chad recently. I didn’t want to get in on the session. Matt and I played a game of SKATE that I ended up winning. That’s 2-0 against this under 30! We hit the Denver Art Museum for a minute and got the boot in literally a minute. Then we got kicked out of a rock area that Matt gap to manualled and lastly a two stair that I failed to kickflip before getting the boot. Lots of kick outs! I look forward to warmer temps and less arthritis hopefully some day.