skate journal: brief longmont park session before lots and lots of flatground (July 15, 2014)

Matt, Jake and I went to Longmont park to meet up with Riley who had just moved back into town. I had done about two kickflips, a front 50 and a front 5-0 before it started raining. Matt had b/s nose grinded the long ledge and did a switch tre as it started raining. Jake bailed a few back 50s in the flow bowl so I knew he wasn’t skating his best. I saw Riley slam on a back 360 over a hip.

We agreed to go to the covered pavillion and we ended up skating flatground there for three hours or so. It was awesome. Especially when we all would hit stop rocks or stop sticks and slam to the ground. No one escaped unscathed. Jake had the toughest time it seemed. He has been landing lots of treflips lately, but not this night. Riley and Scotty played 3 or 4 games of no repeat SKATE that were pretty incredible. Nollie late flips, inward heels, all kinds of tricks. It was so good seeing Riley skate again. Matt tied a ton of switch tres and beat me in a game of SKATE ending with fakie tre. I took a few tries to get tricks, but ended up getting most of my tricks. Kickflip, heelflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, f/s halfcab flip, fakie bigflip, varial flip, fakie varial flip, nollie varial flip, treflip, nollie treflip, fakie treflip, double flip, b/s flip, some maybe. Man that list doesn’t even sound good considering we skated for 3 hours. Either way I still had a blast and it was great seeing Riley again.