skate journal: Portrandia day 3! The coast and a couple skateparks (Sept 13, 2014)

Posted in Skate Journal on September 19th, 2014 by corpo

cannon beach skatepark sucks

After a really fun morning at the beach we checked out the Cannon Beach skatepark. It was kinda janky. I skated the bowl for a bit. Chris had already done like 10 lip tricks before I did a back 50. Most people were messing around on the street course. Then we got booted for not wearing helmets. So lame. Then we got back to our cars and had parking tickets. Even lamer. Oh well, we moved on to another beach.

We ended up at the Bay City Skatepark. Kind of a weird park, but it seemed like everyone ended up liking it. At first I was bumming because everyone was skating the park fast, just going all the way across and doing tricks on the quarter pipes and I really wanted to mess around on the stuff in the middle. It ended up being really fun. Chris was slaying. I guess skating vert has it’s advantages and he was doing every lip trick with ease. Fuzz, Jack and Matt were throwing lofty ollies over the pyramid. Matt’s ollies are seriously so good. Jack was getting gnarly and manualling the big bank. There is so much that happened in this session there is no way I can remember. So I’ll try to just summarize everyone. Matt, huge ollies, 360 flip the hard way over the hip, nollie flip over the hip, front tail and back tail on the mini bump to tall ledge. Fullertron front 5-0 the crazy bank setup, boardslide to fakie on it, tailslides over the pyramid, manual the weird bank maybe. Carleigh ollies both ways over the hip and pop shove to bum out. Nate was slaying. Wallie boardslides, wallies, front/back 50s on the mini bump to tall ledge, the craziest no comply pole jam on the weird slanted flatbar on the edge of the park. I started slow, tried to noseslide across and down the pyramid but never made it to the downhill, some silly mellow bank flip tricks, front 50 the mini bump to tall ledge, wallie boardslide the barrier, back pivot and front 50 on the bank that Dave 5-0d. Rob some lofty bs ollies, his steezy bonelesses. On top of every lip tricks on the qps Chris managed to shred the middle of the park too. Feeble the flat bar, heelflip up the euro. Fuzz skated really good. Cool transfers on the qp to middle section, lofty airs to front disaster, so much more I’m forgetting right now. Really fun session with the exception of Jack knocking his knee out of place and being in a ton of pain. Prior to that he was ripping though. Front noseblunt across the pyramid, front 50 across the euro, manual the weird middle section, a lot I’m forgetting.