skate journal: downtown boulder weirdness (oct 20, 2014)

Posted in Skate Journal on October 21st, 2014 by corpo

Jake came over to my house and we left to bring India to ballet, then met up with Rob and Matt at Meta. Well, we parked on top of a hill and foot dragged our way down it as it was faster then either of us thought. My trucks felt incredibly loose and everything immediately felt off. We left Meta and Jake lead the charge to Wells Fargo. On the way there I bailed several ollies over cracks and even Matt bailed ollie’ing up a curb. Not a good sign. I did have one front tail on a parking block that was maybe my favorite thing I did all night. We went down to the red ledge where we got the boot before I landed a back 50, but after Matt had done front 50, back 50 and back 5-0. Jake got into front tail and Rob was in crooks. We pushed off, ended at the parking garage with the white ledge. Rob wanted to wallride the wall and as Jake predicted the parking attendant went nuts. I still did a back 50 on the white ledge. Ok actually that was the funnest thing I did all night. Then we headed towards a ledge spot, but were pleasantly surprised to find many new ledges that had just been put in. We quickly destroyed them as multiple concerned citizens would imply. But the reality is we put a few minor marks on some polished stones that aren’t gonna be destroyed by skateboarding you clueless idiots. I was happy to land a front noseslide to forward. Rob had a nice boardslide. Jake got into front tails. Matt started skating a curb cut all fast and blasting ollies. It was sick. Rob was in too popping all steezy. Jake joined with front 180 over a brick flat gap then f/s cab off the curb cut. Never quite got the curb cut, but got close. I was trying switch front 180 the brick flat gap then backside flip off the curb cut. At first it was possible then I forgot how to push switch and kept bailing while pushing. I snapped. So did my board. I felt like an idiot. I am. Will and Bob had joined us. Those kids rip. Then it was mostly wallrides for awhile on some barriers. Rob almost did wallride push. Bob did no comply jam over a barrier. Matt mostly did flip tricks and had a treflip ratio that more resembled my stats instead of his. Jake darn near boardslid the top of a jersey barrier. Street skating is hard.