skate journal: thornton park fun (dec 11, 2014)
Posted in Skate Journal on December 12th, 2014 by corpoTook the day off work because it was supposed to be 60 degrees. Met up with Fuzz then went to one of our favorite parks. We got there around noon and it was already super nice out. No wind, just amazing. We warmed up on the little manny pad ledge. Fuzz had some sketchy back 50s to begin, but turned it up quick. I had thought of how I wanted to do a backside nosegrind on the little thing while driving there. Some 20 tries later I landed a couple. Rad. It’s been years since I’ve done that one. We started doing some 3 trick lines, but Fuzz would normally land 5 tricks at least. Some lofty b/s ollies on the steep bank hip, hippy jump the flat bar into the bank, ollie it into the bank. Then the cool fs ollie above. He started initially by doing manual on the ledge to the right of his photo then ollie to fakie. I had a back 50 on the manny pad, kickflip on flat then boardslide down a little rail. Then we did some lines starting with wallriding (ok technically bank riding) over the two stair. Fuzz was lining to the manual / hip ollie above. I was lining to a boardlide transfer up the long ledge. It took me a long time and by the time I finally landed it Dave had arrived. I must admit rolling away from it felt really neat though. My legs were pretty much shot by then. They haven’t felt that bad in awhile. Doh. With the exception of a few ledge basics, kickflip on a bank and a great feeling flatground nollie treflip I was done. Dave went on to kill it. Him and Fuzz were doing long lines that involved boardslide to fakie a flat bar and fakie ollie on the bank (in Fuzz’s photo). Blaine arrived too which was sick. He had a bunch of steezy ollies and back 180s. And some gnarly no comply 180’s in to fakie off a ledge into a bank. Dave shut it down with this manual a few times as the skatepark filled up with the after school program so we bounced. Fun times.