skate journal: grey skies at blue skies lunch break (jan 16, 2015)

Posted in Skate Journal on January 16th, 2015 by corpo

Lunch break Blue Skies session with @fullertrron.

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Went to Blue Skies skatepark for my lunch break. It was 40 degrees. 20 degrees shy of the forecasted high. There was goose crap all over the park. I actually went through the effort of kicking lots of it out of the park. Then I had to clean my shoe in the grass. Ugh. The main bank was snowy. I skated for quite awhile before Dave showed. It was fun, but the lines were messed because of the goose crap traps everywhere even after I tried to clean it. I got on some fast feeling front 50s, front 50 shove, posed some noseslide bigspins out, posed front smiths on the ledge, did some horrible slow front boards on the flat bar, noselid the flat bar, hands down 360 flip on flat, couldn’t get up the big ledge. Was hyped to get a line of crooks the low ledge, ollie a flat bar with enough speed to then back 180 the curved round bar. Couldn’t kickflip the round bar, that’s a goal. Also want to switch front 180 it. Dave showed up. He was doing fakie shoves on the main bank in the narrow path without snow, boardslides, front 50s, flowing on the little banks, one foot front tail on the qp. I didn’t do much new after Dave showed. Tiny crooks jib on the flat bar, posed kickflip noseslides. It was the best I’ve felt on my board mentally in awhile though. Oh yeah at the end we posed front 50s on the flat bar. We set our boards on and then ran and jumped on. Well, Dave ran and jumped. I was scared and barely did it. So the photo above isn’t a real front 50, what are you gonna do about it?

(setup 8″ venture lows bones med bushing spitfire four 50mm wheels)

skate journal: downtown boulder in the cold with matt and osagie (jan 15, 2015)

Posted in Skate Journal on January 16th, 2015 by corpo

Got out of work when it was 50 and sunny. By the time I made it into Boulder the sun was behind the mountains and it didn’t feel too warm anymore. Rather then skating I went home. Rested for a bit, ate dinner then went to Matt’s house. He had a friend Osagie that was gonna join us. Right when we started we saw Meta Sam and chatted with him for awhile. Osagie was hyped to be on a skateboard though and was pushing fast through the mall. It was rad. Then we started skating. Didn’t really session anything due to cars in the way of spots until we got to the yellow curb area. Matt hauled ass ollied a median then 5-0’d around the corner curb. Oh, and of course did a few treflips. I was kind of lazy. Got close to kick back tails, did some slappy tails kind of around the corner curb. We chilled for a bit, ended up at the granite ledge in the alley for a minute. I did a 270 no comply to tail and a kickflip back 50. Then we peeped Widow Maker and went to Pete’s for a fun night of looking at our phones. I mean socializing.

(setup 8″ venture lows bones med bushing spitfire four 50mm wheels)