skate journal: bank to curb, bank to wall, and a manny pad (may 25, 2015 day 141)
Whoa, sunshine! Unheard of! I met Dave in Broomfield and we rolled toward some wallride spot he had seen a photo of. We saw this on the way and skated it for a little while. The approach is way harder then it looks. Dave got boardslides and feebles on it. I did a front board transfer and a crooks or two on it.
Then we met up with Simon here. It was funny because we were a couple of blocks away sitting in Dave’s car and didn’t notice Simon at the light next to us. He yells “What did you say?” in such a gangsta voice he got us both so good. Simon killed this spot. Wallride, f/s wallride, ollie the chain, wallride to fakie, wallride ollie out (almost to manual), switch b/s wallride (WTF!). Such a ripper. Dave did several wallrides, fakie wallride and f/s wallride. I didn’t land a single thing other then some basic flippers on the sidewalk. I suck at wallrides.
Then we went here. My stiffness/arthritis was out of control when we started. I could barely walk. Started with some ride on grinds. Eventually started ollieing up the curb, started doing back 180s up then switch ride on 50s. Dave was manualling to 5-0 or 50. Then we went to work on the nose manual 180s. I got one before we turned the camera on, and then after that it took me like another hundred tries. Dave got one shortly after me. Wow we struggled on that one. Glad we finally got it.
(setup 8.25 null venture wide lights bones medium bushings 51mm stfs nb+ pj stratfords)