skate journal: wood bank, north side, launch, spring canyon with the fremonsters #weekendatglennys day 2 (may 27, 2016 day 148)
Up early in the morning and off to skate. We hit this spot. True to this spot we were met with a rotating bunch of retired folks alternating between angry we were skating and happy to see us making use of this “art”. Matt got a sick line. Eric and I did rocks to fakie. Other tricks were felt out, but not landed.
Then we hit MRKT, got food and hit Northside after a rain shower. I started really slow. Others were doing the up/down ledge/manual. Dan went up and back. Joe grinded it. Rob had a boneless over the top. So much more I don’t remember. We tried a line of cali grind a hump, kickflip on flat, front 5-0 the weird ledge in the corner. I was the only one of us that didn’t land the 5-0. The park was quite crowded and then the Indy team showed up making it even more crowded. There was so much going on, I can’t even begin to remember much of it. I know I wasn’t happy with how I skated.
Then we hit Launch for a bit. I took a run and bailed. Then I did a few flatground kickflips with Dave and then I just went and sat with Andy. I guess Dave took a really bad slam. Seemed like people were having a good time. Jack and Carleigh joined.
Then we went to Spring Canyon. The park was empty when we first showed, but quickly filled up. Everyone was skating. I saw Dave do a nice front nosegrind, Rob die pushing, Carleigh die in the bowl and do a nice pole jam, Riley and Garrett joined and killed it, man there is way too much to remember. The only trick I was proud of was a front nosegrind on the little ledge. The Indy team showed again and after awhile I challenged Chris Haslam to a game of SKATE. Rather then do it when I felt good I did it right after sitting for awhile and getting stiff. It was a blast though. He was cool. I didn’t land much, but it didn’t really matter, we were having fun and he said he’d rather skate flatground anyways. He just rattled off trick after trick while I posed them.
After a nice long dinner we stopped by Loveland park and it had kind of cleared up after some more rain. It was freezing. So cold. The Fremonsters said we would only skate for ten minutes. Yeah right. Until the lights shut off 45 minutes later. Eric and I hit the snake run for a bit. Some “street” stuff was skated. Eric and I skated the bowl. He got the carve over the light in a few tries and I was getting close when the lights shut off right after I went down the waterfall. It was some of the most scared I have been on a skateboard. I thought I was going to die. Loveland was more fun then I thought it would be though.
(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, thunder 147 lights stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, Es Swifts black/white)