skate journal: brief curb dancing then broomfield with carleigh then some long distance cruising with jason (nov 20, 2016 day 325)
Posted in New Shoes, Skate Journal on November 21st, 2016 by corpo
Around 9:30 am I went over to the school and played around on the curb while I waited for Carleigh to show. I didn’t do much. Just the basic slappy crook stalls, pivot shove attempts. A few front crook or switch crook attempts. Then Carleigh showed and we went to Broomfield park. It was not crowded. It was warm. It was pretty awesome. We started by running into the steep bank and doing some bank rides. Then Carleigh shredded the bowl. I took a few runs from the bottom in it. Man I suck at transition anymore. I don’t have much drive for it these days. Then we hit the ‘street’ section. There was a period where I felt really good and was skating hard. I almost had a line of carve the bank/hubba,noseslide, rock ‘n roll on the brick qp then front 50 shove the black ledge. Never quite got it. Varied it up with some boardslides down the tiny rail. But then normal Glen kicked in and I stopped landing anything. Carleigh though had a sick run. Boardslide the tiny rail, back d the brick qp, boardslide the black ledge, front shove out of the mellow bank. She had some good front 50s on the ledge too. I posed a few frontside airs which was fun. My last trick I had to do was an over the top back 50 on the little ledge. Carleigh filmed it. I finally got one and ended with another really bad treflip with both hands down.
Then we went to the nursing home and skated with Jason to the ramp jam. It was rad. I basically held on for the two miles or whatever. I didn’t skate on the crowded ramp. But it was fun to watch and seeing Jason smile was awesome.
(setup 8.125 null message deck, venture 5.2 low custom hollow trucks with 3 washers inside each axle, stock thunder bushings, 50mm bones stf v1 wheels, swiss bearings, new balance numeric pj stratford 533 maple/black shoes 12)