skate journal: bank to curb/stairs in longmont with stubborns (july 15, 2017)
Late start for the Stubborns. We met around 1pm at this spot in Longmont. Jake, Dave and I showed first. Then Jack and Carleigh and then Fuzz and Kevin. Early on I thought I was going to have a great day. I was feeling good. Started off with some fun noseslides to fakie, boardslides, switch noseslides and my flip tricks were feeling good. It didn’t really get past that though other than I landed on a couple of treflips making for several days in a row which felt neat. Jake struggled too. This spot is infinitely harder than it looks. Ride through a big crack and then pop immediately. Dave will say he struggled, but man he put down so many tricks. boardslide 270 on the curb. On the stairs front 50, back 50, front 50, front 50 back 180, front 50 to front board pop out, boneless over it, front nosegrind. Good stuff. Jack didn’t land every trick so it was a good indication it was a hard spot. He would get front noseblunt, front noseblunt to front lipslide pop out (wow!), b/s flip over the stairs, and a bunch of other “basics” I couldn’t get close to doing. Kevin kills ledges. He did a lot too. Front/back 5-0s, tails, almost kick back tail and switch nosegrind. Fuzz got front 50 pretty quick then struggled with some other moves. He did get a noseslide though which was way sick. Carleigh and I struggled with back 50s the whole time. Except she actually figured it out and landed a bunch of them all steezy and even went on to then manual down the bank. So good. We went to another spot where Kevin, Jack and Dave skated. The rest of us shot photos or filmed. It was cool. Jack and Dave got some bangers.
I had a fun day with the crew. Having Hosercam be the filmer is awesome. My setup didn’t bother me at all, but man, my feet had started hurting. Ugh. Plantar Fasciitis sucks.
(setup 8.25″ null rabethica deck, venture 5.2 AWAKE lows, venom 90a bushings, 1/16″ riser, old spitfire 101a 50mm F4 wheels, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, nbnumeric 254 cream/gum size 12 with spenco 3/4 thinsoles and thin adidas insoles)