skate journal: Skate Saturday in Denver with Meta and Trick Factory (Nov 8)
After a fun morning of baseball and biking with the kids I met Rob, Fuzz, Brian, Neil, Jam and Gordon at Brian’s house. Rob, Neil and I played a couple game of SKATE that didn’t go so well. Especially when I attempted a frontside flip and the board bounced up and nailed me in the cheek. Ouch.The first stop was a school in Five Points where the Meta team was filming some tricks across a 3 and 4 stair thing. I dorked around for awhile and Brian and I had a game of curb SKATE on a weird triangular parking block. Brian did a ridiculous blunt pivot where he actually turned on the tranny of the 8″ tall curb. Ridiculous. I did a new trick for me. No comply to blunt bean plant out thing. Stupid sure. But fun yes. Next Neil, Fuzz, Rob, Gordon and I skated a 3 up 3 down. Man I haven’t skated stairs in forever and the thought of putting a kickflip down wasn’t happening.Next we ended up at the green playground spot I saw at the start of the Meta teaser. The spot ended up being a blast. Fuzz ollied everything. Gordon played speed racer through it. Neil killed everything as usual. Rob’s got crazy rad tricks. Brian slams harder than anyone. Me, I suck, but I did put down a line on film I’m not completely bummed on. Jeff and the Meta dudes showed up after awhile and Jeff got a cameo trick for my part. Neato. Fun day.