skate journal: downtown boulder with Chief, Jake and Nate (June 6)
Insanely tired and sore from a long day of skating on Saturday followed by late night beer drinking Chief and I set off for some downtown Boulder action. We met up with Nate and Jake at St Julien and got things rolling. I didn’t expect much of myself, but when Chief is in town you can’t be lazy.St Julien was a fun warmup. Chief nailed some no complys over the curb thing and we cruised it for awhile. I put together a little run with a front 50, ollie a small box, then no comply 270 back tail the ledge.Next up we hit the rock parking garage area with the rock ride, manual pad, and other stuff. We were there for awhile and it was fun. I got a run with a kickflip up the curb, manual then varial flip into the bank. The kickflip up the curb was fun because it was into the curb cut so it felt kinda neat. We all did some more tricks into the bank. Chief got a fast as lighting pop shove, kickflip and no comply. Maybe more. Nate did a switch flip to raise the tech gnar factor. Jake may have just recently learned kickflips, but he put that down. I got a frontside halfcab flip after about 50 tries and a first try fakie bigflip.From there Jake bailed out and the three of us hit the little Wells Fargo banks for my favorite part of the evening. I started off sucking but got lucky on a back 5-0 fakie and a horrible and lucky first try back hurricane. After that I just started trying new stuff and somehow landed them. I got a first try back nosegrind. Probably the best back nosegrind I’ve ever done. I got a bluntside to pivot kind of too and a front 180 nosegrind 180. Although I didn’t grind it. Before leaving I got my first ever back tail on tranny. HYPED! Nate and Chief were up in the session too. Nate perfected the back 5-0 to fakie and Chief drilled out a bunch of alley oop fakie 50s. So sick. Pretty fun night for how tired I was.