skate journal: how a saturday should be (June 6)
Man, I don’t even know where to start on this one, so many awesome things aligned for this Saturday. First, it was sunny. It’s seriously been a minute since we’ve had a sunny Saturday. Next the lineup for the crew was pretty out of this world. Chris Jones was in town with Kit to do some photo essay on how skateboarding keeps you young and wanted to take photos of me all day. Next up my homie Chief was coming to town who I haven’t seen in a couple years. Hyped! And in other rare appearances GABE (who’s name will be all caps throughout this update since he states that he reads these updates daily) was gonna be in town for one day too. Sick!Things got startes with a Rampy sesh with Chris, Kit, Chief and I. A good warmup that got the sweat flowing. After playing in the street we headed to a new pool near Boulder we had heard about. The crew at this point was John, Neil, Rob, Chris, Kit, Chief, Jason and me. Rolling deep, and it would get deeper.So I’ve never skated a realy legit backyard pool before. We had to bail it out and everything. Super fun. The whole thing was fun. We skated it for a couple hours. The shallow is wide with two main corners that are really tight and a deepend with even tighter corners. While the deep end dried up we mostly just carved the shallow corners. Super fun. Neils of Fire straight killed it with lots of carves over akward lights and stuff. Chief was having a blast. Jason killed the shallow carves. Chris was shredding the whole time too and he ended up getting a few bangers. Boneless in the deep end, front rock in the deep and ollied into the waterfall. So sick.We left to go to a game of SKATE at the boulder park, but were too late. Next up was the Neil ledges with an even larger crew. We added Fuzz, Lazer, Bernie, GABE, Jake, Nate and Squeeks to the crew. Maybe even more. I didn’t really skate well and no one was super into the ledges. We played a couple large game of SKATE in which I was quickly eliminated. I got a 3 flip first try though so I can’t really complain much. Chief and Bernie had to take off and then we all went to Rock Creek. Some serious shredding went down there by people other than me. It’s pathetic bad I am at skating anything other than rampy. It was fun though and I can’t even begin to document all the ripping that Chris, Fuzz, GABE, Lazer, Jason, Squeeks and John laid down. I ended my Rock Creek time by trying boardslide to feeble attempts with Nate on the flat bar. I came close to a couple and Nate landed it.Exhausted beyond belief we had to skate Rampy for a minute because GABE has wanted to skate it forever. It was Just GABE, Kit, John, Chris and I. GABE went off and did so many of his rad tricks. All his cool rock fakie willy things. What are they called? So many tricks. My favorite was the blunt to staple gun. Day over. Finally. Beer drinking at Lazer’s went down. Fun fun fun day.