skate journal: windsor and ft collins with Fremont, Chief, Brian (June 15)
Another day with the Fremont crew, another day of all day shredding in the forecast. Dan, Matt, Joe, Eric, Nate, Brian and I set off to Windsor around noon. Chief met us at the park. This went the same way as the “warm up” session at rock creek and we ended up skating for a couple hours and had an epic session. Pretty early on we pulled out five front rocks in a row on the bank to ledge. It definitely got things heated up quick. Nate and I worked on popping our kickflips over the hip and landing them. It’s tough doing both of those. Brian amazed everyone with his unique tricks everywere. Joe was ripping the hubbas and pounding out lines. Chief’s back 360s over the hip were the dopeness. Eric did rock fakies everywhere, even the slanted side q-pipe. Sick! Later on Brian and I did some doubles where he did his weird over to fakie to front rock while I grinded over him on the flat bank. Rad. Later on I was trying a run with a b/s flip over the hip, but instead Brian came and did an impossible over the hip. WTF!!!! Super fun session. We got rained and kicked out of the high school so that didn’t go down. Off to Ft Collins.After waiting out some rain and watching the amazing new Powell video at MRKT we went to Northside. I didn’t think the Fremont heads would like it, but there was no one else there really and we started off “ripping” right out of the gates. Brian and I played a game of SKATE on the edge of the jersey barrier in which he pink slipped me. Within the new few minutes I was trying and doing stuff I had never don there before. I ended up getting a line with a back tail on the lower flat bank, wallie the edge of the barrier and then boardslide the lower part of the jersey barrier. The only trick I had done before was the little wallie. Later on I endedup wallieing over the low part of the barrier straight on which I’ve wanted to do for awhile. I joined up on a manny session at the MJ ledge that went nuts. Dan did a front 50 the whole thing to front board then 270 out at the last minute. It was retarded. Nate nose mannied up it then turned it to switch manual down. Sick! Joe busted a bunch of tricks too, but somehow didn’t get the front 50 the whole thing. After about a million tries I manualed it and after about even a million more tries I came super close to nose manual up, manual down. I would have been hyped beyond belief. People were ripping the whole time. Brian was flying all over the park. Eric was rock fakieing everything. Matt was popping nollie heels out of this world. Nate was doing boardslide popovers. It was an epic session. We tried to leave several times, but it never happened. At the end we played a couple games of flatground skate. I didn’t land much, but right after I landed a CASPER FLIP! Dan busts those out on the regs and it clicked in my head how to do it. So stoked on the Casper flip and one of the best skate days I’ve had in years. Epic, epic day.