skate journal: skating/filming and the craziest thunderstorm ever (July 3, 2009)
Jason and I met up with Mikey and Jack for some skating and Null filming. We started near Silver Mine subs and just kinda rolled around for awhile looking at stuff. We skated for a bit at the old folks home bank. I haven’t been there in years. Jack god some wallrides on the fence. Jason did a crail I think. I got a bad b/s flip. We messed around on flat ground for awhile and I came very close to the elusive switch kickflip.We moved into campus and checked out spot after spot, but nothing really went down until we got all the way up near Meta were Jack filmed a nice little gap back 5-0. After we skated a new spot for awhile just kinda screwing around. Jack had some cool mannys and wallies. It looked like a gnarly storm was coming and rain drops started falling so we started skating down to the car. It started to get worse so we ducked under the enginnering building area and the gnarliest storm I’ve ever seen unleashed itself. High powered winds and the hardest rain/hail I’ve ever seen. You couldn’t even see but 10 feet. It lasted for about 10 minutes and then the sun came out. CO is crazy.Later on Nate and I met up at the bank to curb spot by Neil’s house. I was pretty beat from being out all day already, but ended up skating really hard. It took Nate awhile to show up at the spot and I just started trying a really long line. Kickflip a manhole cover, ollie up the curb to manny, slappy lip the bank to ledge. Got that one. Then started trying pop shove over the manhole over, manny, kickflip the metal grate, slappy lip. Didn’t get that one. Going the other way I tried front 180 up the curb, halfcab flip, boardslide. Think I got that one too. After awhile the heat and exhaustion set in and I was more into just trying tricks on the curb with Nate. The only new trick I got was slappy front lip to fakie. I came close to crooks pop out as well. Also came really close to switch kickflips again. Argh. So hard.