skate journal: crusty Louisville bank spots galore (August 1, 2009)
The crew started as Brian, Neil and I. After filming some intro stuff for Brian we went to a car wash bank spot that was gnarly. Not a good warm up spot. Unless your Neil. The bank has a curb on the bottom and one at the top. He got a line with a wallie then a no comply to tail on the bank. No filming will ever do it justice to be able to keep speed up the bank like like that after ollieing up the curb. I was screwing around trying to do manuals and kinda landed a couple that had some heel drag. I took off at least two layers of my deck trying, but it was fun.Next we med up with I-Path John and went to the double sided curb. This spot was on my list of to-do spots for off the couch. Basically a flatground trick, slappy 50 transfer, and another flatground trick. The 360 no complys and halfcab flips weren’t working so I started trying fakie bigflip and it just felt perfect. A few tries in and I got my line. Fakie bigflip, slappy 50 transfer, no comply finger flip almost primo make. Sean and Mike from Ft Collins showed up with Jim and Rich from John Doe as well as Nate and we kept skating this spot for awhile. Brian broke his board trying an acid drop thing over some tables. Neil almost did switch wallrides. Nate almost did a polejam wallride. John got a sick ass run with a no comply, fakie flip, halfcab flip, noseslide shove and front shove revert. Ridiculous. Jim back tailed the ledge super good.We hit a weird bank spot that Nate had seen. Sean 180’d a crate then half cabbed into a narrow drainage run out. Next Nate found this crazy long loading dock with flat bars on the sides. We all had fun boardsliding down it. Neil got a halfcab boardslide. Mike got a halfcab noseslide. Nate closed it with a feeble. Next was the steep bank spot. Jim got pivot fakie and staple gun to fakie. John slammed over and over on front tails. Brian sat in the car then came out for a blunt fakie cameo. Sean had some good backside ollies.Lastly we went to Honey’s Hole so Brian could get something he’s had on his mind for awhile. Prior to filming it I got a back tail in the kinda steeper bank. Kinda hyped me up. Next I filmed Brian. Others were ripping. Mike got front shove to fakie and then did it switch. Sean was popping ollies into the bank like it was nothing. Then went front 180. Sick. John was killing it too. Backside flip, some kinda sal flip thing, back d revert so many tricks. Brian got his trick, but I filmed it bad. Ugh. He kept trying it, but never got it again. I felt bad.Over all a fun day though. Not even that hot out.