skate journal: denver street spots with the whole crew (Jan 16, 2010)
Almost 60 on a Saturday! Awesome. Brian and Neil arrived at my house first. Then Nate, Jason, Bernie, Jake. We picked up Jack and Fuzz on the way and met at a brick bank spot that was a fun warm up spot and fun spot in general. Jeff met us there too. My car arrived first though so Neil, Jack, Bernie, Nate and I had the spot to ourselves for about 20 minutes. Neil was ollieing a bunch, Nate was doing front board slides, Bernie did some manuals (ha ha), Jack had some cool hurricanes and stuff. I started off pretty crappy. I was having troubles ollieing into the bank from this crack. Ugh. I got a couple 5-0s to fakie with my standard lame late revert. Things felt better for me when I landed a front board 180 in out of nowhere. The other car of TFers showed up slightly before Jeff. Fuzz killed some huge ollies and grabs and a bigflip. Brian grinded the most bricks. Jake can’t do 5-0s to fakie unless the spot is gnarlier. Jason was ripping. Jeff skated some of the best I’ve seen him skate though. He was ripping so hard just circling around the bank doing various flippers and grinds like they were nothing. Toward the end of the session Brian and I were racing to a kickflip on the bank. After Jeff called out $1 to who gets it first Brian had the option to go first, but decided to talk himself up instead. So I went and did the kickflip poorly. Fun spot.Next we skated a crack ridden ledge spot with a 3 stair. Jake and I bet a beer over ollies up the 3 stair and I miraculously did it first try. We double or nothing’d for front 180s up and tied. Cool. Everyone was kinda looking around at the spot first and it seemed like people weren’t into it. But we stuck around, waxed some spots of the ledge and the session ended up being fun. Jack was doing some rad ollies out to a ledge and Fuzz was on it too. Brian was on the phone. Nate tried a bunch of boardslide popouts to fakie. Jason did some fast noseslides and some back 50s on the normal ledge and got close to boardslide 270 out on the up ledge. Jack cracked his board trying to switch heel the 3, then hurt his ankle trying to switch var heel it. Neil had hurt his ankle at the first spot so was chilling. Fuzz back 50’d the whole up ledge. Bernie tried a line of front 5-0 the normal ledge, front tail bigspin out on the up ledge. He got close. His front 5-0s were so good. Jeff almost crooks up the whole ledge. I was sucking. I got a bad noseslide followed by a 2mph no comply 270 back tail and tried some kick back 50s. Never got too close. We left for another spot and on the way to the car I landed one of the better treflips I’ve ever landed. Rad.Next spot was a 3 up 3 down. We were all pretty sore by then so the warming up was tough. Took me a few tries to ollie up the 3, but when I did I got a front 180 down first try. Yippee. I also worked up to ollie up kickflip down and got it. The kickflip was super slow and my hands went down, but that’s the first set of stairs I’ve kickflipped in forever. The last time I think I kickflipped a 3 was back when Monico got on Null. It was fun though, I’d like to do get back to where it doesn’t take me 20 tries to commit to it and I can actually go fast off the stairs. Fuzz was ripping. Manual. Front 180 up, fakie flip, fakie ollie down. Jeff came close to ollie up, 3 flip, back 3 down. So ridiculous. He was ollieng up the 3 so easily. Bernie nose mannied it and came close to manual 360 flip out. Jason got ollie up back 180 down. Jake got ollie up and front 180 down. Right before leaving I did a few flippers on a sidewalk and ollied a little ledge. Gotta practice them ollies kids!