skate journal: TF in Longmont (Jan 30, 2010)
I’m writing this one a couple days late and feeling like crap. So basically I’m pretty sure this entry wont do the day any justice. It was way fun.Brian got to my house first. We started skating flat in front of the house since it was taking so long for others to show up. We played a game of SKATE where we started with some of our harder tricks right out of the gate and didn’t come close to landing any of them. It got really tech when we moved on to tricks like kickflip and fakie flip. Although it was enough to bring Brian to SKA off a failed attempt at double or nothing on kickflip. He got me with a 360 one foot kickturn. Pretty awesome. Not sure what else went down, but I think I won.Others showed up and we were off to Longmont. We all met up at the fun bank school. The crew was Neil, Brian, Jason, Jam, Dave, Fuzz, Carleigh, me and Bernie which arrived late. Since I’m totally blowing it on making this entry remotely interesting here’s what I remember.Neil was skating good right out of the car. Front tails, front lip on the ledge. Manuals and nose manuals on the weird round flagpole manny pad.Fuzz started slow but ended up skating so good everyone missed Brian do a “perfect impossible” when Fuzz was in the middle of a line. His line was something like front 180 (Nobody has a better front 180 than Fuzz), halfcab 5-0, backside flip attempt over the bricks on the bank.Brian was looking forward to Dave’s ramp and trying to drop into a rock on top of a ledge and not die.Dave had lots of cool pivots in weird places on the banks. He’s got really good boardslides to fakie on ledges, but was getting pissed trying to front lip the ledge. Mad enough to ask Neil to focus his board.Jason skated the ledge decent for him.Carleigh slammed super hard trying to ollie one of the medians on the bank. She didn’t complain and got up and did it even though here palm was nice and bloody. Rad.Bernie seemed pretty out of it and was skating really slow/bad for him. He couldn’t even land his staple halfcab flips. Seemed like he finally got it together right when we left and he did a front tail 270 out and a kick back tail on the ledge.I was skating kinda mediocre, but a few tricks were making it really fun. Kickflips up the curb and crooks felt really good. I couldn’t do 360 flips at all though. I struggled to manual the flagpole ledge and had all kinds of problems with front 5-0 shoves. I was still having a blast though. That spot rules. I tried a weird line over a gap onto the ledge and got it a few times. At the end of the session I finally got the ollie up the curb then kickflip to fakie. Followed it a couple tries later with backside flip. You can tell when you make a trick look really bad because no one cheers.After this we went to Dave’s ramp and Lazer, Jake and Nate joined us for another fun session. Jake killed it. Fuzz, Brian, Dave and Lazer killed it too, but Jake man, that guy is on the come up. Tons of new tricks in only a couple tries. Brian was almost getting front blunts on the curb side which would have been ridiculous. Jason slammed really hard on a tail stall and went outside to sit in his car with the heat on full blast. I got nothing. Carleigh had troubles with front Ds. Nate skated well and got front tails on the curb side. Neil can’t chop wood. Bernie continued his mellowness. The only times Lazer didn’t land something he seemed to go down hard. Dave has the best style in the world. Fuzz got noseblunts. Fun day and I didn’t even skate that well.