skate journal: Loveland with TF and MRKT (June 5, 2010)
Neil, Fuzz, Jason, Carleigh and I headed up to the Loveland park to meet up with the MRKT dudes who were hosting a little demo of sorts. When we got there it was really hot out and really crowded. Neil started killing it right out the gates. No comply tailslides, wallrides, no comply up the 3 stair. It amazed me as I posed on the deck without wanting to embarrass myself with my bad skating. Fuzz started killing it too. Jason and I eventually moved up to the bowl and carved around that while people destroyed the main area.After awhile I went down and noticed Fuzz pacing around by himself. I thought he was just angry at skating, but it turned out to be way more serious and he thought his heart was having some problems. Not cool at all. We all piled in my car and went to a nearby hospital per Fuzz’s request. He didn’t actually go in, but we hung out there for awhile to make sure he was doing ok. Things came back to normal and after a smoke and some water we returned to the Loveland park.When we returned there was a best trick contest going on down the 12 stair. Dudes were hucking themselves. I didn’t see anything actually get landed, but one dude came close to a heelflip and another dude was trying 3 flips over the 12 stair rail. So gnarly. Anyways, Fuzz and everyone started skating again and I went and played a game of SKATE with Chris in the hockey rink. It was a pretty rough game for both of us. He kept trying fakie heels and slamming. I had him at SKA before I had any letters with dumb tricks like fakie flip, pop shove and halfcab flip. He came back quick with stock tricks like nollie flip, sw heel and sw flip that I can never land. I added a fakie bigflip and he did a varial heel to tie it up at SKAT. He landed a fakie heel which i miraculously landed on my second try then I finished him off with a 360 flip that took awhile. Awesome. I skated the bowl some more with Neil and Jason and we were having fun while Fuzz murdered the street area and Carleigh landed her first every downhill park rail. Rad.After that we ended up going to the nearby high school that has the weird bank spot. Jason had hurt his hip so he was out. Carleigh skated it way better then last time and did ollie over the curb onto the platform then ollie into the bank lickety split. She followed that with a ollie over the curb then front 180 into the bank. Even though Fuzz had cracked his board at the park he was still ripping. I don’t remember the tricks so much, but sometimes you can really see why he was a pro skater years ago. Neil was killing it and skating hard. Toward the end he did a bluntslide followed by a quick ollie over the handrail to shut down the session. Shortly before that I had done a b/s flip into the bank that had taken 100 tries. I was skating hard, but didn’t land much of anything until pretty much the end of the session. I got that b/s flip which felt really good. I did a smith pop in on the ledge, ollie up, turn around ollie in, 3 flip on flat, ollied the 4 stair nearby. After Neil shut the session down we lurked for a minute and I noticed a little ledge to ollie over with a drop on the other side. I tried it a few times before Neil laughed and did it super easy. Ha. A few more tries and I landed it. Felt good as it was pretty scary to me. We lurked awhile longer and Jason dropped in on the ledge and rolled between two poles. So gnarly. FUN DAY.