skate journal: Fremont Street spots so fun (June 8, 2010)
Got picked up at Liz’s house at 5pm by Mr Matt Rief and had a long air conditioned ride to Fremont. First stop was some food by Runza then a warm up and the world famous ledge at Linden. From Off The Couch to the Berrics this ledge has been blowing up. Matt and Dan quickly reminded the ledge that they were the ones who made this spot famous. Dan had manual to bluntslide, front 5-0 front board, manual front shove out, so much more. Matt had nollie front 5-0 shove, long long front 5-0, back crooks, back 5-0 everything is easy for him. I was sucking, but having fun. Got into a few halfcab crooks that could have been the real one finally, but they weren’t. After awhile Matt and Dan brought out the ‘Secret Spot’ aka Matt’s ledge and put it down the ledge. They both did a few non stock tricks like they were stock tricks. I had a couple runs with kickflip up the concrete ledge then boardslide or noseslide down the secret spot. I was gonna try and get Matt’s back with a front 50 when he landed a back lip, but the deal wore off before he landed it. Fremont treflip expert Chris showed up and did a few not basic at all tricks before we moved on to the next spot.We drove to a spot “downtown” that was called “Ghetto Spot”. It’s funny to hear Fremont dudes talk like there is a downtown or ghetto in Fremont, NE. But anyways, the spot was a torn down building foundation and it ended up being a super killer session. There was a ledge you could ride along then ollie up a curb height and manual to either a bank ramp or a 4 stair. We chose to try manuals or just flippers into the bank. Chris did a bunch of tricks easy. Treflip, hardflip, nollie inward heel, anything. Dan did manual front shove quick like, manual casper flip quick like and managed to leave half of his shin on the ledge while trying to ollie south up it. Almost made me puke looking at the pile of his hair and skin piled on the edge. Ouch. Matt did a bunch of nollie heels that went awol and he would almost come to a halt going down the bank. So awesome. He also front 180’d onto the ledge which surprised me. Also a quick up to nollie flip out of the bank. I skated good for me at this spot and was super motivated. Kickflip, pop shove, halfcab flip all came pretty quick into the bank. I also nose manualled around into the bank and did a couple runs. Front 180 up the curb, first try awkward fakie bigflip into the bank. Kickflip up the curb then ride onto a different ledge and front 180 a little gap. Also kickflip up and no comply shove into the bank. It took several tries, but I also got a treflip into the bank which was probably the highlight for me. It was slow, but I landed it good and it’s probably the hardest bank I’ve ever done that trick into. I ended with little ollie over the corner to manual down the bank which seemed very basic to me but Dan and Matt seemed to like it.Dan dropped us off as his shin was done. We were gonna skate a painted curb, but a janitor dumping trash led us to wander around and we found these weird banks that had lots of lines in the concrete and were about ledge height to get onto. At first nobody had anything on them, but we kept skating them and things happened. Chris did a kickflip up onto one. Matt did ollie up then kickflip to fakie. Yeah Daewon! 100 tries later and I did a lunch breaked ollie up to no comply shove to fakie. Fun. The next spot had some wallie curbs, a curb cut pyramid and a little gap. Chris ollied the curb cut to curb cut jump pretty quick. I kinda dorked around as I was pretty beat. The only thing worth writing about would be the end with a front shove up the curb then a weak ollie down the gap. The gap was basically a long two stair that you could cheat which I definitely did. Matt slammed a bunch on back 180’s over the gap. I think he got it in the end. Chris closed down the day with an epic kickflip over the curb cut jump. Such a good way to end an epic session. Fremont, you dudes rule.