skate journal: Ft collins then Boulder in 95 degree heat (Aug 21, 2010)
One of the best days of Null sales ever. Hit Meta and MRKT before going to Northside. Carleigh and I met Chris and Miking and other Boulder old dudes Darin, Louis, CJ, Brian were there. Not many people were there when we first got there and I ended up getting some of my stuff right away for a change. I had a run with wallie out of the bank wall in the back of the park, ollie on the hump, roll in, back 50 china bank, wallie over the low part of the jersey barrier. Other highlights were kickflip on a hump, axle stall on a jersey barrier and first try no comply pole jam. Chris was ripping the pool section and got a gnarly switch polejam 180. Carleigh got her tricks on the ledge and got her first polejam at Northside. Mike did a ridiculous switch no comply polejam. WTF?After filming Chris for a bit we found ourselves at a very hot Edora session. And by hot I mean total sun and 95. Andy from MRKT was there as well as a bunch of the Ft Collins pool shredders. Carleigh and I took a while to warm up (uh, it was 95 so I guess I mean it took us a long time to land anything). I tried a bunch of wallies in the low part of the snake run, even landed a couple of them. Andy was kickflipping and b/s flipping up the euro like it was nothing. Mike had some cool lines. I started trying a run of kickflip up the euro, ollie the little hump, 360 no comply a bump, then blunt shove the triangle. Technically I landed all those tricks, but certainly not well, and certainly not all in a run. Oh well. I played a game of SKATE with Andy and Mudgit and totally sucked it up. I got letters on front shove, back shove, b/s flip, halfcab flip and couldn’t even get a treflip in two tries to stay alive. Oh well, it was hot.Carleigh and I rolled back to Boulder. I was falling asleep while driving, so beat. I had plans to go skating with Ollie and my buddy Zach and his son Marcus. So I picked up Ollie at a Bday party with his friend Sam, met Zach and Marcus and we went to the bank spot off Folsom. The kids all had fun. It was cool to see Zach try some stuff. I was really beat, but managed a few things that made me happy. Kickflip pivot to 4 wheel drive over a curb, ollie up the awkward two stair like it was really easy, another double flip on flat and a shove out of a tail drop on the bank to curb. Exhausted, but had a good day