skate journal: Colorado Springs Null awesomeness, sympathy cheers and a handrail session (Nov 21, 2010)
An early mission had been planned to the Springs for a couple days. Leave at 10, hit up Proper to sling some Null, then go skate street/film, then skate the park at dark. We left a bit later then expected, but Greg made up for it by making us all laugh. He bought a Null board. The ‘Nothing Beats A Null’ deck. He started laughing like crazy saying it was funny. We were all so confused. He’s telling us to say it out loud and laughing so hard. Nothing beats a null. Nothing beats anal. Oh man. We couldn’t believe no one thought of that before. Too bad we’re almost out of that graphic. After a fun filled car ride to the Springs we stopped by Proper, met up with Bernie and Sam and went to the school with the bank with stairs coming out of it. Such an epic spot and a great way to start the day. Oh yeah, the crew in my car was Derek, Jack, Max, Greg and of course, me. Sam and I were feeling pretty old. maybe it’s the cold weather, but we really couldn’t get it going. I took a long time to get back 50 and front 50 across the mellow stair. Sam was getting front lip everytime. Jack front noseblunted the steeper one, Max ollied the whole set of stairs, Jack slammed on front 180 switch crooks, Bernie bailed front tail flip outs, Greg almost did some crazy boneless plant variations off the fence, Derek did some funny kickflip back 50s and almost got back noseblunt. I also got back 5-o over the stair and then tried front lip forever. The angle kinda sucked and Max tried it, bailed, and said it sucked too so at least I felt better. I eventually landed it and everyone cheered. You know, cheers for the old guy that took forever to land a warm up trick. Ha. As we left Bernie did a first try kickflip front lip across the mellow stair. So sick!We left and went downtown. Filmed Jack do a sick gap out to 50 before going to this insanely fun fountain spot. Although it was kinda torture for me as my legs were killing me and I couldn’t even really ollie. I got a little wallie then went into film mode. Bernie almost got a crazy halfcab manual pivot 180 to fakie 5-0. Others were trying some stuff. Jack eventually did some weird gap to back disaster. Greg joined him with a weird gap to front disaster then Jack topped it off with a gap to front pivot bearing breaker. So sick. It started getting real cold and windy so perfect time for Bernie to try landing another trick as it gets dark. He didn’t get it though. It was a cool manny up a ledge kickflip back to manny. He almost did it.We cruised up to the park, but the lights were out and apparently don’t turn on until 7. That is the most ridiculous garbage ever. So we bailed out for some grub then hit the Castle Rock park on the way home. Of all the sickness I’ve seen the Nullers put down this one ranks up there. Those guys seriously destroyed the park in no time. I cannot believe they associate with me. Derek did a back pivot to fakie on the qp to flat bank, back tail and back lip too. Max ollied and kickflipped over everything. Greg did 100 tranny tricks first try. Jack and I had a close call collision that ended up being amazing. We had almost run into each other and had turned up this hip to avoid colliding. As we went over the hip Jack came off his board as I was kinda pushing him a little and he landed back on his board. Epic. Jack went on to do every trick possible on a rail. He would do one trick from the bank to flat bar, then come back and do another one down the rail. Tricks included hurricanes, feebles, smith, lips, tailslides, everything. Eventually I joined in and did the bank to flat bar boardslide pretty easy. I couldn’t commit to the downhill rail though. It wasn’t very tall, but it was pretty steep. Jack was hyping me up though, and was close to back tails. We made a deal where I’d get his back with a boardslide if he got back tail. A few tries later he got it and I finally committed to boardsliding it. Luckily I got it first try. Around this time period Max decided it would be a good time to slam repeatedly around the park. He slammed hard on a silly board throw down, nose manuals, ollies, everything. Over and over, like 10 in a row. We were laughing so hard. Derek did some of his front 180 fakie 5-0 tricks, back 180 the huge euro and some fast nose mannies. I went on to boardslide the quite a few times while Jack went on to land everything. Front smith shove, front lip big, first ever front tail big and shut down the night with back tail shove. Ridiculous. Such an incredibly fun day. I can’t believe how positive and awesome the Nullers are. You guys seriously rule.Count update. 285/300.