skate journal: some filming then awesome ballpark ledge fun (12/4/2010)
Had a pretty constructive morning doing some cleaning and updating the Null site. Neil and Brian showed up around 11 then we went to Meta to meet Max. Him and Davis piled in and we went to the Google area for a gap to manual Max had dreamt about. The flat gap is about 5 feet and then it’s about 20 feet to a drop off a curb. Sam and Bernie met up with us. None of the old people with the exception of Neil ollied it. It was just too early. We messed around nearby too. The little weird ditch thing entertained for awhile. Davis had a cool ollie in, back 180 out. I dropped in and kinda wallie front 180’d out. Back to the main attraction Sam slammed really hard trying to ollie it. I filmed with my new tripod while Max went for front 180 to fakie nose manual. He got it. Hotness. Bernie backed him up in a few tries with a kickflip manual. I filmed Neil get a line then we headed out with no spot in mind.So I drove to the ballparks as I wanted to boardslide around the bikerack on the ledge I waxed up the other day. It was awesome. We waxed it some more and Brian, Jason, Neil, Lazer and I broke in the boardslides. We would get a little further each try. Jason was taking some huge slams though. Some of the worst falls I’ve seen him take. I guess he earned it though and was the first to get the boardslide. I was second with the same style pop out at the kink. Brian and Lazer were next with boardslides across and down. So sick. They tried it holding hands while most skated the main ledge in the back. Apparently they slammed super hard. Bernie was kinda chilling doing nothing. Sam was doing some noseslides. Davis was keeping it kinda mellow. Max was trying some funny front board bigspin to manual things. Neil was just chilling. Jason and I ended up skating that ledge really good for us. For me, maybe the best I’ve ever skated that ledge. I did a bunch of back crooks. Front 50s were coming really easy. I was trying a few runs. Back halfcab flip, crooks, attempted to go around the corner and get the boardslide. Couldn’t get the angle with speed on that one though. I also did front 50, chinese nollie, first try treflip. My favorite line was a fast (for me) pop shove, back noseslide then treflip. Other tricks I got on the ledge were front 5-0, the best back 50 I’ve ever done there, front 50 back 180 out and front 50 to front board. I had never done the last two tricks there before. It was seriously a blast. At one point I even landed on front 50 bigspin out. Flatground tricks were on point too. Heelflip first t, lots of treflips, a couple slow double flips, the best f/s halfcab flip I’ve ever done. Jason was killing it to with his textbook front noseslides, trying to crooks the shorter ledge and front boards. Fun day. I guess it’s proof that it’s good to take a day off skating once in awhile.