skate journal: CSU with a fun crew (Dec 20, 2010)
After a pretty chill day at work I left, picked up Jack and we headed up to Fort Collins to sell some boards then skate. Initially the crew was Jack, Chris, AJ and me. Chad quickly met up though. After pushing basically all the way down Laurel we hit a rock wallie spot. I stepped in dog crap right away. So bummed. Jack nosebonked a pretty tall rock, AJ ollied one and then we moved on. Pretty quickly we ended up at a banked ledge spot by the dorm towers. I’m not sure why they aren’t waxed up more because they are perfect. Chris and Jack were ripping it pretty quick. Jack went mostly the non-wallie route with some solid front 50, front 5-o, front tailslides but slammed so hard on a front 5-0 front 180 out. Jack was wallieing into anything pretty quick. Wallie bluntslide, wallie back tail shove, wallie back lip almost. AJ had some good wallies then got close to about 500 wallie 50s but never landed one. I wasn’t skating too well. I tried a line of crooks a ledge, wallie, wallie boardslide. The crooks were my rare weird undercrooks and the wallies were really bad, low and I would land primo sometimes and slam. Fun. After awhile Greg, Eric and Jacoby showed up, but a nearby cop lurking weirded us out so we moved on. Some dorking around and we ended up at the new lot by the gym with the rocks and kicker. I was skating sooo bad at this point and was so sore and old feeling. Wah. Skelly joined up for a minute but was too sore/tired to skate really. AJ starting throwing some gnarly hardflips over the kicker and put down a good one. Greg was trying to nosebonk the pole and came close. I tried a couple slow kickflips and just gave up. Chad had tied a banner to the pole and was holding it up to do tricks over. 5 tries later I was able to ollie it low. Not hyped on how hard and scary it was for me, but hyped that I didn’t give up on it. Jack started trying this really crazy ollie back foot kick out over the pole and I went and played a game of SKATE with Greg that didn’t last long. I did land a treflip and a heeflip which felt good though. I also finally manualled down the kickder and to the lot. Greg was doing the funniest manuals. He would manual and take his front foot off and pretend like he was falling then go back into manual. It was really funny. Jack tried the crazy trick for awhile and ended up kinda wrecking his ankle again. Doh. After this we went to Chipotle where there was a soda cup that said “Welcome to the office Glen” on it. Jack spotted it. So funny. They normally don’t even have Glen keychains at gift shops. Even though I didn’t skate well it was a fun time and a fun crew.