skate journal: Lafayette with TF (Jan 7, 2011)
After a boring day at work, a good mail day (new Thrasher, Transworld and Omaha video Go Big Shred), nap and small dinner (nachos) I headed out to a pretty crowded Lafayette park on a pretty cold night. Lazer pulled up the same time as me. Neil would arrive soon. Max, Davis and other dudes were there. Carleigh, Chad showed soon and Fuzz followed after awhile. The park was almost completely dry. Just the big useless bowl at the end of the ditch run had snow in it. Ft Collins Mike showed up eventually too.We started mostly in the little bowl. My runs continue to be completely lame. Then it was just cruise around and kinda hit whatever. It’s fun doing that in that park, but I really didn’t see what anyone else was doing until the end. I saw Carleigh carving around and I would remind her to not ollie. She didn’t listen. Chad back 50d across and down the hubba. Neil front lipped the bump to marble. Lazer got tranny skills. I was having fun. Did the front 50 to manual pretty easy. Struggled at bump to ledge. Mike got me to do a fun wallie into the ditch run. In fact I don’t think I had even been in there before. I also got some backside flips on the mellow rock flat bank and almost followed it up with a no comply bigspin. I got the fun “Zero line” of boardslide down the rail then noseslide down the hubba. Within a few minutes of being there I saw Fuzz do halfcab boardslide the rail, back 5-0 the hubba. Wow. Chad did a mach 500 kickflip up the 3 stair. Lazer left. After awhile Carleigh, I, Mike and Fuzz skated the medium sized bowl. That ended quickly as a biker kept getting in everyones way. Then we mostly hit the rock area. Fuzz and Chad did some monster ollies. Fuzz did switch blunt on the lower of the rock narrow qpipes. I one upped him with a non-decked weak front rock. Fuzz went for front noseblunt on it and shinned himself pretty bad. Ouch. Chad did some crazy manual and nose manuals over the round pad into the bank. Carleigh noseslid the bump to ledge and may have got shove out on it too.The street lights shut off, but the others remained for quite some time. We dorked on the tiny qp for a bit then moved on to the main rock. Mike was making wallies over the hip look so fun. Fuzz and I got them second try. I really didn’t think I would ever commit to that so quickly and it ended up being a really fun trick we did a few times. Stalls on the rock were fun too. Mike got fakie rocks super easy. Chad was doing nollie norths into the setup bank then rock fakie or front pivot on the rock. Fuzz did fakie rock, axle stall, back pivot and worked hard for fakie noseblunt and would lose his board into the bowl of snow. Crappy. For some reason the lights stayed on longer than they were supposed to. It was freezing out, but we kept skating. I got a back rock, horrible front rock and worked up to a fakie rock which was really fun to land. I eventually got a wallie boardslide off the other side too. It was kind of a sloppy mess and I didn’t really know what I was doing, but it was fun.The cops came and booted us. The lights shut off shortly anyways. It was freezing outside. I stretched and we all went on our separate ways. Went home and enjoyed my last night of bachelorhood by eating oatmeal and watching a Samuel L Jackson move (Unthinkable). No drinks required.