skate journal: Lville tech with the Nullers (Jan 8, 2011)
A decent day. Last morning of bachelorhood in which I totally got crazy and went to the grocery store so the family would come home to a well stocked fridge. Ahhhh. Greg showed up hungover which is rare for him. We watched some Go Big Shred then went and picked up Max at Meta where I inquired about PJ’s new shoe sponsor since John was at Agenda. No one knows. Max was ready so we moved on as we know how long it takes Carleigh and Chad to get ready. We drove around showing Greg the spots as he’s never seen the area before. He was blown away by all the spots he’s never seen before. Almost all spots were dry. We started out the normal starting spot, the up blue rail where Chad, Carleigh and Jack me us. I was feeling really sore from skating so long in the cold weather the night before. Everyone was doing their own thing. Jack was falling. Greg was doing long front 50s up the blue bar. Max was ollie’ing dumpsters. Chad was doing flatground ollies. Carleigh was going against doctors orders, skating, and even landed a kickflip. I started trying a line. Boardslide down the blue bar, no comply 180, halfcab flip, ollie the little cement ledge thing in the weird fenced in area. I thought the ollie was gonna be the hardest part for me, but apparently my recent practice is paying off and that ended up being easy. I eventually got the line, but the no comply 180 was horrible. I was attempting to skate a little faster than normal. I doubt it showed though.We moved on to a fun manual pad we saw. It was a mini two stair up and then a drop about the height of three stair off. I was the first to manny it with a first try manual. I felt pretty cool until I couldn’t do it again for like 10 more tries. Ugh. Max wanted to film a switch flip manual and ended up landing before I busted out the camera. Crap. I started trying kickflip manual and got kinda close. I kinda wish I would have tried it a bit longer. I would have been really hyped. Instead, it was filmbot. Filming manuals is the worst. Seriously. No one lands anything. Well, not for several tries at least. Max did get the switch flip manny again and it came out good. Jack got a sick manual wallie manual. Greg almost got a nose manual, shove it, manual, no comply 180 out. Actually, he did get it, it was just one where he said “don’t film this”. Doh. Chad almost got switch heel manual, but bitched out with about an inch to go. Carleigh came somewhat close to the manual.Next up we went to the steep banks. For some reason I thought I could drop in and ride through the snow. Carleigh and Jack took some photos.
But the snow stopped me:
I went down pretty hard. I laughed, but it hurt.
Jack took some good photos too, but for some reason his blog wont let me get anything wider than 320 pixes which is not wide enough for this high class blog. That was pretty much the end of my skating. Not because I was too hurt, but it was time to film. Chad did a sick kickflip and Greg played around with a front crail judo.
We peeped a 16 stair on the way out for me to nollie tre, but the crack on the approach had me weirded out. Greg says a back 180 or tuck knee would stoke him out. Amateur. I went home and cooked dinner as the family was pulling into town. So good to see them again. I had never looked at my elbow after the drop in slam and I didn’t really pay attention to it before getting into bed. Liz was pissed the next morning as there was blood everywhere. Turned out it was all from my elbow. Oops.Please go to Carleigh and Jack’s blogs about the day. We had a blast.