skate journal: Longmont school, Fuller’s Ramp, a mini bus, and Crisis curb (Jan 22, 2011)
Saturday! It was supposed to be 58 and sunny, but when I first woke up and looked outside it was cloudy and flurrying. So lame. That kinda brought my mood down a bit. Eventually it was a little nicer out and Carleigh, Jake and I went to meet Lazer in Longmont. Only he had left Longmont by the time we got there. We pulled into Rocky Mtn Elementary and it was windy and not very warm. Ugh. I had done what every poser does to make them feel better after a session like I had the last time I skated. I setup a new board. To complete the series I had a brand new Start Choppin’ board. It felt really good. Warming up was pretty funny. We all were sucking. Carleigh had the only valid excuse having not been able to skate much lately due to her foot injury. At one point Jake bailed a kickflip, Carleigh bailed a pop shove and I bailed a halfcab. Pretty epic. Carleigh kept at a run of ollie’ing a sidewalk section then doing noseslides on the ledge. She started trying them to fakie claiming she’s never done them before and got a few of them. Jake may have gotten a front tailslide, front 50 and lots of kickflips. For some reason I started with front board pop outs and got one kinda quick. I tried a run of halfcab flip then front 50 and got that. Coming the other way I was dropping in then doing noseslides. I tried crooks too, but never got a real one. It was a quite session for sure. I tried to manual the round ledge/flagpole thing and may have done that once. I got a line I was kind of happy about dropping into the long narrow ledge, 360 flip then front 50. I managed a back 50 at one point too and tried to back it with nollie treflip, but never landed a nollie tre.
Next up we went to Dave Fuller’s amazingly fun ramp.
Dave skated really good. He has a huge bag of tricks and style so it’s always fun watching him skate. He’s good enough that Brian and him had to debate trick names.
Brian killed it too. Kind of surprising after his first run which consisted of an odd looking dropin to full on slam on the first wall. He busted out the sugarcane in less than 5 tries which rules because he worked super hard on it (huh huh I said ‘hard on’) last time we were there and came up short.
No need to debate the trick here. Axle stall. Even though I was having fun I wasn’t skating too well. My basics were ok, but I had to work for anything more then that. The front feeble on the metal coping side took forever as did the front disaster on the parking block side.Neil, Carleigh and Jake skated good too. Neil had some long runs out of the gate which always amazes me.
After the ramp session we went for a fun ride in Brian and Neil‘s new mini aka short bus. It’s epic. Super epic. Click the photo for much more on Carleigh’s blog. Can’t wait for a road trip in this one.Somehow Jack, Neil, Carleigh and I ended up at Crisis that evening to watch some skate videos. Fuzz had had a few by the time we got there and an epic night was in store. We drank some beers, watched Go Big Shred, Escapist and went spot lurking nearby. After that things got crazy as Fuzz decided it was time to pop the red curb cherry. Oh man!
The grin on Fuzz’s face says it all. He was in rare form, just ask the bathroom floor.
After Jack teased the curb for awhile Fuzz gave it a go. He didn’t want any ollie in action, just slappies. Funny thing is Fuzz apparently can’t do slappies. At least not several beers deep.
I started giving frontside slappies a go. But this curb is totally square and not easy to slappy ..
One of Fuzz’s finer quotes of the night after looking at the curb destruction. “No wonder people don’t like us skating their stuff.”
And I landed one!
The truck carnage was hilarious!
There was pieces of paint, concrete and wax still on the truck.
In between naps Neil managed his patented nose manual.
Carleigh introduced the curb to slappy noseslides.
And her board to the wall.
Again, the grin says it all.
Fuzz nose pick.
Jack did a ton of tricks including a bluntslide over his wallet that he had just lost falling down.
Which he did a lot of
We went back to trying regular slappies. Jack was getting close when he unleashed the slappy willy.
But then he did the real deal. Sick!
And I got his back!
Fuzz on the other hand.
Wow, what a fun night. Thanks Fuzz. Rumor has it Fuzz stayed up and repainted the curb already. Ha. Guess we get to skate it for the first time again some time. Can’t wait. But seriously, such a fun night.Thanks for all the photos Carleigh! Go to her blog now and see many more photos.
