Some people you don’t even have to know very well to know they are amazing. Every memory I have of Scotty is a smile. Best wishes to his family, I cannot imagine the pain they are going through.
Everything about this one is amazing. The filming, editing, skating and especially Jimmy Carlin killing it with the jump rope.Also amazing.
Another cold day. This winter is sucking. I put the space heater on and Carleigh came over and we skated pretty hard. I had worked all night the night before so was still pretty out of it. Carleigh raised the bar pretty early on trying a line of back 50, feeble, feeble fakie, fakie disaster, some setups, a front d and almost once added a kickflip rock to fakie in there too. I tried to keep pace and tried a line of 5-0 to fakie, fakie pivot to fakie, fakie pivot to fakie (frontside). I got it, but it was horrible. I skated decent. Did most of my tricks pretty quick, had some longer lines and ended it with a front tail that didn’t take 500 tries.
Pretty much exhausted and not that motivated to skate so just went out to Rampy on another super cold day. Carleigh joined and we had a pretty uneventful session. Carleigh actually skated pretty good and she learned fakie disasters. I failed at front feebles and front 5-0s to fakie, but finally did a fully decked rock ‘n roll on the short deck side. Not as hard as I thought it would be.
The snow almost held off long enough to skate outside, but it didn’t. I picked up Jack, Max, Davis and Jacob at Meta and we went to Red Curbs. The snow had blown in and things were pretty wet so it wasn’t as open and awesome as normal. The nice thing about skating with young’ins is they don’t really care. Everyone skated kinda slow and tried to stay on the dry patches. Davis rattled off a bunch of ledge tricks on the taller curb. Jacob did manuals and dorked around as I guess he was really tired. Max tried a bunch of crazy tricks. Jack was hyped to skate again as it’s been awhile and he had the excited skater steez. The line with the fakie hurricane was awesome. I skated decent. Especially considering the last night. Tricks I was hyped on were kick back 50, fakie nosegrind on the ledge, crooks pretty consistently on the ledge, slappy lipslide that took a long time, front lip pulled to fakie on accident (for once I didn’t go over the corner to get into the lip). Fun session. Later on we went to the No Love clubhouse. I didn’t skate though, just watched Bernie’s video premiere then people rip the place.
After dinner and before going to Pete’s to see Black Dot’s (John’s band) I hit the garage for a bit before Brian showed up. I was landing my Rampy tricks pretty quickly and when I would bail I would try a different flip trick. Rarely landing any of the flippers, but having fun. Brian showed up about the time I had settled into trying front 5-0s to fakie. I’ve never done it before. Brian was dressed in a cute sweater and didn’t want to get it dirty so he was playing it conservative. It’s weird seeing Brian bail tricks instead of falling on his hip. He skated and had fun and encouraged me to finally get the front 5-0 to fakie before leaving. Rad!I wish I would have taken photos at Pete’s. The show was super fun and we raged hard.
eS is building such a sick team of street skaters.
#1 on my list of bands I want to see currently.
Jeff has been trying to get me to the No Love warehouse for quite some time. I guess it took another night of -10F to make it happen. After work I took a quick nap and piled in the TF bus with Neil, Brian, Carleigh, John and Fuzz (oh and it’s possible a kid named Kyle joined us). Can you believe it, TF out on a week night? Awesome. We arrived all frozen from the lack of working heat in the bus to a somewhat crowded session. Warming up for me never really happened. At times I felt ok, but for the most part I felt awkward and disconnected from my board the entire night. Fuzz on the other hand killed it out of the gates. Stalefish from the flat bank to the wall qp, sugarcanes on the smaller qp, front tail on the electric box above the flat bank and front tail front 180 out which was ridiculous. Neil had his moves down quick. Carleigh skated about as good as I’ve ever seen her. She got a sick line of wallride, back 50 on the qp then back noseslide shove on the ledge. People were hyped and the ladies drinking on the sidelines were so hyped they were throwing peoples boards. Brian had some monster frontside alley oop wallrides, sick qp skills and an insane one footed frontside wallride. John ripped it. The no comply 270 back tail is a crowd pleaser everytime. Jeff was there destroying. He can do everything. Mikey went for two tricks over 4 hours and eventually got them. They were gnarly at least. Nollie b/s bigpsin and frontside flip from the flat bank into the wallride qp. There were some other dudes there ripping too. Like I said I felt awkward, but I still had a blast. I’m pretty happy that my fear of crowds doesn’t prevent me from at least trying to skate anymore. I got a b/s flip on the flat bank that took way longer than it should have, but in all honesty the narrowness of the flat bank made it pretty hard. I also got some kickturns on the wall, a little backside grind to fakie on the qp and almost a front feeble grind on the qp.Once again, Carleigh took a bunch of photos so go here and check them out.I was also very excited to finally meet Andrew from No Love. We had a good time chatting about running companies and how we respect what each other is doing and how awesome skateboarding is. What a fun night and I can’t believe the TF was out past midnight.
