skate journal: Boulder, Lville tech, campus (April 9, 2011)
Saturday! And it’s nice out! Bernie, Sam and Sam’s son Evan showed up. Derek and his friend Nate met us. Carleigh met up with us. First spot was the long bench featured in Max’s retard clip. It’s been a few days since the session so it’s hard to remember it all. Carleigh was hungover and didn’t skate there. Derek almost did a back nosegrind across the entire thing. Bernie messed around then filmed Derek. Evan is a funny kid. Sam was kind of on dad patrol. Nate skated everything pretty good. The front 5-0 180 on the composite bench was sick. Bernie had done an effortless kickflip manual on a little manny pad nearby. So steezey. I was struggling to say the least. Couldn’t manual to save my life. Came close to boardsliding the whole ledge, but didn’t quite get it. Skated the two stair for a bit and did kickflip and front shove off. Yippee.
We moved on to the 3 flat 2. I posed a couple ollies, but didn’t get close. Nate ollied and front 180’d it. Derek landed on a few 360 shove its, but never rode away. Doh.
Next we went to the manny pad in the Louisville tech center where I struggled once again. I tried to do a line of manual then ollie a bench. Never got the ollie and credit carded myself with razor tail. Wonderful. Later on we had put a trashcan lid out instead of the bench. I got a line of manual, ollie the lid then out of nowhere pulled an ok frontside flip which apparently hyped up Bernie. Ha. I also ollied up the tall side and kickflipped off the curb. Nate kickflip and b/s flipped over the bench. Derek was struggling and sore and bailed after a few bad switch nose manny slams. Carleigh started skating and was hurting, but had a few manual attempts that could have gone the distance. Sam did his patented nose manny. Bernie took awhile to get going, but had some good stuff at the end. Kickflip manual the tall way. Kickflip up, kickflip off, kickflip over the trash can lid.
We left after this. Fuzz and Connor had wanted to skate so they were gonna head into Boulder after closing hours and skate. Fuzz had just setup new wheels and a board so I had to too. But I one upped him with the addition of some new shoes:
Some Vox Duece. They feel pretty cheap, but Vox is one of the few skater owned shoe companies left so I’m hyped to support them. Anyways, Fuzz and Carleigh grabbed some food while Connor and I skated the hill ledges. Well, Connor skated them, I flailed around like a 12 year old just learning to skate. Connor had some some sick moves like front lip to tail on the first ledge then front 5-0 on the curved one at the bottom. We moved into the slappy area as Fuzz and Carleigh joined us. We didn’t stay there too long and Carreigh left.
We went to the student center area. I was so tired. Fuzz manualled the 5 stair ledge first try and ollied onto another ledge pretty easily. And manualled around the two stair area. Connor firecrackered the two stair not knowing there was a three stair right after it. Pretty funny. Then we played a game of SKATE which might be the only time I felt decent about skating. I was not hyped on the new shoes. But the game was fun. Seeing as how Fuzz and I are seasoned vets of skating for over 20 years obviously we took out Connor pretty quick. He didn’t even land heelflip and the textbook varial heel was just luck. It was a super fun game though. I landed way more than I thought I would. Heeflip, fakie heelflip, treflip, fakie bigflip, f/s halfcab flip, most of my tricks. Fuzz got me in the end with a cab. How boring is that? A vert trick on flat. The board doesn’t even flip.
Next up we skated the ledge coming out of the parking garage for a bit. Fuzz and Conner back 50’d it all good. Connor may have even back 5-0d it. I just noseslid it. I think after that we pretty much just peeped the 14 knowing it would show up in the Real video (Chima switch front board). Fun night. I was beat and with the exception of the game of SKATE I skated like total crap. Not hyped on the new shoes.