skate journal: Lafayette with Trick Factory (Oct 1, 2011)
Jake came over and we played Add-A-Trick in my street for awhile before leaving for Lafayette. It was a blast even though there was too much traffic from a CU game. The first line got pretty long. Something like powerslide, sweeper, no comply 180, fakie flip, sw 180, nollie back 180. I don’t even remember, Jake was the only one to get it. We had another shorter one then tried a few 3 flips before heading out. I managed to get 3 out of 10 or something like that. Not so bad for me as of late. Lafayette was pretty dead. Jake and I got there way before anyone else and skated the flow bowl for awhile. Jake killed it. I didn’t try many tricks, just tried to skate faster and get a little scratch grind on the pool coping. Others started showing up in waves. The total crew in order of arrival was Neil, Bernie, Brian, Gordon, Sandy, Dean, Crisis crew, Jack and Carleigh. Bernie and I played on the manual pad a bit. He did halfcab flip manual so easy. I never manualled it. For some reason I hate that slab of marble. Gordon, Brian, Kyle skated the pro bowl. I dropped in on it once, made one kick turn then slipped out. After that it was pretty much non stop playing on the little tight qp at the entrance of the park. Lots of stuff went down. Brian and Jake did a million tricks. I had troubles with axle stalls initially, but ended up getting quite a few tricks. Back feeble, front rock, front axle stall, back smith, front feebs. I still owe Jake a tall can of Modelo for a race we had going. He was trying pivot fakie and I was trying back smith. We both got him, obviously he was first if I owe him a beer. Bernie did a front tailslide on it which was ridiculous. Carleigh did a Heavy rock to fakie, Heavy axle stall and a Heavy feeble to fakie. Jack did lots of neat stuff too. Back D first T. Jack was doing tricks down the drop like back foot flip, nollie flip etc and started trying nollie tres. I went for kickflip asking what he’d do if I did it first try. He offered a Vitamin Water so I went for it. It was so close that some kid asked if I was trying a Lazer Flip. Totally dude. Jack ended up extending the offer for three tries and after he put down a perfect nollie tre I put down a totally hideous kickflip. Last thing I did was an ollie up the curb, axle stall on the qp, then kickflip off the curb. Pretty sketchy, but fun. Then we went to Crisis to setup for the art show and Jack had a Vitamin Water there waiting for me. Amazing! It ended up being an incredibly fun night. Congrats Fuzz! Crisis is the bomb!