skate journal: bank to curb for days and some old man filming??? (April 22, 2012)
Carleigh and I headed out around 4 and skated the weird bank spot near Crisis while we waited for Fuzz to close up shop. It was pretty fun and I was surprised my legs were feeling good after 3 days straight of street skating already. Carleigh had some good kickflips and some good slams over a little metal grate, good ollies down the two into the bank and ollies up the two. I had some tiny ollies into the bank, kickflip to fakie, no comply bigspin, no comply 270 to tail and at the end finally wallied up the two.
Then we went to this spot. Wow it looks epic eh? It is. But rougher and harder to skate than it looks. We got out of the car and I could tell immediately that my arthritis was gonna act up and limit my skateboarding. Doh. Fuzz was carving around and hit his stomach on a pole. It was hilarious. So he drank a beer. Carleigh swept the runway for the upper waxed part. I rolled around and took several tries to do rock ‘n rolls. Fuzz started pounding out a line of front 180 over the curb (aka FLYOUT) then switch board transfer. Man he did it good and Carleigh filmed it. Is this the start of Off The Couch 2 With a Vengeance? Who knows. I had dreamed of doing kick back tail shove at this spot, but of course kick back tails weren’t even happening. I blame my arthritis. It’s a great excuse that I hope to not have the luxury of using much longer. I filmed Carleigh do a tailslide all steezey. John showed up and killed it immediately. I went down to where it was mellow and tried to ollie the curb into the bank. The worst part is I knew mentally I would be unable to do it as soon as I tried the first one. But being the stubborn moron I am I kept trying it and bumming myself out more. I finally gave up, laughed at my griptape and walked back to my friends that were having fun. They were laughing because apparently John was rolling backwards and ran into a metal grate and slammed. Fuzz destroyed some nose stalls on a pillar, John did his patented front shove front nose to fakie and I did a boardslide. Glad I had a little fun at the end. Go old guys (and girl).