skate journal: filmer glen / northGLENn park with connor (Dec 2, 2012)

Posted in Skate Journal on December 4th, 2012 by corpo

Had planned an old man late night downtown Denver session earlier in the week, but everyone started bailing so had to change plans. I ended up meeting Derek, Nate and Connor at the Broomfield park a little later in the afternoon. We didn’t stay long at all and headed off to the new hot spot in Denver. This spot is amazing. Curb high manny pads off of 3 stairs, ledges, such an amazing spot. I skated it about long enough to front 180 a little flat gap, halfcab flip on flat, then noseslide a ledge before I started filming. Connor and Derek got some goodies and we headed into downtown. We hit the art museum for a few minutes of fun before getting the boot. My body felt pretty good and I was warmed up enough to ollie onto the ledges. Doh.

Connor and I dropped Derek and Nate off and headed to the northGLENn park. There weren’t many people there and it was still rather warm out. I started out by eating shit rolling up a bank. Lovely. About two minutes later I found a huge hole in a crack and slammed hard on that too. Another minute or so after that I fell on a kick turn or something. As if I don’t already feel stupid enough. Connor quietly killed the park as he always does. Lots of weird/unique lines/wallies/ways to avoid the stairs. He had some ledge lines going with front 5-0 followed by back 5-0. My first main goal was to get a rock ‘n roll on the weird jersey barrier kind of thing. I would do a kickflip or a halfcab flip into the little bank up top and try it. Took me awhile, but I did get it. After that I tried to ollie off the kicker over the ledge to flat and I kept hitting the ledge. Ugh. I even did a b/s flip on the bank and a treflip on flat beforehand to get myself hyped up. I skated the bowl for a few minutes, got an axle stall in a corner I’ve never hit before. Then did bigflip and fakie flip on the flat bank and called it a night. Connor had been mini ramping it between the qp and pyramid and doing some cool stuff. Fun night, sorry how embarrassing it is skating with me Connor.