skate journal: downtown boulder awesomeness (Dec 5, 2012)
On a super warm night (55!!!) I headed downtown craving bricks after unloading a bunch of new boards. I parked right by Wells Fargo and started on the QP area for a bit. I would do a trick up the curb, trick on the qp, then trick off the curb. It started with ollie, pivot, 180. Then 180, fakie pivot, back 180. Kickflip, front tail, kickflip. Rad. Moved onto the brick section, skated the red ledge for a front 50 or two, but the lights turned off. Moved over to the corner and was working on line of ollie onto the little ledge and ride around it, cross the street, ollie up the 2, kickflip off. Came kind of close to first try, then got worse and then got kicked out.
Then I went over by the tea house which I have no idea why I haven’t headed over there before. There was all kinds of fun to be had. I posed a few ollies down the 5. Not sure why I didn’t commit. Ollied up the curb above then over the curb in the back to the bike path. Came from the bike path, ollied up, 180’d the 2. Really fun. Tried a line from almost Arapahoe where I did a no comply 180, sw 180 up the curb, ollie onto the second stair of the 5, but I couldn’t commit to that. My legs were not somehow not hurting after all these ollies. I rolled around for a bit looking for a good flatground area to do a few tricks before calling it a night. Ended up by the Walnut rail when some wasted girl came over wanting to ride my board and would not leave me alone so I left. Ended up at the Wells Fargo parking lot and did a few treflips before cracking my board really bad.
Which is kind of awesome considering I got new boards that night. I had a blast. It was such a warm and awesome night. I had my mp3 player on shuffle. My legs felt good. I think there was an exercise at the gym I was doing that was hurting my knees. I stopped doing it and my knees feel better. Hopefully that’s the case and skating gets a little easier again.