skate journal: denver spots with nullers and meta’ers (Dec 8, 2012)
Picked up Jason, then met Dean, Derek, Blaine, Connor and John at Crisis and went to Valdez in Denver. Super fun spot. Lots of ledges. A really long ledge. Max, Jeff, JJ and Sam met up with us. Max is the only one I saw land anything on the long ledge with a lipslide. All the other young kids came close. John and I had some fun lines going. John had noseslide shove, no comply 180 then switch noseslide 270. I never saw him get too close on the last one. I was kinda dorking, trying halfcab noseslides and then coming the other way a boardslide firecracker down the side of the 3 stair. Pretty fun. Derek did a sick switch front tail 270 out. Connor almost got bluntslide across the gap. Crazy. Then we got the boot.
We went to the nearby curb cut hill spot so Derek could do his b/s flip which he did rather quickly. I skated the hill a little after too and had one of my favorite runs in awhile. I did nothing cool, but did a bunch of powerslides that were super fun. Powerslide, ollie the curb cut to the street (barely popped it), a bunch of powerslides, barely ollie a manhole, powerslides. I wasn’t going all that fast, but normally I lose control after awhile and just bomb until I run out of it rather then control it the whole way. Super fun. Jeff popped over the big gap too and had some fun hill lines. Next up we went to a little curb cut over a bench that the kids weren’t feeling so much. They moved on and I tried to ollie it a few more times, but couldn’t quite pull the trigger. Doh. It had a weird backside carve into it. Last spot is what you see in the photo. I filmed Connor get a rad line, then played a game of SKATEBOARDBEYINDTHEREALSPOT with Connor and John that was uninspired, clumsy and kind of fun. After that it was a night at the movies and we went to see the Danny Way documentary. Pretty gnarly.