skate journal: broomfield park, then a really bad jersey barrier then a fun flatground session (June 8, 2013)
Met up with Jack, Carleigh, Rob and Crisis. Then rolled to Broomfield park with Blaine and met Derek and Nate. Warming up took a bit for me. It wasn’t as easy as it’s been the last few days. Jack and Carleigh seemed on a mission to skate the brick qp. Jack and a nice texas boneless (I think that’s what it’s called) and some lofty ollies both ways. The backside ollie with the cali grind out was hot! Carleigh had a quick front d. Rob and I were kind of all over. He had a nice halfcab boardslide shove out. Derek was trying front tail bigspins out down the double set rail. He got kinda close. I didn’t get much there I haven’t done before. I had a good feeling 3 flip on flat though and added backside crook (kind of) to my bag of only like 4 tricks I’ve done on the brick qp. Then we headed out to a street spot which ended up being this newly creted barrier.
Kudos to the dudes that creted this. Hopefully they keep at it as it needs some work, but it’s a good start. It’s infinitely harder to skate then it looks. Jack didn’t look for excuses though and did a back boardslide, back feeble and maybe even a back 50. I got a frontside ride from one crete section to the next. Pretty sure I set the record for doing it as low as possible.
After this we just started skating flatground. There was a slight downhill. Rob manualled the whole thing and almost nose mannied it too. My style has gone to crap and I linked up four tricks that would be cool if I didn’t know how badly I did them. Halfcab flip, heelflip, treflip, backside flip. Looks good on paper at least. Ha. I tried another line with fakie bigflip, front shove then nollie tre, but never got the nollie tre. We settled in to different tricks for awhile. Frontside flips,hardflips, etc. Not much was landed. Then I posed a halfcab double flip that came close. Ugly ass trick I’m sure, but I’ve kind of wanted to do it for awhile to just say I’ve done it. Jack did one first try. Ha. Carleigh tried backside flips while Rob and I tried double flips for quite some time. We both got close for awhile. Jack was trying cab double flips and getting just as close. Shortly into it Jack had offerred to buy me dinner if I landed one. Well I did. It was kind of a fakie 90 double flip, stop, put the hands down and laugh before riding out. But I’m 40 and have constantly lowered the bar on steezy landings all my life so it counted. Ha. Pretty fun day for sure. After we hung out at Crisis and watched skate videos and bet on Street League. Jocks.