skate journal: late night awesomeness with old dudes (and blaine) in denver (july 2, 2013)
Fullertron, Fuzz, Rob, Blaine and I headed to Denver on another nice night. We intended to start at the bank to curb behind the church and ended up at the Greyhound parking garage hill bomb. Rob had never been there and did the whole thing proper first try. No warm up, no speed checks. So sick. He had some speed wobbles at the bottom, but he pulled it off fine. We were all pretty amazed. The rest of the older dudes speed checked in some form or another. Fuzz carved, I powerslid, Dave foot dragged a little. Blaine went in hard with filmer wheels filming it. So sick. It was a great way to start the session. Powerslides and flying through traffic. We didn’t go far after as there was a great slappy curb in the main depot area that we got quite a bit of time on. It was this rad little angled yellow curb. Everyone got their slappies on it. There was also some little medians that got some love too. I saw Rob nosebonk and no comply one. I tried to lipslide one, but never quite got it. My legs were feeling pretty bad. Fuzz had some rad slappies that her turned around the corner on. Dave killed slappy tails. Blaine is young, but the age of the crew he was with must have rubbed off and he got some slappies too.
We pushed over to the Chase bank yellow curb garage that is oh so fun. It had gotten waxed up in a few sections. We were all doing our own thing. Fuzz and I went betweeen a couple and did front and back 50s. He had 4 in a row I think. Next was Tabor for awhile. It’s the marble hip/bank area in the photo above. We all skated this thing for awhile. Fuzz did a bunch of transfer tricks over the corner like front tail to fakie, front board, etc. Dave rode over the handrail which is so gnarly. Feeling the Ron Allen inspiration I learned boneless to wallride. Although the bank isn’t much of a “wallride” it still felt amazing and maybe my favorite new trick in awhile. I tried to line it out with a flatground kickflip and a front 180 down the 3, but we got booted about the time Blaine went to film Fuzz.
Not sure where we went after this. We did chinese nollie manuals, Dave fire crackered a long 4 stair. I failed at 3 flips. We got some liquid. We were exhausted after. Everyone looked beat. We ended up at the metal grate inside manny pad. Fuzz almost got smoked trying to manual it. I tried bonks into it then front board transfers out. Got close. Dave did no complies and almost switch no complies. Rob and Blaine chilled. After we got the boot I went across the street to a granite section and skated by myself for a bit. Tried a line with ollie onto the bench then ollie the little hole to manual, no comply 180, fakie bigflip into a slight bank. Kinda got it. Met up with the rest of the crew at some fun red curbs and a white ledge into a garage that Fuzz did some sick front 50s on.
We kinda chilled at the end of the 16th St mall for awhile. Rob and Dave were doing some boneless stall/slids on the granite blocks. I tried 360 flips over and over and crooks on the granite blocks (got a few of each). Then Rob called out a rad bump to bump from the fountain to a curb cut. Fuzz ollied it all sick. Blaine hauled ass and basically cleared it without much of an ollie. So scary! I couldn’t get out that far. Dave put his board after the bump and I ended up having a super fun run of ollie out of the fountain over Dave’s board and pushed across the street, front 180 up the two, sw 180 on flat, ollie the 4 stair as security was chasing me. Landing the four stair hurt. My legs were done at that point. Ugh. Fuzz got a sick line ollie’ing the fountain to the curb cut then a 900mph manual through some scaffolding across the street. What a fun, late night.