skate journal: sore, but fun session at lafayette with carleigh (Jan 3, 2013)
It was almost 60 degrees and snow was in the forecast for the weekend. I went to Lafayette park straight from work and was to meet Carleigh there. I arrived first to a crowd of younger bmx’ers and skaters. Ugh. I just kinda messed around and did some rock wallrides/wallies. Funnest thing at that park. Then I skated the little toilet bowl thing for awhile and had fun. Got a front smith in the corner which I’ve never done in a corner before. Then I was cruising around for awhile and carleigh showed. We skated the flow bowl for awhile and neither of us could get grinds. I blame the darkness though as the lights hadn’t turned on. The only lights that eventually turned on were on the hubba/street area so we decided to skate flat for awhile. I was super sore/arthritic so I didn’t think I’d really be able to flip much. But it ended up being pretty good. Carleigh did a nollie or fakie shove (I can never remember what goofy footers do) to start it out that was sick and a kickflip a few tries later. Not bad for someone who hasn’t skated in a couple weeks and has been sick. I don’t remember if she got a heelflip or not, but she did get a b/s flip. It was bolts! Ha. I was trying to line things out with the little bank. Got most of my flippers. Halfcab flip, heelflip, treflip, fakie flip, fakie varial flip. Also got a few bank tricks eventually like fakie flip, kickflip fakie, b/s flip, f/s flip and big flip. Hucked a cab flip and slammed hard. Then we skated the flow bowl again, both getting our grinds. Carleigh did like 20 of them really good. I added a front d in the low corner that took way too long.
One of the highlights of the day was when my board went into the snakerun causing a ~13 year old boy to swerve a little on his bike. It wasn’t bad in any way. He then threw his bike down and stared at me. I was in disbelief. I asked him if he was beaming me and he said yes. WTF kid! So I got in his face and told him what was up. You’re at a skatepark kid, boards go flying. He didn’t want to deal with boards flying so I told him to go ride on dirt. It was funny. Stupid, stupid kid.