skate journal: safeway ledges then broomfield park for a long time (march 6, 2014)
Met Fuzz at the puddle ridden Safeway ledges. We didn’t feel like ollieing at first so we just did various slappy nose/tail variations. Then we started doing front and back 50s. We were both bummed on how are back 50s tic tac and were trying to make them better when Matt showed and did a perfect one first try. Cool dude. Ha. My legs were still feeling very heavy and stiff. Flip tricks after ledge tricks were not working. I got a very sloppy kick back 50. The worst front smith ever done. Matt added a few more tricks like front tails and front 5-0 fakie. Fuzz struggled with front tails and decided to call it a night.
After a meal at Subway Matt, Neil and I went to the Broomfield park. It wasn’t too crowded and more importantly there weren’t too many bikers. I played on the quartapotty mostly for awhile and ollies didn’t really seem possible. Ugh. They eventually would, but it was tough the rest of the night. My heel was blistered and bleeding. I got a few back 5-0s on the blue ledge, no comply 270 to back tail on the blue ledge, boardslide down the tiny rail, crooks the black ledge. Matt was killing the ledges with back nosegrind, front smith, and skating the taller one (above) where he ended up betting back tail shove, back smith and maybe front crooks? Neil was raging. High speed front lips up the happy ledge, no comply boneless on the bump up top, one foots over the rail. The crew at the park was fun and it kept getting funner with people like Darin and his crew showing up. I skated the bump up top for awhile too, got f/s flips pretty quick and then struggled, but got a couple halfcab flips on it. Played a game of SKATE with Cameron and Matt that I completed sucked it up in and was the first one out. Argh. Then skated the quartapotty with Darin for awhile and he got me to try rock to feebles and I got them! Hyped, got a bunch of them. Then later on tried them on the brick qp and struggled before finally getting a very “over 40” make. Darin killed the qp with back smith, back d to sugarcane, so many tricks. What a night. Lots of skating.