skate journal: solo southern hills then red curbs for a bit (feb 15, 2015 day 46)
Woke up and it was almost 50 out and sunny. A couple hours later it was cloudy and starting to flurry. Riley and crew were heading to Boulder, but they weren’t ready yet and I wanted to skate before the snow became too much. I went to Southern Hills feeling pretty sore around 10am. I warmed up with a few front/back 50s on the first step. It took awhile, but things began working out alright. At one point I had a really long run for me. Ollie onto a bench in the back area, front 180 off, fakie flip on flat, the worst halfcab noseslide ever, heelflip on flat, crooks a bench, noseslide to fakie a bench bailed a fakie tre. Did several front 50s on a bench. They weren’t too good though. It takes a lot for me to pop onto those benches. Tried to do nollie tres after the ones I landed, but never landed one. Popped down the two stair a couple times, got a front noseslide after one then went around the back and ollied onto a bench and back 180’d off. Then made myself skate flat for awhile. 10 flippers. Got heelflip, halfcab flip, varial flip, fakie flip, fakie bigflip, b/s flip, f/s halfcab flip, fakie varial flip, nollie varial flip and treflip. The treflip was the biggest struggle. I landed several with hands down, but stuck with it until I landed one without the hands down. It felt good at least. It got me wanting to skate around again, but the snow was really picking up. So I just propped up the ol’ phone to give Neil a taste of what he’s missing.
Then I went to Red Curbs to meet up with Riley, Nolan, Bernie, Julian and Ladd. As you can see Riley and Nolan were in full destroy mode. This is only part of it. I did a few slappies then stood around like a fool in the cold dadcaming the ripping.
(setup 8.25 venture wides bones med bushings no washers null wheels)