skate journal: FREMONSTERS day 2 #tightbros2015 up north (june 12, 2015 day 159)
Totally pouring in Boulder for day 2 of the #tighbros2015 trip. Ugh. The original plan was to head to Colorado Springs, but the forecast looked really bad to the south. Luckily we have technology and were able to look at the radar and forecast and see that it looked good to the north. So we headed to Miliken where most of us hadn’t skated before and sure enough, it was dry. Even better it was basically empty. It’s a weird park, almost all trannie. Ok, all tranny except for a bench that isn’t even in the park which some people skated almost the whole time. Ha. The crew was Dan, Matt, Eric, Joe, me, Dave, Rob, Neil, Jack, Riley, Scotty, Bernie. Wow. The nice thing about trying to write a journal about a session like this several days later is that I forget almost all of it. It’s a good warm up park, but if that were the only park in town I’d be bummed. I guess at least the ledge behind the park is pretty awesome. Anyway, Riley went nuts skating so fast it was crazy. Almost got the craziest nosegrind. Got huge boneless, stalefish, transfers and like 10 first try ledge tricks. Rob flowed all over the park and told me his line was “the most old man park in the line” or something to that effect. Note, it was a rad line. Bernie did front tail f/s flip and front tail 270 out on the bank. Dan got a daNBD front willy to benett. Crazy. Matt did a bunch of ledge tricks when I wasn’t looking. Neil had some of the best carves of the day. Eric rock fakied the tallest thing in the park and the sketchy little thing in the middle of the big banked wall, but not the oververt pocket. Joe did a bunch of tricks on the ledge. Front 5-0 to front board. Front smith front 180. So good. Also cruised skated the mini section with me a bunch. Scotty had some layback front rocks, popped nollies and lots of smiles. I couldn’t skate the ledge well, had some fun kickflips over big hip, boardslide transfer into the kicker thing, and had a lot of fun on the mini ramp thing getting front smiths and a back 50 up the escalator. Jack had a rad slam trying to manual a volcano, but basically clearing all of it. Ha. Also lipslide to late shove on the bench, some pretty rad transfers and grinds in the park. Dave skated the ledge a lot longer then I would have thought, I only saw front board 270 out and it was amazing. He had some good stuff in the park too. Sorry for forgetting everything.
Then after food and a stop at MRKT we went to Spring Canyon for a pretty awesome session. Dave and I started with switch flip fails. John joined us and did one. The curb/ledge/manny pad/rail obstacle was the main attraction and it was heated with all of us skating it. I can’t even begin to remember what all happened. I saw John get close to his ollie up , front 50 the back of the bench, noseslide off. Fuller and Rob did 50s to body varial. A bunch of us boardslid up the rail, I was last of course. Joe had front 50 shove and front smith on the ledge off the manny pad. Dan was getting wild with multiple body varials while grinding. Also some jump offs/on to heelflip out. I did a couple ollies onto the bench then drop down to grind, but couldn’t land it when Neil was filming. Jack wallied over the rail to 50 the curb. Mike joined us and did every variation of no comply and some sick boardslide transfers on the spine. Dave had feeble transfers I think. Eric manned up to the carve over the door and Riley got his back by doing it frontside. Riley did a bunch of tricks over the door, it was nuts. Back lip, back tail, fakie ollie, and more I can’t remember. This got Scotty hyped up enough to land a Good Buddy (fakie eggplant). Trick of the day. So sick. Neil was cruising as he does ripping his tricks. Dave, Jack and Riley did a bunch of crazy tricks on the ribbon qp. I managed front rock and axle stall, couldn’t get back smith stall. I was also struggling to ollie up the curb first. I tried a few more switch flips at the end of the session and failed. Other flippers when pretty good throughout the session. Bernie and Scotty were killing some games of SKATE. There was so much going on. Then we went to OCB to eat. It’s gross, but it’s a tradition.
Then get this, we skated more. What the heck. Went to Longmont park. Neil, Rob and Dave had gone home. Richard joined us. I mostly just carved the bowl then dorked around on the mellow bank. Got kind of close to switch flip. Riley, Jack and Scotty went off up the step up and bump to ledge. Jack did gap to front tail front shove out. So crazy. Joe bonelessed the hip. I really didn’t see much as I was kind of in my own zone in the corner. I love skating with all these people.
(setup 8.25 null venture lights bones med bushings 51mm stfs nb+ quincy 254s)