skate journal: bumming out ollie on campus with dave, then some creekside action (july 19, 2015 day 195)
Met Dave on campus on a day where Ollie didn’t want to skate much. We parked and Dave was skating this hammer spot. Ha. Trick, manual trick, wallie the curb trick. I started off really really slow and missed my first 5 kickflips. Yikes. Ollie did the wallie manual above and was pretty much over skating at that point. Dave and I tried some lines. I had two that I was really hyped on although everything else I did seemed like crap. One was ollie an orange cone, front 180 nose manual across the median, turn around, wallie the parking block, then a really fun powerslide down the hill (brand new asphalt). The other line was f/s haflcab flip, 180 nose manual, switch 180 wallie, then another fun powerslide. Dave had back 180 nose manual I think. Fast ollies up the curb with back 180 off, nollies off the curb, way better ollies over the cone then me and ended with the switch no comply. Gnar!
Then we went across the street and ended up being there awhile too. Dave was no complying from the parking block up onto the sidewalk. I was riding off the sidewalk then wallieing the parking block. They are really close together so it was kind of hard. We both tried to manual off the 3 stair, but failed. I ended up getting a line of the wallie thing, kickflip up the curb, front 180 down the 3, switch 180 off the curb. Felt cool. Ollie sat and played games on my phone.
We skated this area for awhile. Dave and I got the gap to manny (the other way from the photo) pretty quick. Dave got gap to nose manny first try which he normally works on for awhile. Sick! Ollie tried a few gap to mannies then started throwing his board around in protest that we were still skating. Dave worked on front 180 nose manuals for awhile. I got a line of kickflip off a curb, ollie up the curb (to where Dave is in the photo) then back 180 the little gap. It felt neat.
I hucked front shoves down the monstrous 3 stair for awhile and would eventually get a bad one. But I lined it out with a kickflip off the curb then a gap to manual. Dave got my back by landing the front 180 nose manual perfectly. We were both hyped. Ollie wanted to leave. Ted and a friend were skating the ledge so we went over there. Ollie was really bumming on the spot and just sat in the grass or tossed his board around bummed. Ha. I skated the ledge spot pretty bad anyway. Didn’t really do anything other then a front 5-0 when I was trying 50. Dave had some nice ride on front tails, front 50s and back noseslides. Ted got pop and flippers. Dan showed up and has so much pop it’s crazy. Good to see those dudes. I figured I better stop before I completely bummed out Ollie.
After some lunch and a run to 303 we got home. I told Ollie I was gonna try back lips at the school across the street and he actually wanted to go and skate. Whoa. I failed at back lips for awhile. For the record the asphalt there is horrible and made judging speed almost impossible. Ollie tried more front shoves, back shoves. Then did the raddest line. He did his patented board drop hop down the 2 stair, front 180’d the first stair, halfcab’d off the second, then a little gap to manual over the corner of the sidewalk. I gave up on back lips, but ollied the 5 stair which took awhile and I didn’t even land it very well. Ollie said “over 40 make”. That hyped me up. Then we went home. Oh yeah, I started skating a new pair of PJ’s that I bought forever ago. They felt great. They are the weird cream ones. It really makes me happy to buy his pro shoe. Like little kid giddy when I get a new pair. I can’t believe I questioned them. Never doubt PJ.
(setup 8.5 null, venture wide lights, thunder bushings, some old bones wheels that really small, NB+ PJ stratfords 533 cream)