skate journal: early loveland park with dave (sept 6, 2015 day 241)
Up early on a Sunday. Was at Dave’s around 7am and we showed up in Loveland before 8am. The family above contributed to some initial negative feelings for the park. We avoided the strett area for awhile because of how lame that family was. The snake run was fun to pump and a little scary. Dave had some grinds at least. Then we messed around on the tree root spine for awhile which was quite fun. Dave had a good halfcab to tail that I couldn’t do. I had the little rock revert that got him. We did standard tail 180 transfers, smith/feeble transfers. Then it got fun with some early grab transfers. I’ve never done that before so it was pretty fun.
Then the street area cleared out and we hit it up. I took awhile to get slappy crooks on the bank to curb. Never got one that I was too hyped on. The quarterpipes are all so steep there. I don’t like that aspect of the park. Dave had a good slappy front 5-0. There is a bump to mini downhill ledge which was a fun warm up. I had a couple front 180s to fakie 50. Dave front 5-0’d down it. We hit the kicker for awhile. Dave had good ollies into the steep side and nollies the other way. I had a really weak b/s flip into the mellow side, halfcab flip and fakie bigflip too. All were fun. The quarterpipes around there are fun for doing lines. Both of us did a lot of different tricks on the qps. Dave had a couple really good back tails. I forced myself to front 50 down the mini hubba. I’m scared of downhill. It has a weird start to it, but I would get a few that felt alright. Noseslides down the longer one were fun too. Dave got busy with some nose manual attempts both ways on the bank to curb area. He would get a really good one coming out of the bank. I did a dumb kickflip to fakie on the escalator bank. Dave had some rad switch crooks on the waxed bank. I did some back 5-0s to fakie. Dave said I didn’t even shuffle out, but I’m not sure I believe him. That was pretty much it. We skated the bowl for a bit. Dave did some of his trick, fakie ollie to layback air. So rad. I didn’t drop in, but I had fun carving around and was getting up the hype to dropin when this funny dude from Brazil came to sweep out the bowl. Decent park, horrible family scooter scene.
(setup 8.1 null venture lows nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum 52mm sfts that are down into the mid 40s and telling me to setup new wheels)