skate journal: fun in the wells fargo alley downtown boulder (dec 6, 2015 day 326)
I had a busy morning of yoga, tennis with Liz and then basketball with Ollie. For some reason basketball KILLS my legs. So after all of that Ollie and I went to the legendary Boulder spot downtown. Rob and Dave were there too. Omi randomly appeared on his cruiser board after awhile and sessioned with us. For awhile we rotated on the quarterpipe rattling off tricks. I was happy with a backside blunt. Ollie was doing rock ‘n rolls both ways and little grinds. It was cool to see. I did some lame ollies onto the ledge then dropped into a pole ride which wasn’t very hard, but pretty fun. It took me a few tries. Dave did it first try. I started trying to line out with the curb earlier in the alley. I got a couple of lines, but I was moving at a snails pace. Kickflip up the curb, back 180 off, halfcab flip, front pivot to fakie. Kickflip up the curb, back 180 off, fakie flip on flat, fakie pivot to fakie (although I think it was more of a smith). I also got a shove it off the curb. So I kind of missed what the others were doing. After that Rob, Ollie and I were mainly skating the QP while Dave and Omi were skating the manny pad. Rob did front tail, back disaster, crailblock all steezy. Ollie was trying blunts and SLAMMED. Maybe his worst skate slam that I’ve seen. He took it fine. I got a couple front blunt to front axle, but couldn’t quite get front pivot. Ollie and I were pretty much done at that point. We watched the others skate the ledge for a bit which was cool. Rob did a couple good manuals. Dave did ollie up, back 180 off (the hard way), Omi almost got ollie up, kickflip off. Fun day. Stoked that Ollie had fun.
(setup 8.38 null venture wides bones medium bushings 50mm v1 bones stfs nb# pj stratford 533 black/white)