skate journal: fort collins day with not quite everyone (june 11, 2017)
The Fremonsters split town early. Josh, Chief, Rob, Neil and I rolled up to Fort Collins. After MRKT we went to Northside and the crew started getting bigger. Matt H, Ed, Shane, John, Nate, Hayden, and many locals joined us. I skated like total garbage other than a switch front nose on the ledge. I tried to get back ollies up the MJ ledge, but it was embarrassing. Josh had some sick manuals over it. Regular manual, nose manual, maybe nose to manny? Nate too. Matt and Nate were slaying the ledge. Matt almost did back nosegrind nollie front shove out. I can’t even understand how to do that. Josh was cruising the rest of the park too. It was great seeing John again. He had a nice John Brandow shove. Neil was doing a lot of filming. Rob was ripping. I filmed Hayden get a few tricks first try.
We eventually grew tired of the park and left for Spring Canyon where Jack, Carleigh and Nolan joined us too. We started with a game of SKATE where John straight up took everyone out in like 5 tricks. Well, except for Jack and Nolan and a couple others. I was bummed on how much I suck at flatground now. Then I filmed Neil for awhile and he was bummed on my filming and it made me mad. It was good though. There was so much going on with so many people skating that I hardly remember any of it. Nolan doing an air over Fuller was amazing. Jack did a back bigspin to switch manual. Josh had nose manuals and a nose manual big I think? And lots more as he skated hard the whole time. Carleigh with the frontside wallrides and pole jams. Rob halfcab noseslide the tall bench. John with the quick feet to 50 the back of the tall bench. Rob, Carleigh, Dave, John and I hucked 360 flips for awhile. John did his first two and bounced. Dave came incredibly close. I never got one and I blame the bulky shoes. In fact I could barely kickflip. Josh came over and got the 3 flip and added nollie heel to the game. Jack, Nolan and Hayden did BFF kickflips. Then we left for food.
Low and behold we skated more! Well, some of us. Rob, Dave, Neil, Josh and I. And even then we basically only skated one spot which is the rail spot above. It was fun. And I had switched to vulcs I had in the car and skating seemed way more fun and doable. But yeah, we skated a rail for a half hour or so. No biggee. It was a blast even though we were all super sore. There were some funny slam. Neil’s street plants were epic. So were Dave’s “ollies”. ha ha. I got a boneless transfer and a boneless 360 bonk (accidental bonk and only 270 but I’m not being judged on number of rotations so I think that’s ok). Josh’s line was sick. I think Rob mostly sat. We went and checked out the Clark building hip which is more cracked out then it used to be. Rob, Dave and Neil bounced. Josh and I 180’d the hip and then basically just walked around campus and reminisced about our days at CSU. The dorm rooms look exactly the same.
(setup 8.38″ null machine deck, venture 5.8 wides, venom 88a bushings, green spitfire F4 52mm classic 99a wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, nbnumeric 868 12 black/gum with old stock NB# insoles(until the end when I switched to 254s with lunarlon insoles)