skate journal: broomfield skatepark fun (july 4, 2017)
Went to Broomfield park on a hot morning by myself. I had talked with Nolan the night before and thought I’d be Filmer Glen so I wanted to get some skating in before that. I felt pretty good. The stiff insoles felt a little weird at first again, but the amount of pain they avoid in my knees is worth it. I avoided ollies for awhile, but not too long. Actually manualled the blue box, front 50s and accidental 5-0s on the black box, crooks and noseslides the black box. Tried some lines. Got front 50, kickflip to fakie the mellow bank, super slow halfcab noseslide. Bank ride the steep downhill bank, ollie up on the black ledge, front 180 off, fakie flip on flat. Just ollie’ing up the black ledge felt cool. I got a very slow back 50 on the blue ledge, kickflip to fakie on the quick up blue bank. Was able to pop and do tricks for a solid couple of hours. I had stopped when Nolan showed and warmed up again with him doing lines on the parking block and quartapotty. Nolan did a bunch of boardslide combos and pivot fakies. I was hyped on doing fakie back 50s to fakie on the qp and some form of a switch front board that involved a truck grinding (I don’t even know which one). Nolan was more tired than he thought and we tried to film a few things on the quartapotty. Het got a lunch breaked blunt to fakie on the hubba above it, couldn’t get blunt treflip to fakie. We were thinking of a 4th of July post when some dudes lit off firecrackers and we thought it would be perfect. Stoked they gave us a few to try. Our timing was off the first few tries, hyped we managed to get it on the last firecracker. We laughed so hard looking at the results.
(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.2 highs, venom 88a bushings, bones stf v3 52mm, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, nbnumeric pj 533 black/gum/hyperfeel size 12 with spenco full length thinsoles)