skate journal: sunday funday lots of skating (june 10, 2018)
Posted in Skate Journal on June 12th, 2018 by corpo
Left Boulder around 10am to meet Dave at Indian Peaks. The drive was crazy as the Diagonal had a triathlon and 4 lanes were down to 2. Ugh. Then I got to Indian Peaks and it looked like construction had the bank unskateable. Luckily I could move the fence a little and it was still fine. My warm up was a bean plant to fakie which took a few tries to get as I was rusty after a day off of skating (ha ha). Dave showed. I took way too long to do a front shove to fakie. Dave did a bunch of different shoves. Regs, frontside, switch, etc. He started messing with a line where he did a front 360 then goes through the little courtyard and comes back and did a front shove. Then Dave took a bit to get a kickflip to fakie and varial flip to fakie. But man that varial flip to fakie was great when it came. I started messing with a line too. A trick on the bank, then wallie nollie the brick wall near the tree then come around and hit the bank again. I messes around with various first tricks like kickflip, some weird fastplant thing, but ultimately I just went with a nollie 3 shove. But man the line felt cool. Nollie 3 shove, wallie nollie, kickflip to fakie. After that I went for 360 flip to fakie and I got one in ~10 tries that also felt great. I had setup my phone to film it even. Whew! Dave did frontside flip then would go around and try the 360 flip going backside. He got close. I tried nollie tre for a bit, but gave up. Then randomly tried a frontside beanplant wallride. Dave was hyped and had never done it either so we went for it. It was a little harder than it would seem, but we both got some after a bit. I don’t care how simple it looks, it felt great.
Then after a siesta I ended up at research ledge. The shade was in effect and it didn’t seem hot. Dave had challenged me to a crooks to fakie and I figured this would be a good spot for it. I started with noseslides and noseslide to fakie. Then I went with an old rule of mine where I had to do back 50, front 50 and 360 flip before trying crooks. I didn’t quite get there, but I did all 3 before landing a crook (the back 50 was more of a feeble and the 360 flip had a hand down). I had some trouble finding the sweet spot on crooks with the Indys, but I did get it eventually. The crooks to fakie took about 10 minutes. Then I messed around on some new wood benches below. Well, all I did was a couple noseslides and just pretended I would do anything else.
Then I went to Saul’s. For awhile it was just Saul and I. I was pretty beat from so much skating. I had some okay stuff for me, but nothing that really stood out or felt like progress. I did get close to my first frontside carve grinds, but bailed out every time I got close. Saul was ripping. Stand up 50s, front slash the deep, closer to 5-0s, some funny falls. Brian showed up for his first time there. It’s always interesting seeing peoples first runs. Brian did good though. Carve grinds and didn’t slam. He went on to rip some front slashes, display a couple trademark Brian falls and probably more after I left. Eric showed up shortly before I left and put down a lot of his tricks right away like the “Certain Death” and heelflips on flat.
(setup 8.38 null perception deck, indy 149 ray barbee trucks, oj 52mm ez edge insane-a-thane wheels, bones medium bushings, es accel slim navy/white asta size 12, footprint gamechanger low profile insole)