skate journal: earlyish broomfield with the crew (april 27, 2019)
I met up with Rob, Sean, Carleigh and eventually Fuzz (yes Fuzz at Broomfield park!) at Broomfield before 11am. Warming up was alright. Sean was doing his flip trick warm up. I was kind of all over. Rob was putting on a demo. Ha. Back 50 back 180, front 50 back 180, back 50 shove, manuals, nose manuals all happened quickly. Sean had some great looking flippers. The nollie heel was probably my fav. Carleigh showed and almost manualled the blue pad first try. She had some good boardslides and front 50s then did her disasters on the brick qp. I manualled the blue pad which is rare. Had a line with “nollie” front tail to fakie, fakie axle to fakie the quartapotty, fakie nosegrind (just a real quick jib). Rob was doing lines starting with the blue ledge and ending black and I wanted in on that. I know he had several back 50 shoves, a fakie nosegrind 180 or two, crooks, front boards. I got a line of noseslide the brown ledge, treflip on flat, crooks the black ledge. That line was the highlight for me. Carleigh worked on back 50s. Sean was doing tricks like nollie back nosegrind shove perfectly on the ledge. Fuzz had arrived and after starting off chill with some manuals and slappy noseslides he did a banger of a line. Ollie the little rail into the bank, ollie onto the happy ledge, back 180 off, switch front shove. Dude! Rob and I played a fun game of SKATE. I think we had a combined 20 tries before b/s flip was landed. I think I was the one to get it. I took awhile to get halfcab flip. Rob got me with 3 shove and fakie 3 shove. I ended up getting Rob with a no comply b/s shove. Fuzz had dared him to do double or nothing. Blame Fuzz. Ha. Really fun session. Had to get home and celebrate Ollie turning 17! So crazy. Time flies. Go skate while you still can.
(setup 8.75″ null valley deck, venture ftc 5.8s, doh dohs bushings (blue 88a barrel boardside one, yellow 92a roadside) no boardside washer, spitfire f4 radials 52mm blue/yellow swirl wheels with all washers on the inside, new balance numeric 379 tan/gum size 12, rubbery lakai insoles)
(pain level 6/10 knee pain)