skate journal: greeley park and streets with null (may 31, 2020)
On a hot day I pulled into the new 3rd St skatepark in Greeley. Much to my delight Damon was there. He was ripping. Frontside flips over the hip, up the euro, etc. My hand was still hurting really band and on one of my first warm up tricks I slid out right to my hand. Ouch. But it showed me I could fall on it. I did a few slow flip tricks, a slow front 50 on the main ledge, a few nose manuals on the manny pad, nothing of real note. The Nullers started showing. Man it was great seeing all of them ripping. It took me forever to kickflip up the euro, but when I finally did it I almost lined it out with noseslide down the hubba then noseslide 270 shove. I would kind of get one noseslide 270 shove. I also got a front 50 on the weird banked ledge that was fun, but could only do it once super slow. Hayden did it all fast first try so stick. The dudes killed it. Jack back 50 up and down the euro. Riley every trick, nollie inward heel, varial heel revert, switch hard, switch f/s flip, etc. Garrett was killing it, nollie back heel the euro, blizzard flip the hip, halfcab noseslide 270 shove the mellow hubba. Sean back nosegrind the mellow hubba, heeflip up the euro. Peyton did shove late shove and back foot flip up the euro. Also a 360 flip to land then nollie shove. Jack learned bluntslide front heel out down the long rail. WTF. Bo has a mean ollie and crooks.
We went and looked at a weird bank spot that basically Riley was the only one that skated. He did a 5-0 to fakie on it, crazy.
Then we ended up at a weird two stair, flat gap, little plaza area. Jack did manual then backside flip so quick. Bo was quick on the filming so I messed around posing a gap to boardslide on a dumb rock off a two stair. I would keep trying it while so much happened. Riley hurt his knee again on a varial flip :(. Garrett kickflip, board break on treflip then setup a new board and land the treflip. Sean ollied a bunch of 3 stairs as did Hayden. Jack would go on to do manual then bigflip. Once Garrett did the treflip I had to land my boardslide which I would eventually do. It was dumb, but since Bo was killing it filming I felt like I had to at least try something.
Then we ended up at a total dream spot. Most people were beat. I tried to skate, but really struggled. I got a line of pop shove, ollie the 4 stair, boardslide the ledge. Would love to go back and do a 180 or something followed by a better trick. Sean and Garrett killed it with the tricks. Sean did front 50 back 180 out up the hubba. Garrett did wallie boardslide for like 20 feet. Hayden 50’d down it and almost got some cool nose manual drop downs. Long day!
(setup 8.5 curby deck, ultra grip, venture 5.8 custom hollow cast baseplate titanium hangers, stock purple bushing bones top washer, 52mm spitfire green/yellow swirl classic 99a F4, new balance numeric 913 westgates b/w size 12, no insoles)
(pain level 5/10 hand and sore knees)