skate journal: colorado spring harrison high and galileo with simon and fuller (june 5, 2020)
On a very hot day and a slow start after some trouble sleeping Dave, Simon and I ended up at Harrison High in Co Springs. There were a few cars and people around, but they didn’t mind as we started skating. Simon appeared to be shot out of a canon and was blasting backside ollies over the hips and front tailslides. Dave and I were doing front tails over the hips. I had a fun warm up run of front tail over the hip, noseslide the ledge then back 180 the two stair. I started trying the same thing but with a noseslide 270 shove and 3 tries later I landed one. Dave was hyped and knew I was feeling it and offered to film it. I rotated with Simon who was doing switch bluntslide. I would get the noseslide 270 shove 3 times. They felt pretty good, but I never landed the shove down the two stair after to complete the line. I was still happy about finally getting a noseslide 270 shove on film though. That ledge was perfect for it. After that I filmed. Simon did a line with front 360 on the bank, halfcab noseslide then backside flip. He also did tailslide shove. He was destroying. Dave did a super sick line of back tail, front board to fakie then switch 180 (he also did it with halfcab) the two stair. He ended it with a quick up to manual.
Then we went off to Galileo. We finally got some cloud cover around then, but the start of the session was still hot and it was a rough start. Simon front 50’d both sets quick, but slammed super hard on a noseslide and coupled with the heat he chilled after that. Dave and I started slow on the bank and did some warm up tricks to get going. Then I joined Dave in trying to line out the top steeper step. He was doing steezy front shoves then trying back 50. I was trying kickflip to fakie, halfcab flip then front 50. Neither of us got the 50s. I wasn’t happy about the kickflips to fakie taking so long, but they were fun when I landed them. Then we skated the mellow set. Dave front 50’d and front 50 back 180 out really quick. I filmed the 180 out, he did it so good. He then front 5-0’d it really well. I was struggling to get back 50. I’ve always sucked at bank to ledges. It took me forever, but all of a sudden I kind of figured it out and did a couple back 50s and 180 out. I hucked a few kickflip 50s which Dave started filming. I think mostly because he felt sympathy for me not landing anything. Ha. I got kinda close, but knew it wasn’t going to happen. I got really angry and went for a back nosegrind and it was kinda close. An hour later and it was still just kinda close. Maybe a little closer, but yeah, I never got it. It was fun trying hard and getting close, but a bummer I didn’t get it. After I finally gave up Dave went back in on nose manual and got a few good ones. Then he tried front nosegrind for a bit, but gave up tired. Fun, exhausting day.
(setup 8.5 curby deck, ultra grip, venture 5.8 custom hollow cast baseplate titanium hangers, stock purple bushing bones top washer, 53mm spitfire classics blue/orange, new balance numeric 913 westgates b/w size 12, no insoles)
(pain level 3/10)