skate journal: fuller’s birthday session at loveland park (june 26, 2020)

Posted in Favorite, Skate Journal on June 27th, 2020 by corpo

Sean and I rolled up to Loveland on a nice morning. We arrived to a crew of mostly old dudes and it was awesome. Andy, Marcus, Joe, Jay, Bryan, Jake, Luzius. It was awesome. Fuller was already on fire when we arrived. He did that line with the nollie shove hippy jump pretty quick. Somehow I had already done my required treflip for the day too. I was feeling good actually. Got the boneless plant over the big rail first try then went in on the flyout treflips. Got a bad one in a few tries, then a better one in about 10 tries that felt great. It’s really hard to remember what everyone was doing. I haven’t seen Jay in years that was awesome. Andy still has amazing style. Marcus still rides a small board and that hypes me up. Bryan has some tech moves that come out of nowhere. He almost got a fakie shove tail on the bank to curb. Joe was crushing the ‘how many 360s can you do’ challenge and cruising around having fun. Sean was doing a good job of not showing off as the young guy. But he had some solid grinds on everything. Jake was ripping the bank to barrier. I’m not sure if he got all he wanted, but the front 5-0 was hot. I got the ollie up to kickflip fakie on the bank pretty quick, noseslide to fakie over the hip. I started playing on the spine and Fuller joined me to work on his ‘spinemenship’ ha ha. I was feeling really rusty on transition initially and took a few tries to even blunt transfer and regular transfer. But it started to come. The line of transfer, front feeble, smith transfer was really fun. Dave took a bit to get the back disaster transfer, but man when he did it was so sick. Riley had joined us for a bit and cruised the park a little making sure not to bend his knee. The stoke on his face was incredible at one point when he pushed fast to catch up to Fuller. I got a fun line of noseslide the mellow downhil ledge, slappy the bank to curb, short front 50 on the bump to up ledge. Luzius joined around then and was popping smooth olllies and manuals around the bank to ledge area. Sean was nose manualling the picnic table as a setup to learn cabs over the a-frame bump. Fuller was shredding the front 50s over the hip, tailslides on the bank, nollie cabs over the hip. When he did one I yelled ‘that was nollie kids’ to a few kids that did not care whatsoever. Ha. I took awhile to get an okay crooks on the hip to ledge. Then Sean shut down the bump to mini hubba (post soon). What a seriously fun session.

(setup 8.3 null curby deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger, bones medium bushings, spitfire f4 101a 51mm radial slims, new balance numeric 288s navy, no insoles)
(pain level 2/10)

skate journal: short ledge session with jack and joe (june 25, 2020)

Posted in Skate Journal on June 27th, 2020 by corpo

Feeling pretty lazy and totally surprised that a few of the new Null boards showed up I went and met Jack and Joe at the hill ledge. I brought Jack’s board and had Joe shoot a few photos of me handing it to him. It was an awesome experience and feeling to say the least. Jack was filming Joe try back nosegrind to switch front crook. It was nuts. He got into a few of them. After several hugs with Jack I joined Joe. I don’t know why I haven’t skated there recently, it’s an amazing spot and the college kids didn’t seem to mind we were there. I did boardslide, noseslide, noseslide fakie, crooks, took a long time to get halfcab noseslide, failed at halfcab crook, then started trying kick back 50. I got into one and came to a complete halt. So I hucked a varial flip out that was kinda close. Joe kept trying his trick and would go through waves of getting close. He did a really easy flatground tre and it made me think they should be easy, I got one in about 8 tries. Joe also had some monstrous hardflips and heelflips. Joe eventually took a slam to his wrist and sat down, I did too. Jack started messing around and of course ended up doing a new trick. Feeble front shove to back 5-0. Wow. What a fun little session.

(setup 8.3 null curby deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger, bones medium bushings, spitfire f4 101a 51mm radial slims, new balance numeric 288s navy, no insoles)
(pain level 2/10)