skate journal: cheyenne! skatepark, johnson, game of skate and more (july 18, 2020)
Kevin, Bo, Hayden, Jack, Joe, Garrent and I arrived at the Cheyenne park around the same time on a hot morning at 11. There was a stiff Wyoming breeze and it was super bright out. It was very disorienting at first. I knew it had been awhile since I had been up there, but it was 8 years! Yikes. Anyway I messed around some, but mostly went in on backside flips over the weird metal steep to mellow hip. Garrett went in with me trying front bigspin. We got them back to back. Jack had done a pole jam nollie heel, Joe did pole jam hardflip. Wowsers. Everyone was cruising around, it was hard to notice what anyone else did really. Towards the end I was talking to Rich and most were playing SKATE or just skating flatground. Jack landed so many tricks.
Then we went to Johnson middle school as we always do when we’re in Cheyenne. And somehow it was basically the exact same, except the fun little boardslide wasn’t waxed up. Bo went right into filming as I had gone across the street looking for other stuff. There was a fun frontside ledge that started curb height which I did one little 50 on. And some wavy benches we would come back to later. I filmed Hayden for a bit. Matt, Tyreece and Shaun showed up. Man it was rad seeing them. Hugging Matt again was so rad. Those dudes are still ripping. Shaun was in full tech slaying. Heelflip manual, heelflip back 50, nollie heel front tail, front 50 back foot flip out. Matt did back tail, front blunt, nollie flip, still got it. Jack had a cool line involving two wallie ledge tricks. Kevin got bummed on his front blunts. Garrett got a sick fakie nosegrind then switch noseslide shove line. Hayden came remotely close to the sickest 180 manual. Bo ruled it filming the whole time. I had crooks and switch front nose on the ledge. Joe got a cool line of nosegrind then back tail then heelflip.
Then we went back to the wavy bench area. It was harder than expected and not much more than 50s were done. I didn’t do anything. Joe tried a gnarly gap. Kevin did some switch flips off the curbs.
Next up was the contest. We arrived in a brief rain shower. I had done a few crooks and noseslides before the game of SKATE started. I played Jack so you know how that went. Rich was hyped on me landing some tricks, but if he only knew how bummed I was on missing treflip yet again. Still though, it was super fun and playing Jack in SKATE was rad. I didn’t skate after that really. Hayden beat Garrett and then Jack, but Joe took Hayden out. Joe made it to the final game and did good, but was two hardflip variations short of a win. Ha ha. Gotta learn them hardflip reverts. Jack won the best trick off the kicker with kickflip late shove. He also did a first try late 360 shove after sitting for at least 30 minutes. Then we we went out to eat. What an awesome day.
(setup 8.3 null curby deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 v-hollows, stock bushings no boardside washer, 3 washers inside each axle, bones stf 51mm v1 83b, new balance numeric 288s navy, no insoles)
(pain level 3/10)