skate journal: niwot ledge hucks and nullers jumping over bike rack (nov 8, 2020)
Feeling a little better, but still sore and arthritic I wanted some alone time. It’s kind of incredible after flare ups like this I lose all confidence and I don’t really like skating around anyone. So I went to this ledge spot in Niwot before Nullers were meeting up. I skated for a good hour before anyone else showed up. I didn’t really intend it to be the spot of the day, but it seemed to work out for the best. But before anyone else showed I skated slow and worked my way up. Starting with noseslides and 180s. Working in some crooks and kickflips. Ended up getting 50s both ways, kind of close to manual the pad, front 5-0, took awhile for halfcab noseslide. Got kinda close to getting front crook. Had a few of the basic flippers like halfcab flip, heelflip, b/s flip. My board felt good for flippers, but small for ledge tricks. I was close to kickflip 50s so setup the phone to do a quick huck and see if I could get one. A few tries in I got a kick 5-0. It wasn’t perfect, but man it felt pretty awesome. And it kind of took my momentum away as I was already getting sore again and kind of wanted to stop. But shortly after that Rob and Jack would show. And then Sean, Garrett, Hayden, Joe, Bo, Kyle, Donnie, Dan. It was packed. I didn’t really do much more after that except a slappy crook, sketchy nollie front tail and a f/s halfcab nose jib. Rob got into the groove. Back 50s, crooks, halfcab noseslides. Hucked some bigspin front nose, back 180 fakie 50s. Jack was trying back 180 nosegrind variations. It was crazy how quickly Sean linked together nose manuals and grinds/slides. It ruled seeing Dan skate. He does tricks with such a strong style. The front tail then nose manual combo was hot. Hayden boardslide the pole jam, pole jammed it, got a good line. Garrett with the nose manny shove then shove 50 radness. Donnie had an epic roll in to grass on his monster truck setup. Joe ollied the pole. Kyle did a sick bluntslide. Bo was quick on the filming tip.
Then everyone started hopping over this bike rack. I’m lame and didn’t even try to get over it once. Rob had left. Everyone else was jumping over it or in Jack’s case through it. Joe wins the award for best trick in my opinion with switch ollie. So crazy. Dan had a stalefish over it. Sean kickflipped it. Lots of 180s went down. Donnie tried to hurt himself on a trash bin.
We went to Niwon high for the rail. I briefly tried some nose stalls on a bench and took way too long before filming. My board felt tiny and I can’t deny the obsession with a bigger board coming on. Anyway, Bo didn’t commit to the rail. Jack did and manualled out of a boardslide first try and basically out of 50 too. So crazy. I didn’t like how cold I felt at that point. Stupid winter. We ended it with some quality entertainment as Donnie skated a grass hill with his monster truck. He’s crazy.
(setup null 8″ archway deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 v-hollow highs on red cast baseplate, venom 88a bushings no boardside washer, old bones stf v2 51mm, new balance numeric 306 foy navy/white size 12, nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 4/10)