skate journal: all day skate marathon boulder park, triple nipple, Parris’s (june 5, 2021)
After some slacking in the morning I got a text from Skelly that it was cool to skate the new addition at Boulder park. It was very hot and sunny and the park was kinda crowded. Lots of bikers in the old section, a mixed bag of skaters in the new. I chatted with Skelly for awhile, rolled around and looked at the new stuff. Skelly didn’t skate much. I imagine it’s pretty weird seeing everyone skate what you just built. There were a few other Evergreen dudes there ripping. I was kind of jittery a little too excited to have new stuff in Boulder. There was a lot of bailing, doing nothing. I got a couple b/s flips which felt really fun. Had some grinds and other tricks, but I guess the b/s flip is really the only thing worth mentioning. I had trouble 50’ing the bump to ledge even though I really liked it. Oh some noseslides to fakie across it. Null Sean and Kevin showed up and quickly began ripping it. The little bench got nosegrinded right away, Kevin’s halfcab into the transition was crazy, but not as crazy as Sean going 100mph to flyout out of the bank onto the ledge. Then we left and had a nice long lunch before heading to triple nipple.
The clouds had settled in right when we got to little Arvada which felt really nice. Sean F and Kevin went right to work on the ledge. Like first thing just jump up on 50s. I was jealous. Mike was there and ripping long lines with grinds. Skelly would come too. The 5 of us basically had the park to ourselves and the weather was great the whole time. Sean F and Sean seriously did so many tricks on the ledge. Sean’s first try front tail 270 was a highlight as was the nollie back nosegrind. Kevin switch nosegrind 180s were great, crooks, back smiths, first try back tail. I had not confidence going frontside on the ledge and only got a front board pop out. Backside I had some crooks, noseslides, switch front nose, failed at crooks shove and got close to a clean noseslide 270 shove. I did a few basics on the quarterpipes, spine. Skelly had some nice carves over the love seat, grinds on the steep bank, tricks over the parking block like halfcab one foot.
Then we went to Parris’s. Man what a cool spot. We lost Sean F, but gained Dave, Parris, D5, other Dave. Like anything it was harder at first and took awhile to get things figured out. Parris had a bad slam on his first run slipping out. Fuller had been there for a bit and was figuring it out pretty quickly with long boardslide across the parking block, stalls on the Dpark replica. Kevin took no time to figure things out and was quickly rattling off stalls on the rock extension, front tails the parking block, switch roll ins, everything. Great seeing D5 doing well. His homie David has good style, ripped some cool tricks. Mike grinds really long and would get all the way through some corners and isn’t afraid of switch carve grinds. Parris had some style and did no comply tails, tails, feebles on the parking block. Fuller was the last one skating of course. He did so much, first try kickflip on the lower bank was crazy, boardslide 270, front tail the corner of the Dpark replica. I skated okay, not great but after so much skating it was good and I had fun. Slappy crooks, front tails the dpark, rocks on the rocks, some manuals. Fun day, fun crews, fun spots.
(setup 8.38 null jack night skate, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast plate titanium hanger no big washer, bones 52mm stf v1, new balance numeric b/w/blue 212 size 12 with nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 3/10)