skate journal: berthoud park then fossil saturday fun (april 2, 2022)
On a really nice and warm day Cass and I rolled through LOCO then met Rob and Hayden at Berthoud park. We looked at the pump track, carved around the bowl a bit then decided a game of SKATE to warm up was a good idea. Cass was first out quickly again. Ha, he just can’t land tricks in SKATE. Hayden would go on to win as expected. I was happy to get close to a fakie tre though. I mostly flailed around on the ledges going slow and doing noseslides. In between filming Hayden I had been trying to line out all 3 ledge and came up with a few noseslide variations. I had done a few crooks on the second ledge. Hayden wanted to film me and in some miracle I did my line first try. Noseslide to fakie, halfcab noseslide, noseslide, kickflip fakie. I was so hyped. Cass had some noseslides too, front tails going up the middle ledge. Rob had taken off pretty quick. Hayden got a couple banging lines and managed not to collide with scooter kids that were not aware of skatepark flow at all. The bluntslide was so fast, the crooks were every try, the treflip into the bank so good and the first try nollie b/s flip ha ha.
Then we met Noé and Bo at Fossil. I was really sore. I mostly filmed. Noé said he hadn’t really halfcab flipped any stairs before then would do like 10 in a row. Hayden did some cool manuals. Cass almost did some cool manuals. Bo had a bunch of energy and back 50d the rail, 5-0 kickflip out the ledge. Then we went down below and I was starting to get more into my groove trying some crooks variations and trying to nose manual when I got called for work. Ugh. Took care of that then hit MRKT and hung with Eric.
(setup null smoke valley 8.3, jessup ultragrip, royal 149 lights, 50mm spitfire f4 99a classic, 272 black size 12 half insoles then 288S later)
(pain 5/10)