skate journal: greeley parks with a stellar crew (july 8, 2022)
On a hot day Eric, Joe and I picked up Rob and Neil and we headed to the Greeley plaza park first. Garrett met us there. We had the park to ourselves for the most part and two other rippers for a bit. Everyone else seemed to be ripping. Garrett obviously needed the least warmup and was backside flipping the hip, 50ing the upper level, manualling the bench right away. I’m not sure if he got his full line, but he did all the tricks. Nollie back heel up the euro, halfcab noseslide the long hubba, front smith the qp, back 360 the hip, front tail f/s flip out. So sick. Rob was getting up on the pad right away with manuals, 50s, boardslide the upper level, no comply up the 2, maybe even halfcab 50. Neil was looking good. Manuals, nose manuals, 50s, one foot up the euro, quick up 50 the top then one foot off, front shove off the manny pad. Joe front 50 shove and the Joe H on the upper level, crooks, front smith the ledge, kickflip fakie. I skated like dookie. Only things I liked were a couple crooks on the ledge and a b/s 90 flip flyout.
After some lunch we ended up at Peak View. It was super hot, there were ~20 rollerblader kids there playing bad rap music and a mixture of a few skaters and a little motorcross bike. Not the ideal environment to flame the stoke, but we did it. Eckert had the horrendous rock fakie slam. I was stoked to see him going so gnar, but he obviously didn’t skate more after that slam. I skated like dookie again, couldn’t do a kickflip on the bank and could barely ollie up the ledge. I did however get a noseslide 270 shove which put a smile on my face for a solid 30 minutes. Joe of course did his tricks on the ledge and maybe even did the Hoe Jamilton. He was pretty easily skating the ledge doing his tricks. Neil’s knee had had enough, but he still managed to cruise around and do a few things. Rob had some good manuals and I think nose manuals, front boards, kickflip the bank, one foots on the bank, some crail slides or something on the bank. Garrett had kickflip nose manual, switch crooks, halfcab crooks, all kinds of stuff. Pretty fun day we skated hard in the heat and earned our margs.
(setup 8.3 null vhs, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast base titanium hanger, bones 52mm 99a stf v3, new balance numeric 440highs b/w size 12 half insole)
(pain 4/10)