skate journal: fun new street spot in rino then denver sadlands (july 30, 2022)
Somehow I have no clips of it, but we went to a new spot Cass had found on a hot and sunny morning. The crew was Cass, Kevin, Nick, Venture Dave, Jake. The spot is epic. Slappy curbs, 2 stairs, ledges, good flatground. I was the last one there, had some sock and shoe issues and ended up changing things around. Mostly started with some flatground that didn’t work too well. Although Jake challenged us to do all the 180s in a row which we did. I had a fun 180 a tiny grate then halfcab flip into a slight bank. Also close to a line of fakie flip, halfcab flip, b/s flip into the slight bank. Dave was doing shoves, impossibles, 5-0s on the curb and then later on fakie front noseslides. Jake kind of hurt himself on a kickflip which was a bummer. Cass had a great hardflip on flat and almost another off the two stair, front board pop out the slappy curb. Kevin was shredding as always and worked hard for a line of heelflip into the slight bank, nollie flip on flat then nosegrind pop up the 2 stair. He had also tried for quite some time to crook bonk down the a sign. Nick made some things look pretty effortless like b/s flipping up a two stair. Not sure if he actually got it or not. I was kind of on my own over at the slappy area for a while. Did two lines that were quite fun. Slappy crook, front 180 off a curb, switch 180 up the curb, noseslide a ledge, front 180 up a two stair. Then nollie back tail a curb, slappy crook a curb, kickflip off a curb, back 180 up a curb, switch front nose a ledge, turn around, front 180 up the two. It’s just a bunch of basics, but it was quite fun.
Then we went to the nearby rino art installation spot which I had never actually skated. Kevin and Jake battled pivot fakie on the main little steep qp, Kevin won. Cass had some nice rock fakies. I kind of did some rock ‘n rolls. Also a version of a layback front rock first try in which Jake said he’d get me a car if I did it first try. I hope he gets me a minivan. I had some more fun doing some basic axle stalls and drop ins in weird places that funneled into the ditch where I did some rock ‘n rolls and slappy crooks.
(setup null 8.25 vhs, jessup pj ultragrip, thunder 148 hollow lights venom 88a bushings, 52mm bones stf 103a v1, new balance numeric 272 maroon 11.5 half insole)
(pain level 5/10)