skate journal: broomfield early with cass then campus with ollie! (june 15, 2025)
Not the best night of sleep. Did some exercises then met Cass at Broomfield. Taylor was there too. I had a setup change. 8.3, slappy high lights. Meh. Cass’ back started hurting after a while so I filmed him before it got too bad. His front shoves are so good. Front noses too. He had done a lot more than what’s in the clip. I had some okay lines too. We filmed a couple. The boardslide, tail stall, crooks was first try so I tried a second line that didn’t go as well. The halfcab noseslide and noseslide to fakie were pretty consistent, but I could not do a fakie flip trick to save my life. After Cass left I saw Taylor do a crooks to shove into the bank. I tried a ridiculous line that I never got close to. Front 50 front 180 out the blue lurb, f/s halfcab flip or heel depending on my feet, kickflip noseslide. Surprisingly I was closer to the kf noseslide than the flatground trick.
After some breakfast and a break Ollie and I biked to campus to get some skating in. I was so hyped to skate with him, it’s been a couple years since he’s skated. We went to the downhill 2 stairs first and he freaking did them first try. I couldn’t believe it. Took me like 15 tries to ride down them all. I was incredibly sore after already skating a lot earlier so that’s my excuse. I think I did shove and fakie bigspin. Tried a few kickflips down the first 2 set, but wasn’t able to commit. We skated a mini downramp. Ollie had some nice back 180s in. I did shoves and a kickflip. Then we went to the Engineering building and had some fun. Ollie ollied the 3 stairs a few times. Those cracks are brutal in front of the steps. I took a long time to get the back 50s locked in. Couldn’t quite get a 180 down, but did get a no pop ollie. Man it was great skating with Ollie again. Then we went to 303 and Petes. Good times.
(setup 4/10 null 8.3 time warp, jessup ultra, slappy lights 8.5 indy 92a bushings, spitfire f4 99a classic 52mm orange/black, last resort cm002 size 11.5 brown currex runspro insoles)
(pain level 5/10)