skate journal: frederick with lots of homies (dec 6, 2025)
Cass and I decided on Frederick on a Saturday as we knew it had been shoveled. Dave was hopeful to show later. Cass and I pulled in at the same time and were hyped to see Scott P, Dan and Donnie were there too. As well as other Longmont ripper JJ. We chatted a bit and got going. The weather was mostly nice, but cloud cover would cool it off a lot at times. Donne and Dan learned new tricks on the little curb to get warmed up. Nollie front crook and fakie 5-0 pop out respectively. I cruised around some and eventually spent some time in the bank to curb area. Cass was killing the back 50s on the curb. I had a kickflip to fakie that didn’t feel poppy or good. Donnie destroyed the curb area with some cool approaches to grinds and reverts. Can’t even really describe them. Dave had shown. He made light work of tailslides and boardslides too. I had a fun line of noseslide the bump to ledge then b/s flip the hip. I tried to do some ollies to fakie and stuff on the steeper bank. Donnie front 50’d the ledge on the top of it. We were all in the front area a while on the manny pads and such. Dan did fakie manual which didn’t come easy. Dave manual, but couldn’t seem to get nose manual. The crazy pop shove noseblunt slide over the pyramid was nuts. I tried a line of back 50 the curb, ollie onto the taller pad, kickflip off. Didn’t get it. Dan and JJ were manualing the tall pad like it was nothing. Cass had done front board shove on the bump to bar which was pretty amazing. I changed my line to front slash the speed reducing qp, olllie up the euro, kickflip off. took me forever, but I got it eventually. Unfortunately I cracked my tail really bad. While trying that line I had done a couple fakie bigflips over the pyramid which I was happy about. But when I went to go film it I couldn’t get it. Dave got some kickflip tail reverts over it though. Fun session. I’m sure I’m missing a lot, we were there a long time.
(setup 3/10 null hayden 8.25, jessup ultra, venture 5.6 v8 ace bushings hollow hangers, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic, splay rev lt b/w size 12 remind cush insoles)
(pain level 4/10)