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Challenged to do nose manual shoves by Josh for The Game. Was feeling really sick, but since it was 60 degrees I just had to get outside for a bit. I went to Mikes Camera manual pad and tried nose manual shoves for about an hour before getting one. I’m kind of surprised I was able to get one considering how achy I felt when I started. I didn’t think I’d even be able to ollie up the curb. I did a couple of kickflips too. So far I’ve done at least one kickflip every day of the year. Neato.
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Woke up not feeling so hot on a vacation day. It was supposed to be sunny and warm. It was sunny, it was somewhat warm, but the wind was something fierce. Wind is the worst. When I got to Lafayette it was so windy I could barely move going one way. It sucked. I wanted to pull a Fuzz and focus my board immediately. But my stubborn self kept skating. Horribly. I was supposed to work on nose manual shoves, but couldn’t do them on the manny pad. I tried front 50 kickflips out for awhile and got close, but not too close. I had a few fun cruises around the park. I have fun with that when there aren’t other people there. I eventually just left thinking I would skate more later. But I ended up feeling really sick and slept most of the day.
Not feeling very well after a late nap I headed to research center feeling tired and out of it. I started off pushing up the hill, rolled down the long stairs a couple of times and then pushed down the hill going fast and doing powerslides. I had a new deck since I had cracked mine so bad the day before. The funny thing is I kind of cracked the tail on my first ollie up the curb. Ha. Not enough to even show, but it made me laugh. I don’t really like brand new decks. I like brand new grip though. I laid into some noseslides for awhile, took a long time to get crooks (mostly because I was scared of how fast I was going), couldn’t get a front noseslide, got one really bad back 50, hucked flippers that I couldn’t land, couldn’t front 50, got a halfcab noseslide quicker then normal, posed halfcab crooks and front crooks. Left tired. Bummed on how little I landed, but happy I went a little faster then normal. I had put some venom bushings in since the bones bushings had blown out a little and were kind of bumming me out.
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Went to Blue Skies for lunch. Dave and I were there first. We both struggled for awhile awhile. Me especially. I couldn’t land anything. I got the camera out so Dave could do the switch front shove above. He did that and the nollie and Aki turned things up with the kickflip into the bank. It’s steeper then it looks. I’m impressed. I did have some ok faster ollies over the flat bar. Got a heelflip after one that cracked my tail really bad. After that we all kind of did our own thing. Dave was working on feebles off the end of the dragon rail. I did front shove off the drop. Aki did nollie back lip the flat bar then tried front 50s on the dragon rail. I have wanted to kickflip the dragon rail for a long time and it turned out that today was the day. I know it’s not big, but man it felt wonderful. So wonderful in fact that I was even happy most of the rest of the day at work. Ha.
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Skipped out for lunch at Blue Skies on a sunny January day in the mid 30s. Warm up was trying nollie wallies. Dave and I got a few and Aki actually learned one right then. I tried the fakie version and landed something. Not really sure what it was, but it felt cool. Everyone went boardslide on the flat bar next before kind of doing different things. Aki hit the flat bar and got front lip, crooks and almost nollie back lip. Dave doing really good feebles on a flat bar and lining it out to front 50 on the other one. He had a few great front 50s. Then he started lining out front 50s to over the top 50 attempts. He never quite got that, but he did hop on the dragon rail. Dave had ollied onto the tall middle ledge easy so I tried to as well. I got up it second try! So I tried to get up it again and failed for a good hour even trying wallies sometimes. When I didn’t get the ollie/wallie up I would try front shoves off which was my real goal. I would get one, but it took a solid hour. I committed way more times, but the slow speed with such little setup makes it hard. And once again the make felt really awesome. Dave was doing kickflips, faster front 50s on the flat bar and almost the over the top 50s on the flatbar. That would be crazy. I finished trying a line of boardslide, 360 flip on flat, kickflip to fakie, halfcab noseslide. Never got the 360 flip, but it was fun because I was going fast (for me) on the boardslide which setup a decent speed 360 flip. I need to skate faster. I had a faster feeling fakie bigflip too. Really fun session even though I really didn’t land much. I guess it was just that I was actually pushing myself.
Posted in Skate Journal on January 26th, 2016 by corpo
Went out to the garage feeling sore and tired. I put Aural Burrows on the tape player and began the hucking. I did a couple 180s or whatever then started hucking switch heels. Then after a few kickflips and a heelflip that took too long I went into huck mode of switch flips up the garage and nollie back heels down. I came very close to switch flip and somehow nollie back heel felt doable. I never got close, but I did commit. The board just never flipped all the way around. I finished with b/s and f/s flips and called it a night.
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Went out to Valmont area feeling pretty lazy, but wanting to get the varial flip challenge out of the way. I warmed up on the bank then went over to the main area. The ledge is almost skateable finally, it was wet, but no ice. I did a line of kickflip up the curb, ollie the wood pallet then ollie off the dock over the ice. It felt really cool. I had tried the line with a heelflip instead of the ollie over the pallet, but I couldn’t land the heelflip. It felt cool to ollie the pallet anyway as it forced me to go faster. Then I spent some time trying to manual across and down a sidewalk pad off the street. Next up was the varial flip which didn’t take long. I tried to do a fakie varial flip too and landed a few, but so horribly that I didn’t want to use it. It was funny because I landed one of them as this dude randomly cruised by on a longboard with his dog. It startled me then made me laugh. Lastly I went and tried Rick Flips for about 30 minutes and got so stoked when I actually landed one! It’s been a long time since I’ve landed one of those.
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Feeling lazy on a Saturday morning (Liz’s fault) I eventually headed to Broomfield park with birthday boy Jake to meet Riley, Carlie, Ladd and Nolan. We started on the quarterpotty where Jake quickly did 31 tricks. I did quite a few too, but not that many. Nolan would come later and warm up with 25 tricks in 10 minutes on the quarterpotty. Ha. It ruled seeing Riley skate again. Jake and I played a game of SKATE while Ladd and Riley played two games. Ours was way better though. Ha. Actually though we both landed a lot of tricks that we both don’t normally land. 360 flip, heelflip, f/s flip. I struggled with a bunch of tricks, but ended up winning with double flip. Our game took a really long time. After that I did a varial flip on the blue bank. I figured since there were no steeper banks I would at least do it on the one that you had to ollie onto. But it turns out I never hit record. Doh.
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Then we went to Darin’s ramp for what would be a totally awesome session. Darin, Dave and Adam were already skating. Everyone seemed to skate really good. I took a long time to land a front d revert and also got a bean plant to tail and my second every creeper which was really fun. Watching Nolan and Riley shred was so awesome. Everyone got along and seemed hyped on the great weather. It ruled. Carliegh did like 100 back disasters and may have landed a backside blunt after Jake and I left. Dave was floating backside and frontside ollies, doing a bunch of plants again, everything. Darin got mad tricks. Ladd almost got blunt kickflip to fakie. Adam pops out of his blunts so high. Riley did a front nosegrind across the whole ramp. Nolan did everything including a blunt treflip to fakie.
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Dave and I met Simon at the DIY slab spot in Denver on a gorgeous day. Dave and I were obviously pretty sore and tired. But it seemed like things were gonna go pretty good as we warmed up. Somebody had thrown a monster size candle onto the concrete so I joke waxed the curb. Well, I did actually wax it, just not as bad as it looks in the photo. 50s on the curb were super fun. Simon was ripping the parking block and ledge area. Good combos like halfcab boardslide then front noseslide, nollie front tail the ledge front baord the parking blocks. Etc. I joined him and was feeling good enough that I actually tried to 50 the ledge (it’s tall!). Ha. I’ve been there a few times before and have never even tried the 50. I got no pop. So yeah, things were going good it seemed until Simon slammed hard and ripped his palm open. So we all just chilled for awhile. Simon tried to get it going, but it just wasn’t happening. Understandable. Dave and I skated the ledge/blocks area awhile longer. Dave tried boardslide to feeble on the parking blocks. I posed kickflip boardslides which felt remotely doable. Then we went back to the manny pad area (above). Dave kind of tried to hippy jump a tire out of a really janky setup. I did a few tricks over a little gravel gap then back 50s on the curb. Also kickflip up the curb and 360 flip off (first try!). Then we setup hosercam and recorded us try manuals for an hour. Dave got a couple manual body varials out that were pretty sick. I tried kickflip manuals forever. I didn’t think I landed any, but going back through the footage I actually did do one. Ha. Rad. Dave and I left very exhausted.
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Got out of work early on a cool day and drove to some crappy parking lot to skate flatground while I wait for Dave to get off work. The parking lot was rough and I started off very poorly. It took awhile to land a kickflip. But the tricks did come. I skated slower then normal probably. It felt cold. I got kickflips, heelflip, halfcab flip, fakie bigflip, treflip and somehow nollie treflip.
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Then after the drive to Fort Collins and some grub at Chipotle we went to Northside in the cold. Chris Jones was there! Man it ruled seeing him. My warm up was too film him do the line above. It was funny because he slammed hard a few times and said “It’s just like old times right Glen?” Ha. I saw Dave rolling around the park doing some quarterpipe tricks and cruising the ramp area. Chris and Pat left and then I cruised around for awhile and was hyped to roll in a couple times into the ramp area and wanted to do it a bunch more, but out of nowhere a bunch of people came and kind of killed that. I ended up mostly just slowly skating the ledge under the china bank. Front 50s, crooks, switch noseslide shove out and one horribly slow back 50. Dave got the back 50 sooner then me, front 50, noseslide. I saw him to a couple pivot to rock ‘n roll on the quarterpipe.
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More skating! Ladd and Nolan were at Launch as well as a few older guys. It was fun. Ladd had a bunch of huge frontside ollies, front tails, back ds, front smiths, he can shred. I skated it alright for me, did the same ol’ stuff until the end when I took a long time to get a hurricane. Dave skated the ramp super good, maybe the best I’ve seen him skate it. The mute and backside airs were the highlights of course, but he had so many tricks. A lot of different sweeper / bean plant combos. I don’t know what most of them are, but he did a lot. Speaking of a lot of tricks Nolan did more unique tricks in every run then I did all night. I wouldn’t know even where to begin to document it. Just imagine every trick. Super fun night of skating.
