Before heading to see Zach’s band then Henry Clay People I skated Rampy for abit. For whatever reason I thought of trying back 50s to rock fakie. I never would commit to fakie. Carleigh showed up with a few minutes before we had to go. I got a back 50 to rock ‘n roll, but not to fakie. In the same run I got a fakie pivot fakie so I called it. Carleigh got quite a few of her basics too.
Bernie took this photo awhile ago. I really am surprised at how weird my kickflips look. I seriously had no idea I do a reverse superman thing with my arms. It’s kinda depressing.
Kid duty for me as Liz was going to a movie with a friend later. I had one of those days at work where I didn’t stretch for some lame reason, but I gabbed my board pretty much right away and went to it. Seeing as how it was rush hour there was a lot of people driving by the house which messed up my tempo a bit, but kinda let me rest too. Kickflips took a few tries. That’s not cool. After a good 20 minutes of sucking things started working out and I tried some tricks I hadn’t since the knee bruise. Treflip, double flip, nollie treflip, b/s flip, halfcab flips. I did most of them, but not in lines like I was trying. I tried one line one way of halfcab flip, treflip then heelflip. I had the most trouble with the heelflip. Ugh. The other way I was trying front shove, double flip, nollie treflip, but never got the double flip until Bernie showed up to drop off some footage and I snapped one in front of him to remind him who’s boss. Blah, I’m joking of course, but he was hyped. That’s the first double flip I’ve landed not wearing the IPath Stash shoe.
Had such a fun time after dinner playing Beatles Rock Band, then was supposed to have a chill little cello performance from India that went south. She freaked out and two hours later, lots of crying, me putting on a comedy act and lots of patience I was free for a few minutes. I was pretty beat and opted out for a quick Rampy session. I had watched a few more parts from the new Habitat video (Silas slays!) and was more motivated than I thought. For a few minutes anyways. I had wanted to try blunt to pivot and after some decent runs I started trying it. I never got a decent one. All were to 50 50 and I touched the wall on all of them. Oh well.
On the way to meet Fuzz, Carleigh and I were talking about street skating vs park skating. We agreed that park skating is awesome, but I had to say the best park sessions are not as rewarding as the best street sessions. It’s awesome because this ended up being one of those totally awesome street sessions.Carleigh and I picked up Fuzz in Broomfield, jolted to Community to sell boards, then to 303 to sell boards. After that we parked kind of near Civic park and rolled out with no expectations. First spot was a 4 stair drop over a rail. Carleigh went first and put it down in a few tries. Fuzz made it look easy. I took several tries to commit, but landed it when I did. Rad. Nothing like testing out the ol’ knee right away.Some pushes later we were at a fun little ollie spot. Ollie over a curb, land in a metal grate that is somehow super smooth, ollie out. And some nearby ledges with gaps and lights on them to get your mini-Huf on. We were here for awhile and it was a blast. Fuzz’s tricks: sw front 180 into the grate and back 180 out, front 180 in sw front 180 out, ollie in to manual ollie out (so sick!) and ollied about 10 of the little gaps/lights on the bench. Carleigh got wallies and ollies in followed by ollies out and got the one of the little ledge gaps. I got a couple of the little ledge gaps and a light, kickflip in and front 180 out. Man the front 180 was bad. I landed so straight legged.Lots of pushing around. We hit a crazy white ledge into a parking garage for a bit. Fuzz put down some solid front 50s and a first try sketchy front tail fakie. I got a little front 50 followed by attempted hill bomb, but I bailed out as it was sandy and I’m pretty sure I would have died had I done the whole thing. We ended up at the 4 flat 4 building. Fuzz did a first try front 180 off a big drop. I rode off it. Security came and Carleigh only got once chance at the 4 flat 4 which she almost did. That’s ollie 4, ollie 4. Not ollie 8.More cruising the city and we hit a banked window sill to wallride a bit. Fuzz got first try front wallride, I took a few tries, then added another horrible front 180 out to the mix. Apparently my front 180s need work. Next up Carleigh laughed at Fuzz and I for taking multiple tries to boardslide a little painted ledge and did it first try. She even slid at least 3 inches of it. Ha, just joking Carls. Fuzz and I finally slid it and we bailed out through a crack ridden ollie that smelled of bum piss and started back towards the car.On the way there was a fun looking hill bomb in a parking garage. Fuzz and I went at it. Fuzz did a ollie over a sidewalk section, quick manual then into the hill. He was hauling ass and bailed out. I went into it slow with a little gap to manny, but managed to stick with it until the gate. So fun! A few red curbs and ollies later we were in another parking garage where I slammed super hard trying to manual down a little curb downhill pad. Since no one saw it I re-enacted for Fuzz and since Carleigh missed the re-enactment I re-re-enacted it and called it a night. Totally awesome night. Awesome crew, awesome spots, awesome awesome. Skateboarding is awesome. Today’s word of the day is awesome.
This band is seriously the best!(not including Dinosaur Jr)
Zombie Joe sounds the same as normal Joe. Ha.
I still can’t get over how every single day there is a new part out there as good as this. This one hypes me up a lot though mainly because of the ditch/traffic line. So crazy!
Ft Collins dudes love the tranny.
Got this photo emailed to me and I’m not even sure who sent it. It’s either Jimbo, Matt or Shaun from Cheyenne. Thanks dudes. This was taken over the summer when we went to Brighton. It’s a weird no comply jammer. It was fun.