{"id":2867,"date":"2010-12-11T17:44:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T17:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nullozinejr.com\/zine\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2010-12-11T17:44:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T17:44:24","slug":"skate-journal-300-day-skateathon-dec-9-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/2010\/12\/11\/skate-journal-300-day-skateathon-dec-9-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"skate journal: 300 day skateathon! (Dec 9, 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a weird day. \u00a0I worked from home as we needed to take the Hyundai in to get the power steering fixed. \u00a0So at any point I could have technically ran out of the house and done a few kickflips to start the 300 session. \u00a0But I waited. \u00a0Right before dark I was finally off work. \u00a0I watched the OG PJ Ladd video then skated in the street for a bit waiting for Ollie to join me and Jason to show up. \u00a0Liz was stoked for me and cheered for a few minutes as day 300 was under way and official. \u00a0It felt pretty cool honestly. \u00a0I had some new 52mm superthanes as the old wheels were flat spotted and they felt good. \u00a0I did quite a few kickflips, 180s and felt like fun was going to be had. \u00a0Ollie finally came out and we went behind the school where I ran into rocks and fell down for 5 minutes straight. \u00a0It bummed me out. \u00a0It felt so anticlimatic and it reminded me that although I’ve skated 300 days this year, I really haven’t gotten any better at skateboarding. \u00a0In fact it seemed like half the time I was too sore and tired to skate up to my norm. \u00a0Oh well, I don’t have to skate every single day any more! \u00a0Ollie did some cool slashes in the mini ditch, some ollies, etc. \u00a0His board is shot though because him and his friends think it’s cool to throw boards around. \u00a0Stupid skate video influence! \u00a0Jason showed up after awhile and Ollie would not let us leave until it was totally dark.Jason drove and we headed over to Carleigh’s to meet Carleigh (duh), Chad and Neil. \u00a0For whatever reason on the way there I was feeling really down. \u00a0That changed quickly when we got to Carleigh’s though:\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"\"\"<\/a>So rad. \u00a0Thanks so much Carleigh and Chad. \u00a0They had even put my Off The Couch part<\/a> on, but queued it to Eye Of The Tiger. \u00a0Pretty funny. \u00a0Then Jason put it on A-B loop and everytime it started he would say “Hey look, it’s Glen’s part!” \u00a0Cracked me up. \u00a0You guys all rule. \u00a0Read more at Carleigh’s blog<\/a>.And then we were off. \u00a0Carleigh was on her bike initially as her foot was still hurting and she didn’t want to start things off by pushing for 8 blocks. \u00a0Poser. \u00a0Ha. \u00a0We started performing stunts around the bus station on the little manny pad. \u00a0After I heard Neil yell real loud I figured we’d get booted quick so I headed over to a different manny pad with the two stair ledge nearby. \u00a0Everyone else stayed there for a bit so I don’t know what went down. \u00a0It’s insanely crazy how much faster the superthane is. \u00a0It kept throwing me off. \u00a0I got kinda used to it by the end of the night, but wow. \u00a0I had a couple manuals, nose manuals and squeeked out a little boardslide on the ledge above the two. \u00a0Neil was trying wallies. \u00a0Jason was manualling and having an off day. \u00a0Chad was killing it with huge flat gap ollies, fast as hell manuals and kickflipping at high speeds. \u00a0So sick. Carleigh shot a few photos, but wasn’t really able to skate since she felt weird about her foot. \u00a0Bummer, I really wish she could have skated full tilt with us.\"\"J<\/a>ason without the Broom\"\"M<\/a>e nose manny\"\"<\/a>Neil 180 nose manny.Shortly we ended up at the brick area and started a game of SKATE between Neil, Chad and I. \u00a0It was cut short by the police so we moved on towards St Julien since Jason was already there with his broom. \u00a0Yes, did I mention he carried a broom all the way with us? \u00a0So funny, it hasn’t snowed yes so there really wasn’t much need. \u00a0But I guess we were prepared at least. \u00a0On the way we hit the ledge banks things. \u00a0Chad ruled it with quick up ollie to fakie. \u00a0Neil and I were just hyped to drop in.\"\"<\/a>Chadman quick up ollie to fakie with some dumbass BGPs\"\"Pretty dumb.We saw the police lurking so we headed once again toward St Julien only to get distracted by some wood benches we’ve never really skated before. \u00a0At this point Carleigh tried to skate, but instead decided to jump over the bench into the bush. \u00a0Her foot was not good. \u00a0Ugh. \u00a0Neil ollied on to one which was way sick. \u00a0Chad manualled it. \u00a0I did nothing but boardslide it.On to St Julien. \u00a0Jason kinda disappeared as soon as we got there. \u00a0I wasn’t sure why, maybe the lurking police? \u00a0Anyways Neil skated for a bit, did a sick crooks shove, some manual on the narrow sidewalk against the rock and some wallrides. \u00a0Then he was done for the night. \u00a0I was struggling with crooks because it was too dark. \u00a0Plus I’m used to doing them down big rails, not tiny ledges. \u00a0I pieced together a line of suck with a manual on the narrow sidewalk, sketchy 3 flip then a silly boardslide on the ledge to avoid it from being a Zero line. \u00a0Chad went on a nose bonking spree on the black posts. \u00a0He tried a bunch while Carleigh tried to shoot photos, but the timing never worked out. \u00a0Still so sick though. \u00a0Next we hit the ledge Jason and I have been looking at for awhile. \u00a0Jason and I both took way too long to get back 50s. \u00a0We did front 50s too. \u00a0I did one with a kickflip beforehand. \u00a0I tired to do the kickflip fast enough to still have speed for a front 50. \u00a0That’s my goal next year. \u00a0Learn how to skate faster. \u00a0That and learn how to ollie, but I’ve been trying that for awhile and I’m pretty sure I never will have pop.\"\"<\/a>Chad ollied this a bunch of times and even nose bonked it a few times. \u00a0The nollie heel at speed for setup was dope sauce.\"\"<\/a>Next years goal, learn how to ollie now that I’m almost 40.\"\"<\/a>Ultra tech back 50The highlight of the evening was next though. \u00a0I saw Chad ollie a little flat gap then bomb into the St Julien parking garage. \u00a0I tried it too. \u00a0The first time though a car was coming up as I started to pick up speed so I bailed out. \u00a0Next time I went for it. \u00a0It was way faster then I remembered from a year ago and I almost pulled the bail trigger but I stuck it out and made it around the gates. \u00a0So f’ing fun. \u00a0As I was coming up Chad was bombing it switch. \u00a0Ridiculous.Next up the taller slide ledge along 9th\/Pearl. \u00a0I was kinda sucking and everyone else but Chad was done, but Chad hiked up 9th to bomb the hill. \u00a0I got a crappy run of switch front 180 up the curb, front board the ledge (executed horribly) then a kickflip off the curb. \u00a0Also got kickflip up the curb and took a long time to get a silly boardslide popout. \u00a0On the way to Petes we went by the white ledge building and found a new little ledge out front. \u00a0I tried a couple kickflip back tails. \u00a0Got one to suski on accident, then did one to back T. \u00a0Chad did a mach 10 hardflip on flat for fun. \u00a0Jason was still having an off night, but got a good back noseslide on the white ledge. \u00a0I got a crooks. \u00a0Chad manualled the downhill ledge. \u00a0Chad and I dropped in on the A structure and powerslid into the wall. \u00a0Well, I slid into the wall, Chad gracefully slid before it. \u00a0I guess the 80 pounds I have on him came through for me. \u00a0An ollie up the two, front 180 off later and we were at Petes to celebrate. \u00a0Best burritos in town and we had a few drinks to celebrate. \u00a0Then it was off to Carleigh’s to watch Sasquatch once again. \u00a0Thank you guys for ruling it.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Cory Kennedy did what?\"\"<\/a>Wow that’s crazyPlease go to Carleigh’s blog for more photos, words<\/a> and hit and runs. \u00a0Thanks again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a weird day. \u00a0I worked from home as we needed to take the Hyundai in to get the power steering fixed. \u00a0So at any point I could have technically ran out of the house and done a few kickflips to start the 300 session. \u00a0But I waited. \u00a0Right before dark I was finally off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skate-journal"],"wppr_data":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9K4-Kf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}