{"id":2947,"date":"2010-12-22T05:15:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T05:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nullozinejr.com\/zine\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2010-12-22T05:15:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T05:15:23","slug":"skate-journal-cu-with-a-fun-crew-ha-dec-21-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/2010\/12\/22\/skate-journal-cu-with-a-fun-crew-ha-dec-21-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"skate journal: CU with a fun crew ha (Dec 21, 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stayed up kinda late watching the lunar ecliplse so I ended up sleeping in real late. \u00a0In a hurry I got up, did some pushups then some Christmas shopping. \u00a0The plan had been to skate Denver, but once I got going I was hoping it didn’t go down, and it didn’t. \u00a0Unfortunately Jack said his ankle was too wrecked, but on a dreary and chilly day Fuzz, Greg, Jake, Bernie, Ollie and I met at Meta and planned on skating campus. \u00a0It ended up being a blast. \u00a0One of the joke goals for 2011 is to not skate a skatepark for a year. \u00a0As awesome as street skating is, I don’t think that would be too fun. \u00a0Especially with how meeting at a skatepark is the norm. \u00a0Anyways, back to today. \u00a0I get hyped on cloudy days. \u00a0They remind me of east coast skating and I always get the Mudhoney lyrics “Gray skies feel good today” stuck in my head. \u00a0We dorked around the hill ledges for a minute before diving into campus. \u00a0The first stop was right away at the Education building. \u00a0I saw Greg and Bernie do drop down then manuals to drop. \u00a0Jake may have dropped in from the top of the steep handicap ramp. \u00a0Fuzz and I wallied up the curb to sidewalk gap. \u00a0Fuzz did one followed by a 540 kickturn then maybe an ollie to front pivot on the curb. \u00a0I got a run with wallie up the gap, dumb ass nose pivot on the curb, front pivot 180 on the curb. \u00a0Jake almost ollied from a far crack into the curb tranny. \u00a0Then we watched Greg and Bernie entertain some tall manny drops nearby. \u00a0Bernie did a manual drop drop all easy that was pretty ridiculous.\"\"Next up was one of the many highlights of the day. \u00a0Greg ollied an 8 stair rail then we skated a sidewalk for about half an hour. \u00a0Initially the goal was to do as many tricks as possible down this stretch of sidewalk. \u00a0Greg probably did the most with a line that had something like fakie flip, halfcab flip, heelfip, kickflip, geez I don’t know. \u00a0No one was that on point, but we were having fun. \u00a0I had a line of something like kickflip, back 180, halfcab flip, varial flip, front shove, bailed tre. \u00a0I landed all the tricks horrible and I was going slow. \u00a0So what. \u00a0Then it turned to manuals. \u00a0Greg, Bernie and Fuzz were initially happy doing about a block, but they kept going farther until Bernie brought tears to all our eyes by manualling most of campus. \u00a0He went around a building and if he would have come out the other side still manually I probably would have lost my mind. \u00a0I got about half of the first section which I was still kinda hyped on. \u00a0Bernie, Greg and Fuzz went up the hill and came manualling down trying to go even further. \u00a0It was soooo funny. \u00a0They weren’t going all that fast so it just looked like three dudes standing swinging their arms for no apparent reason. \u00a0It ruled though. \u00a0At this point Ollie finally started to loosen up and started ollie’ing every crack. \u00a0I think Jake and I counted about 28 ollies over cracks. \u00a0So funny.Next up we ended up behind the library. \u00a0I took a bunch of tries to ollie off a dumb drop, Fuzz did a couple of the steeziest boneless combos ever, I landed a 360 flip on flat and then Fuzz ollie the long 7. \u00a0Seeing that spot gives me new respect for Max’s line in the Meta video with the ollie down the 7 then front board the back part of a bench. \u00a0So sick. \u00a0We went and peeped Jack’s dropin ollie from Null and Void then ended up skating the area above it for at least an hour. \u00a0It was epic. \u00a0Everyone did something. \u00a0Greg and Fuzz caveman’d a 4 stair rail. \u00a0Jake ollied this cool sideways gap near a three stair. \u00a0I boardslid the three stair ledge. \u00a0Bernie manualled something I’m sure. \u00a0Ollie back 180’d off a lower ledge and ollied the three stair. \u00a0We hit the stage area for a bit. \u00a0Greg wallied down the tall stage like it was nothing. \u00a0Fuzz, Jake and I found any excuse possible to not ollie off it. \u00a0Back to the stair area so much went down. \u00a0Fuzz ollied a ledge and manualled the 3 stair ledge. \u00a0Everyone ollied up the three stair. \u00a0Well, except Ollie. \u00a0That kid needs to work on his pop. \u00a0Ha. \u00a0Jake and I took a few tries, while people like Fuzz and Greg did it first try. \u00a0Bernie almost kickflipped up it. This is the kinda skating I love though. \u00a0Just go street skating and skate whatever you find. \u00a0It rules. \u00a0We had such a blast.We peeped a big handrail for a minute. \u00a0Ollie back 180’d a crack ridden two stair. \u00a0I love how kids don’t care about cracks. \u00a0We ended up near the stadium for a bit. \u00a0Some ollies and whatnot. \u00a0Then we peeped game over at the ledge that Fuzz kickflip manualled<\/a> in Cut Me Loose. \u00a0Greg spotted a cool gap above it even and lined out an ollie over it then followed it up with a super nonchalant manual the ledge. \u00a0Soooo sick. \u00a0Across the street I had fun ollieing up a 3, turning around and ollieing down it. \u00a0Bernie did a sick quick up to manual ollie a gap. \u00a0We were gonna play a game of SKATE in front of the art building, but there was some dudes skating with a little box so we hit that for awhile instead. \u00a0Jake learned back 5-0s and I did maybe my second back 50 front 180 out. \u00a0Heading out we went by the UMC and I tried one attempt at my recent line there, but bailed the back 180. \u00a0Last thing was the drop down ledge near the hill that I like to drop down to then front 180 off. \u00a0Did it, but the 180 was horrible.Such a blast of a day. \u00a0Everyone skated good and hard and had a blast. \u00a0Thanks everyone for being cool about Ollie being around. \u00a0It means a lot to me and it allows me to be able to skate more. \u00a0He’s a quite kid, but he said he had a blast too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stayed up kinda late watching the lunar ecliplse so I ended up sleeping in real late. \u00a0In a hurry I got up, did some pushups then some Christmas shopping. \u00a0The plan had been to skate Denver, but once I got going I was hoping it didn’t go down, and it didn’t. \u00a0Unfortunately Jack said his […]<\/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-2947","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-Lx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","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=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}