{"id":3132,"date":"2011-01-29T17:18:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T17:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nullozinejr.com\/zine\/?p=3132"},"modified":"2011-01-29T17:18:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T17:18:47","slug":"skate-journal-best-ive-skated-in-forever-fort-collins-rules-jan-27-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/2011\/01\/29\/skate-journal-best-ive-skated-in-forever-fort-collins-rules-jan-27-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"skate journal: best I’ve skated in forever Fort Collins rules (Jan 27, 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Had Thursday off work. \u00a0The original plan was to go to the Denver Art Musuem with Liz after the kids went to school, but India stayed home sick and that was delayed for Friday. \u00a0So instead Jake, Derek, John and I headed to Fort Collins for some nice weather skating. \u00a0We stopped at\u00a0Spring Creek<\/a> first. \u00a0After some warming up we all started trying 4 trick lines. \u00a0Whatever we wanted. \u00a0I think Jake got his first. \u00a0I totally forget what it was, but I know it involved a manual and possibly a feeble to fakie on the tight wavy qpipe. \u00a0John was next with a tailslide on the ledge, feeble grind on the pool coping near the coffin and maybe a treflip. \u00a0Derek was kinda doing his own thing and ripping. \u00a0Back 3s out of the potato chip were so sick. \u00a0I took a long time to get my first line. \u00a0Front board to nose manual, ollie below noping, nose manual and then a failed nollie treflip. \u00a0The nose manny took too long. \u00a0Jake had already done another line that had something to a front feeble on the tight qp in the wave. \u00a0I think John got another one too. \u00a0Something with a rock ‘n roll in the tight qp. \u00a0My second line came quicker. \u00a0Front 50 down the ledge, backside tough guy on the pool coping, front rock on the tight qp then I was gonna stop, but everyone started yelling “4th trick!!” so I went for a flatground heelflip and got it. \u00a0Cool. \u00a0Chris had met up with us and was doing super sick wallie manuals up the potato chip. \u00a0I tried just wallieing up it and after a few slams got a couple. \u00a0My last line was a long and tiring one. \u00a0Backside wallride the back of the tight qp, f\/s below noping ollie (which still felt pretty good), b\/s scratch grind on the pool coping, ollie onto the wave (this is a trick at this point because I was already tired), axle stall the tight qp, then kickflip out of the wave. \u00a0The kickflip was soooooo hard because I was so tired at that point. \u00a0I eventually got one and went straight to sitting down. \u00a0Whew.We hit MRKT<\/a> for awhile which is always fun before moving on to North Side<\/a> which surprisingly wasn’t super crowded. \u00a0At this point it was probably 60 degrees out. \u00a0So amazing. \u00a0Lots of the Fort Collins heads were there and we skated with Andy and Mike too. \u00a0John, Mike and I started out carving around the little pool section in the back. \u00a0So good for warming up the legs. \u00a0John ripped it with some feeble grinds. \u00a0Mike’s got all kinds of layback tricks. \u00a0I did my tiny little slasher and a rock ‘n roll on the rock coping. \u00a0So fun. \u00a0We skated the “mini ramp” section for a tiny bit. \u00a0Chris and Derek were skating the ledge near the front. \u00a0I started posing kickflip wallrides on the bank to steeper bank near the back. \u00a0I’ve wanted to do that trick there since that park was built. \u00a0For some reason I’ve never really tried it. \u00a0John was nearby and I hyped it up as a dream trick that I didn’t want to spend much time on, just land it. \u00a05 tries later I landed one where I kinda just skidded off the bank. \u00a0Super hyped, but wanting a cleaner one I kept at it and a few tries later I got one that put me on top of the world. \u00a0It felt perfect. \u00a0Kickflip up, landed bolts and without lifting the front wheels up slide the front around and rolled down the bank with no tic tacs. \u00a0I have been so depressed about my skating lately, but that felt like one of the funnest tricks I’ve ever done and had me so hyped. \u00a0John and I went over to skate the ledge with the kids. \u00a0Chris was trying 500mpg front smith shoves out. \u00a0Derek was trying front 5-0 kickflips out. \u00a0John and I did front 50 180 out first try, I got front 50 shove out, and Jake joined with us in a front 5-0 race. \u00a0I think Jake and I got them around the same time. \u00a0It was cool because it looked like Derek was just trying front 5-0 with us. \u00a0Ha. \u00a0I wanted front 5-0 shove out too, but it took too long and I gave up. \u00a0Jake got a front tail first T. \u00a0Chris slammed a lot. \u00a0After a bit of cruising around John, Andy and I played a game of SKATE in the parking lot. \u00a0John pulled the nollie flip and Andy got a textbook b\/s flip to give me SK, but other then that I somehow landed all the other tricks John layed down including 360 flip, fakie front shove, halfcab flip, etc. \u00a0I was happy got get fakie bigflip and heelflip too. \u00a0After that I just watched Derek go for front lip to front board up\/down the mj ledge and tried nollie treflips until I eventually got one. \u00a0I tried to skate a bit more after that, but my legs were done. \u00a0John added a blunt to pivot fakie on the bank to his stellar day.Such a fun day. \u00a0We went to La Luz and ate after. \u00a0 Fort Collins rules. \u00a0Best skatescene in CO. \u00a0Unfortunately the next day I would wake up with intense upper back\/neck pains that prevented me from being able to do anything. \u00a0Ugh. \u00a0I guess that’s the reward for good skate days when you get old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Had Thursday off work. \u00a0The original plan was to go to the Denver Art Musuem with Liz after the kids went to school, but India stayed home sick and that was delayed for Friday. \u00a0So instead Jake, Derek, John and I headed to Fort Collins for some nice weather skating. \u00a0We stopped at\u00a0Spring Creek first. […]<\/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-3132","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-Ow","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132","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=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}