In Seattle on a family vacation and Josh had just moved to Seattle. \u00a0We met up, hugged a bit, then got our skate on. \u00a0We went to the Gas Works city park and went to a ledge overlooking Lake Union and downtown Seattle. \u00a0It was seriously an amazing view and we didn’t hesitate to annoy the locals that were enjoying the same view. \u00a0Luckily there were some people lighting off fireworks which is way louder then skateboarding so we didn’t feel too bad. \u00a0Not that we should. \u00a0Anyways the ledge was gritty to say the least. \u00a0It’s seen better days, but it was still good and when grinded it made a really loud raw grind noise. \u00a0We pounded out a few of the basics like boardslides and noseslides and Josh manualled it all easy and eventually nose manny front 180’d it. \u00a0Six years into the session I was able to finally manual it. \u00a0You can also quick up to another level and Josh mannied that too. \u00a0 I was locking into some crooked grinds, but having troubles popping out. \u00a0I got one eventually and a quick up to slow front 50 on the next level then land on the lower level and front 180 off. \u00a0It was slow, but fun. \u00a0Josh was killing the front 5-0 180s, back 50s, front tail, \u00a0back tail, back tail shove maybe back tail to fakie too? \u00a0At the end of the session was working on back tail bigspins and landed on one that could probably make an early 90s video. \u00a0I started trying kick back 50s and basically should have landed the first one I committed to. \u00a0Instead I chose to let it get much darker by way of missing the trick over and over until finally landing it on the last try of our count down. \u00a0Cool.After scoping out all the famous skate spots at Gas Works we headed out and found some little bank to skate near Josh’s house. \u00a0It looked so good from the road, but man, them Seattle spots is rough! \u00a0Josh went down hard hanging up on a rock that would take out most bikers. \u00a0I definitely lowered my expectations of the spot quickly, but we still had fun. \u00a0Josh lofted some ollies over the hip and we made a little wood crate wallride in the smooth area to help things out. \u00a0I got a little run with a backside wallride then a bad kickflip on the bank. \u00a0Josh had a bunch of front wallrides and we each added the wallride to fakie and fakie wallride before calling it a fun sweaty night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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