skate journal: Longmont and Brighton with Bernie and crew (July 5, 2010)
A nice day in the 80s. Bernie and Sam showed up at my house wanting to go to Brighton. The plan was to go to Longmont, meet Cheyenne Matt then head to Brighton. Well Matt was running late so we were gonna skate the Longmont Library area for awhile until they showed up. We ended up skating there for a long time as Matt was running late. Bernie and I started trying some lines and we eventually filmed them. Bernie got a back 180 on flat then a bangin fakie varial flip followed by a gap to front 180 nose manual in under 10 tries. My line wasn’t that quick. I was doing f/s wallride, b/s wallride side rock, manual, 3 flip. The downhill manny was the hardest because I suck at downhill stuff and the treflip wasn’t meant for that spot. So I went with no comply shove. Stoked on that line, thanks for filming Bernie. Sam was up next and got a line with switch 180, nollie heel, gap to manny. Next we went to this weird bank spot that is way harder to skate then I remembered. When we first go there I wasn’t even feeling like dropping in on it. After awhile I started trying to no comply into it but hung up and rolled down the bank. Awesome. Bernie suggested I do the grab version of the no comply and a few tries later I did it. Then Bernie shot a sequence of it. How embarrassing. I’ll probably have it soon to post up here. I can tell everyone is holding their breath to see it.So then we went to Brighton and started at the skatepark. My legs were dead when I got out of Bernie’s car, but after some cruising around they started working. My highlights were no comply wallie thing out of the flat bank over the ledge, 3 flip on flat, rolling into the halfpipe section and skating the mini ramp area not as horrible as normal and rolling in and doing a tiny little ollie onto the flatbank. Bernie had some good front tails and tried to blast a f/s air. Joe landed the high to low air. Sean had huge flyouts and mad popped blunts to fakie in his warm up run. Matt killed it. Back 50 the hubba, ollie the hubba, sw heel up the euro, so much more. Lastly we went to the Brighton kicker where I shot photos with Bernie’s camera and Matt nollie inward heeled it all steezey. Joe did front 180 mute and back 180 melon. Rad. Fun day.