skate journal: downtown boulder with Jake and then Nate (March 2)
Super warm night. T-shirt weather. So awesome! Jake picked me up around 8pm and we headed downtown. My first few warm up ollies felt horrible. Jake just pushed fast down a street and I was trying manauls and kickfips and stuff. I catch up to him and he’s staring at me like a longboarder stares at you when they pass you. Ha. We went up into a parking garage and ollied this weird kicker. Jake got it quickly, but it took me several tries and I got really frustrated. Ugh. We rolled down the garage and that was fun. I kickflipped at one point going a decent speed and ollied onto a manual pad going too fast and thought I was going to die. Somehow I survived. We kinda cruised around a few spots before settling on a lot of parking blocks. Jake manned up and ollied over two blocks with a gap in the middle. Pretty sick. I attempted it, but can’t ollie. I had a fun boardslide transfer and kickflipped a parking block a couple times. I used to be able to kickflip parking blocks like they were nothing. Now it takes more effort/courage. Ugh. Nate met up with us and added to the stoke. He ollied the gap too. Damn 20 year olds. Ha. Before leaving the parking blocks I tried a few b/s feebles and hurricanes on a parking block. I’ve never actually tried feebles before. It wasn’t remotely close, but it felt cool to try it. Next up was a game of SKATE on Pearl. Things were going pretty good until I did a 360 flip first try out of turn and then hurt my foot trying to do another one. Ugh. I hit the bone in my foot I think I fractured a bit last year. Hope it heals up before SF!