skate journal: new ft collins park is amazing (sept 27):

Posted in Skate Journal on September 29th, 2008 by corpo

Rolled up to the park with Lloyd and Jason after hitting up MRKT on the way.  Met up with tons of others later on.  After sweeping and moving hoses for a couple hours we were allowed to skate it and oh man, what a treat.  Some of the tight tranny stuff is kinda whack to me, but all of it is built with skateboarding in mind and all of it is rad.  I’ll have pictures on this site at some point, but wow, Sean Kelly deserves some serious props for this park.  The session was crowded, but full of smiles on everyones faces.  Brian Ball didn’t stop smiling the entire time.  I rarely stopped skating for 4 hours or something.  I hardly remember what I did, just cruising around that park is fun.  I guess I had the most fun on the China Banks replica (not very close to the OG though).  I had a run where I ollied a little speed bump thing, rolled into the bank then did a bad b/s flip.  I also got back tail and back smith stalls on it.  Way too much fun to write about really.  Everyone was killing it and the crew was amazing.

skate journal: quick bank to curb with Jason (sept 26)

Posted in Skate Journal on September 29th, 2008 by corpo

Jason and I started out of the gates trying to match trick for trick.  It started into a game of SKATE in which I was pink slipped.  It’s not that I skated really bad it’s that Jason landed every trick he can do first try.  It was insane.  I started to work on either back pivot back shove out or front tail back shove out.  I bailed them both repeatedly until somehow the stars were aligned right and I landed on the back pivot shove.  I didn’t ride out for another 20 tries or so, but I’ve definitely never done that trick into a bank at all before.

skate journal: flatground, flatground, flatground (sept 24)

Posted in Skate Journal on September 29th, 2008 by corpo

Went to Louisville park again, this time with Nate, Jason, Gabe and Brian.  It’s never a good idea to skate the same place two nights in a row and the park was super crowded.  Ugh, Nate and I just went to the hockey area and before long everyone ended up there.  I attempted a line of f/s halfcab flip, heelflip, 360 flip and never got the 360 flip.  I was pretty frustrated with how inconsisten I am with flip tricks, but had to remember I never habe been.  Oh well, a night of flippers is fun.