skate journal: CO Springs and Parker with Nate, Lazer and Jake (Jan 22)

Posted in Skate Journal on January 23rd, 2009 by corpo

Left shortly after 9am and got a whopping 37mpg on the way to CO Springs.  So awesome.  Yes, I’m obsessed by gas mileage these days.  The new park is huge.  Huge.  It took a good 15 minutes of skating around it to even start to take it all in.  The street course is huge.  There are 3 bowls.  There is a section of rocks/curbs/spines banks.  Basically the park has everything but a normal ledge.  Nate and I started out in the street/”flow” area.  There is some crazy bank wallride things.  I seriously can’t even write about how much fun it is because things like wallriding up a 5 stair bank make no sense in words.  Riding down kinked banks, etc.  For awhile I had some good energy and was skating ok.  I ollied a hip, backside flipped a flat wall, then almost f/s flipped the next one.  Nate and I got bluntslides over this seriously rad flat bank hip.  Later on I slammed over and over trying to noseslide the hip.  We all got together and skated a 1 foot tall spine that is a total blast.  Jake and I learned back feeble back 180 transfers.  I also got a front feeble front 180 transfer.  Sounds cool, but it was easy.  Then we skated the “legit” pool.  Carving it is fun, carving the tight corner is fun.  Lazer straight killed it.  Front slash the deep.  I carved the tile.  Whew!The rest of the session is kind of a blur until we skated two super tight qpipes like a halfpipe.  Lazer and Jake killed it.  I was just hyped to get rock fakies it was so tight.  I also got a fakie back smith stall to fakie. Next up was Parker.  We were all tired, but a few grinds around the hard way of the 3 foot corner gets the feet going.  Nate and I skated the ledge for a long time.  I got most of my tricks and I tried to do them in order.  back boardslide, back noseslide, front 50, back crooks, front 50 180, front 50 shove, back crooks, front 5-0, front 5-0 180, front 5-0 shove, back 50 (had a lot of trouble with it) and finally front smith grind.  I tried a bunch of smith grinds which turned more and more 5-0 each time until I finally got bummed and went twice as fast and held it down.  Best smith grind I’ve ever done.  Before leaving Nate and I skated the Colorado flag q-pipe and little mini q-pipe for a long time.  I got a couple Rampy tricks before trying to do front 50 back 180 out, but I never landed that.  Super fun day.

skate journal: CSU with Cody and Sean (Jan 21)

Posted in Skate Journal on January 23rd, 2009 by corpo

Had to bring some boards up to MRKT then went skating with Sean and Cody.  We started at the 2 up 2 down which was poorly lit and kind of scary to skate.  I used to love skating this spot with JP.  I got a manual and was working to nose manual it, but we took off.  We ended up skating this fun/weird manny pad with a square curb in the middle.  There were some potential for that spot.  We were all pretty tired though and just dorking around.  Nothing unusual for me.