skate journal: red curbs! (april 25)
Had a super busy day cleaning and whatnot. I met up with a warmed up Jason, Fuzz, Neil and Rob at Red Curbs and Neil says “Awesome, Mr Mom made it out of the house”. Ha ha. Everyone was in a super good mood and skating well out of the gates. I was slow to warm up, but it ended up being one of the funnest red curbs sessions to date and that’s saying a lot. Fuzz pulled out his 1990’s bag and was doing all kinds of crazy tricks I’ve never seen him do like fakie 5-0, noseslide 270 shove, switch front tail, halfcab heel and even learned a new trick – halfcab blunt. And he did it on the ledge instead of the curb. Sick! Neil was killing 40 foot long lipslides. Rob landed a slappy back 50 no comply shove out as steezy as it can be done. Jason was ripping everything. The tricks that surprised me were a fakie nosegrind on the ledge, first try front smith on the taller curb and kickflip back tail on the tiny curb going two miles an hour. I also came remotely close to fakie nosegrind 180 out. Before leaving Neil, Fuzz, Rob and I played a game of SKATE. Neil got out quick after trying a triple or nothing that didn’t work and then it was Rob and I with SKAT and Fuzz with nothing. Nothing! Fuzz got Rob on something and then it was Fuzz and I. I ended up getting him to SKAT, but he one on a fakie heelflip shortly after snapping his nose on a fakie treflip attempt. I should mention that Fuzz got me to try my first 360 flip since hurting my foot in March. I landed the second one. Hyped to be able to try that trick again and having cupsoles is way better for that trick. Fun fun fun session.