skate journal: solo flatground earlier then LVille with Jason (May 12)
Brought India to ballet class at the North Boulder Rec center in the early evening and just skated around there for awhile. I cruised around for a bit just looking for something fun then settled with a mellow downhill parking lot and bailed tricks for awhile. I suck at doing tricks downhill and I only got a couple runs down the hill. One came quick, back pop shove, kickflip, back 180, halfcab flip. I wasn’t going fast but I never had to push. One was fakie flip, halfcab flip, kickflip and then bailed a varial flip. I couldn’t land a frontside halfcab flip to start one line and I just kept trying nollie heelflips going uphill and came remotely close to a few of them. Gotta keep trying them! The last run started with a first try sketchy fakie bigflip, kickflip, kickflip, kickflip. Neat. Then I skated an alley for a little bit and sucked, but landed a 360 flip to give it some sort of a fun feeling. Then Jason and I went to the Louisville park really late. We got there at 9:30 so only had 30 minutes before the lights shut off. We started off pretty quick and were trying lines were we rolled into the flat bank, ollied the hip then went over the ledge backside. The Louisville ledge is the only ledge I can crooks good these days. I got a couple with pop outs, a couple to fakie and almost a crooks shove. Someone waxed it a lot so it was scary fast. Other tricks that went down were front 50 back 180 out and front 5-0 front shove out which I haven’t done in awhile. Used to be a warm up trick for me. Doh! Fun quick session though.