skate journal: Rock creek, Denver with everyone again (June 14)
Fremont and I showed up at Rock Creek around 11 am and Rob was already there. Shortly after Neil and Lazer showed up as well. We were supposed to skate there for half an hour or so and get our legs warmed up. We ended up being there or at least two hours and it was a blast. Lazer, Neil and Rob killed the Ramp. Eric let loose and got his skate on. We had manny sessions, ledge sessions, ramp session, games of SKATE, etc. It was awesome. I even landed a new ledge trick thanks to Joe. Front 50 to front board popout. Fun!With rain looming we headed to the 1st & Sheridan ledge with Fremont, Neil and I. We skated off and on until the rain picked up too much and we could see a funnel cloud. Before the rain hit Dan was almost getting manuals to front board. The rain hit hard. Dan didn’t stop. Neither did Eric filming it. He got it in the rain. Ridiculous.After the rain break we met up with the Meta dudes at a double bank spot. I got intimidated and didn’t really skate. I even tried to play a game of SKATE with Matt, but he slammed super hard trying to make his back shove look as bad as mine and ripped up his hand. After awhile I started not caring that so many people were there and finally ollied over the curb into the bank. The same curb that Jeff had nollie flipped into the bank over. Ha. Joe and I had some a few stall tricks. I missed a lot that went down. Then the rain hit again. Hard.After another break we rolled to downtown denver with the crew now being Me, Dan, Matt, Eric, Joe, Chief, Jeff and Kit. We started of at the mellow brick bank, but got the boot quickly. Next up ended at the Denver Art Museum manny pad gap spot. Jeff anihalated it. Even got a trick for the upcoming Null promo. I ollied it first try and got one with a front 180 off. I came close to manualling it. Matt went nuts and straight nollie varial heeled it all buttery. Kit ollied the trash can and manualled the pad the hard way. We ended up getting the boot.We rolled real close by to a new area that was super fun. I was having fun trying to link some ollies together, but we got the boot quick. Kit had almost ollied up the tall 5 stair at that point and while we got the boot Jeff did a kickflip nose manual that probably made the security guard wish he hadn’t kicked us out.Next Jeff brought us to the Broadway ledge where I struggled at noseslides for ever, Jeff destroyed it, Matt threw down and Kit somehow didn’t die landing primo.Lastly we ended at a weird bank spot that Uriel ollied off over a parking meter back in the Ghetto Blaster days. We ended up staying there forever. Jeff and Joe threw down some rad stuff, but the session was owned by Chief who went to work quick and pounded out trick after trick until there was no more light. Joe did fakie front shove. Jeff did 360 flip fakie, nollie b/s flip and a million screw around tricks that would stoke out anyone, I didn’t do anything. Epic ass day. totally exhausted. We skated 9 hours!