skate journal: Loveland/Fort with Jack (go skate day)
Fathers Day and Go Skate Day all in one. After fun filled family activities like basketball, napping and lunch at Wahoos I picked up Jack and we rolled toward Ft Collins with the end goal being their video premiere at Northside. In my last update I mentioned I couldn’t stand the ACE trucks anymore. The bushings had blown out so bad that they squiggled all over the place. And you can’t just setup new trucks. I had a new board, new trucks and new shoes. Basically I was guaranteed to suck.
Yeah, so I have mall shoes. But isn’t DC more legit than Vans? I mean their both owned by huge corporations. At least DC was started by skaters though. And DC has PJ Ladd.
New trucks = rough.We started off at the Egg and I spot. I was struggling big time, but ended up getting a bit used to it. Jack was killing it. Lots of weird tricks, lots of good tricks, etc. He did stuff like ollie and put the back foot on the 3 stair ledge, kickflip over it, front shove pivot fakie, kickflip, fullcab, b/s flip into the bank. I forget what trick he did but it hyped me up enough to get a kick back tail on the bank. I also got a b/s kickflip on the bank where i didn’t do the back wheel shuffle on the bank.
After some filming we ended up at the newest of the new Ft Collins parks where we skated the new sculpture stuff for a long time. So fun. Ollieing up one the whoopty doo thing and doing tricks on the q-pipe is fun. Not easy, but fun. I only got front rock and axle stall on it, but that was fun. Jack did boring tricks like blunt fakie, front pivot and rolled into it. I almost did a complete circle in a manual on the potato wedge thing. It was fun. I can’t really remember any other tricks I did, but it was fun trying anything. Jack got a manual front shove and a bunch of other stuff that looked fun. Fun day. Hope I get used to the new stuff soon.