skate journal: Longmont in the heat with jason, Neil and a bit of Brian (June 27)
After a late night and a huge lunch Jason, Neil and I headed to Longmont. We went to Skyline HS which has a sick ledge in the back of it. It was kinda shady which was good, but the heat was still intense. Neil was trying a sick line, Jason was trying a tall front nose and I was trying some random stuff, but we never pieced it all together. We left to look at the Longmont contest and chill for a minute.Next we went to the ‘chocolate chip’ bank spot. I remember skating this about 20 years ago before I could ollie. Ha. Jason killed the front boardslide and Brian had the one foot front kickturns. I was sucking, but had a fun switch b/s kickturn and tried to manual out of a regular kickturn. Came close, but never got it. I got a back rock after a lot of tries. It was easy when I finally committed, but scary up til that point. It shouldn’t be that hard. Oh well, blame it on the heat? Oh, and the fact that I suck at skateboarding.