skate journal: awesomeness at valmont (Sept 23, 2009)
Met up with Nate at Valmont on an even colder night. Nate started off quick then went downhill quick complaining of stomach pains. It’s funny how often Nate is in pain while skating that’s unrelated to skating. Ok, maybe it’s not funny, but just weird. Anyways I started out slow as usual, but seemed to have lots of energy and started skating pretty hard. I got a front board pop out, back board popout, back noseslide, back noseslide to fakie, front noseslide to fakie, front 50 quick like. Then moved on to trying halfcab noseslides which took awhile this time and then tried them to fakie. Somehow I managed a decent one quickly. Rad, never done that before that I can remember. I hucked some halfcab flip noseslides and was somewhat close at one point. Got a good front 50 shove and the best front tail I’ve ever done. It slid at least a foot. Ha. It was the best front tail I’ve done though. I put down a good front 50 front board pop out too and failed and front 5-0 shoves. That used to be my trick there. Doh. Nate had taken off pretty quick in stomach pains. Jake showed up the latest. Jason showed up too. I came even closer to getting my dream run ending with the front 180 fakie 50 bigspin out, but slammed pretty hard on an ollie off the dock once. Towards the end I realized I wouldn’t be able to land a 360 flip on flat to save my life so I just putzed around trying 3 flip one way, switch flip coming back. Came insanely close to switch flips, but no dice. Landed a couple treflips. Jake is trying to learn that trick so we hucked them forever. I only landed a few, but probably tried 50. Ugh. Jake and I played a long game of SKATE that wouldn’t die because we wanted to end it on harder tricks. I was trying 3flips or nollie 3flips and he was trying frontside flips. After several close calls he put down a frontside flip and started putting on his hoodie thinking he was winning it. No way, I landed a horrible one first t and Jake started crying. Or just being bummed. Ha. So I put down a 3flip after that and we went home tired and stoked. Fun night.