skate journal: Longmont park/ditch fun with John and Nate (Oct 13, 2009)
Headed to Longmont around 1pm with John and Nate and we hit Longmont park. Some bikers were there filming and one of them did a monster 180 over the snowboard jump. It was gnarly enough to deserve a clap. I had gone there with the goal of doing a no comply bigger spin, but couldn’t get it. We were having fun cruising and I was trying hard not to feel the pressure of needing one more trick for my part to be done. I got a front 5-0 shove on the ledge second try and Nate did all kinds of rad nosegrind tricks. John did his patented slappy switch front noseslide combos. I started trying a run where I ollied up the 3 stair and and tried a no comply bigger spin on the mellow bank. Didn’t get it, but ended up filming a line of ollie up the 3, no comply 360, no comply bigspin. Cool! Thanks John.Next we went to Longmont ditch were Nate shouldn’t have bailed back 5-0s to fakie and I discovered how lame my nosegrinds were. I filmed a quick line of back nosegrind followed by front rock. I was hyped until I saw it. Ugh! Nate was killing powerslides both ways on the wall of the ditch so I started trying them on the backside wall and got a few. Fun. Then I filmed John get a sick ol’ line and we headed over to Brian’s to finish filming his intro.After that Brian wanted to go the the junk spot and get a trick that’s been eluding him a long time. We messed around on a pallet propped up against a ledge first though. Brian was trying 360 kickturns to rock. He probably has a cooler name for it though. I was trying rock kickflips out. Never got too close. Brian did though. John was putting down trick after trick. Nate was pretending he’s young and trying boardslide popouts over the ledge gap. Then I filmed Brian land his elusive trick with an extra revert and Nate prove that he actually is young. Cool. Off to edit ..