skate journal: Louisville/Rock Creek (Nov 1, 2009)
I met up with Rob and Neil at Louisville Skatepark with no late night partying or silly outfits to use as excuses. Yes, after 3 nights of raging I went to sleep before my kids had even finished the official count on their halloween candy. Felt great. We started a game of SKATE right away that Rob won. I think I got a 360 flip in it though. But maybe that was the second one. It was a good warm up and we headed over to Rock Creek to meet up with Lazer, Brian and Kurt. Not so fast though. On the way there I barely rear ended a lady at a light. Ugh. No damage to the cars save some minor scratches on plastic. Luckily no one was hurt. The lady had started accelerating at a green light then totally hit the brakes for some reason. I guess she was from out of town and confused what a green light means. Ugh.I was feeling a bit jittery, but once again Brian ruled it and decided a game of skate on the pyramid bank was in order. We did some dumb tricks and some fun ones. Brian won it with tricks like frontside 540 kickturn, blunt to staple gun, etc. But the story of the session was that I got a letter on him with a front rock. Yes, Mr One Foot Front Rock. Ha. Actually it was nothing though and we started skating the ramp after that. Rob, Brian and Lazer were ripping as usual. Rob and I shook our heads in disbelief at how rad Lazer’s opening run was. Dude’s got it. I tried a lot of front smith grinds and maybe landed a few. Or maybe they were just slasher grinds I don’t know. I got a fakie pivot axle stall which I normally take to fakie on Rampy, but at least I finally got into it. Brian slammed on his bad hip and the ramp session pretty much ended. I skated flatground for awhile and landed a fakie treflip for the first time in forever. Felt really good. Got a 360 flip or two as well and tried to round it out with a nollie tre, but no love there. I also got a front 5-0 shove on the ledge. Sweet. Feels so good to skate with no concerns of what should be filmed.