skate journal: Fun times in Longmont (Nov 27, 2009)
Neil, Jake and I met Brian and Lazer at Brian’s in Longmont. We went to one of the schools with the banks and stuff to ollie onto and over. Warming up took a bit as usual until I found maybe the funnest line of my life. Dropin on a bank, manual a sidewalk into a downhill dirtride, across a bridge, pop a little ollie off a kicker, kickflip into a downhill bikepath. So fun! Fun enough that even Lazer did it a couple times. Jake was feeling it too. After a bit we started dorking around on this weird obstacle that was pretty fun. Neil and I were feeling it. Neil was ripping it. He got an ollie up onto the box, front popshove turn around then manual off. I almost got ollie up, backside kickflip, manual. It’s a cool, weird place to skate. Unless your Lazer, then it’s just plain a stupid place to skate. Jake, Neil and I were trying tricks into the long bikepath bank when Lazer came up and said “Can we go somewhere fun now?” So lame. I had gotten a fakie flip in 2nd or 3rd try that hyped me up. Unfortuantely 360 flips were not being that nice. I think it had a bit to do with my toes coming out of my shoes. Anways after that everyone but me proceeded to ollie over a gate to the hockey rink before leaving. Jake and I got a couple last minute tricks into the bikepath. Jake got kickflip and I did a rollover scraping b/s flip. Oh well.Next we went to Dave Fuller’s ramp which is pretty much the best ramp of all time. It’s about 3.5 feet tall, 12 feet wide. One side is parking blocks for coping. Dave is 41 and has one of the best styles on a skateboard ever. He was ripping. As was everyone. Doing any tricks on the parking block side was a blast. Back 50s were so fun. Brian and Neil did every trick I’ve seen them do. Which is like 100 tricks for Brian. I got a lot of my tricks and even quite a few on the parking block side. Highlights were a first try front d on the coping side, every single back 50 on the parking blocks, front smiths on the coping (at least i think they were smiths) and back 50 to fakie on the coping. Toward the end I was trying front d’s on the parking block and wasn’t close. As I dropped in once Brian says “Do it this run and I’ll learn nollie tres”. I landed it. How’s the nollie tre coming Brian? Funnest ramp ever.