skate journal: Freezing in Omaha! (Dec 21, 2009)
Posted in Skate Journal on December 22nd, 2009 by corpoMr Joe HamiltonIn Omaha for Christmas Joe and his friend Zak picked me up. We drove around for awhile trying to find a dry parking lot which we eventually did. We started off hitting up a kind of longer speed bump for awhile and it was fun. Joe got things started with a run which I’m totally forgetting right now. Something like halfcab flip, front 180 over the bump, fakie bigspin. We all did them. We were all having a ball trying tricks in a run. I think at one point I got halfcab flip, 180 of the bump, fakie flip, fakie varial flip. Fun! Zak was killing the fakie/nollie shove combos. We both eventually got kickflips from the bump to flat, which was much harder than it should have been. I blame it on the cold.New Fremont recruit – ZakWe pulled Joe’s flatbar contraption out after awhile . Joe and Zak killed that thing. Both did front 50s, front boards, front smiths and front 5-os like it as nothing. I managed a crook quickly, but other then that totally sucked on it. Then we started lining out to it. I tried a run of kickflip off the bump, heelflip on flat and crooks the ledge. Don’t think I got that one. Joe and Zak got a couple sick ones. Zak did something like 180 the bump, halfcab heel, nosegrind. Joe got front shove, 180, halfcab flip, front smith. Zak also got a line to front smith and Joe did a long line to front lip that involved a swith front shove and a fakie big on the way. Sick! I eventually kind of got a line with 180, no comply 180, halfcab flip, croseslide (crook noseslide combo).Before freezing, I mean leaving, we played a game of SKATE. I ended up getting a lot of my tricks and won it. I think I got halfcab flips both way, fakie bigflip, varial flip, fakie flip, treflip and won it with a heelflip.We left after Joe attempted to boardslide a rail into the snow and did a funny dive into the snow. Ha. Another super fun session involving the Fremont crew where the attitude was always positive and everyone skated hard. Awesome.