skate journal: red curbs with Jason and Nate (Dec 29, 2009)
After a late dinner then grocery store duties Jason, Nate and I met at Red Curbs. It was cold, but not super cold. Warming up was going decent and the vibe was super fun. I was hititng no comply 270 back tails pretty much every time. I tried one of my Off The Couch lines (with the no comply 270 back t) but couldn’t get the noseslide 270. Then we mostly skated the manny pad. Jason did a manual back 180 out. I’ve never seen him even do that before. Sick! Nate got a few manual 180 combos. I landed on, but didn’t ride away from a manual back shove out. It felt really good. I even popped the trick. Doh, if only I would have rode away from it. We setup a cone to ollie over in a line. Nate and Jason of course had no problems with it. I ollied it first try surprisingly, but it wasn’t easy. A few tries later I landed on the tail and snapped the tail clean through. Felt pretty cool to ride away from the trick with a snapped tail, but I was bummed I was done skating. I watched Nate and Jason do boardslides on the knobbed flatbar for awhile then we left.