skate journal: Rampy with Jake (Feb 8, 2010)
Posted in Skate Journal on February 9th, 2010 by corpoPJ from Excess sent me a link to this clip early in the day and it got me really hyped to skate Rampy. Then Jake called me and reserved an 8pm skate date and I got even more hyped. Then Jake and I were standing on the deck of Rampy about to begin the session I won a Rho Sham Bo and the session was on. I was all hyped to try tons of weird new tricks, but ended up taking forever to warmup. Ugh. Early on I had some long-for-me boardslides to fakie. Jake seemed to be ripping outta the gate. He did a couple tricks I’ve never seen him do, but I forget what they are right now. He started working on a line of switch back 50 (or maybe fakie back 50 to fakie), tail stall, back 5-0 to fakie, tail stall, back feeble 270 out. He slammed really hard on one of the first switch 50s, but stuck with it and got the line. I was kinda all over the place for awhile. I got most of my tough tricks. Ones that stuck out were fakie f/s axle to rock ‘n roll first try and the best front tail I’ve ever done. I couldn’t get a hurricane though. At then end I started trying blunts to axle stall, but they started going pivot so I went with it and landed my first ever blunt to pivot anywhere other then a curb or Honey’s Hole. Radical. Fun night. I think the funnest trick may have been the Matrix like dodge of the coping I did on a failed blunt stall. It was all slow motion and I just kinda bent my body out of the way of coping.