skate journal: 3rd&Army madness (march 6, 2010)
So insanely sore from the previous day/night in SF. Gordon had organized a contest at 3rd & Army so we went there pretty early on. Others had gone with Gordon in his truck, but Nate, Carleigh, Lazer, Neil and I skated there. On the way there we were cruising down the three block mellow downhill section and I went to just manual an intersection. It kept going though. And going and going and next thing I know I went over a block. SO HYPED. I’ve never manualled a block in my life. This would be pretty much the only decent thing I did all day, but hot damn I was hyped.We got to 3rd & Army and it was pretty crowded already. I felt too sore and awkward. After a bad attempt at warming up I went to the store with Brian, Lazer, Carleigh and maybe Nate. Some funny stuff happened there. First, us dudes were sitting at a table and Carleigh was standing next to us so this broke looking dude ends up getting up and bringing a chair over for Carleigh. Funny. Then I decided to go for the green apple quick step to loosen up my insides and it worked. Rad.Back to 3rd & Army I played a game of SKATE with Brian. Right out of the gate he landed an impossible and gave me an S. He said he felt great. Unfortunately he didn’t get another trick and I beat him with some ok tricks along with some bad tricks. One of the few good ones I remember was a no comply back shove which felt great.Later on tragedy struck as Nate rolled his ankle trying to do front 50 front 180 to fakie nose man. He stepped on the edge of the box. Doh. He ended up being kinda ok the rest of the trip, but bummer.Most of us sat and watched the gap contest. Some dude with the name Glenn landed a perfect nollie b/s bigspin. So good. A few minutes later Carleigh comes out to try and ollie the gap and almost dies on the narrow approach. Sketchy! She got closer the next few tries and then put a couple down and rode away far enough for me to count it. She slammed hard a couple times. She ruled it. Trick of the trip in my opinion.Next up the Cruz video premiere. So fun. Such a late night.