skate journal: flatground, skatepark, downtown, Cruz (March 8, 2010)
After the first night of not raging we woke up to rain. Figures. It was just showers though. I skated some flat in front of Gordon’s house after it dried up. I did like 20 kickflips just trying to get them to feel right. They kinda started to finally. Neil was landing pretty much everything he tried. I managed an ok backside flip and a couple other flippers that gave me hope of being able to skate that day. Next we went to the skatepark which was pretty crowded. Nate, Jason and I stuck to the bottom corner and messed around on the jersey barrier. Brian too. I got my first ever rock ‘n roll on a jersey barrier. I guess it’s a skatepark so it’s not legit, but it seemed pretty rad. Brian got a good front rock on it. Jason, Nate and I tried to do runs with wallrides on the barrier followed by manuals on the nearby ledge. Nate was able to do all that with a nose manual. Damn kids. Jason and I could hardly ollie up the ledge. It was soooo frustrating. I threw a bit of a fit, but maintained myself. Jason came up with a good list of reasons why we couldn’t do this. 1. The ledge was slippery. 2. There was a crack. 3. We’re old. 4. Dennis Busenitz was skating the park. 5. Brian Anderson was skating the park. 6. We suck. Ha. After awhile I did a wallie front tail on the little bank hip that was there too and then resorted to just fanning out on the 100 pros that showed up for the Omar Salazar party. Brian Anderson was the most impressive. He was so rad that he would start lines outside the park doing slappys and end up inside the main area doing front lips on the huge bank. Dude was ruling it so hard. Such a casual style. Such a rad dude.Next up Fuzz, Jason, Nate, Neil and I took the BART downtown to hopefully skate EMB area. First we sessioned the wallride bank at the BART for awhile. When we got off at Civic it was raining though. DOH. We walked and walked and walked and ended up at Hubba/EMB and it was still wet. Ugh. We finally just went to eat dinner then we went back to the shop. I skated flat in the shop for a bit. Basically just did kickflips until they felt right which they finally did.After that we went to the Nike party and party partied. Photos from that soon.