skate journal: 75 degrees!!! (March 30, 2010)
Got home from Estes Park around 11. Unpacked, ate some food, watched some skating and picked Jason up on the warmest day of the year so far. We went to ballparks for a very unmotivated and weak session. Nothing more than back noseslides and front 50s were landed. Oh, well Jason did some front noseslides of course, but that’s like rolling off a curb for him.Next we met Nate and Carleigh at the Rainbow ledge. We skated harder here, but the wind really picked up and made it kinda hard. Carleigh got a noseslide. Jason did some really long front 50s, front boards, front noses, back 50s, back board popout. Nate did everything. He got into nollie front lips so easy I thought I could do it. Nope. He got a back board popout to fakie really quick, landed on back board popout bigspins (wtf!), front 5-0s, he skates ledges too good. I got a back board popout, crooks, front 50 shove out and some long back noseslides.Nate had to take off and after a refresher at the convenience store we skated the manny pad. In an hour I really only landed a nose manual front 180. Took forever. Came close, but didn’t get kickflip manny. Carleigh never got the manny and Jason mostly chilled out.We picked up Lazer and Jake and went to Rock Creek where Darin and a crew of skaters was already skating. I sucked on the ramp for a long time. Took forever to land anything and the coping was so sticky. Some lame razor scooter kid kept going between everyones runs. Ugh. Lazer skated well and took a really bad slam. Jake’s warmup run was so good. Jason can grind really far. Darin never bails. I finally got a run with more than one trick at the end and it felt pretty good so I went and played a game of SKATE with Darin. Ended up being one of my finest. Darin got me on hardflip and an impossible. I landed several tricks first try and got him with f/s halfcab flip, 360 flip, fakie bigflip, something else and ended it with a first try nollie treflip. Sweet!