skate journal: downtown Boulder with Jake and Ted (June 22, 2010)
Was already tired from when I got home from work. Unloading tons of boards, bringing some to FedEx, playing football with Ollie and then playing kickball with the family and neighbors didn’t help the situation. But since I have this goal of 300 days of skating this year I didn’t really have a choice but go skate in a beautiful evening. I called up Jake who was down and after picking him up we went downtown. We parked by the big parking garage with the white ledge, brick bank in the basement and kicker on the top. We went up to the top to start things out. It was pretty surreal up there. Seeing rooftops while you skate is kinda weird. Anyways, we warmed up with a friendly game of SKATE doing mostly basic 180s and shoves. Once it started getting more tech it just kinda dissolved and we started skating. We tried some runs where we did a trick into the downhill, manualled the manny pad then ollie the kicker. Jake slammed really hard on an ollie early on and tore up his hand. Ouch. The concrete up there is not forgiving. We both kinda struggled for awhile. We had gotten the ollies, but scraped on the mannies above around the time Ted showed up. Even Ted had some problems ollie’ing it so it can’t be that easy. At least that’s what Jake and I say. Jake got a run with a front 180 at the end. I got a no comply shove into the hill, manual, then a horribly bad front 180 to finish off the fun at this spot for me. Ted did like 10 perfect treflips, but didn’t get the weird wallride or 3 flip footplant he was trying.After a few wallride misses in front of the garage we headed out over to Wells Fargo area. We hit mannies for awhile. Ted did a no comply hardflip manny. So sick. Me and Jake tried the most frustrating trick ever for awhile. Front 180 nose manuals. Ugh. If you don’t count scrapes I landed kickflip manual and sw front 180 manual. But I do count them so I didn’t land them. Then we went over to the qpipe where Jake learned back bluntslides and I added front feeble grind and fakie front tailslide to my tricklist there. Fun times even though I was dead tired by the end.