skate journal: downtown Denver with Carleigh (June 24, 2010)
After a very long stop at 303 Carleigh and I parked on 18th & Champa and went street skating. First stop was a 2 up 3 down and neither of us really had the legs for it yet. A few blocks later we ended up at a fun spot with a 2 stair and a weird manual pad. I eyed up a boardslide popout down the two stair and after 10 tries I landed it. I was pretty hyped on it. Before I could commit to it I would have to do some kind of frontside stall on this other ledge. If I didn’t land the stall I wouldn’t commit to the boardslide. So funny. Soon we ended up at a very long two stair. Well, “two stair” might be an exaggeration because it went from the ground up. So it started as two cracks then worked it’s way up to two stairs. Carleigh ollied the short part lickety split. I tried a bunch, but kept landing with my back wheels before the gap. If there is an easy way out I always opt for it. When I was going back to the starting spot I was doing kickflips and man they felt good. Vulcs are amazing sometimes. Anyways, a few more deck checks and I decided to ollie it where it was taller so I can’t deck check it and I landed it. Awesome. That was a long gap for me. Basically it was a 5 foot flat gap with a slight drop. We cruised around for awhile longer. Not much happened for awhile other than skating a curved ledge for a bit. I got a back noseslide to fakie and a front 50 on it as well as an attractive woman in a small black dress and heels asking to ride my skateboard. Ha. After that we ollied some bushes for a bit until Carleigh almost shot her board into a window. She got up saying “I would have ran away and then noticed the security guard standing about 10 feet away. Ha. Last spot was a 4 flat 4 where Carleigh tried to ollie both sets one at a time (I doubt anyone could ollie the whole double set). She came close, but before she could get both ollies security gave us the boot. Doh. Street skating in the city rules.