skate journal: Longmont with TF (June 26, 2010)
After kind of helping Brian move his motorcycle engine I went to the Longmont park to help out with the contest. I didn’t have to do much and kinda dorked around for awhile. Did some no comply 270s on a curb and some front nosestalls on the curved ledge. Then it started raining.After a huge meal we went out to the school we all love. Well, most of us love anyways. John, Jason, Fuzz and I skated. Brian and Neil did not. We started out with a session on the bank to brick just kinda doing various stalls. Fuzz did a ton of good ones easily like front pivot to fakie, front tail fakie, blunt pivot, etc. John landed his signature move – the front shove front nose. Jason had a bunch of front tails. I had a couple tricks like front smith stall to fakie and a front tail back shove out that I struggled with for awhile. Next we skated the ledge for a long time. And by a long time it probably felt like forever to Brian who needed to go feed some dogs and Neil who had to get back to his couch. Lots of tricks went down. Jason had back 50s and front 50s ever try. He also got noseslides both ways and was close to back 180 nosegrinds and put down a textbook front smith. John wasn’t feeling the ledge so much, but skated. The only trick I had without much work was back crooks. I kept going over the ledge on frontside grinds and I totally suck now at back 50s. I ended up getting a back 50 after some work and a front smith-0. I call it that because it felt like a front smith to me and people called it a smith, but it wasn’t quite dipped enough to be a Carrol smith or anything. I came close to some other tricks. Really close to front 5-0 shove. Fuzz can skate a ledge. So many tricks. Front 5-0 180 out, front salad, back 50, front 180 nosegrind forward, fakie front tail, etc, etc. He has never done a crooks pop out before and landed a few of them. At the end of the session Fuzz and I were trying back noseslides to fakie followed with f/s halfcab flips off the curb. We battled til dark when Fuzz gave up and I landed a really bad tic tac’d one.Feeling totally done I brought everyone to their motorcycles at the Longmont park. John, Fuzz and I ended up skating it. We said we’d cruise around and see how it felt. An hour and a half later we left. Ha. We had a blast. Highlights for Fuzz were front 50 the ledge on top of the euro, front blunt fakie on the side of the step up, front d on the 7′ quarter, boardslide the flyout ledge, and a ton more I don’t remember. I had a front d fakie on the side of the stepup, cali grind manual above the stepup, the funniest and worst noseslide ever on the flyout ledge, cali grind down the stepup, probably nothing else. John kills that park and started with halfcab front blunt fakies over the hip, front 50 the ledge near the stepup, ollie into the euro, so much more. We ended with a game of SKATE amongst kids that were doing tricks like switch inward heel bigspins. We shut it down. Ha. It was not the best game of SKATE. Fuzz was struggling getting off the ground, I was slower than normal, John hit his shins. I was the first out. I don’t know what won it, but we had fun and wow what a long night of skating.