skate journal: Winter Park day 2 (July 4, 2010)
After a night of camping involving late night beer drinking and then a good breakfast we arrived at the skatepark on a cloudy and nice morning (well, probably afternoon). We kinda cruised around for awhile everyone figuring out what energy if any they had. I felt slightly better then the previous day somehow, but still couldn’t ollie up the manny pad very well. I don’t remember much until everyone started skating the bigger bowl. Skelly had joined us so found some new lines and got Brian and John hyped on the bowl. All three of them were skating it good. Brian almost got 3 f/s grinds in a row. Sean was rolling in everywhere. Neil was doing some low ollies when he wasn’t off trying to skate in front of teenage girls. I managed some b/s grinds in between bailing when Brian called me out and told me to stop being so timid on the coping. Kinda made me think about it and skate harder. Thanks Brian (honestly). The bowl session went on awhile. Sean did a back 50 on the tallest part which probably isn’t quite vert, but scared the crap out of me when I dropped in on it. I got a tiny scratch grind on it. Brian was doing sick FSGs on it (frontside grind). Sean was also doing crazy lipslide rollins from the deck. So sick. John, Reed and I played most of a game of flatground SKATE and I started off with like 7 tricks or something out of the gate that I couldn’t believe including a treflip. The fun had to come to an end eventually and we headed back down to the front range to spend the holidays with our loved ones.