skate journal: red curbs with john (Aug 1, 2010)
So tired from the long day and night in Fort Collins. Went to a kids birthday party, had a couple beers and heard of an unfortunate divorce between some friends of ours. Ugh. It was raining and I got a call from John to skate red curbs so I was down. He showed up, but forgot his board so he had to turn around. I was hurting for awhile, but started trying a mellow run of manual the first curb then front tail the second. Never got a real tailslide. Did pose a few back 180 nosegrinds though and even landed one. Not sure if I’ve landed that before or not. John showed up and killed it. He did back 180 fakie 50 to front tailslide. Slappy sw front nose shove back to sw front nose. No comply 270 back tail front shove out. He killed it. Other than getting somewhat close to a kickflip front 50 and a halfcab flip noseslide I didn’t do much. Red curbs is fun.