skate journal: more filming this time with the meta crew (Oct 16, 2010)
Hopped in the Meta van in hopes of shooting photos second angles for the upcoming Meta video. The first spot seemed really fun. Max was trying a back 180 the hard way over a rail into a bank that was super gnarly. He didn’t get it. Next up was a steep bank spot where I posed a tail stall, Brian did some frontside grinds, a cool 360 carve and made fun of Jack for waxing it. Neil and Lazer had some good ollies too and Neil through in a sick no comply. Then I filmed Jack try his ass off for a front tail back 180 out. Next up was my favorite metal ledge in Denver. After some food and watching I grabbed the skateboard and was super excited to find that I was able to somewhat comfortably ollie. It’s on! Ha. I did a few basics on the ledge like front 50, front 5-0, front 50 180 while Max tried tricks like front lip to switch crooks 3 shove out. Ridiculous. Neil killed it with some back crooks shove and front lip shove. Carleigh had some good front 50s. Brian was saving his energy for a manny pad. Jack was was listening to Rocky Mtn High in a smokey van. After awhile of this I got in Carleigh’s car with TF and we went to kook infested skatepark. I don’t know the name of this park, but it has the lamest people. Lots of scooters, fly out kids, bikes, thugs, etc. Anyways to say I was hyped as hell just to be able to skate was an understatement. I boardslide the little rail, tried to copy Brian’s awesome tailslide transfer, did a couple little grinds and basically worked myself up so quickly that I was out of breath and felt like I was gonna pass out. Guess I’m out of shape. After all the shredding we did the TF staple and ate at Tres Margaritas. Don’t get their fish salad. It’s not good.