skate journal: Rampy fun with a crew (Jan 4, 2011)
Posted in Skate Journal on January 5th, 2011 by corpoDay 4 of bachelor life. After work, a nap and dinner Fuzz, Conner, Max, Jake and eventually non-skating Carleigh showed up with beer. It was the first time Fuzz, Max or Conner had skated Rampy. Max was really excited to skate Rampy.Left to right – Fuzz, Conner, dork, Jake. Since Carleigh did a good job of avoiding skate photos of Jake I”ll start with him. He ripped it as usual. Nosepick, stalepick, front disaster revert, back 5-0 to fakie, fully decked front rocks on the narrow side, and much more.Max had to leave first, but introduced Rampy to a couple new tricks first. Switch front blunt and switch blunt heel out. Well, he never quite rode away clean enough for our high standards. He did switch blunt followed up on the next wall with blunt fakie. He ripped it way more then I thought he would.Fuzz raised the bar on the highest ollie Rampy has seen. He also introduced Rampy to front noseblunts, front noseblunt 180 out, front 270 nosepick, and ripped it. He skates fast and it was funny to see how quickly he would get to the next wall as sometimes he would be out of control and still pull off a gnarly trick. Or just grab the coping and hold on to recover.Conner got mad steez. He started slow and just kept skating better and better. Lots of steezy disasters, smiths, 5-0’s, etc. Near the end of the session he was working on front smith to front rock. We joked about him visualizing it with his tech deck so he pulled it out and finger boarded the trick. I said I’d never make fun of tech decks again if he landed it next try. He did. Pretty funny.Since it’s my ramp I ripped it the hardest as usual. Tricks like dropping in, axle stalls and rock fakies almost every try. Ha. I struggled at times, but had a good time and did lots of the tricks that make me happy. Fakie pivot fakie, hurricane, front d, a rare blunt to 50 (above photo), fakie hurricane, brian’s front tough guy to front rock, and a 900 or two.Thanks for the photos Carleigh. Hope your foot gets better soon so you can top the tail stall / rock fakie record. More photos on Carleigh’s blog.