skate journal: broomfield park with jake and a bunch of nikes (Jan 25, 2011)
Another chilly night, slightly warmer then the last. Jake called me and suggested Broomfield which we haven’t been to in awhile. Sounded good to me so we rolled there. Fuzz was sick we heard so it was just Jake and I. When we arrived at the park there was only 3 other dudes there. All in flannels and beanies of course. It’s the mandatory uniform you know. Jake and I were hip of course except we didn’t realize Nikes were mandatory. All them kids had the Janoski shoe. Ugh, don’t you kids realize that Nike sucks! Later on two more dudes would show up. One decided to go against the norm with a hoodie, but of course made up for it with Nikes. So lame.Anyways, time for the shredding. Jake and I started with a game of SKATE on the quartapotty. Jake pink slipped me, but we both landed quite a bit of tricks. After that we played flatground SKATE. I took this one. I think Jake was spelling SKATER though because I got him with b/s flip, varial flip, 360 flip, heelflip, fakie bigflip and f/s halfcab flip. After that we did cruised around for awhile doing our own thing. I saw Jake ollie the six stair a few times. I was feeling a bit to cold for that. I settled in to trying a line which took a long time. f/s flip on the hump above the corner in the bowl, back 50 on the black ledge, then front 50 shove on the black ledge. I struggled with the f/s flip for awhile. I started sinking into that depression mode again, but stuck with it and eventually started landing them most tries. The back 50s were almost every try, some would go into back 5-0 and I’d stick with it. The front 50 shove took longer than it should. But when I did get the line it felt great. Solid f/s flip, locked into a perfect back 5-0, then front 50 shove. Stoked. Jake was working on a run of f/s flip on the bump too, manual the black ledge, fakie front 50 on the black ledge. Not sure if he got the whole thing, but he did get the fakie 50 and came out fakie which he’s never done before. Rad. At the end I went through the typical take 100 tries just to ollie the little rail into the bank. I don’t know why that’s so damn scary to me. Anyways I got it, but still ended up riding into the grass. At the very end it started snowing, but I wanted to do halfcab crooks on the little blue ledge. I got super frustrated as the snow started making the concrete and my grip too slick. Ugh. Kind of a bummer to end it like that, but it was a fun session overall.