skate journal: more Rampy fun (Feb 15, 2012)
Photos from the session on Jack’s blah blah blog here.
Rampy again! Rampy is the best! Rampy! Carleigh and Jack showed up first and we started the session off with a theme of keeping runs really short. We were having troubles getting past the first couple walls although still having fun. Fuzz, Ian and eventually Brian showed up and heated up the session. Brian started off with his first several runs ending in horrendous slams. They were so bad! I don’t know how your get up from those all the time Brian. Since Brian was the first to leave I’ll start with him. Epic blunt to fakie so high up on the tranny that he literally got all four wheels on the coping (obviously not all four at the same time come on now). He was wanting to leave but did some of his rare tough guy bonks and wanted more. It’s a backside front trick bash with a frontside 270 out. He almost got a second bash during the 270 too. Gnarls. Ian was a Rampy virgin. He had some smooth basics and posted up a good blunt that hopefully he’ll put down next time. Fuzz skates Rampy so good. His ollies to front disaster are so high. He did a bunch of steezey fakie pivots, fakie pivot 270 in, tailstalls hopped up to tailstalls (if that sounds silly that’s because it is. I mean might be having a Crisis but he can still have fun sometimes). Carleigh can do front disasters and ollie to front smith kind of things, but was trying to learn a frontside basic, the slash. She got it, but the first few carves to late, late, late slow motion fall down were pretty epic. Jack and I were encouraging her to try and milk the fall for two full walls. She didn’t come through though. She did rip it with tons of feebles to fakie, front disasters and once again teased her dream run. Jack is fun to watch. You never know if he’s gonna pull out a bonkers trick like bigspin back d or fall in ways once thought unimaginable. He pulled a Rampy NBD and did a front 5-0 to flat. It might not sound that cool to do a front 5-0 to flat on a 30″ ramp, but when the landing is about one foot wide and there is a wall it’s pretty neat stuff. He also had lots of cool front 5-0 and front tail rewinds. I had short runs all night, but had a blast. Was above .500 on front feebles, did most of my tricks and even got to the point of trying frontside hurricanes which I never came close to landing, but the photo looks sick Jack! You captured my butt very well. I had one pretty funny run that had a fakie front 50 to rock ‘n roll and a couple other tricks and ended with a fakie stall to fakie where I reverted on the flat. That was funny. I also did the first fakie front “pivot” to fakie I’ve done in awhile. Afterwards Jack and I went through some of the Null footage while Carleigh mumbled something about having to get up for work in a few hours.
Once again, check out the photos on Jack’s blog and thanks to Jack, Carleigh, Ian, Fuzz and Brian for coming over and having fun.