skate journal: bikepath ledge spot with carleigh (May 1, 2012)
Posted in Skate Journal on May 2nd, 2012 by corpoA little breezy, but otherwise a perfect night out. There was a big crew going to Broomfield, but I couldn’t get into the idea of a crowded skatepark on such a nice night. Carleigh was down to skate local too so I picked her up and we went to the 30th & pearl bikepath ledge/little bank spot. Warming up didn’t take forever. That ledge is really fun to noseslide. It’s a downhill ledge, backside for reg footers. Somewhat quickly I got a noseslide on the ledge then kickflip fakie (kind of a b/s flip) over the little hip below. Fun. Carleigh went straight to tailslides. She got quite a few good ones. She even backed one up with a backside flip over the hip with an extra steezy carve around the circle art. So funny. I had some really bad back 50s. Some ok crooks. Got no comply big spin over the hip. Tried regular f/s bigspin, but didn’t get close. Last line was noseslide to fakie then fakie flip on the bank. Felt rad and I even pushed switch (horribly) in between. Before leaving I said we should do 5 flatground tricks. I started with shoves both ways. Carleigh struggled with kickflips for about 5 tries then landed one and world peace was restored. She went on to do fakie flip, shoves both ways, halfcab flip and close to b/s flip. Sick! I added heelflip, treflip (took awhile), f/s halfcab flip and fakie bigflip. Fun session.