Daniel Spiegel – ÜBER Skateboards Part

Man this is good

Well this is awesome.

Got off work early, chilled a bit, ate a fried egg sandwich, make about 500 phone calls, watched the new TWS video and then Fuzz arrived around 7pm. We went to Meta so Fuzz could fan out and I could go buy the new OFF! at Albums On The Hill. John was saying he was gonna go skate an indoor mini and we were down. We went to skate campus until John got off work. We went about 100 feet and stayed put the rest of the night. Fuzz and I started out so bad. One of my favorite things about skating with Fuzz is how much we laugh at ourselves and each other. We looked so old and uncoordinated when we started. We were slamming trying slappy 50s on the little banked curb. Eventually things started falling into place though. Fuzz grinded a long slappy. Carleigh showed up after a bit. Out of the blue I thought about this and decided to try a slappy crooks. Got it first try! I went on to do probably 50 of them as it easily could be one of the funnest tricks in skateboarding. Carleigh did a couple slappy front 50s then slammed and learned slappy noseslides. So rad. Fuzz was killing it. Switch bluntslide popped out. Slappy noseslides, tailslides. He struggled with the slappy crooks. Kind of surprised me, but he did get a sick one. John showed up and after some warming up we started trying some lines. We did slappies, then ollied up onto the bench and ollied the little sidewalk gap. I had been doing some downhill nose mannies between sections of rock. Pretty fun. Started posing slappy front feeble grinds and they actually felt doable. Several tries later I started landing them. So hyped! Two new tricks in one night! Then I tried to combine everything with the nose manny, front feeble, ollie up the bench (the hardest part for me because I am horrible at ollies onto stuff at weird angles), kickflip the gap (never quite committed) then slappy crooks. That would have ruled. I got really close. John was doing lots of halfcabs, 43 shifties, nollie back 180s and was trying to 3 flip the gap. Never committed, but maybe if a camera was pointed his way. This night ended up being one of my favorite sessions ever. I don’t normally land new tricks and then do them several times. The slappy crooks and front feebs felt so good. And what an awesome crew.