skate journal: slappies, southern hills, new cu chaos, fun, slappies and slams (May 20, 2012)
Whoa, a null filming mission? Haven’t done this in a while. Went to meta to meet up with Jack, Dean, Derek, Chad. While we were waiting I skated the slappy curb as I didn’t want to lose front feebles and slappy crooks. I did a bunch of them and the dream line, but with an ollie instead of a kickflip. Jake randomly biked by at one point. He’s been out for awhile with a rolled ankle, but still managed a couple slappy grinds and a bluntslide. Then we went to Southern Hills. While the boys warmed up I skated. I got a little line of ollie the 2 stair, crooks the ledge, 3 flip on the smooth flatground. Might have gotten that line twice actually. Also did a front 50 and a front 50 shove as time expired and I turned into filmer Glen. Jack got a good line. Derek almost got his gap back tail bigspin out. At times I thought I was going to throw up. I felt really weird and still sick. But I pulled through. We went to Petes to eat then to the new CU Research center. Most of Meta was there. Chad and I arrived first and Cameron filmed Josh do a completely ridiculous line in front of our eyes. It was crazy. After some drama everyone ended up at the front for what was mostly just everyone skating flatground and Josh continuing to rip everything. Josh did front 180/fs halfcab twists down the long two stairs. It was so funny. His fakie benihana was hot too:
Pretty much everyone was landing crazy stuff. Cameron did 3 shove late flip back to back. Josh did a nollie treflip and I jokingly said that trick was easy, posed one and somehow landed on it at 270 degrees. It was funny. After all that we went back up to the hill to drop some people off. I had mentioned to Chad that I really wanted to try a line at the slappy curbs. I wasn’t feeling very well and probably should never have tried it, but I did. Oh, and did I mention my shoes were literally falling apart?
Not so good for hammers. Or anything really. Jack and Carleigh hung out too as Chadman filmed. For any doubters out there, Chad is one of the best dudes ever. Well, all three of these people actually. But yeah, Chad has a heart of gold. Anyways, I started trying the line and eventually got all 4 tricks, but the kickflip and the slappy crooks were a bit too arthritic for me. What’s that? arthritic. As in that is my style. Thanks for the help Fuzz. Instead of having too artistic of a style, I have too arthritic of a style. Ha ha so awesome. I did manage to line up a front feeble with a decent kickflip over the little gap though. Maybe I’ll use it at some point, maybe I’ll just talk trash on it. I blame Chad for saying “You know if you land the kickflip you’ll get the slappy crooks”. Have I mentioned what a dick Chad can be? The kickflips over the gap (off a bench, over a short sidewalk section into a crack infested bike path) felt really weird. I committed every time, but with the lack of grip on my shoe sole I was really having troubles and I only landed 3 total. But it felt awesome to try so hard. Thanks Chad.