skate journal: Manny pad / Araphoe school with Jake, Ollie, Neil and Carleigh (June 10, 2012)
Not as hot. Kinda breezy. Ollie said he was down to skate. Rad. We went to the Mikes Camera manny pad to start with which isn’t Ollie’s type of spot. He did a couple 180s then went and sat in the car reading Fox Trot. Jake and I plugged away at some tricks. He ended up with a line of manny then kickflip a crack as well as manual then f/s flip. Not too bad for just getting off a rolled ankle. He also did manual front 180 out. I took awhile to get nose manual shove, then tried nose manny bigspin, but never got close. Got a kickflip manual. Heelflip, front shove, fakie bigspin up the curb. Neil and Carleigh showed up as we were ready to move on. But not after Neil and I did a few manual/nose manual “combos”. I think the record was switching four times. Pretty fun
Then we went to the school out on Arapahoe. Neil killed the quick ollies up the curb, nose mannied the main manny pad, had some good pop shoves and bailed ollieing the ledge to drop. Carleigh bailed that as well. Both could get it. Ollie had fun with some little drop down mannies and a line of halfcab off one curb, ollie the next, back 180 the last. Jake ollied up the tall ledge and chilled. I didn’t skate great but managed to ollie the main manny pad, ollied up the tall ledge and at the end landed one of the best feeling front shoves I’ve ever done off the ledge. Fun times.