skate journal: downtown denver with fuzz, carleigh, derek and nate (july 3, 2012)
Posted in Skate Journal on July 5th, 2012 by corpoCarleigh and I picked up Fuzz at Crisis then we met Nate and Derek at 303 in Denver to do a little business. We drove down to 14th & Arapahoe area. We parked and accidentally found this alley with some fun stuff in it (the little ticket building had been removed so it was a weird tall manny pad). Nate wallied up on it good. Derek nose mannie and 180 nose mannied it. Fuzz ollie up and almost manualled. I didn’t even front rock it. Then we went up to the new ledges that are everwhere on 14th, but not on google maps yet. Nate skated the curved one in the corner so we didn’t see him much. Derek did some steezy kickflips, halfcab flips and would ride on the narrow curb then pop up to the ledge. I think he got front tail and front 5-0, maybe a nose manual too. Fuzz, Carleigh and I were trying kickflip then noseslide (bs for carleigh, f/s for Fuzz and I). Fuzz and I were not doing so good with the kickflips. Fuzz actually slammed pretty hard quite a few times. My arthritis was kind of kicking in my ankles. Carleigh was throwing down kickflips so good, she backed one of them up with and epic noseslide to full body layout holding onto the ledge or something trying not to fall. It was hilarious. I eventually gave up on that line as I didn’t want to keep bailing kickflips. I would try no comply 180 or front 180 then f/s halfcab flip, front nose to fakie. I was sucking at no complies though. Derek was doing that trick too good I think he drained the area of all no complies. Ha. Anyways, I got a line of front 180, f/s halfcab flip, front nose to fakie (with a nice hand on the ledge landing) then b/s halfcab flip. Cool. Fuzz gave himself a five count, but couldn’t put it down. The Denver fireworks started going off so we made a dash to watch them, but they were done before we could get to a good view. So we skated fast away from the crowds which was really fun. We ended up here. Carleigh chilled. Fuzz had heart issues again and had to walk it out. I got a little line of front 180 up 2, sw 180 on flat, boardslide a bench through the stopper, then ollie the four stair. It felt neat. Especially the little powerslide at the end to avoid a pole. Nate and Derek were ripping. Firecracker the four to front boards on a curved ledge. I eventually filmed Derek get a sick little line of firecracker, nose manny then nollie bigspin. It’s fun downtown street skating footage. Got me hyped on the Null video again. Fun night.