skate journal: super fun random spot session with Jack and Carleigh (Sept 24, 2012)
Right after work I met Jack and Carleigh near Liquormart for some random spot fun. When I showed up Jack was just messing around doing a ride on 50 to “MJ out” (which is back 50 then as your getting out kind of push heelflip and the board flips). Seriously, WTF? Not even on a ledge, but a rail. Well I wasn’t about to warm up on a rail regardless if you don’t have to ollie onto it. I went about 20 feet further and found this bank with rocks on it and Jack joined me for a pretty epic dork session. Jack actually did pivot to fakie at one point. We both ended up with quite a few tricks. I’m not remember them all. Jack did kickflip pivot. The weirdest casper stall thing ever that was an accident, but perfect. I got a few basics, crooks stall, crooks fakie, and a totally lucky b/s hurricane. We were there for awhile. It’s hard for dorks to leave a dork spot. Jack did a sick rode over the rock on top to four wheel drive down the bank. So sick.
Here is a back 180 nose stall thing that I think I went to fakie on. Carleigh took the photos and will have a big blog about it at somepoint.
Then we went to a nearby alley that had quite a bit of stuff to offer. The main reason was for a tight little bank to wallride which Jack did a bunch of times. Carleigh rode the wall, but didn’t land it. I probably didn’t even resemble a wallride. I can pose f/s wallrides, but I can’t even pose b/s ones. Ha. We all were kind of doing our own thing. It was cool just cruising in an alley, ollie’ing manholes, crack gaps, flatground tricks, etc. I ended up trying to harness my inner TPuds/Chris Cole and ended up (kind of) getting a blizzard flip:
Then I had to go home for dinner. Some of the most fun I’ve had skateboarding in awhile. You guys rule. And I have to mention that my legs felt the best they have felt in a while. I guess warming up on a dork bank is good for them!