skate journal: parking garage fun with brett, carleigh, jack and neil (march 9, 2013)
Posted in Skate Journal on March 10th, 2013 by corpoAnother spring winter storm. We were supposed to get lots and lots of snow, but it didn’t stack up to high. It was still snowing though so a few of us resorted to an old parking garage with a flat bar. Although the flat bar ended up not being the main attraction. The parking blocks and manny pads were skated the most. Carleigh and Jack showed up later then the rest of us. Brett had a boombox going with some rap making me feel like I should have gotten way tech’er then I did. Wallie’ing the parking blocks to start the session is fun. It’s gonna be so hard to remember all that went down. So rather then go in order of the session I’ll just do some highlights from everyone. Jack was ripping. It would be easier to name the tricks that he didn’t do over the parking block then to list all 100 tricks he did over it. The fakie tre was hot. The run along and let the board fly over the curb was too. Front hurricane on the flat bar first try. Lines that allowed me to rest for 10 minutes while he would whiz around the place a few times. Ha. Neil was Neil. Flying over everything with good style. He had the funniest fall every trying to boardslide the flat bar, but gave up. The look he gave to see if anyone saw him was epic. He was the first to leave. Carleigh was having some back pains so took a long time to get going and seemed to skate pretty good to me. Back 180 over the parking block, boardslide the flatbar. The kickflip over the parking block took awhile, but she got a couple good ones. I skated decent for me. Tried a run of kickflip over the parking block then crooks on the flat bar, but never got the crooks. Landed a fakie bigspin over a parking block which I don’t think I’ve ever done before. I ollied over the newspaper stand thing a few times which was really hard for me. I couldn’t land a fakie bigflip to save my life, but I did get a couple slow treflips and a nollie tre that felt great. Got one kick back tail on the little curb. Brett was having fun, had some awkward slams and managed to break another board ollie’ing over the newspaper stand. He did some sick no comply 180 front d reverts over the parking block and solid no complys over it. At the end Carleigh, Jack and I played a game of SKATE that ended when Jack broke his nose on a fakie tre. Fun session. Can’t believe we skated so long.