skate journal: lafayette for old man night (July 9, 2013)
Posted in Skate Journal on July 10th, 2013 by corpoFuzz and I were first at the park and we started with the gnarliest tranny at the park. Just look at how blurry it is? We had to haul ass to get all the way to the top! The best part though, is that we started on the tiny part on the far left of it. Stalls, pivots, etc. It was funny. Front tail transfers over the hip. I did a front blunt transfer which sounds so cool, but it’s just a glorified kickturn on a curb. We did line it out with tricks on the tight qp too. I couldn’t do backside 50 so went front 50 instead. Fuzz had a nice back pivot. We started to step it up to the “extension” on the tiny qp above and it got gnar. Brett and Dave showed up and we stepped it up to the double extension, aka the rock. Fuzz and Dave killed it. Fuzz did front tail transfer on the rock and front pivot. Dave did back tail transfer. Oh yeah, first though. Dave slammed skating from his car to the park. Seriously! It was funny! Brett did some cool blunt variations on the qp and almost killed me shooting the board out. Luckily my board took the brunt of it. We skated the main wallie rock for awhile too and I managed a front rock on it that hyped me up. Mitchell did a flyout of the bowl to tail on the rock. Pretty nuts. I think Dave and Fuzz stayed in that area all night. Brett and I played elsewhere at times. The mini bowl for awhile. The ledge area for awhile. Kind of whatever. We both tried to skate the pier 7 triplica (3 times taller then pier 7), but didn’t do anything on it. We skated the ledge down in the flat area that never gets skated. It’s a tall ledge that is normally just passed by on the way to flyouts. It’s pretty tall. We did boardslides and noseslides. I managed a back crooks. It felt awesome because the granite is like new. It felt like we were skating a perfect marble ledge downtown somewhere. We were also doing some little nose stalls on the side of the hubba when Brett leaned back a lot too far and off the tail went. Doh. I worked on a line for awhile. Ollie the 3, noseslide the hubba then kickflip to fakie on the bank. It took a really long time. Jack and Carleigh showed up. Carleigh was in on noseslides for awhile and apparently bruised her leg on a slam on the tall bump to ledge. Doh. Jack was all over the park and I saw Tranny Jack in action a few times. He killed the rock. Back sugarcane (accident maybe?), texas plan and a bunch more. I ended with lines to no comply attempts on the almost tranny bank by the mountain sculpture. Got a few weak no complies and a knee buckle scare that ended up being fine. My favorite line was the roll in to the little 3 foot section, ollie out of it, ollie on the manhole bump, then no comply. I did a few flip tricks too, but failed on treflips and cracked the board so much worse that it became unskateable. The lights shut off and we sat, had a beer and laughed. Good times, great oldies.