skate journal: Old man in Denver night!!! (Aug 20, 2013)
What a crew! We met at Crisis. It was Carleigh, Neil, Dave, Blaine, Fuzz, Rob and I. While Fuzz rested up a bit after work we skated his curb. It was pretty fun. Rob’s kickflip fastplants were so good.
Then it was off to Denver where we started at the Greyhound station slappy curb and more. As you can see in Blaine’s Instagram clip above Fuzz was ripping. Neil and Rob were going off too. They were hopping over the little median like it was nothing. The funniest part was that Neil could not slappy onto the totally angled slappy curb. He had to ollie.
Next we went a fun building with a few options. I chose some noseslides off a two stair which I had never done there before. Fuzz chose 5-0 across a skate stopper the wrong way on a bench. Neil eventually nose grinded it too! Dave came close to hippy jumping one of them.
We skated off and ended up at this weird kinked curb going down a set of stairs. I struggled to ollie onto the curb and ride down the narrow kink. I think everyone eventually did it. Dave and I went over to the bigger set and did it with doubles. We went on to try it with manuals out. Dave did it. Fuzz took the cake on slam of the night shortly after trying to kickflip into it. He’s fortunate to have just gotten out with a bloody knee. Dave also got back 180 off the curb into the street which was fast. Rob no complied in. I got switch front 180 in. Connor joined us and manualled in all easy.
Some parking garages were hit. Curbs slappied, 50d. We managed to not get arrested. We hit so many spots. There is no way I can remember them all. Fuzz, Rob and I had a fun downhill ride at one point with Blaine waiting at the elevator below telling us the cops had been called and we needed to split quick.
This spot entertained us for awhile. It was skated many different ways. Connor would do drop down manuals. Including fakie manuals or nose manuals. Pretty rad. Fuzz powerslid under the bar while holding on and tried to pull himself back. Neil nose mannied around it. Dave surfed under it (late photo above) and had some cool 180/180 combos down it. I had some 180s too, lots of kickflip slams and then a kickflip down the first one and front 180 the second. Blaine and I wussed out of ollie’ing it. Neil did it though.
We kept pushing and rolling and cruising through garages. We hit a 3 stair that everyone firecrackered. I think Carleigh did it first. It was Rob’s first 3 stair firecracker after learning on a 2 stair last week. Connor ollied a tall ledge to drop with ease. Then we found the dream curb spot we’ve been looking for every time we’ve been downtown since we found it the first timne. We didn’t last long before getting the boot, but it was a blast while it lasted. I got another back 5-0 that felt great and some slappy crooks. Fuzz had some rad slappys up a curb cut and around a corner. Carleigh was going frontside. Dave back 50’d into the curb cut and I think did slappy crooks up a curb cut. Rob was cruising it too. I think next we ended up were Connor works. Ha, American Apparel. He had to leave though. I was the only one skating at this point. Oh I think Carleigh and Rob were doing some flatground. I tried a line of ollie up a weird curb, horrible back 180 down a 2 stair, fakie bigflip on flat, then front shove another 2 stair. I struggled with the fakie bigflip. Doh. I only got one. Then we got the boot and decided to call it a night.
But of course we found a good ledge to skate first, next to the Greyhound garage again. Fuzz did front tail and switch boardslide to forward and a back 180 off the curb. Fuller got his back with a boardslide to fakie then switch back 180 off the curb. Carleigh tried to relearn boardslides to fakie. Rob did a sick boardslide to manual. I went off in the distance and rode off a ledge onto another one then posed a bunch of kickflip front boards on the ledge. Then we was really out. These nights are awesome. My new shoes definitely messed with me enough that I didn’t skate all that well. The heels are really high. Doh. Fun times though, these Denver night missions are so great.