skate journal: Boulder spots with Chadman and crew of old dudes (Oct 26, 2013)
This was one of those days with lots of phone calls to start the saturday. Chad, Blaine, Will, Rob, Neil met at my house. We went by Boulder park where we picked up Lazer and Carleigh. First spot was called out as a school by Jack’s house that’s got some weird line options up/around/over 3 stairs. Everyone was kinda warming up. Lazer was dressed up for halloween as a log lady. He looked pretty funny wearing a skirt doing tricks on the ledge. There is a weird ledge there. Neil and I had warm up runs of boardslide, kickflip on flat, ollie the 3. Lazer back 180’d it all good. Chad ollied up the 3 and ollied the ledge to drop, but didn’t find anything film worthy. He disappeared for awhile. Will was killing front boards. Everyone else got in a wallride session. Rob did some crazy ones. I tried a line for way too long of noseslide to fakie, f/s halfcab flip on flat then ollie the 3. After that we went in search of Blaine and Chad.
We found them around the corner. We watched Chad try this crazy quick up gap to rock a bunch, but he never rode away. Doh. Then we went to the research center ledge. Well, Blaine, Will, Chad and I did. Everyone else went to the Boulder park. I was feeling pretty frustrated at this point. My legs weren’t behaving too well. I wanted to give up on the gluten-free diet as it wasn’t working. Or so I thought. Will got a cool line. Fun dude to skate with. Chad and I tried some downhill flatground lines. I struggled with kickflips. Can’t do much of a line if you can’t land the first trick. Chad almost got a super sick line, but touched on a fakie 5-0. Doh. I managed to get crooks and back 50. That’s about it. Doh.