skate journal: Albuquerque day 1 (Nov 2, 2013)
Posted in Skate Journal on November 6th, 2013 by corpoWe got in pretty late to ABQ so we had a late start. After hitting up BZ to sell some boards we went to a nearby DIY ditch spot.
Josh killed this place. There is a few more qp’s there too. But Josh going over the grate to noseblunt is pretty messed up. Then we skated the weird foundation that’s there too. Jack tried to ollie onto this crazy gravel angled piece of concrete mess, but kept sticking in it. I felt somewhat ok and tried a little line which I eventually got. Ollie a little flat gap, kickflip a little gap, front 180 a little weed off a curb.
Then we ended up here. I didn’t feel like shutting down the spot so I just kind of filmed/lurked/smiled. Our tour guide Dave went buck here and got an NBD that was gnarly. With how many pros have been to this spot it’s pretty crazy that the rails are even still an option. Josh, Jack and Max tried some stuff too, but nothing came of it and we moved on.
We ended up at pretty much the best spot ever. Seriously, ever. For about the first 30 minutes my excitement was so high I couldn’t even try tricks I was just cruising around in disbelief of how awesome everything was. Seriously mind blowing spot and major kudos to the people responsible for building it. On top of the spot ruling it, the weather was perfect, the vibe was awesome and there were two other filmers there!!! I didn’t film at all! Watching the Nullers kill it was awesome too. They skated the hip so good. Jack did kickflip late shove, impossibles, everything. Josh did everything. Cameron even killed it with a nollie front foot flip. Max was putting together 20 trick lines. Monico showed!!! And immediately killed it. Pole jam 360. I was trying long lines with manuals on the ledge, front slash on the smaller bank (where Max is going back for his board), front 5-0 on the ledge, ollie up the little step up (behind Cameron), ollie the car chair off the ledge (next to the pole jam). Never got the whole line, but I did land on a few ollies over the chair and smacked down so hard. Geez. I eventually would get it as I was trying to get Josh’s back and he had already done f/s flip and after getting switch flip I had to get his back. Whew. I really didn’t do a whole lot more myself, but I could skate that place forever and that was a really fun session.
Lastly we went to an absolutely insane school. It was straight out of THPS. Gnarly hubba, ledges off stairs, etc. It was bonkers. I didn’t skate. Monico and Jack got some gnarly tricks. Then we went on to have one of the funnest party nights that involved a late night drunken group skate to another house. It was epic. Super fun day.