skate journal: short, cold broomfield park (Jan 12, 2014)
After an impromptu run to 303 on a cold and windy night I stopped at the Broomfield park on the way home. At first no one was there, but within a minute Meta’s Dakoda and Rob showed up. I was just doing laps on the quartapotty and blue ledge. Trying to stay warm. I changed up the insole game yet again. This time for some Remind insoles that I scored at Ka*Mitt. They felt great. Hyped to finally have a winning combo for shoes/insoles. It was an adjustment though since the Remind insoles are orthotics which meant I didn’t have to rock the same carbon fiber insole I’ve rocked for like 5 years now. I landed quite a few of my regular quartapotty tricks first try. But I struggled on the ledge. I need to skate ledges more. It took me a few tries just to commit to back 50s. Ugh. But I made up for it by doing a back 5-0 shove. Well, basically I locked into 5-0 and put the brakes on so bad that I almost came to a halt and decided might as well shove out. My flip trick game was going pretty good until Dakoda and Rob played a game of SKATE and then I just felt dumb. The black ledge had ice around it so I avoided it. It could still be skated, but I’m too clumsy to avoid the ice. I got a fakie nosegrind on the blue ledge, boardslide the tiny down rail, landed on a nollie tre, got a few crooks on the black ledge (I could avoid the ice with this one) and then I got tired. Tried a few treflips, but I was cold and kinda sore so I called it a session. Oh yeah, Cameron had shown up and went right to killing the black ledge. I was less sore then normal in that much wind/cold and it felt good running out of trick and having shoes/insoles that felt comfortable instead of cheap vulcs that hurt my feet.