skate journal: Nederland with Ollie then Street League later on with older dudes (June 4, 2014)
On the way back from our family vacation in Allenspark we went through Nederland and stopped at the skatepark. Ollie and I cruised around for awhile before the stoney baloneys came and bummed out Ollie. He was cruising around pretty good then did the 50-manny-50 and I felt like dad cam’ing it. So there it is above, for your viewing pleasure. Ha, the thing I’m actually the most stoked on is the backside carve after. I’ve never really seen him pump a corner like that. I was feeling pretty out of it and tired for some reason. I guess a few hikes and the higher altitude was messing with me. Plus, that park kinda blows. I managed some lines with front slashes since I’m trying to listen to Grosso and learn frontside grinds. I had a few front 50s on the ledge there and was trying to put together a line, but king stoner sitting on the ledge was bumming me out. I did a few back 50s on the mellow 7′ part of the deep bowl of poorly poured concrete. So anyways, yeah, not the finest session.
After unpacking, a nap, dinner, chilling I went out to Street League park and met up with Fuller, Dave and Matt. I didn’t skate well. Well I guess I actually kinda started ok with some front 50s and crooks on the ledge, but then after that ollie’ing was super hard. The only other thing I did I was remotely hyped on was kickflip to fakie on the wedge kicker thing. John cruises that park pretty well. Did front shove fake on the wedge, front 50s on multiple ledges, ollied into the euro and was extra chatty. Ha. Dave put down some textbook front smiths on the one qp, got a ollie up to fakie back 50 on the wedge and I can’t think of much more, but he was skating well. Matt back 50’d the entire main ledge 2nd try then tried to say it was hard. He front 50’d the one on the other side later, had a lot of solid tricks throughout the park and back 50’d the big hubba. Gnar! We ended with a game of SKATE that didn’t go so well for me, but was fun and John ended up taking it with an impossible.