skate journal: denver spots with rob, dave, simon. filming a hip hop video. (Oct 18, 2014)
Posted in Favorite, Skate Journal on October 19th, 2014 by corpoRob, Dave, Simon and I went to this DIY spot in Denver. We had skated for awhile and were getting warmed up when some dudes came over and asked if we could skate in their video they were filming on the other side of the slab. Heck yeah! Ha. We skated in front of them while the remote controlled helicopter cam filmed us rolling by. It was funny. I had a good slam on a kickflip that I exaggerated and got some laughs. We skated a little wallride for a bit. Everyone got it but me. Rob hit a rock right before it though and slammed his shoulder bad. Doh. Back to the main area. Dave was doing cool no complies over a weird block. I got one on the side. Simon ollied it, nose bonked it, no complied it and did all the same (except the no comply) off the drop. Rob did his first no comply manual back 180 out. He would later get his second. Dave had a sick feeble transfer, front 5-0s on a curb, feeble fakie, switch 50. Simon rips. Manual pop shove out, switch manuals, manual front 180 then switch blunt the qp. Much more. I had a fun flip trick session on the tiny manny pad. Kickflip up, var flip down. Fakie bigspin up, horrible front shove off. Couldn’t get b/s flip or treflip off. Had a really fun front board revert transfer.
After quite a bit of driving we ended up here. I was fine with not skating it, but Fuller started ripping immediately with a nice boardslide. He added back tail, tail block and a few others. I took awhile to get a front tail. Then we all got tricks back to back. Dave back tail, me front pivot, Rob back smith. Stoked!
Then we walked over a building to this mellow bank spot which ended up being a really fun ender. I got kickflip fakie, bigflip, f/s halfcab flip (over 40 make) and no comply shove fakie. Rob had some lofty f/s ollies, f/s flip, b/s flip, one foots, more. Dave did fakie flip, nollie 360 (seriously), and more tricks I can’t remember.
Epic day.