skate journal: denver street skating awesomeness (nov 2, 2014)
Posted in Favorite, Skate Journal on November 3rd, 2014 by corpoI met up with Rob and Dave at the only spot in Denver after making a run to Emage. Dave had to setup a new board. Rob and I cruised around the area a bit then mostly hit the hill. I didn’t do much of anything other then powerslides. These STFs slide so good. Rob and Dave tried the wallride thing for awhile. Then we pushed for awhile to get to the bank spot above to meet an old friend of Rob/Dave’s named Brian. He’s rad. We skated this spot for awhile. I didn’t do much of anything. Rob had the crailtap above, b/s flip, and some more. Dave had some rad roll ins and front pivot. We moved on. Hit some weird building structure with some yellow curbs and this weird angle iron you could ride on. Rob killed it with a first try back 360 off a curb cut and a lot of back 50s. Brian and Rob did manuals to grind. Dave had some manuals. I took a lot of tries to do a cali grind to one foot long nose manual turned to disaster. More moving around. We went by a spot with a tall ledge and wallride. Rob had many radical wallrides. I got one noseslide. I tried a line with ollie onto a bench then treflip then noseslide. Never got the treflip. Then we went to some bank spot, but on the way I noticed a really fun 4 stair section that everyone else passed up. Ollie a 4, cross the road, ollie up a curb, ride off a 2 stair, ollie down a 4. Man it was fun. I would have loved to skate it longer, but I had to catch up. We skated this steep driveway for a bit. I kickflipped and fakie bigflipped into it. Thanks for spotting Dave. Rob and Dave had some rad no complies sideways into it off a weird curb. I’m probably missing spots. We were really street skating. Just pushing from spot to spot having a blast. I think we ended up at the Denver art museum. I was bummed on how I couldn’t ollie up the black ledges easily. Those dudes were on the far side. I got booted so met up with them and there was a gap to sidewalk that seemed fun. I front 180’d it then met up with everyone at a cool little wallride. We all did regular wallrides. I think Brian and I got frontside ones. Dave almost died trying a wallie. Rob did a sick alley oop wallride. We chilled for a minute then started heading back towards our cars. Dave and I did the wallie out of the grated thing by the library. We skated a little manny pad for awhile across from the world trade center. Dave has a casual manual. Then we went across the street and actually lasted quite awhile. Dave had some really good wallrides. We all had some fun firecrackers. I did one followed by the worst wallies ever done. I had fun ollieing up the 3 stair part then bean plant over the little curb thing and kickflip up one stair and front 180 it. Dave firecrackered the 4 stair. I think that was pretty much it. That was some real street skating. When it was all done my trucks looked like they had covered a lot of the city.