skate journal: solo downtown boulder in the cold (nov 24, 2014)
Posted in Skate Journal on November 25th, 2014 by corpoWas slacking at home thinking I’d probably just skate Rampy for awhile as it was cold out. I was still in a bit of a funk over the fact that PJ doesn’t have a part in Plan B True. But Liz said I should be the one that picks up India from ballet after skating for awhile. Called out! So I did it. I went downtown and had about an hour before I’d have to pick up India. I started at the yellow curb section and things were not looking good. I was in a t-shirt, thick Crisis hoodie and a wind breaker and was still cold. I got a couple 50s and bounced to St Julien. Well, on the way I hit a stop rock and took like 20 steps to recover. I don’t know how I didn’t pull a muscle running out of that one. At St Julien I started to feel warmer and better. Got a couple sloppy back 50s. Was doing nollies over a tiny ice puddle then front 50 or slow front tail the other way. Then I went down into the garage via a bomb, foot drag, bomb. It was faster then I remember. I walked up the stairs next to the homeless people, saw that St Julien has nothing to offer anymore (well except the big stairs). Went to the corner ledge for a bit. Did noseslides both ways, rode off Josh’s ledge, boardslides, ollied up the curb slowly, did a back 180 into the street then bailed pushing (doh). Ended up at the new ledges and started hucking kickflip noseslides slowly. Some of them felt sooo good. I never locked into them, but I did land what would technically be considered a kickflip noseslide. Mostly because it slid off. I need to learn these posted up. There was some weird film of crap on the bricks and I got it all over my grip. It would not come off either (even later with grip gum). Ugh. I skated the alley curb for a bit. Got kickflip axle stall and front tail shove before getting the boot. Then hit the white ledge for a few back 50 poses before I left not wanting to bum that lady out twice. Then it was time to go. Glad I skated.