skate journal: solo downtown boulder in the cold (nov 24, 2014)
Was 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.