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Had a few minutes before leaving for Murder City Devils to skate. Cleaned up the garage a little and skated for about 20 minutes. I had more fun and landed more tricks then I expected. Front tail, feeble, smith, disaster. Back 5-0 fakie (my poor impression of the trick), fakie pivot fakie, fakie Joe Hamilton, fakie 5-0s, front d to fakie. I did quite a few tricks that felt in more control then normal. I did several flatground kickflips to help break in the shoe. These shoes are a half size too big. They are a test to see if I like them enough to add all the 11.5s at Sol, Meta, 303 to my stash of 11s.
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Was chilling on a Sunday morning licking my wounds from the loss the day before when Dave called and encouraged me to come try it again. That guy! Ollie somehow agreed to come with and we set off for Longmont. Him and I were at the school first and I realized I was really sore and tired and not wanting to try kickflips. Ollie was ripping. Drop in on anything there, 180s off the curb, manuals on the ledges (not ollieing up), fakie shove. I had a couple 50s, crooks, basic warm ups then went to work on the darn kickflip. Rob showed shortly and brought a positive vibe that stoked me out and had me trying harder. He did a really sick manual. I had 2 or 3 kickflips I should have stayed on and at least tried to land. But I didn’t. It was quite depressing. It’s so hard to consistently setup for the kickflip. The metal grate in the approach throws you off. Oh well. Maybe some day.
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Woke up before the rest of the family. Did some chores, watched the Enjoi video, etc. Had an hour before I needed to be around so I went to Southern Hills (top ledge). I just kind of dorked around not skating hard just to get my body warmed up. Did some flatground basics. Did some random stalls on the curb (front crooks, back 180 fakie 50). Did a couple crooks on the ledges, noseslides and maybe a front 50.
Then I met Rob, John and Dave at Rocky Mtn in Longmont. Things started pretty good for me. Maybe since I was warmed up. I did most of my basics on the ledge. Front/back 50s, back crooks, noseslide, front board pop out. Rob did some cool manuevers on the far bank to brink. Dave was hurting so he just filmed. John did some rad lines with double ollies and no complies, front 50s. Rob had some hot bean plants and no complies. I tried a kickflip to fakie onto the brick for a long time and came up short. Ugh. I left feeling pretty crappy, but it quickly subsided as it was a fun day with good friends in great weather.
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Went over to the hockey nearby hockey rink for my lunch break. It was super warm out. I started with 180s, shoves, then started flipping. Things started super good. Fakie flip, halfcab flips both ways, heelflip, b/s flip, treflip within a couple. Was thinking I would rattle off a ton of tricks. Then I never landed another treflip and frontside flip took forever. I did manage a couple nollie tres, an extra slow fakie tre. Tried a few switch varial flips, but didn’t get close. Filmed a couple silly things above then went back to work. Might skate more later ..
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Posted in Skate Journal on November 6th, 2014 by corpo
Rolled up to the park at lunch on a really warm day and my new homie Luke was there. He challenged me to a game of SKATE so that’s how I spent most of my lunch. I struggled with treflip and heelflips, otherwise it probably would have been over pretty quick. He got me with f/s flip and hardflip and a couple other ones. Earlier in the day on gchat I made a deal with Nate that we would learn kickflip backside noseslides so I wanted to try some. I wasn’t close. I didn’t get to skate the park much actually since most of it was spent playing SKATE (which isn’t all bad).
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Posted in Skate Journal on November 5th, 2014 by corpo
On another beautiful day I went o the ledge park at lunch time. This time someone was there skating. Whoa. He ended up being pretty cool and was another older dude on lunch break from Seagate. Skate nerds unite! It was a little weird sharing the park, but it worked out. Then the parks dept starting draining the sprinklers around the park and spots got wet so that made it worse. Another dude showed. I guess they go there at lunch every day. Cool. I started trying some front tails on the mini banks. Then a few front 50s on the little ledge. Ollies over the flat bar. Almost got a line with ollie over the bar, front 50, kickflip fakie, halfcab noseslide. I was 1-10 on treflips. Was about to finally try and front 50 the tall part of the little ledge, but the sprinkler behind it came on. Ended up playing a game of SK with my lunch break buddies. I got a letter on treflip, but won. They left and I failed at ollieing up the tall ledge for awhile then started trying kickflips to fakie on one of the little flat banks. With that big crack at the bottom and my little wheels it was hard. I would eventually land one although the crack tossed me. Oh well. I really wish there was one perfect ledge rather then them all being so tall except the narrow one against the grass.
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Shortly after lunch and a meeting I bailed to the nearby park. It was sunny and warmer, but still cool with a crispness in the air. I felt stiff, but I suppose it gets old reading that every time. Anyways warming up went somewhat ok. Had some better then usual front 50s on the little ledge and ollied the flat bar way quicker then normal. Ollies were rough though and the tall stuff there wasn’t working. I couldn’t get on the tall ledge. I tried filming like Neil does for a minute and above is seriously all I got. I didn’t feel like dealing with the angles and hitting record so I stopped. I couldn’t ollie the little part of the angled ledge. I tried getting over it at a taller point though. Got one flatground treflip. Came remotely close to some really slow bigflips. Had some front boards on the flat bar that may have slid over a foot. Believe it or not I’m hyped on that. I really like skating this park by myself. I skate different then I would around others. It’s fun. Maybe I’ll get better at taller stuff, maybe not. But it’s way funner then just going to the gym at work.
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I 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.
Carleigh, Rob and I rolled up to Fort Collins in the afternoon. We went to MRKT first and Skelly and Mike were there. Perfect. We rolled with them and another old dude Chip and his friend Eli to the slappy post office spot. The weather was perfect. Mike broke a baseplate on one of his first slappy attempts, but luckily he had an extra in his truck. Rob was killing it out of the gates. Slappies both ways, slappy crooks, manuals, manual 180s, everything. For whatever reason I don’t like that curb so much. So I just kind of skated around more then the curb. There was a new gap across the street. Young guy Eli and I checked it out. It was off a beveled ledge, about a 5 or 6 stair drop, but only a few feet in distance over a little bush. Eli did it first try and back 180’d it too. I took too many tried to commit, but finally committed to the ollie. Didn’t land ride away and security came by so I didn’t get another try. Doh. I was hyped to actually try it though as it was a big gap for me. I filmed everyone skate for awhile. Rob got a couple of his moves, Carleigh got a really good slappy or two, Mike had a rad line, Skelly did a backside no comply over a curb.
Then we went to this bank to curb. It’s harder to skate then it looks, but it’s a blast. Skelly rattled off like 20 tricks. Most of them first try. Rob put down a lot of moves too. We skated there quite a while. I did a front tail shove which I don’t think I have done on a bank to curb. Carleigh learned axle stall then did back feeble first or second try. Skelly had front feeble, front d to fakie, bean plant fakie so many more. Rob had back shove nose stall and some crazy feeble smith dance. I added a kick back axle and then rolled into the far side which was really scary avoiding all the death traps. Mike got a really sick halfcab nosestall. Fun times.
