skate journal: safeway ledges with Neil! and rob then a bit of broomfield park (june 8, 2015 day 155)
Posted in Skate Journal on June 9th, 2015 by corpoWent to Crisis right after work to see Neil. So exciting. We chilled for a bit then went over to Safeway ledges. I warmed up with my typical bash the nose into the ledge and turn around tricks. Neil was stretching because he has a torn meniscus and can’t really skate much. It didn’t stop him from getting in a few front 50s, noseslides and ollies. Then he wanted to film me. I went for a crazy line for the heck of it. Kick back 50 then nollie tre. I struggled a bit with the kick back 50, but I locked into a kick back 5-0 and when I landed that I knew I had to land the nollie tre. Got it! Probably the best line I’ve ever filmed and one heck of a great feeling to do those two tricks together. Before filming I had hucked a front crooks to fakie and did probably my best one ever. I still put both hands on the wall and pushed off, but whatevs. So I tried to film another line of crooks on the fence ledge then front crooks the main ledge. Couldn’t get the front crooks though so ended up doing a line of crooks, front 50 180 out then halfcab flip. Rob showed up shortly after that. I was just kind of messing around with halfcab flip noseslides and doing more back 50s since I was actually doing them ok for once. Rob filmed a couple rad lines with front noseslides on the fence ledge, some crazy shuffle tricks on the ledge and them more shuffle tricks after. Ha, it was tight. I finally back 50’d the fence ledge. Tried a bunch of switch flips throughout and didn’t get very close. Felt some of the best I’ve felt on a board in awhile.
Then Neil and I went by Broomfield park to see Riley, Nolan, Scotty, Teagan, Garrett. Tight crew. Nolan is recovering from a broken foot and was just kind of messing around which was fun. Scotty has gotten so fun to watch. Nollie 50s, hardflips and fakie handplants. What an awesome combo. Riley and Teagan were attacking the double set. Garrett had front tail then back tail on the black ledge. I just kind of dorked around on the quartapotty and tried blunts to pivot, but was so tired. We left after awhile. Fun day.
(setup 8.25 null venture lights bones med bushings 51mm stfs nb+ quincy 254)