skate journal: flatground, northside in the cold, then launch (jan 21, 2016 day 21)
Got out of work early on a cool day and drove to some crappy parking lot to skate flatground while I wait for Dave to get off work. The parking lot was rough and I started off very poorly. It took awhile to land a kickflip. But the tricks did come. I skated slower then normal probably. It felt cold. I got kickflips, heelflip, halfcab flip, fakie bigflip, treflip and somehow nollie treflip.
Then after the drive to Fort Collins and some grub at Chipotle we went to Northside in the cold. Chris Jones was there! Man it ruled seeing him. My warm up was too film him do the line above. It was funny because he slammed hard a few times and said “It’s just like old times right Glen?” Ha. I saw Dave rolling around the park doing some quarterpipe tricks and cruising the ramp area. Chris and Pat left and then I cruised around for awhile and was hyped to roll in a couple times into the ramp area and wanted to do it a bunch more, but out of nowhere a bunch of people came and kind of killed that. I ended up mostly just slowly skating the ledge under the china bank. Front 50s, crooks, switch noseslide shove out and one horribly slow back 50. Dave got the back 50 sooner then me, front 50, noseslide. I saw him to a couple pivot to rock ‘n roll on the quarterpipe.
More skating! Ladd and Nolan were at Launch as well as a few older guys. It was fun. Ladd had a bunch of huge frontside ollies, front tails, back ds, front smiths, he can shred. I skated it alright for me, did the same ol’ stuff until the end when I took a long time to get a hurricane. Dave skated the ramp super good, maybe the best I’ve seen him skate it. The mute and backside airs were the highlights of course, but he had so many tricks. A lot of different sweeper / bean plant combos. I don’t know what most of them are, but he did a lot. Speaking of a lot of tricks Nolan did more unique tricks in every run then I did all night. I wouldn’t know even where to begin to document it. Just imagine every trick. Super fun night of skating.
(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 bones med bushings nb# pj stratford 533 burgundy)