skate journal: day off work fort collins parks rule! (feb 17, 2016 day 48)
Posted in Skate Journal on February 18th, 2016 by corpoWoke up feeling alright, but still bad enough I decided to take an ibuprofen. I drove up to Fort Collins in a good mood, drinking smoothie and listening to Washer. I went to the Waterway park to begin with. Half of the park wasn’t skateable due to water, but at least the long pool coping wall was dry. I did a bunch of back 50s, they were run. Last time I went there I struggled to land one so that was cool at least. I did a few bad front slashes and front rocks. I wanted to do a front smith, but I didn’t. Fun warm up.
Showed up at an empty Fossil Creek park a few minutes later. The park warm up seemed to work and I was good to go out of the gates. I went up top, did a few boardslides off the curb, 50s on the curb. Then some lady started letting her kids play on the ledges so I went to the lower area. Two other dudes showed, didn’t say a word to me and proceeded to avoid me like the plague. Cool. I was happy I was able to ollie up the ledge and hit the ledge above pretty easily. In general my ollies felt better then they have in awhile. Although a front 50 shove took awhile. I did whoever do a back 50 or two. I even did an accidental back 5-0. Tried a line for awhile of ollie up the manny pad, noseslide the ledge, kickflip off, back 50 the low part of the long ledge. Never got the back 50. Doh. Had a few 360 flips that felt great. Another guy showed up. Dave. I’ve seen him there before. He is good. Switch 50s both ways. I tried crooks shove (or bigspin) for awhile and only landed on one. I started getting too tired so I called it a day and headed off to MRKT. Not my best skating, but I could do back 50s on pool coping and crooks on ledges instead of work any day.
(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 venom 91a bushings nb# pj stratford 533 patriot)