skate journal: rocky mtn elem marathon with john and dave (mach 20, 2016 day 80)
On a cool morning I headed to Longmont to meet Dave and John. I checked out the other bank school, it was kind of snowy so I went to Rocky Mtn. This spot rules. I waxed up a section of curb that we hadn’t before. It ended up being really fun. I started by doing a line over and over of dropin on the kinked bricks, slappy crooks, ollie up the crub, noseslide. I tried to get noseslide 270, but couldn’t. Going the other way I was doing switch noseslide, frontside slappy, kickflip. I realized quickly that I didn’t have much energy. I’m not sure why. John showed next and mostly got tech on the curb. Back 180 fakie 50, halfcab front 50 back 180 out. I thought I learned crooks transfer, but it turns out it’s some weird nosegrind. Still fun. Then I filmed him do a line for awhile. Dave was ripping around the spot. Ollies over the medians, 180 nose manual to fakie, After filming John those two were doing the bank think where you gotta push fast, ollie up a curb then do a trick on the bank. Dave got close to nollie shove manual. John did front shove to fakie and kickflip to fakie. I tried to get my legs going. Never got a front 50. The little crack weirds me out. I don’t want it to, but it does. John did some front tails. Dave was doing great back 50s and following them with front pivot on the bank to curb section which was gnar. I tried to ollie up onto the flagstone ledge over and over with no luck. John was doing cool ollies onto the rock. I ended up giving up on anything good and just slowly did tricks up the curb then on the ledge. Kickflip up the curb, crooks on the ledge, fakie ollie up the curb, switch front noseslide, front shove up the curb, never landed back 50, halfcab up the curb, tried crooks to fakie and failed. Tried to end the day with a fakie bigflip since I had nothing else for the game. I did 5 in a row before John grabbed the camera, and then took 10 tries to land it. Figures. Dave outlasted me and did his variation of crooks 180 transfer up the curb.
(setup: 8.125 chocolate mj, venture 5.25 lows with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 black/gum)