skate journal: boulder street spots with the fremonsters #weekendatglennys day 1 (may 26, 2016 day 147)
The Fremont dudes come out every year around this time. They arrived on a cool evening and we went right to skating. This was the first spot and it ended up being well received and a great start. I’m writing this 5 days after it happened so remembering everything is impossible. I remember I felt very stiff and awkward and even kickflips were hard. Similar to last years trip the first footage came from Eric and I doing doubles. This time he rode off a junk kicker and I showed him up with an early grab. Ha. Damon was then supposed to show us both up, but he couldn’t get the ollie over the whole kicker. Eric and Joe had been playing SKATE on the bank. Matt was rattling off ledge tricks. Dan was lining out heelflips to fakie and fakie nosegrinds. Matt and I filmed lines. I got one I was hyped on. Slappy crook, noseslide, kickflip on the bank. Matt got blunt transfer things, nollie front tail, nollie flip out of the kicker.
Then we went to this little gap without much runway. I did early grab drop early grab and tried early grab drop to early grab back 180. Damon tried to fakie ollie it. Eric did double drop rocks. Joe tried for two quick 180s in a row. Matt did quick ups. Dan shut it down with a weird board balance dance that was so sick.
Last up was this ledge spot and this clip pretty much sums it up. I guess it doesn’t show that I took 30 minutes to land anything and then landed all my tricks in a few tries at the end when the sprinkler was shutting things down. Oh yeah, Matt House had joined us.
(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, thunder 147 lights stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, Es Swifts black/white)