skate journal: stubborns saturday fun in broomfield! (july 30, 2016 day 212)
Met at Crisis at 9:30. Did bidness, then off to Broomfield park. I felt pretty good pushing right away and felt motivated. Things would be hit or miss for me and I fell a lot, but I blame the stiff insoles allowing me to skate again without creating more pain, but having less boardfeel then the gamechangers. I saw Rob manual the banked pad real quick, boardslides on the ledges, crooks the black ledge. Dave did boardslide to fakie on the flatbar, front 50 the black box, way better stuff then I’ve listed that I can’t remember right now. Another dude was there skating hard and manualling the whole park. Fuzz showed, disappeared, showed back up and we did a little 10 flatground trick to get things going. Both of us had some struggles on ones we normally land, but ultimately got to 10 in a pretty decent time frame. I had a first try nollie tre to cancel out the 20 missed b/s flips and heelflips. Fuzz had a sick fakie heel. In the main stunt area various things were going on. I remember Dave getting obsessed with feebles on the flat bar which he did really good. I was trying a new one for me on the little blue box, switch front noseslide back 270 shove out. I got close a couple of times, but for the most part was not ever close.
Then we hit this alley. The cruise down was fun. We skated a somewhat mellow bank that has a little curved curb at the bottom making it look interesting and a little harder then a normal bank. It’s a little harder to skate then it looks, dogs were barking at us constantly, but somehow no one told us to leave. Dave rattled off basics the fastest. Pop shoves, fakie bigspin, nab, cab, kickflip, no comply 270. Geez. Rob and I have the same bank go-tos. Kickflip and no comply shove. Unfortunately for Rob the bank was out to get him and he never quite got the no comply shove. But he did have some steezy bonelesses, ollies and one foots before that. Fuzz did really good b/s flip and halfcab flip. I did a couple kickflip variations, posed hardflips, nutted myself trying to be dave (fakie bigspin). Dave also did a super crazy switch back 360 and an old school kickflip.
Last we hit this school for a brief one. We were all pretty sore and beat, but I had fun trying lines. Noseslide the low bar down, slappy crook a curb, ride off the three stair. Tried it with a longer line adding a back 50 on a curb then front 180 a two stair then turn around to mini hill bomb. Got it, went back for back 5-0 and slammed super hard. Ugh. Then witnessed Fuzz do a ride line and we filmed it.
(setup 8.1 Null Riley deck, venture low v-hollows, stock thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 52mm Reed wheels, New Balance Numeric Quincy denim/gum spenco thinsole orthotics)