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Went to sleep super early the night before which of course meant I woke up super early. I got to Lafayette around 7am and didn’t have to be to work until 9:30. So that was basically two hours. My first goal was to do a legit back noseblunt to disaster. Well that didn’t happen. I didn’t try for too long, but I would come back to it every once in awhile and try a couple. I mostly cruised around hitting whatever I felt like at the moment. Front 50s on the little ledge felt good. At one point I started skating mostly the ledge. I did manual, front 50, front 50 front 180, front 50 shove, front 5-0 and then tried front 5-0 shove for awhile. I would do flatground on the way back. Got to treflip and did a couple bad ones. After the 5-0 shove I tried a long line. I would pump through the snakerun and do the tiniest air over the tiny snowboard jump. Today would mark the first time I actually cleared the 1 foot of flat. It felt cool. Anyways, mega air, kickflip flyout off the bank, front 50 the little ledge, front 50 the bump to ledge. Never got the last 50 and was getting super frustrated. I ended up having to leave before I got it. I did at least get into it a few times. It would normally do a 5-0 on accident though.
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Worked a long day. There was a tiny bit of light when I got home and I knew I didn’t really want to skate. So I just grabbed my board immediately and did 4 or 5 powerslides in front of the house. Ollie was kind enough to film one so I could post about reaching day 266. “Only 100 more to go!” Ha. Who cares. It’s hard to skate every day. Those slides were fun though.
Had the day off work to skate with Chief and whoever else could make it. It ended up being Chief, Jack, Rob, Fuller and I. While we waited Jack and I played no comply SKATE. We went on for awhile, landing the few tricks each of us did. We had a couple of letters when it was time to go to Evergreen. Jack got me on no comply lazerflip. I don’t remember what I got him on.
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Evergreen was empty when we arrived and the temperature was amazing. Jack proved himself the youngest by landing flip tricks over the hip before anyone else had even touched their tail to the concrete. After awhile a couple of other guys joined that were pretty chill and nice. One dude had crazy good flippers over the hip. It’s impossible to remember what all went down. It seemed like everyone was having fun and skating well. Rob had those steezy boneless complys early. Chief and Rob with the back 180s. Jack had done kickflip, impossible, b/s flip and more I can’t remember (because it was totally boring Jack (ha, joking. but i hope you read this)). Dave and Chief worked on switch back 180s over it. I got a crappy b/s flip then a good feeling one. That trick is incredibly fun. I mostly skated the hip. I went on to also land halfcab flip, fakie bigflip, fakie f/s flip and tried nollie treflip for a long time, but never got one. Chief with the long nose manuals. Rob with the lines, manuals and close to halfcab noseslide to manual. Jack kickflip late shove the hip, the gap stuff above first tries. Dave technically landing switch back 3 and cab big spins. So sick. I had trouble getting on the little ledges, but noseslide to fakie off the “big” one was fun. It started to rain as I was getting closer to the nollie tre. Jack and Dave did backside airs.
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Then we ate and drove down to Lakewood to his this ramp which was super hard to skate, but super fun. It took everyone awhile to get backside grinds and flow. Well, everyone except for Dave. But he skates there all of the time (or maybe just once). We skated it for a long time. The trick list isn’t very long, but who cares, it’s fun and hard to skate. Chief had lots of front disasters, fakie pops, front tail, close to front disaster revert. Rob had the magic carves through the speed sucking corner and flowed grinds everywhere. Dave “The Dave” Fuller shredded. Grind bonk transfers over the hip, speed lines around the corner, sweepers, 5-0s, etc. I bailed a lot of back 50s and tried to slash frontside over the hip for a really long time. I would eventually get one. It felt awesome. It took Rob doing a run with two of his magical corner carves in it to get me hyped enough. Jack did front 50 over the hip first try, 5-0s, disasters, a lot. We eventually left. Everyone hyped.
We checked out this nearby DIY spot. We felt weird rolling up when they were working on it, but Bochi ended up being really nice and told us what was up. Rob and I were too sore to skate, but everyone else did. Chief had a nice bump out to manny. Jack back lip and front tail transfers. Dave did a backside sweeper. What more do you need to say? Bochi ripped the place. All of the qps are pretty gnarly. Then we went to the Emerica premiere and had even more fun. Great day. Great dudes. Great skating. Dream day.
Posted in Skate Journal on September 23rd, 2016 by corpo
Went over to the school feeling pretty sore/tired. Didn’t ollie at all. Just spins to stall. Like halfcab nosestall without ollieing. Did several variations. Also slappy crook and slappy front crook. Yippee.
