skate journal: broomfield park, crisis parking lot and stonehenge with a rad crew (may 13, 2017)
Posted in Skate Journal on May 16th, 2017 by corpo
Got a text around 9:30 from Rob saying he was heading to Broomfield. So I wrapped up things and met up with Rob. It was a really nice morning. Sunny, warm, but not hot. We mostly had the park to ourselves for awhile. My confidence is still shot, everything hurts so it’s much harder to get motivated and try hard. Rob was ripping though. Manuals around the blue bank, crooks and front boards on the black box, halfcab boardslides. I really tried to just work on getting some confidence back with basics like ollies up the blue curb, noseslide the black ledge. Matt and Ed showed. Matt hasn’t skating in awhile, but was still shredding the ledges. Fakie 5-0! Eric, Carleigh, Jake were there too. Carleigh was working on decking back disasters more. Jake still gets better. Ed is fun to skate with. Eric was going for broke trying to boardslide the six stair rail. It was gnarly! Matt, Jake, Rob and I played a game of SKATE. Matt was the first one out. Ha ha. It was hilarious to see Jake and Matt try no comply finger flips for the first time ever. Rob took me out with a b/s flip and I don’t know if Jake or Rob won it.
Then we ate and went to Crisis which turned into a full on session on the parking block in front of the store. It was rad. Matt went the back tail, lipslide, etc route. Fuzz went slappy feeble. Ed lead the charge on layback slappys which turned into a funny session to watch. A lot of us got them, or some version of it. Rob was quick with it. Jake too. Carleigh and I took longer. I had a bunch of slappy crooks that were really fun too. Rob and Fuzz worked on G-turns. Rob’s were amazing.
Then I met Nolan at Stonehenge. He had cleaned off the barrier as best he could. I did some turns on it, then we skated the bank to curb for awhile as Carleigh showed. It’s fun trying to skate that spot like a line. I tried basic pivot tricks on the curb then rocks on the jersey barrier, but wasn’t close at all. Carleigh had to split right away. I filmed Nolan get a rad line. Long day!
(setup 8.1 null rabethica deck, venture 5.2 high trucks, venom 88a bushings, 51mm spitfire classic f4 99a wheels, new balance numeric pj 533 black/white 12, stock nb insoles)