skate journal: stubborns saturday. red hawk, rocky mountain and chocolate chip (oct 13, 2018)
I’m writing this several days after the fact and in the middle of the night not being able to sleep. Ugh. Work has been insane and it’s messing with me. So I’m making excuses for this entry not being very complete or entertaining. Anyways, Stubborns Saturday was in effect on a crisp morning that would get pretty warm. The first spot was Red Hawk because Dave and I had some trick ideas. Although we went on to not even really try them. Ha. I got there first and started out on the curb area. The shaded area was still pretty cold. Those ride on grinds are really fun there. I tried to piece together a flatground trick, grind, back 180 up the curb, switch 180, front 50, front board. I might have done that. Kevin was next I think. Or Dave. They both started on the curbs too. Sean showed. He didn’t really mess with the curbs. Then we were mostly down below. Kevin was rattling off lines. Dave ollied up the loading dock and followed it with a solid front 50 back 180 out. Sean skates so fast it was rubbing off on others. Maybe not me so much as I think he could pass me without even pushing while trying lines. But Kevin slammed hard trying to do a fast front 50 and it kind of took him out for the day. He still skated, but his knee was hurting. Kevin and I had some funny tips for each other. After he bailed a back 50 I told him he might want to go slower and use more angle and landed my terrible one. After I bailed a crooks he told me I might want to go faster and use less angle and landed a good one. Ha. I had a lot of accidental front 5-0s and posed kick front boards without ever committing. I was skating so bad I decided to start filming Sean who was doing a line of fakie 50 then fakie back tail 270 shove, but we got the boot.
Off to Rocky Mtn Elem it was. Everyone but Sean was completely wrecked and sore when we go there. I think it was the crazy weather change coming messing with everyone. Or just the old age. Kevin tried to get it going, but he just couldn’t with his knee. Sean ollied the medians so casually and got a cool little clip for the gram. His front tailsides on the ledge were so posted up it inspired me to try and post up more on a more technical trick – noseslide. Dave was shredding the bank to angled curb. He did a crazy nollie shove rock ‘n roll in between some sketchy ollies up. Fuzz showed, but didn’t really skate this spot. The cracks here are so bad. I kept trying for the heck of it. Kickflips up the little curb are really fun there. The noseslide to fakie was fun too, the bigger board is great for noseslides. I didn’t get many flippers. I got a few super slow front 50 that felt like an accomplishment just forcing my legs to ollie that high, but never got the no comply bean plant after.
Then we went to the chocolate chip church. Upon rolling up Fuzz and I were amazed at how much gnarlier it was then we remembered. But after some kickturns and stuff it felt more skateable. I pretty much lost interest right away though and just filmed. Fuzz got the rock ‘n rolls along with a little stubborns line. Sean got a litle gram line and said he wanted to learn ollies to fakie (I don’t believe that he didn’t already have it mastered). Kevin had some painful looking bails, but went in hard on a pivot fakie and just couldn’t quite get it. It was a bummer, but man he tried hard and was limping so bad.
After that was mexican food and margs. Good times.
(setup 8.5 null perception deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 88a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, old bones 51mm stf v1 wheels, new balance numeric 345 black/white size 12, stock insoles)
(pain level 3/10 when we started but more like 7/10 knee pain at rocky mtn)