skate journal: skating hard at rocky mtn with dave and sean (jan 12, 2019)
On a cool day I went to Rocky Mtn Elem to meet up with Dave and maybe others. Riley ended up staying at Longmont park, but Sean joined us. I got there first and wow warming up was not easy. I was on the smaller setup and stayed on it. Dave showed next and the temperature was getting warmer in the sun. I was feeling energetic and hucking a lot. It brought me back to 10 or so years ago when I skated there with an 8″ deck. But it ended up not really translating to me landing tricks. I had a front 50 and a crooks on the ledge, that was about it. I hucked a few of the kickflips over the little brick median which I haven’t done in like 12 years. As you can see I got close, but no cigar. I had a really bad slam on a rock before ollieing up a curb. It hurt so bad. I was 1/3 on halfcab flips so struggling there too. Dave was ripping doing lines, lots of tricks on the banks. Boneless, 270 manuals, nollie 270 onto it, pop shoves, boardslides on the rock. Sean was rips. His line took him awhile, but man it’s so sick. He also said he couldn’t slappy then did several perfectly and told us he’d never really do it before. We all skated the bank to slide thing for awhile. I was struggling with the ollie up. All I got was a couple boardslides down and some nose/tail jibs. Dave had the sick pivot, was trying front 50s, 180 up the curb to fakie tailslide, front boards down. Sean had the super casual ollie up, front board down, front board to fakie, back tail stall, back tail to manual for the ender! Then we played a game of SKATE. I like ending on a game of SKATE, but about half way through my legs shut down. I remember Sean doing a good fakie 3 shove. Dave got out first and had to leave. Sean ended me with a cab bigspin. Fun day. I didn’t land much, but man we skated hard and man I was so sore afterwards.
(setup old 8″ null, venture 5.2 v-hollow high trucks, 50mm bones stf, 3 speed washers on the inside of each axle to make it feel a little wider, bones medium bushings, lakai sheffield gray size 12, thinnish lakai rubbery insoles from bristols)
(pain level 6/10)