skate journal: crowded broomfield park (oct 2, 2019)
On a cool night Matt H picked me up. Yes, he still skates. When he arrived he was in a hoodie and I didn’t think it was that cold initially, but decided to wear one anyway. It ended up being the right call as it was pretty chilly. We arrived to a very crowded park with a lot going on. Flyouts, scooters, bikes, ledge lines. It was crazy and hard to get warmed up. The crew was Kevin, Rob, Matt, Sean, Carleigh, Eric and me. Kevin always has nollie flips right out of the gate and looked extra stylee on his Null Curby board. Carleigh had a good fall ollieing up onto the blue ledge right away. Rob got into demo mode pretty quick. I saw Matt back nosegrind the black ledge first try. At least there was a tiny bit of sketch to it. Eric had nice crooks early on. I took awhile to ollie. Had fun with a deck check to manual on the side of the brown angled ledge. There was so much going on it was really hard to notice what others were doing. Rob had managed to line things out through the masses although I don’t remember the tricks right now. I know they ended with fakie bigspin then almost 360 shove. I was struggling with halfcab flips on flat and posing kick back tails on the blue ledge. Sean was mirroring out his black ledge lines and making flatground look really good and easy. His backside flips and heels are so good. Kevin did a switch manual 180 and I got his back with a little back 50 on the blue curb. At one point I ollied to deck check on the back of the blue bank. That was probably the highlight for me. I had thought about how I used to ollie into that and it felt really scary. Gonna try and keep that in the rotation. Eric had a bad slam and hurt his back and had to take off. Doh. Carleigh got back and front d on the brick qp. She also pops her ollies extra high when she ollies into the bank to start her run. Matt was trying fakie 5-0’s and had to give up so he focused his 2 year old board. Kevin worked on back nosegrinds which I haven’t really seen him do before. Decent night, I didn’t feel comfortable though and didn’t get into my bag enough to feel happy.
(setup 8.25 null abstract 6 deck, Venture 5.6 trucks, venom 91a bushings , sml 53mm og wide wheels, 3 washers inside each axle, new balance numeric 379 b/w size 12, footprints gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 4/10)