skate journal: day off work fun in the cold at frederick (dec 17, 2020)
Had the day off work and after honing in on a dry park I left the warm feeling sun of Boulder for the frigid cold at Frederick. Dave had been there for a bit. Rob and I got there at basically the same time. Garrett and Jake a little later. There were clouds and a little breeze making the park feel super cold so warming up was not easy. Dave was doing lots of little nollies, fakie ollies, shoves on the banks and hips. Rob was doing full pulls around with some manuals. I was pretty random although pretty early on I had a pretty long line that made me happy. Back 180 off a little wedge, switch 180 over the a-frame, back 50 down the corner qp, slappy the bank to curb, kickflip the hump hip. We were in the manny pad area for awhile. Rob did back 180 up halfcab boardslide, ollied up the euro. Jake was going for fakie flip then halfcab noseslide, ollied up /down the euros. Dave did some quick up 50s, ollied up and down the euros. Garrett was flying around. B/s flip the steep hip, back big the steep hip, switch manual the little pad, manual kickflip the big pad, almost nose manual nollie flip. I got frustrated getting one ollie up the tall ledge and missing a bunch of other ones. Eventually Dave did a bunch of fakie flips on the steep bank then ollied up/down the euro, maybe a 180 too. I couldn’t get the fakie flip. I was having a lot of trouble flipping my board. I ended up trying b/s flip on the steep bank then treflip off the little wedge. I committed, but never rode away. Rob and Dave left. Jake, Garrett and I played SKATE. Well, I got 3 letters on fakie flip and managed to not focus my board! After I lost on another trick I should land I took a few tries to get a cruddy 270 flip. Jake and Garrett finished up and I went over and started trying the line above. I struggled with the kickflips initially then pretty much would get to the front shove every try. Garrett was kind enough to suggest filming it so we did. It didn’t take too many tries and I wasn’t even bummed when I saw the footage. Then I filmed Garrett for a bit and some scooter kids showed up so we called it a day. Skating in the cold is hard!
(setup 8.25 colfax deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger, venom 88a bushings, spitfire 52mm f4 99a classic shape, new balance numeric 212 black/pink size 11.5, footprint mid elite insoles)
(pain level 4/10)