skate journal: broomfield park before the snow with rob, kevin, sean (march 21, 2021)
On a cool day with clouds forming quickly I met Rob, Sean and Kevin at Broomfield park. Sean and Kevin had already been there and were shredding the black ledge when Rob and I showed at basically the same time. Warming up I felt better than expected, but I would never actually do much of anything for awhile. Sean had gone deep into his ledge bag and was doing fakie 5-0s and nosegrinds. Kevin nollie nosegrinds and the Gish. Rob would get into demo mode pretty quickly. There were a couple rare tricks that came out like nose manual followed by no comply back 360 and lots of his other manuals and grinds. Near the end I really wanted to do a back heel on the mellow bank. I tried and tried and used various lines to get there, but never got it before the snow settled in. I couldn’t get a decent front 50 on the black ledge, couldn’t back 50 the blue lurb, couldn’t halfcab noseslide the black ledge. Man, it was a struggle! The funny thing was I did a kickflip axle stall nollie shove out on the low part or the brown ledge. As dorky as that was it was probably my highlight.
(setup 8.25 null spanbauer deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast baseplate v-hollow hanger, bones medium little bushing ace big bushing, spitfire f4 52mm classic shape 99a, new balance numeric 212 cake size 12 with footprint mid elite insoles)
(pain level 3/10)