skate journal: gypsum day 1 fun with cass neil rob and jeff! (may 28, 2024)
After a pleasant drive we ended up at a very windy new skatepark none of us had been to before, Gypsum. And man it looked awesome and was indeed really fun. Oh actually Cass has been there before. It was pretty chill, not a lot of people. An old guy crew from Telluride that stuck mostly to the bowl. A couple road tripping from Utah and the dude was slaying the park. Out of the gates Rob had slappy crook and back 50s on the bank to curb. I got a few noseslides on the pyramid that were really fun, one of which almost went the distance. I got a couple crooks that were no where near the whole ledge. I couldn’t get a b/s flip after though. Jeff arrived. He started doing really good b/s ollies over the hip and followed with nollie b/s flip. Neil had tried to get it going, but the body wasn’t working. Cass got a back 50 over the pyramid, I think kickflip over the f/s hip. We skated the basketball court section for a bit. Cass did kickflip to fakie first try, I got it second try which felt good after the battle the day before. I also got b/s flip on it. Jeff got nollie front heel. I think people chilled a lot, I was kind of just going non-stop, just doing basics and having fun lining them out. One of my fav lines was something like bump to noseslide the low area, kickflip to fakie the mellow bank, switch nose jib the ledge, quick up to little boardslide, turn around then crooks the ledge. I tried to manual the deck of the qp in the basketball court section for way too long and came up empty handed. Jeff on the other hand did kickflip nose manual! Rob had a second wind and did several crail/no comply related tricks on the bank. Cass did a really good front blunt on the loaf curb which I missed, but he got another good one.
(setup 5/10 8.25 null spanbauer dead spots, jessup ultragrip, slace 8.25, 52mm spitfire 99a tablets, new balance numeric 440v2 black/gum size 11.5 currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10)