What a weekend of skating.
This was quite a 4th of July weekend.
I decided that I need to put together a skate video for myself.
I sat down and wrote out the list of parks and spots I want to film at and what tricks I wanted to do at each place.
Then we went out skating.
Location: McMinnville
Mission: Carve over the mousehole.
A giant doorway (mousehole) is cut out of the deep end of a bowl. It's about 6 feet tall and 5 feet wide.
You have less than a foot of clearance above the door in which to carve over.
If you mess up, you get wrecked as you fall down and sideways... as seen in this picture:
It was the first time in a long time that I was actually scared about hurting myself.
Which of course made me want to do it all the more.
Which I did.
That was Friday.
Then Sunday came and it was time to go to Vancouver.
Location: Vancouver
Mission: Drop into vert, air over hip.
Vancouver is a scary park. Very big, very deep, very fast. The design for it was really ruled by the BMX community as they showed up en masse during the build phase.
I decided that this was the day for my first vert drop in. Jaqui and the kids happened to come along too in order to play at the playground.
I texted Jaqui: "Want to see me drop into vert?"
She came over and then this happened.
And of course I also did a frontside air over the hip.
Both missions accomplished.
I have checked these off my list and will now begin my next plan of attack.
I can't believe I have to sit in an office when it's so beautiful outside and I have so much skating to do!
Then Sunday came and it was time to go to Vancouver.
Location: Vancouver
Mission: Drop into vert, air over hip.
Vancouver is a scary park. Very big, very deep, very fast. The design for it was really ruled by the BMX community as they showed up en masse during the build phase.
I decided that this was the day for my first vert drop in. Jaqui and the kids happened to come along too in order to play at the playground.
I texted Jaqui: "Want to see me drop into vert?"
She came over and then this happened.
And of course I also did a frontside air over the hip.
Both missions accomplished.
I have checked these off my list and will now begin my next plan of attack.
I can't believe I have to sit in an office when it's so beautiful outside and I have so much skating to do!
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010
2 comments:
Good job. Just thinking about skating lately makes me cringe (old man self preservation). And skating vert I couldn't even begin to work up that courage...
Actually, I think you would surprise yourself. If I can work up to doing this, anyone can. I'll make a blog post today talking about it.
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