Snowboarding Video

Here is the video I made from my first season snowboarding. Oh by the way, you should all check out http://www.virusintl.com/ .

Carls-not-so-bad Skatepark

       I love title puns. Anyways, I think I got there at just the right time. It was about 8:00 pm and I got there right before a big rush came. I don't know what it is normally like but it wasn't very crowded that night. I wish they had either made it a 2 part park. Because the park was slanted. I was in a smaller bowl with coping and accidentally flung my board out. Normally I would walk over and pick it up where it landed. But since the park is on uneven ground. My board rolled all the way to the street section on the other side of the park. It had a cool C-box. And some stairs and bowls. A pretty standard park. There was a 5-stair that had about 5 feet of space to get speed for it. So the park isn't designed very well but if you're good and it's not very crowded it can be fun!!!

San Marcos Skatepark

Panorama of the park.

       I went to the San Marcos Skatepark over the weekend. It was small and it was just a couple people there. I would say just go there if you're in the area but don't go out of your way to go there. They have 1 capsule bowl that is like 5 or 6 feet deep and then your choice of a quarterpipe, Euro, or Quarterpipe to get speed for the next section. Which is all metal ramps. They have a quarterpipe that is about 8 feet and then an angled coping down to a quarterpipe that is about 4 feet tall. In the middle then have a funbox with a flat down rail and ledge. Then on the side a flat down flat rail and a flat down box. I thought the park was in a good location. They had some nice 4 and 5 stairs around it that were seperate from the park. I think it is worth a small session if you are in San Marcos.

Oceanside

           I went with a friend and my dad to the oceanside skatepark yesterday. It was a real relief to skate again, because I hadn't skated for at least 3 hours. While we were there, I pretty much sessioned the quarterpipe next to the the extension. That was so much fun. I got some good airs off of it. I also got some good grabs off of it too. People were taking up the bowl section for the most part, but it was still awesome. Thanks to my dad for filming me. I was stupid and I asked him to point the camera higher becuase I thought it was cutting off my head. After looking at the videos, I saw that after I asked him to point it up, it only filmed my chest up. So you can't see how high I aired or if I landed it. He was right. The park was fun though.

New tricks

       Man have I worked a lot this weekend. I was outside on a skateboard for atleast 6 hours in the last 2 days. normally that's not that much but this was all outside in front of my house on the street, trying to land a kickflip. I tried 1000 times. (that might be exxageration). Anyways, I finally landed it but it was a sketchy landing. Then today I was so excited to go out again and try it. I stomped it so hard. After I landed that I figured it was time to move onto a new trick. I was messing around with my pop-shuvit and backside 180s, so I went for a "Fakie Nollie Big Spin". After 3 tries I almost landed it, I'm sure after some work today I'll stomp it no problem. By the way, Congrats to my friend, Nathan, who got first the most recent contest he entered.

San Cemente Skatepark

               Hehe. Did you see what I did in the title, I went to the San Clemente skatepark, and it was made of cement so I changed "Clemente" to "Cemente" like cement-eee. Haha anyways... This park was filled with great riders. I noticed one guy who was good and he looked like he was gearing up for something, and then he did a backflip off a bank. It blew my mind. Now I know that it is technically a skatepark, but I'm tempted to call it a scootpark. Hehe. Because more than half the people there were on scooters. They park is great for beginners and intermediate riders. I landed my first disaster to revert out on the small bowls and on the quarter pipe over by the combi-bowl. It was a little bit of a drive from my house but totally worth. I would say it is worth atleast an hour and a half drive. Great park.

Encinitas Skatepark... Again

       I go to the Encinitas skatepark so much that I am running out of things to say about it. But the last time I went was interesting. I think there was a pro there. Not sure who it was but he was totally ripping up the kidney bowl. Also it was interesting because there was always 1 section at a time that was empty. When we got there the vert ramp was empty then we headed over to mini land and after we left that became empty. I guess all the skaters moved together. As usual there were some awesome groms there. One of them did the pole jam up the Euro. Another followed my line and aired way higher than I did, and I air pretty high. So that park was fun too. Wow I managed to write more new stuff. Overall, Good trip.

Vans Skatepark

     I've had the busiest 2 weeks so I haven't had time to post so here it goes. I went to the Vans skatepark the day after I got back from Hawaii aka the day I posted last. That park was really fun. I got to skate for a couple hours. Thanks to my dad who sat outside the park with my dog. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to skate. It was my first time to that park and I thought it was great. I liked the mini-ramp behing that bank. That was fun too. The park wasn't really that crowded so it was fun to move around the features that you could move, like the big kicker and some of the smaller rails. Also the flat-down-flat-down-flat-to-bank was cool to air off of the extension on the bank. Overall the park was perfection.