Well I finally decided to forgive the Clairemont skatepark and go back. For those of you who don't know, About a year ago, I tried to drop in on the love seat, which is a quarterpipe on the X Games vert ramp they have, that is about a foot below the full size vert ramp. I dropped in and faceplanted on the flat bottom. That was not fun. I haven't been to clairemont since, but last Friday I had an itch to try it again. So my dad and I went to the park, and man has is changed. I knew that the street course had changed and that was fun. They have a manual pad, hubbas, flat ledges, down rails, flat rails, a 6 stair and various kickers, quarterpipes and banks. That was a lot of fun skating. Then there was the mini ramp. That is what I now believe to be the second best park of the skatepark. It is about 4 ft. It is a halfipipe with a spine in the middle on one side, 2 small rollers in the middle of the middle and 1 big roller on the other side. I thought that was awesome and way better than it used to be. Then I headed over to the wooden bowls. Normally I love them, but these were kind of a disappointment. They were all bump and old. There were big wholes blocked off in them and it just wasn't that fun. I really hope they fix it. And finally the thing I came to do... The vert ramp. I started pump just to kind of warm up on it and the first run I did I slipped out. So I've gotten used to the vert ramp at encinitas and this ramp is way more slippery and the transition is different so I wasn't comfortable on the ramp and didn't try it. Next time. I think if they redid the bowls and vert ramp the park would really be perfect.
Oh and one more thing. On the mini-ramp with the encouragement and support of all the nice guys there, I landed a footplant over the spine. That was a lot of work paid off!!
SAAA-weeeetttt!
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