Back to Clairemont

    I went to Clairemont yesterday, and skated my 2 favorite parts of the park, The Vert Ramp (Now that I can drop in on the loveseat) and the miniramp (just cause it's fun.) I went with my dad and my friend Nathan. My dad didn't skate but he filmed and we had fun. When we were on the mini ramp, Nathan aired over the deck of the miniramp on the the bank next to it. It was pretty crazy. As for me, I'm just happy that I can finally put a run together on a mini ramp, like, a BS 5-0 to transfer over the spine, Rock to Fakie, Fakie to Fakie Transfer over the spine, fakie to BS Smith stall and so on. Now I really like mini ramps. Then we headed over to the Vert Ramp and I got some runs going on that too. I dropped in and then kick turn to Melon pre-grab backside air, rock to fakie, gay twist, rock to fakie, fakie backside shuv-it. It was awesome. Then Nathan learned how to Melon pre-grab backside air which he couldn't do before. Since he learned something new, I had to learn something new so I learned and Indy pre-grab frontside air. I still don't have them down but I can atleast do them now. It was a very productive session. next time I will drop in on the normal sized vert ramp.

Happy Birthday to Me

  

   Man, this last weekend was amazing. It started on Saturday when I went to Encinitas and just kinda messed around there. I don't really do backside disasters but I learned them on Saturday and it was fun. That was pretty much what I did on Saturday and just had fun. Then Sunday was my birthday, so my dad took me to Poway in the morning, I got some sweet airs out of a quarterpipe and it was amazing. We spent a couple hours there and then went to Clairemont. Clairemont was the most fun I had all day. I'm sure you remember me telling you all about when I tried to drop in on the 11 foot loveseat on the vert ramp in Clairemont and fell into the flat bottom. Pretty much 1 year later on my birthday and I did it. I dropped in on the loveseat and I felt soooooo good. After that I had to be sure it wasn't just an accident so I went up and did it again. Some people say that once you do it the 1st time the rest is easier. I don't think this is true. It was just as hard the next couple of times. Anyways, I redid that for the rest of the session and then we went to Encinitas again. I was hoping to  drop in on the vert ramp at Encinitas but I didn't. It was too big. The cool part is that the vert ramps is starting to look and feel smaller and I'm getting higher up on the walls and I don't feel like it. I think I'm going to be riding vert alot more in the next couple of months. It was a great birthday!!

My Weekend at Woodward West!

              My English teacher says I should use my alliterations, so I made my title one. Anywho, As my 14th birthday present, My parents paid for a weekend at Woodward West, so my dad took me this weekend. I've been to several skateparks in the last couple weeks but since I just went to Woodward, I felt it was worth blogging 1st. We got there on saturday at 1:00 pm and they open at 2:00 pm so the 1 hour wait was killing me. Finally we went to Hangar 18, and met up with Katie, our extremely peppy, Woodward weekend guide. I rode around and checked the park out, then headed to the foam pit. I pretty much stayed there most of the day. i did some 360's and heelflip indys, and airwalks. It was fun. Occasionally I would venture to the big street are or the small street, art park, or mini-ramp. Plus a couple times I went to the vert ramp and stood on top of the resi psyching myself out. I learned a really basic trick a backside 50-50 stall which I never had done before on a mini-ramp. I also manualled across the big manny pad in the small street area. I finished the first day on top of the vert ramp and saying I would do it the next day. That will be my next post. It was a really fun first day, with double backflipping bikers, and zack sheckler, and lots of hard work getting out of the foam. The next day was awesome too.

Poway x 2!

          I went to the Poway skatepark twice in the last 2 weeks. It was really fun. I hadn't really been there for awhile. So going back was a good change. That park is pretty much where I learned to skate "park". The first time in the last couple weeks I went it was with my friends Casey and Nathan. Nathan recently went to woodward and talked about all the grabs he could to out of a quarterpipe. I'll be honest I didn't believe him. But at poway he proved me wrong. We went to a 14 and under supervised session on Friday nights. Nathan was going huge oput of the quarter. Roast Beef, Melon, Indy, Tail, Method, you name it he was doing it. I had some fun too. Doing 360 Burnt Slides on the bank. It was a good time. Then we went back on Sunday just me and Nathan and he taught me how to air out. (Which doesn't come easy for me) I know we'll be back.