Encinitas Skatepark

I went to Encinitas twice in the last 2 days. I think all I needed was a little time off the ramp to really push myself once I got back on. All I wanted to do was pump higher than I'd pumped before. Since the last time I tried to drop in on a vert ramp was extremely unsuccessful. I don't want to drop in on something that high yet. So pumping to the coping is my goal. Yesterday, I got on the ramp and pumped up to the vert but that's as far as I got. Same thing today! I just need a couple more hours on the ramp to get up to the coping. I hope to do that over the next couple of weeks. Then today, I went during the middle of the day. Thanks to my sister for taking me. Anyways, There was some guy on the ramp going X Games height. I saw a lot of kids recently who were like 12 &13 years old dropping in on the vert ramp. I don't know how they do it.
That'll be me in a couple months. It's been fun. By the way, I have too much to say about the X Games, so I'm just going to say that I saw it all and it was amazing!!!!!!! That's all!!

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.