Skate Reanimate

What can you say about a guy like this, reasserting his status as a skate legend?

I took advantage of the warm weather to skate the Sandy Lone Peak skatepark on my lunch break again. I rode a little more aggressively today, still spending some time on manual carving on the round ditches, and feeling out the coping on the 5/6′ end of the park.

Saw a young guy skating 8, too. Pretty crazy stuff.

I broke my skate-fast for the sake of the warm weather and rode the Sandy Lone Peak skate park on my lunch break. I’m nursing a strained ankle, so I just cruised around, resisting the coping, and trying to learn to manual up and down the shallow round walls and banks. It’s not a cool move, but it feels good for some reason.

I traveled to the Bay Area this week for business, and had the chance to skate both the Pacifica skate park and the San Jose Lake Cunningham park. The locals were busy at Pacifica as usual, and I still love the mellow vibe and smooth transitions of that park. Lake Cunningham was hopping, but I was able to find relative solitude in the giant skull bowl as well as the full pipe, and, surprisingly, the 5′ bowl on the East side.

I really dug this 5′ bowl. It’s just my size for mini-ramp style tricks, and has enough of the bowl feel to keep it interesting. The worst traffic here was the occasional biker crossing through on a larger run.