Spring has brought beautiful, cool, breezy afternoons–and pleasant lunchtime sessions at the Sandy skatepark. I worked on a general flow for the park and weak sauce smiths on one of the quarters.
Later that day I took another short skate at Springville with the kids.
Chad and I skated the new mini ramp at We Are One in Sandy. It’s a nice little 4′ design, but the pine surface is still really slick, and I spent most of my time getting used to it.
I managed a quick sessions at the Sandy park during my lunch break. Nothing special, just taking it easy and heating the blood.
Spent just 20 min warming myself up at the Sandy Lone peak skatepark during lunch today, working on cruising faster and carving stronger.
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 stopped by the relatively new We Are One skate park, located indoors in Sandy, Utah, just 10 minutes from my new office.
I found this place to be kind of weird for skating. There’s surely more potential that I recognized in a quick, 40 minute session, but I just wasn’t feeling fully stoked. Part of that is surely because it’s beyond my skills, but I think it was built by rollerbladers for rollerbladers, with skaters as an afterthought.
It’s a mix of tall banks and short transitions. The trannys are good throughout, though they used the fattest coping they could find, and really let it pop out of the edge, making it quite a challenge to get on and stay on. But it’s probably no different from pool coping, except that it grinds faster!
They’ve use a kind of plywood for the surface, which is not as slick as masonite but certainly slick enough to cause a few burns on your first few runs. I took a couple of freaky spills, mostly because I lost it on landings, and so next time I’ll be sure to pad up. I rode my tiny-wheeled street board here, which was probably a mistake, for even though the wheels are soft, their size means that I don’t have a lot of control on intentional or accidental slides.
All in all it’s a decent place to come in from the cold. And with snow on the way you can be sure I’ll be back.
Oh, and one of the staff told me they were planning a mini ramp in the store area, which would rock hard. They’re spec’ing it to just 4′, which I objected to, but any mini ramp is better than none at all.
On the way out of work tonight I decided to dodge the crowded I15 and take 2000 E south, where I just so happened upon the Sandy skatepark. Honestly, I didn’t know I’d be going past it!
Despite the cold I managed a handful of good runs with sketcy grinds, rocks, etc. I did earn my way into manuals on the low box, and a few solid 180 bonelesses on the curved lip. Lots of bikes there tonight, but few newbs on scooters, so all in all it was a good session, and I worked up a sweat for the first time in probably a week.
