Denni and I went to NYC this weekend for a quasi-organized saturday night skate with the Union Square Crew. I’d say it was the best group skate I’ve been on so far. First, Dominique and Marie from France showed up, which was a pleasant surprise. This gave us a good balance of slalom and non-slalom skaters. So, Denni and I took turns learning slalom tricks from our french guests, and non-slalom tricks from our new york friends.
The skate consisted of just the right ratio of skating through new york traffic, and then hanging out at good locations to do tricks or relax. And we did lots of relaxing, because it was still hot even at night.
I think a bunch of us are going to visit Dominique and Marie in france some time next summer.
We learned our first 50cm trick too! I guess its called the windshield wiper, or the “X” not sure which.
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July 31st, 2006 at 8:54 am
“The skate consisted of just the right ratio of skating through new york traffic…”. Oh man. So I just realized that I was the most out of shape person there. Yesterday, Sunday, I drove home, got home about 1pm and have been advilling it every 4 hours since. This was the most intense skate I’ve ever been on. These guys skate so hard and don’t even realize it. I give everyone including Jeremy HUGE credit for how they skate. It was eye opening to see how intense I need to be to even keep up with these guys nevermind compete against. Loads of practice will happen for me in the coming year. I will be starting a western mass skate fairly soon. Stay tuned.
Meeting Dominique and Marie was fantastic too. I learned tons from them including some new tricks and ways to practice technique. I learned a lot from the NYC crew as well. I’m very intrigued by the hand springs and twirls they do. Yay Union Square Crew!