skate journal: flat ground in front of the house with Jake (Feb 14, 2010)

Posted in Skate Journal on February 15th, 2010 by corpo

It snowed a couple inches overnight, but it melted off and the street in front of my house was dry.  Jake came over and we got a little session going.  When we started it was cloudy and cold and neither of us started off too well.  I was feeling very old and stiff.  I was somehow landing some tricks, but they were really bad.  We eventually got things going pretty good and the sun had come out.  Other than almost getting hit by some lady who made a point to drive within inches of me it turned into an awesome session.  We each got a couple treflips which were harder than normal.  I blame the frozen bushings.  Not the lack of skating flatground lately.  I spent some time trying a line of 3 flip, heelflip, nollie 3 flip.  Never got the nollie 3 flip, but came kinda close.  Another line I tried for a long time was 180 no comply, fakie flip, fakie treflip.  The first few fakie flips were sooooo bad for some reason.  After awhile they were flowing ok though and I was committing to the fakie tres, but not landing them.  Jake battled the frontside flip for awhile and came up victorious.  We did quite a bit more than it sounds here.  It was fun.  Toward the end Jake was trying nollie fs bigspins and I was posing hardflips.  I say posing because I never truly committed although the board did flip right a few times.  Fun session.  Let’s do it again soon Jake.

Nike makes some ugly ass shoes

Posted in Random skate news on February 15th, 2010 by corpo

Aint no Cosby sweater gonna save these shoes.