After a pretty late night of partying for the Meta grand re-opening party I grabbed Ollie and we went to Southern Hills for a short session. I experimented with the panorama app on my camera and as you can see I must shake the camera a lot. Oh well. I had some new shoes, some Vox Class X. They seem good. As you can see there was a lot of snow and puddles around. Ollie didn’t really skate much. He just kind of pushed and didn’t really do any tricks. He was having fun though. I had more swagger in my step then I thought I would and was skating kinda fast. I had a line with an ollie off the ledge by the handicap ramp, turned around and kickflipped into the handicap ramp then ollied a pile of snow. I had another line with a noseslide the tall ledge on the far left, kickflip into the handicap ramp then ollie a bigger pile of snow (in the background behind the square of benches). I added a bad flatground treflip, front 50 and crooks on the main bench and we called it a day.

Got up early on a gorgeous saturday already in the mid 50s. Liz’s parents were here, but eating lunch with some friends so I had some free time and surprisingly my quads weren’t hurting so bad. Perhaps it’s the warmer weather helping out. I skated flat til Jake and Bernie came over. I felt really rusty. Jake showed first and we both just kinda messed around doing our own thing. Jake put together some decent lines. Bernie showed and we went to a middle school in east Boulder to skate the ledges out front, but instead ended up at the 3 stair in the back. Bernie’s friend Teagan joined us. Jake and I were having a blast. Jake had the first 180 down it and the first ollie up it. When Teagan joined though he almost kickflipped up it, had switch tre down it 2nd try and was having fun too. The photo is him doing a front 360 shove with Jake looking on. Bernie of course found some manual options with it. I managed a few tricks down it. Early grab, boneless, no comply boneless, front shove (first real try) and a kickflip. When we left my legs felt really good. Perhaps I should skate small stair sets more. This was the set I backside flipped before my arthritis hit the fan in 2011.

Jake had to leave. We went to the Google building because Teagan was trying to film a line with a switch tre down the six. While Bernie filmed him I just dorked around. I ended up above trying to ollie this little flower pot. Normally it would be somewhat easy for me, but the angle is so hard so after several fails I just went with a front 180 instead.

I came upon this across from the six stair in the next parking lot. It looked ripe for dorking out on and wow it ended up making my day even better. The slight slant of the sidewalk and the crack were appealing. First tricks were front 180 into it, sw ollie off the curb then a f/s halfcab flip on flat. I should mention that flip tricks were really hard at this point in the day because my shoes were toast. The real fun began when I started treated it like a bank to curb. My first “line” was ollie up, f/s pivot on the crack, kickflip off. I tried to ollie a tall cone after that too, but you all know I can’t do that. I don’t care, I was giggling anyway as that line was super fun. I also did ollie up. no comply to tail, back 180 off the curb. Almost got a kickflip b/s pivot too, but my nose would hit the rail. Eventually it was time to go and meet up with the in-laws. This was one of my favorite days skating in awhile. Dork spots are the best.

Rating: STYLE
Rating: COMFORT
Rating: BOARD FEEL
Rating: BREAK IN PERIOD (Good rating means it doesn’t take long to break in)
Rating: SOLE DURABILITY
Rating: UPPER DURABILITY
Rating: OVERALL

These shoes lasted 6 skate days

I’ve had a few pairs of these. The first pair seemed like the best shoe ever made. The second didn’t last so long. This pair pretty much set the low bar on sole durability. They only lasted six days! Most of which were short sessions on Rampy. This is really bad. The shoe is a comfy and stylish shoe, but a sole that wears out this quick is not acceptable. I hope Lakai puts the thicker tread on this shoe. It’s experiences like this that make me consider large corporate company shoes. Shame on you Lakai.

** NOTE ** I had another pair of these after being told Lakai had a new manufacture and they were much better.