skate journal: Denver with Connor/solo (Dec 18, 2013)

Posted in Skate Journal on December 19th, 2013 by corpo

Got home and split for Crisis right away after picking up boards. Hung out for awhile and Fuzz didn’t feel like skating so I left for Denver to do it. I parked near Connor’s house so he could get a dvd/deck. We started at a curb that I could not ollie up and my legs felt horrible. Connor did a cool wallride though.

Then we cruised around a while. Ended up at the two stair spot that I normally love, but my legs were feeling the most arthritic they have in months. Ollie’ing up the two was hard. Connor was just kinda cruising. We ended up back at the car. He got his stuff and split. I skated a little more. Tried to skate flat, but it didn’t go so well. Ended up at one spot I kinda like. Ollie’d onto a bench, rode off, ollied onto another, rode off, then did a b/s flip into a slight downhill. Got one b/s flip that felt super good. Everything else felt pretty weak.

skate journal: solo valmont wearing off the rust (Dec 17, 2013)

Posted in Skate Journal on December 19th, 2013 by corpo

Was on my way to Longmont to meet Dave when he texted saying he couldn’t skate. So just pulled off at Valmont and skated there. I started off so rusty. Ollie’ing up curbs felt hard. I stuck with it though and after a few noseslides and front 50s on the low part I started to feel better. For whatever reason I got it into my head to relearn nollie varial flips. I probably landed on 20 of them. Some of them even faster then lots of my tricks. They felt great, I just didn’t ride away from any. Doh! Made myself ollie off the loading dock which was harder then normal due to their being a puddle after making me go about 1/2 mph faster then normal to clear it. Ledge tricks were whatever. Front 50s on the low part were my fav. Got a couple crooks, one back 50, a switch front nose that I was pretty excited about. Did lots of flatground, defeated on 3 flips though. I started to feel cold at the end so I left. Felt good to burn some of the rust off.