Well my obsession over new trucks resulted in some new Royals. Based off a lot of things. First, I had them a long time ago and liked them. Second, Meta had them. Third, just look at the dudes that skate them! Cory Kennedy, Wes Kremer, Mike Carrol, Hsu, etc. Baller team and their footage looks like their trucks perform how I’d like mine to. Stable on straights, tight when you want them. Fourth, still completely blown away by the level of nerdiness on this site and he says great things about Royal. Anyways, I was at Meta at closing time and Matt came by with his cruiser, but we went and got his real board to get gnar. We started by looking for some metal construction manual pads and upon finding them just bombed a little hill instead. Then we ended up walking up to Casey and the ledges were lit so we skated there. My new trucks were a bit weird, but I couldn’t really complain. I didn’t have much pop. Got a front nose 270 out (aka the Helmstetter), noseslides, boardslide, possibly a crooks and a front 50 that was a battle. Flip tricks went ok, the Royals are lower so flip faster. The 3flip I landed felt really weird. Matt had no problem front tailing the ledge. Then went on to do a sick line with a little manual bonk on a rock, front tail to fakie then switch tre on flat. Whoa! He also got noseslide 270 shove and back tail. Then we rolled the rough hill back down and called it a night. Fun.

Met Rob a little before 5pm on another chilly day. Sure it wasn’t all that cold (around 50), but there was a cold chill in breeze and it’s the middle of May already darn it! Warming up was very slow for me. I didn’t even really do any flip tricks, but I did one fakie flip where I was barely moving. So slow in fact that Rob laughed because he saw me land it, looked away, looked back and I was still in the same place. Yeap, that sounds like me. We mostly skated the ledge. Rob had some longer noseslides and boardslides, some crooks (the photo above isn’t a make, but oh well), front noseslides, halfcab boardslide, and manualled the whole hill a couple times. I had a few longer noseslides, crooks, couldn’t get back 50, got a front board pop out then started hucking a Fuller trick. Front board to fakie. Not even possible. I did however end up getting a front board back 270 out. Pretty sure it slid at least 6″ so it maybe counts as a new trick. It was fun. We didn’t skate too long, it was nice. I have to say I’m wanting to try some new trucks that turn tighter. Not sure what it’s going to be yet, but man, this website rules with all it’s info about trucks. I’ve been completely out-nerded. I’m ashamed.