skate journal: brief rampy flails (july 11, 2015 day 187)

Posted in New Shoes, Skate Journal on July 12th, 2015 by corpo

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Went out to Rampy after sitting around a lot in pain. I had some new shoes. I went with Es Accel Slim because it seems like a nice thin cupsole (still wish the new PJs skated like the old ones). I dropped in, but ended up chickening out of the axle stall due to fear of slamming and it hurt my side a bunch. So I just did some weird halfcab rock to fakie manuals things on the flat. I can’t wait for these pains in my side to be gone.

(setup 8.5 null venture wide lights thunder bushings 54mm (are you proud jack?) es accel slims black/white comed)

skate journal: wilville pain and the day i realize i can’t skate vulcs anymore (july 10, day 186)

Posted in New Wheels, Skate Journal on July 12th, 2015 by corpo

lots of fun to be had

Totally obsessed over bigger wheels for the last day. I got home from work, took a nap and then setup some Null 54s. They look huge. I rolled down the bikepath to Wilville. I wanted to just skated the bottom metal curb as my side was pretty sore, but they were roped off for construction. Doh. A couple bikers were trying to grind the double set rail. I saw a couple bad falls. As much as I hate sharing a skatepark with a biker due to the collision factor I have a lot of respect for how gnarly they get. So I went to the middle area and tried to remember how to ollie. Ha. It took a couple tries for me to manual into one and I realized manualling is probably the worst thing I could do for my painful side. Luckily I’m really stubborn. I tried a line of no comply 180, halfcab flip, nose manual. The hc flip was hard because of how slow the bigger wheels rotate and how crappy I felt on a board. But I never got the nose manual or even really the confidence to ollie onto the curb in nose manual. Argh. At the end I just did some of those mute grab bomb drops off the brick wall. It could be a fun line to do one off the brick to manual then nose manual the next one into the bank. As the session went on I felt worse and realized my frail body just can’t handle vulcs anymore. Doh. I pushed/walked home. Saw the remains of a bike collision on the bikepath. Yikes.

(setup 8.5 null venture wide lights thunder bushings 54mm nulls lakai fura white)