skate journal: flatground sucking then a mini bank in the heat wave (Dec 19, 2015 day 339)

Posted in Skate Journal on December 20th, 2015 by corpo

Drove to Denver to sell boards at Emage and 303. I thought Denver would be drier. It was not. So after tons of Christmas shopping and selling boards I ended up back in Boulder. I was going to stop home and grab Ledgy, but I figured I might get stuck. So I drover around looking for dry. I found a decent patch of somehwat downhill asphalt out in the industrial park and went with it. It had a parking block where I warmed up with some different stalls. There was also a little loading dock to do a quick little half push before riding off. I mostly tried some downhill lines. First one was pop shove, kickflip, back 180. It took awhile. The kickflip was killing me. Ugh. Then I tried varial flip, no comply 180, fakie flip. The varial flip almost resulted in a focused board. That trick is the worst. I would eventually get the line, but it took a toll on me. Then was halfcab flip followed by b/s flip. That one took awhile too, but it felt good when I did it. Then I tried to start a line with 360 flip and never landed it. I left frustrated thinking I was going home. But I drove around looking for some more dry spots.

desperate

This spot is always dry and I ended up dorking around. It’s obviously really mellow, but when most spots are covered in snow, you gotta do what you gotta do. I started with some side rock variations then tried to do a rock kickflip to fakie. I got really close and then the one I landed was not really to fakie or regs, it just kind of came out and stopped sideways on the bank. Oh well. Rather then leave as the sun set, I stubbornly decided to do 10 flip tricks on the “bank”. I thought it was a bad omen when the first trick I tried, kickflip to fakie, took over 5 tries. Bs flip, fakie flip and halfcab flip all took longer then they should too. But then it started to become fun. F/s flip, fakie f/s flip, varial flip to fakie, fakie varial flip. I randomly decided to do a “bank” trick I’ve never done before. Sex change. And it felt rad! I decided to torture myself with trying 360 flip to fakie which ended up coming pretty quickly, but I put my hand down. I got a few more, but every time my hand touched. I blame the mellowness of the bank. I was sweating at this point too and it felt good.

(setup 8.38 null venture wides 52mm spitfire f4 99a bones medium bushings nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum)

skate journal: fun, then not fun at the snowy research ledge (dec 18, 2015 day 338)

Posted in Skate Journal on December 20th, 2015 by corpo

Hyped to find some dry. #day338

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perfect ledge for skateboarding

Left work early since I’ll be off for a week. It felt somewhat warm in the 40s and I was thinking I’d just be skating flatground somewhere. But low and behold there was a window of dry at the research ledge! The runway had some wet, the angles were different, it wasn’t easy. I did a couple noseslides and a boardslide before crooks. The crooks felt really rad. At this point I was hyped that I was able to skate outside and grind a little. Then I started trying back 50s. UGH! I tried to do them with less angle then normal. Well actually, I didn’t really have much choice since the snow effected that. Plus I had to get on a little later which was taller. I would end up getting a few really bad ones, but I mostly just got bummed. I did a few more crooks to ease off the pain. Tried a few flip tricks on the sandy sidewalk above the ledge. Even kickflips were hard. Couldn’t do a treflip. Ended by trying halfcab noseslide and couldn’t believe how hard it was for me. I got super bummed, but kept at it until I landed the worst one ever. It’s tough being so stubborn.

(setup 8.38 null venture wides bones medium bushings 52mm spitfire f4 99a nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum)