skate journal: some research ledge in the cold, then some poor attempts at flatground (april 30, 2016 day 121)

Posted in Skate Journal on May 1st, 2016 by corpo

cloudy windy snowy

After a fun morning with the family I set out to enjoy some dry crete. The snow had stopped falling and cleared up immediately. Unfortunately it was replaced with a cold breeze. I started by riding down the long stairs a few times. It was sprinkling/snowing a little constantly, but not enough to stick. I didn’t wax the ledge at all. Probably not a good move. I got noseslide, struggled a bit with noseslide to fakie, crooks first try, never a good locked in back 50, halfcab noseslide, front board pop out, jib bonk front noseslide, a front 50 that took way too long. I tried a lot of flatground in between that I didn’t land. Although I was pretty good on my heelflip ration which has been rough lately. The wind was messing with everything for sure. After awhile I skated the spot in a way that I hadn’t before. Fakie bigflip on the sidewalk below the ledge, pop shove off, then tried a front crook on the ledge. The fakie bigflip took a long time and it was making me mad and the wind was getting to be too much so I left. It started snowing harder around then as well.

#sickofcoldweather #sickofskatingingarages #iwouldlikesomecheesewithmywhine #ohwaitidonteatcheeseanymore

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So I went to this garage. I was determined to land 10 rare(ish) flip tricks. The warm up trick was b/s flip. I hit my hand on one of the beams. It spooked me and after that I couldn’t really do a trick without worrying about hitting my hand. Even if I timed it around a beam. Ugh. So I went to the lower part of the garage next to it. The concrete was rough, there was a huge puddle and my mood was bad. The only thing remotely fun was trying front pivot kickflips out on a curb. I got close. The best trick I did was probably not focusing my board. I am so sick of this cold weather. Yeah yeah, I know, you should expect this in Colorado. I don’t care. I’m sick of it.

(setup 8.25 null awkward vector, venture lows, bones medium bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 51mm stf v2, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 white/gum)

skate journal: short garage huck (april 29, 2016 day 120)

Posted in Skate Journal on May 1st, 2016 by corpo

Went into the garage on a snowy night. So sick of this weather. I had some motivation to skate. I did some manuals to get warmed up, took a few tries to get a kickflip then just hucked nollie flip and switch heels over and over. Never got close to either unfortunately.

(setup 8.25 null awkward vector, venture lows, bones medium bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 51mm stf v2, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 white/gum)