skate journal: flatground in front of the house (dec 29, 2016 day 364)

Posted in Skate Journal on December 30th, 2016 by corpo

Went in front of the house on a sunny, but cool day. The bigger board felt pretty huge. Warming up went ok actually. I got kickflips, fakie flip, halfcab flip then started working on 360 flips. Then I basically just did 360 flips. Well, tried 360 flips. I landed two of them. One with a hand down, another clean one. I’m saving the clean one for something special. This one is just funny.

(setup 8.5 null message deck, Venture 5.8s, Venom 88a bushings, old 52mm Spitfire F4 99a classic shape wheels, washers outside, old swiss bearings, NB# PJ 533 maple/black)

skate journal: fun dork manual in the garage (dec 28, 2016 day 363)

Posted in Skate Journal on December 30th, 2016 by corpo

Thought of this trick at some point during the day and figured it would be a good no ollie garage thing to try. I had setup an old 8.5″ deck I had (can’t setup new stuff until 2017!). I basically tried it for about 20 minutes and landed a few of them. “halfcab” nose manual shove. At least I had fun.

(setup 8.5 null message deck, Venture 5.8s, Venom 88a bushings, old 52mm Spitfire F4 99a classic shape wheels, washers outside, old swiss bearings, NB# PJ 533 maple/black)

skate journal: campus suck (dec 27, 2016 day 362)

Posted in Skate Journal on December 28th, 2016 by corpo

Went to campus after dinner on a nice night in the upper 40s. I had some new shoes. Yes, stupid me bought some new vulcs since the Es shoes were so dead. I hated them immediately. NB# Pro Courts. I did a few slappy crooks in the meet up lot, then moved into campus and ended up at the long manual pad. It had some snow in spots, but the middle was good. I got manual in a few tries, nose manual in a few more tries. Was trying some other tricks when some janitor came out and said “I see kids going nuts here all of the time and I see you struggling to get up the curb”. Cool. Thanks dude. As if I wasn’t already burnt out and tired enough already. Tried a line of ollie off the ledge, flatground kickflip, then manual. And I didn’t even get it. I went to the banked ledge. Couldn’t even slappy 50 it. Had some fun mini bank rides though. Then I tried to do a few flippers, but couldn’t commit to fakie flip as I was too scared to commit. My side was hurting which is something happens when I skate vulcs. So I focused my board and left.

(setup 8.38 Null Riley deck, Venture 5.8s, Venom 88a bushings, old 52mm Spitfire F4 99a classic shape wheels, washers outside, old swiss bearings, NB# pro courts)

skate journal: red hawk with dave then saul’s with saul and eric (dec 26, 2016 day 361)

Posted in Skate Journal on December 27th, 2016 by corpo

Feeling decent I went to Red Hawk to meet Dave on a decent winter day. Sunny without wind, but not warm. Dave was in the back which I had never even looked at before. There is a bunch of flatground, some weird rocks to ollie over some rad mini hubba that have a dirt runway, etc. I had decided I needed to wear vulcanized shoes again and rocked some old Es Accents. . So it felt really weird for awhile. Dave and I played a game of SKATE that lasted a long time. Dave landed on two switch flips, but didn’t ride away. That would have been so awesome. I forget what else we did or even who one. Even though I wasn’t skating all that well I was still having fun. It was kind of mind blowing how much better the board feel is with vulcs.

Then we went to the front with the ledges. Oh yeah, Dave was riding an 8″ setup. It was funny seeing him on a smaller board. It seemed like he was having problems locking in to tricks, but he wouldn’t blame his setup at all. He did get a really good front 50 back 180 out, noseslides, and ended with a really good front 50 front shove out. I didn’t have my normal struggles of getting up onto the ledge frontside, but I took awhile to lock into 50s and grind them. I posed some slow front crooks, got a really slow back 50, and a few crooks that were really fun. Dave left and I tried crooks to fakie for awhile until I got a couple. I also did switch crooks going back and never got a good one, but had a couple little jibs.

Then I went to Saul’s and joined Saul and Eric. They were both ripping already. Saul’s lines get faster everytime I see him skate. Eric was landing back d’s and staying on more of his back 50s. I struggled keeping my speed for awhile then just kind of did what I’ve done there before. It’s always so fun though. Pool coping is fun to grind. Eric had some funny falls, all of which I seemed to capture on film.

(setup 8.38 Null Riley deck, Venture 5.8s, Venom 88a bushings, old 52mm Spitfire F4 99a classic shape wheels, washers outside, old swiss bearings, es accent black/white)

skate journal: christmas day garage minimum (dec 25, 2016 day 360)

Posted in Skate Journal on December 26th, 2016 by corpo

For day 360 in a row I really wanted to do a 360 flip. But the wind kicked in something fierce and I ended up having no time. So I just went into the garage and did a few no ollie manual tricks on the sheet of wood.

skate journal: quickie in front of the house (dec 24, 2016 day 359)

Posted in Skate Journal on December 24th, 2016 by corpo

Went in front of the house on a nice morning. Pushed, did a few slides, nollie shoves and ride on grinds at the curb across the street.

skate journal: dave and i sucking at dog park (dec 23, 2016 day 358)

Posted in Skate Journal on December 24th, 2016 by corpo

Man. I met Dave at dog park. I first few pushes hurt, my first few ollies even more. My knees were absolutely killing me. I probably should not have skated, but it was super nice out and Dave drove all the way in to skate. Dave rode my putter for awhile as he’s determined to land a 360 flip (switch). Dave was in a lot of pain too. For a brief period I was getting into a little groove where I could actually do kickflips, fakie flips, 180s and pose other tricks. I literally did not land anything beyond that. I came somewhat close to switch flip. Tried a bunch of switch front heel. But for the most part again I just thought about how I can take some days off of skating soon. Dave tried a lot of switch tres (he still thinks it would be easier switch), skated my 3 iron and got a solid heelflip. That heelflip would stand as the most tech trick of the day. We both stopped with plenty of sunlight left. That’s when you know we were in a lot of pain.

(setup 8.38 Null Riley deck, Venture 5.8s, Venom 88a bushings, old 52mm Spitfire F4 99a classic shape wheels, washers outside, old swiss bearings, NB# PJ 533 maple/black)

skate journal: louisville cold blah (dec 22, 2016 day 357)

Posted in Skate Journal on December 23rd, 2016 by corpo

Went to Louisville after a pretty long work day and some other stuff with Jason and then dinner. The park was empty and I had to turn on the lights. The temp was in the upper 20s with an extra chill to the air. I hadn’t really skated in awhile and I was not looking forward to the warm up process. I also may have finally hit the burn out stage of skating every day. I just think about how in 10 days I can take some time off from skating. Not a good thing to think about when your cold and skating by yourself. I did get a little juice though. Tried a few lines. First was noseslide on the ledge, roll down the bank to frontside ollie the hip then noseslide the bank to ledge. Got that. Then crook, ollie, nose jib to fakie. Terrible back 50, ollie kickflip on the bank. Tried halfcab noseslide, ollie, back 50 on the bank to ledge, but couldn’t get the back 50. Going the other way I struggled incredibly with front 50s. My legs got sore. I posed a few flippers here and there, but I ended up leaving.

(setup 8.38 Null Riley deck, Venture 5.8s, Venom 88a bushings, old 52mm Spitfire F4 99a classic shape wheels, washers outside, old swiss bearings, NB# PJ 533 maple/black)

skate journal: depression minimum (dec 21, 2016 day 356)

Posted in Skate Journal on December 21st, 2016 by corpo

Feeling physically terrible after a long day of meetings and stuff at Jason’s I went to the research ledge thinking I would maybe get motivated. Nope. Rode down these stairs a few times as “warm up” then just left. My legs were killing me.

skate journal: brief slappys on an 80s board at crisis (dec 20, 2016 day 355)

Posted in Skate Journal on December 21st, 2016 by corpo

Jack and I dorked around on this weird board. My legs were incredibly sore. Thanks to Jack’s filming I now realize my front slappy is not a real front slappy. This is why I should avoid seeing footage of myself.