skate journal: longmont park with a fun crew and a bunch of toddlers (jan 29, 2017 day 18)

Posted in Skate Journal on January 30th, 2017 by corpo

Got out somewhat early Jake, Donnie and I rolled to Longmont park to meet Dave. It was incredibly nice out. The park had a lot of youth with parents sitting around. Jake and Donnie played on the noping qp. I was kind of out of it and in a daze so just pushed around not doing much. We all hit the little knob bank for awhile. Donnie had some tall ollies, Dave had pivot fakie and a lot more. Dave nose manualed the ledge. Jake had some easy 50s. I bailed noseslides. We skated flat for awhile. I did pretty good except for treflip which took a long time to get a terrible one. Donnie learned nollie frontside flips. He did 3 or 4 of them. Jake got treflip quickly. Dave had some nice switch front shoves. He also did a nice line rolling into the bank then doing front bigspin on the bank. Jake worked on back 5-0s. I joined on the ledge briefly and did some really slow front 50s and crook jibs. Donnie did some huge back 180s and a switch frontside flip over the back hip while avoiding a toddler using the bank as a slide. Parents can be so clueless. Dave got a nice back big over the hip. I posed frontside flips. I eventually tired out and hucked a few switch tres on flat that were not close at all.

(setup 8.25 null logo board, venture 5.25 AWAKE lows, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, Venom 90a bushings with no bottom washer, 50mm spitfire F4 99a classic wheels, bronson bearings, Lakai Manchesters black/white 11)

skate journal: gunbarrel spots with dave and fuzz (jan 28, 2017 day 17)

Posted in Skate Journal on January 30th, 2017 by corpo

Did paperwork for Jason in the morning, then helped train a new helper for Jason. I wasn’t hyped on it. Mainly I feel like I’m always on call and it’s wearing on me. I skated to/from Jason’s. On the way back I skated as fast as I could push down the path. It was fun. I felt good. Then I met Fuzz and Dave at the old mini bank and tall ledge spot. Warming up was rough as wind had picked up. My legs felt done before we even started. Fuzz and I did a lot of the same spin around on the bank to try and get the legs flowing. We all tried bean plants for awhile. Dave’s was the best. No surprise there. Dave started a caveman 50 trend on the ledge. That thing is tall! I was trying a line of caveman 50, kickflip on the little bank, then noseslide on the ledge. The kickflip never happened. Argh. I can’t believe how bad I struggled with kickflips. Dave was going off and did a crazy line of polejam out of the bank, turn around then nollie into the bank then caveman 50. He did front 180 out and also back 180 out! Fuzz front boarded it. So sick. Even though it hurt his shoulder. We messed around for awhile in the back of the building. Made a little junk jam ledge. Dave had some solid back 50s and got into some front lips. Fuzz was taking photos. I did a couple slow front 50s and ‘slappy’ tails. Then we drove around for awhile. Ended up at a school that had potential, but the snow or gravel kind of ruined it. Fuzz had a great slam trying to front 50 a mini table. Dave managed a 50. I could barely move at that point, but eventually got a tiny crook jib. And when we left I was trying to do a little plant off a ledge and hung up. It hurt way more than it should have. Ugh. I hate winter.

(setup 8.25 null logo board, venture 5.25 AWAKE lows, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, Venom 90a bushings with no bottom washer, 50mm spitfire F4 99a classic wheels, bronson bearings, Lakai Manchesters black/white 11)

skate journal: friday afternoon fun at saul’s (jan 27, 2017 day 16)

Posted in Skate Journal on January 30th, 2017 by corpo

@color_my_friends_in @matthouse @skateboard_chicken and I Friday fun.

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Got out of work early on a nice day. Met Matt, Eric and Saul and had a nice mellow session. I was a little nervous since this would be my first time skating Saul’s with smaller/low trucks. But I ended up skating better then I have in awhile. Made me stand by my claim that low trucks are good for transition because you are a little closer to the coping. Matt skated it much better than he said he would. He had a lot of back 50s, frontside carves and a front tail that took a minute. Eric was shredding and entertaining as always. Back d, back axle to fakie, almost front smith in the deep end. Saul had fast lines and some long grinds on the straight wall, pumped airs over the hip, had some funny falls, kind of rolled out of a back d layback ha. I skated better than I have there in awhile. Got a front d again, some 50s, tried to pose some frontside airs over the hip, did a lot of carve grinds which are the most fun trick.

(setup 8.25 null logo board, venture 5.25 AWAKE lows, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, Venom 90a bushings with no bottom washer, 50mm spitfire F4 99a classic wheels, bronson bearings, Lakai Manchesters black/white 11)

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Posted in Random Funniness on January 27th, 2017 by corpo

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skate journal: more flat in the garage (jan 26, 2017 day 15)

Posted in Skate Journal on January 27th, 2017 by corpo

Went out to the garage again feeling pretty sore, but wanting to get further in my trick list. And I did. 3 flip only took a couple of songs. Nollie varial flip took awhile though. Ended trying switch front heel and didn’t get close at all then switch tre and it felt doable. Never got feet on it though.

(setup 8.25 null logo board, venture 5.25 AWAKE lows, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, Venom 90a bushings with no bottom washer, 50mm spitfire F4 99a classic wheels, bronson bearings, Lakai Manchesters black/white 11)

skate journal: garage flatground with some new stuff (jan 25, 2017 day 14)

Posted in New Shoes, New Trucks, Skate Journal on January 26th, 2017 by corpo

Stopped off at Meta after work as my OCD for some vulcanized shoes needed to be satisfied. I ended up with some Lakai Manchesters. I had also setup some new AWAKE Venture lows I got at Emage over the weekend. I am pretty set on trying to keep this setup for awhile. Anyways, warming up went ok actually. The flick of a vulc is so fast compared to a cupsole. The board feel was great, and the cushion enough that I wasn’t scared to commit like I was in those god awful NB+ 212s. I got into the list a bit then when doing heelflips I decided to film some for the heck of it. It kind of motivates me. Plus I think it helps to see what I’m doing wrong. Anyways, most of the tricks came quickly, except for the dreaded treflip which took almost 30 minutes. Ugh. That kind of drained me so I didn’t get to try the switch front heel for long. Oh well.

(setup 8.25 null logo board, venture 5.25 AWAKE lows, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, Venom 90a bushings with no bottom washer, 50mm spitfire F4 99a classic wheels, bronson bearings, Lakai Manchesters black/white 11)

skate journal: brief southern hills suck (jan 22, 2017 day 13)

Posted in Skate Journal on January 24th, 2017 by corpo

Went to Southern Hills somewhat early wanting to get some skating in before I might turn into filmer Glen. I swept up a bit again. Then went on to suck. It’s so hard to skate during an arthritis flare up. I should just skate transition, it’s easier on me. But I really want to get better at ledges this year. I got some noseslides and crooks. That’s it. Tried a line of noseslide, heelflip, crooks for awhile. Never got all of them. Got pretty frustrated. Found out that people weren’t going to meet up anyway so went to Denver to spend more money on trucks I don’t truly need.

(setup 8.125 abstract deck, venture 5.2 low custom hollow trucks with 3 washers inside each axle, 1/16″ riser, venom 90a bushings, 50mm spitfire f4 classic 99a wheels, swiss bearings, new balance numeric pj stratford 533 black/white shoes 12)

skate journal: skate marathon and soreness (jan 21, 2017 day 12)

Posted in Skate Journal on January 24th, 2017 by corpo

Feeling decent on a Saturday morning without the family around and excited about having a smaller setup again I went to research ledge around 9:30 am. I swept as a warm up, hit the hill a couple of times. I’m not sure why I never expect much from my skating lately. I haven’t had much drive. But I did have the fire for a bit. I know I had some lines, but I waited to long to write this to remember the specifics. It wasn’t anything crazy. I landed on a bunch of treflips, but never rode away from any. I was 2/3 on heelflips going up the hill. Tried some nollie/switch flips and didn’t get too close. On the ledge I got noseslide, noseslide to fakie, crooks, terrible back 50s, a surprisingly rare front 50, halfcab noseslide. I felt pretty good, but India needed me to get home. I was finally skating good so it kind of bummed me out. Turns out it would then take her two hours to get home. Ha.

After lunch I picked up Nolan and we went to Longmont. We picked up Dave and went here. Such a rad spot. I was sore from stopping for so long, but got warmed up ok. Dave and Nolan were shredding. Nolan was kind of doing whatever he wanted. Varial flip up, nosegrind. Pop shove up, nollie nosegrind. Must be nice. Ha. Dave had some really good back 50s, some with 180s out. I missed him doing a first try front crook because a tweaker was asking me for weed. He didn’t believe we didn’t have any. I didn’t land much other then some slow front 50s. Bernie joined us! It was so awesome. He mostly skated flat as he hasn’t skated in awhile.

@nolancormier paying tribute to #jeremiahbrooksforever

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Then we went to Longmont ditch. Dave and Nolan shredded that place. Seriously though. I cannot even name all of the tricks that Nolan did. He was just messing around rattling off trick after trick. Dave surprised me with front tailslide while grabbing the nose??!?! Trick of the day. Sorry Nolan. Nolan’s back 5-0’s to fakie were so sick. Bernie mostly just skated on the nearby bikepath. I was sore, but forced myself to do some back 50s and 5-0s. I sat for awhile and filmed. After that I could not move. It was apparent that arthritis had me good. Nolan needed to help me get out of there, that’s how sore I was. Arthritis sucks.

(setup 8.125 abstract deck, venture 5.2 low custom hollow trucks with 3 washers inside each axle, 1/16″ riser, venom 90a bushings, 50mm spitfire f4 classic 99a wheels, swiss bearings, new balance numeric pj stratford 533 black/white shoes 12)

skate journal: wet dog park with dave (jan 19, 2016 day 11)

Posted in setup change, Skate Journal on January 20th, 2017 by corpo

#goldenhour not #goldenshower

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On a really nice afternoon I met Dave at the Dog Park right after work. It was mostly covered in water, but we found a section that was ok. I had pulled my 8.1 from the quiver and was excited to maybe actually land some flip tricks. It felt weird and the trucks were way to tight as I have switched to softer bushings since that setup. Anyways, it felt pretty good. After some warmups I got a 2nd try heelflip that wasn’t good, but felt great to land that quickly. Dave would get a heelflip shortly after that too that was super good. Dave had a good switch shove, flicked switch tres that look possible for him, multiple good creepy spins and nollie front 180s. I got a tic tac’y treflip pretty quick, couldn’t get another one, but landed on a bunch. It felt good to at least be committing most times. I’d really like to get that trick better. I didn’t really land anything else, but it was fun hucking. I miss being able to skate there more, flatground really is the foundation for the rest of skating for me.

(setup 8.125 abstract deck, venture 5.2 low custom hollow trucks with 3 washers inside each axle, 1/16″ riser, venom 90a bushings, 50mm spitfire f4 classic 99a wheels, swiss bearings, new balance numeric pj stratford 533 black/white shoes 12)

skate journal: sauls bday jam (jan 18, 2017 day 10)

Posted in Skate Journal on January 19th, 2017 by corpo

Saul going for 45 grinds in one run on his 45th. Guess you are only 36 @skateboard_chicken ! Ha Happy Birthday!

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After a busy day at work I got to Saul’s right around the time the sun went down and it started getting cold. The session was going off though. There was a bunch of people in the mix. The Satellite youth, Dave, Nick, Saul (duh), and a few more. Dave was shredding as was a dude named Will. Saul went for the 45 grinds a few times. I cannot even imagine how exhausting that would be. Anyways, he got into the 30s a couple of times, but never quite to 45. It’s still pretty amazing. I sucked it up again. Not sure why I can’t seem to back 50 anymore. It was fun though. Just carving that thing is fun and getting some carve grinds. I’m looking forward to warmer weather.

(setup 8.25 null logo deck, venture 5.8 trucks, 3 washers inside each axle, pink/purple spitfire 52mm 99a F4 conical wheels, venom 88a bushings, new balance numeric PJ 533 black/white shoes)