skate journal: broomfield for a few hours with dave (april 28, 2017)

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

Went to Broomfield park around 11am on a Friday I had off work. It was beautiful outside even though the snow clouds were looming over the foothills. I was just me and another dude for awhile. I was still totally rusty, but started feeling better. I just kept skating. It took 5 tries to land a kickflip. Ha. I was scared to try lots of stuff, but I kept at it. I really didn’t land much in 3 hours, but I got some stuff I was happy with. Front 50s on the little ledge and even one on the black ledge. I haven’t done that “tall” of a front 50 in a long time. I can’t really think of any other tricks I was hyped on until the very end when I started dorking around with switch front crooks on the low part of the brown banked ledge. Somehow it worked, I got into a few right away and actually even landed one. It felt rad. Dave on the other hand was slaying it. Boardslide across and down the rail, almost feeble to boardslide down it. Solid 50s on the ledge, bag lady on the brick qp, so much more I’m not remembering. Oh near the end we tried a flatground trick, quartapotty trick, trick on the steep bank. Dave did back bigpsin, back d (I think?) then front tail on the bank. Gnar. I did halfcab flip, front feeble, axle stall (I think). It was so rad, Dave was landing back bigspins! I can’t believe I lasted 3 hours.

(setup 8.25 null fortune deck, venture 5.2 low awake trucks, 1/16″ risers, 3 washers inside each axle, venom 91a bushings, swiss bearings, 50mm spitfire classic formula 4 wheels, new balance numeric pj 533 black/white 12 stock insoles)

skate journal: brief berthoud park before the rain (april 27, 2017)

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

Had the day off work. Had to run some errands including driving to MRKT to pick up some Rabethica shirts. Drove through rain and met Dave and Jake at the Berthoud park. We hadn’t been there since they redid it. There is some new obstacles. It’s got mellow hips and a tiny ledge. So it’s perfect. Oh there is some other stuff too. A few flat bars, quarter pipe, bank with a ledge on top. I felt motivated to skate, but I still started slow. Took me awhile to do front shove over the hip. Jake was doing 50s on the big part of the qp. Dave did pivot then grinded down the escalator which looked super gnarly to me. Then they both got front axle stalls on the bank to ledge which was so gnar. It had started to rain when Jake got his and you could see tracks going up and down the bank. Sketchy. Dave got a back pivot on it too. I had gotten a terrible kickflip over the hip, a couple crooks that fell into noseslide on the main ledge, slow front 50s on the tiny ledge, b/s flip over the hip. I felt okay on my board though. Best I’ve felt in awhile. Dave did back 50 back 180 out on the tiny ledge then went on to do front 180 out as the rain set in. So sick.

Later on in the evening I skated in front of my house for a little bit. I was wearing my 344s to see if I felt better in vulcs. I didn’t. They have better feel and flick, but it hurt.

(setup 8.25 null fortune deck, venture 5.2 low awake trucks, 1/16″ risers, 3 washers inside each axle, venom 88a bushings, swiss bearings, 50mm spitfire classic formula 4 wheels, new balance numeric pj 533 black/white 12 stock insoles)

skate journal: boulder park backside flips (april 25, 2017)

Posted in Skate Journal on April 25th, 2017 by corpo

Went to the park for about 40 minutes before work. I wore my 598s instead of the 533s because I thought I would like the flexibility/feel. I did at the time, but writing this several hours later my plantar fasciitis kicked in fierce. Argh. Feeling good is such an endless battle these days. Anyway, the park had several puddles in it. It was still skateable, but the biggest puddle was by the little hip in the middle of the park I like. I did some cruising, nothing special. Then settled in on trying to b/s flip over the nipple hip. I didn’t go up and over like good people, just up and into the downhill. I got close several times before landing one clean that felt great. Unfortunately my phone had stopped recording. Or maybe it was fortunate, because I’m sure it didn’t look as good as it felt.

(setup 8.25 null fortune deck, venture 5.2 low awake trucks, 1/16″ risers, 3 washers inside each axle, venom 88a bushings, swiss bearings, 50mm spitfire classic formula 4 wheels, new balance numeric 598 black/white 12 stock insoles)

skate journal: real skateboarding! (april 23, 2017)

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

Had to work a bunch in the morning. While I was working I did my PT and Ming Method exercises. My legs felt good. I went to the research ledge. I waxed it up, then went up to do a warm up noseslide and two other skaters rolled around the corner and dropped their backpacks down to have a session. Ugh. Nothing against other dudes skating, but I just wanted to be by myself and relearn some tricks. It worked out though because I guess it had me skating a little faster or something. I got boardslide pop out, noseslide, noseslide to fakie real quick. I got a few crooks, but none were clean, I fell into noseslide at the end. Those dudes were pretty good. One dude was the fakie dude. He did halfcab noseslide and fakie 50. The other dude was the loud guy. He did back 50 and cheered really loud. It cracked me up. He was cool though, nice to talk to. When he got the switch front 50 the world knew about it. Ha. They ended up leaving after awhile. I stuck with it for awhile longer. Got a back 50. I had tried some flippers. Got a few good halfcab flips, varial flip, didn’t get much more and couldn’t get a treflip, but it was the longest I was able to do ollies/flippers in awhile and it felt great.

I got tired, but wan’t too sore so I went to Stonehenge. My legs were really sore when I started. It took a few tries to even ollie into a back 50. But I did. Front pivot felt cool. Then I tried kick back axle stall for an hour and never got one. Ugh. I only got close a few times. Still, it felt good to finally skate hard and last longer than an hour.

(setup 8.25 null fortune deck, venture 5.2 low awake trucks, 1/16″ risers, 3 washers inside each axle, venom 88a bushings, swiss bearings, 50mm spitfire classic formula 4 wheels, new balance numeric PJ 533 black/white 12 stock insoles)

skate journal: arvada park fun with amigos (april 22, 2017)

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

Went to Arvada park around noon to meet up with the Amigos dudes from Seattle. Nolan rolled in around the same time too. Nolan and I started out at this little quarterpipe. Sasha and another dude (can’t remember name now argh) were skating the little flat bank nearby. It was fun. They were doing bigspins, shoves, etc, getting warmed up. I did a couple basic tricks and a couple Rampy tricks I haven’t done in awhile. I was hyped on the front pivot to fakie. The beanplant to tail was maybe the slowest one ever done. Nolan laughed at me then did tricks like back tail to switch front crook in lines. Man he is good. Front tail to switch crooks to fakie, back noseblunt, front noseblunt to pivot, revert, whatever. I skated the mellow blue round bank for awhile. I got a few no comply tricks in a row that felt good. No comply shove to fakie, no comply bigspin, no comply finger flip to fakie. Also kickflip to fakie, b/s flip which hurt. Couldn’t get treflip to fakie, but got close a couple times. Nolan did pop shove, kickflip and treflip over the flat gap. This scooter kid kept hanging out with us and challenged Nolan to a game of SCOOT vs SKATE. Nolan used it as an opportunity to do the flamingo to fakie. So sick. Amigos Justin and Ryan did tricks on the potato chip. My legs were pretty done by the end. I mostly just chatted. It was rad seeing Shad and the Lunchbreak dudes too. Nolan and I worked on looking like morons trying 360 eggplants off the ledge. We didn’t get close at all. This was the first time I skated in awhile. The pain wasn’t as bad as it has been, but it was still there.

(setup 8.25 null fortune deck, venture 5.2 low awake trucks, 1/16″ risers, 3 washers inside each axle, venom 88a bushings, swiss bearings, 50mm spitfire classic formula 4 wheels, new balance numeric PJ 533 black/white 12 stock insoles)

Jason Heidecker animation by Rob Helmstetter

Posted in Amazing skate clips, Trick Factory on April 21st, 2017 by corpo

Click the image for animation! We are having our memorial for Jason next weekend and Rob made this amazing animation of Jason’s classic 360 powerslide from Off The Couch.

skate journal! brief garage without ollies (april 20, 2017)

Posted in Skate Journal on April 21st, 2017 by corpo

Couldn’t resist skating another day. Went into the garage with the intention of not popping. Did some manuals on the sheet of wood. Ended up doing a couple of ollies and a terrible kickflip. Then the contraption above ended it. I should put the manny pad there too and make it a 3 obstacle park. Ha. Oh yeah, I switched between the PJ 533 and 598 a couple of time seeing which one hurt less. The 533 won.

(setup 8.25 null fortune deck, venture 5.2 low awake trucks, 1/16″ risers, 3 washers inside each axle, venom 88a bushings, swiss bearings, 50mm spitfire classic formula 4 wheels, new balance numeric 598/533 stock insoles)

J Mascis and Lou Barlow interviews by Mark Maron

Posted in Dinosaur Jr is the greatest band ever on April 20th, 2017 by corpo

These are a few years old, but man they are amazing.

skate journal: the flatground that ended skating for awhile (april 14, 2017)

Posted in Skate Journal on April 16th, 2017 by corpo

Got out of work early and went to the dog park. I thought I was motivated. But the pain was so much. I tried some warm up ollies, stretched for awhile. Got a text from Saul to skate in awhile. But I didn’t make it. I had about a 10 minute window where I felt slightly better than terrible. I got a few kickflips, fakie flips and halfcab flips. But then I succumbed to the fact that I should not be skating in this much pain.

I did a bunch of research and some good news. I don’t think it’s an arthritis flare up that I can’t control. I believe it is runners knee. The detail that nailed it for me is that it’s hard to walk downhill or down stairs. Which it is for me. So although it’s a bummer I will take some time off of skating at least there are exercises I can do to hopefully avoid it becoming so bad again. I’m also kind of mad that I’ve been to two Physical Therapists and neither of them suggested I have runners knee. I stay away from doctors.

(setup 8.25 null fortune deck, venture 5.2 low awake trucks, 1/16″ risers, 3 washers inside each axle, venom 88a bushings, swiss bearings, 50mm spitfire classic formula 4 wheels, new balance numeric 598 black/white 12 remind cush chico insoles)

skate journal: depressing birthday flatground (april 12, 2017)

Posted in Skate Journal on April 14th, 2017 by corpo

What else would I want to do, but skate flat with a couple friends on my birthday on a beautiful day? I thought I was feeling good, but my first ollie attempt was meant with lots of pain and no pop whatsoever. Ugh. It didn’t get much better. I got there first. Dave arrived shortly after. Jake about 30 minutes later. I tried and really wanted to rattle off tricks, but it just didn’t happen. I got a few halfcab flips, a terrible fakie bigflip, a few fakie flips, some slow front shoves. I posed a lot of tricks. Dave was struggling with kickfrlips after having a stellar day popping them recently. Doh. He did get really close on 360 flips. Or was it switch 360 flips? I can’t remember. He later told me he wanted to quit skating too. Man, we’ve been struggling. Jake on the other hand, put down 3 flip right away, frontside flip, shoves, etc. We played a game of SKATE. Well, we technically played two games of SKATE, but the first one went so bad we restarted. Basically I got a letter on pop shove, did double or nothing, got two letters, 3, 4 and I was out just like that. I don’t remember the last time I’ve missed that many pop shoves in a row. The next game started with me getting SK on kickflip. Unbelievable. Jake went on to win with tricks like 360 flip, Dave did his first ever defensive frontside flip, and I think the last trick was pop shove body varial. I had tried to keep skating while Jake and Dave were finishing the game, but I was just too sore.

(setup 8.25 null fortune deck, venture 5.2 low awake trucks, 1/16″ risers, 3 washers inside each axle, venom 88a bushings, swiss bearings, 50mm spitfire classic formula 4 wheels, new balance numeric 598 black/white 12 remind cush chico insoles)