skate journal: campus with one ear and matt (july 30, 2018)

Posted in Skate Journal on July 31st, 2018 by corpo

Feeling very weird from an ear ache that had just started a few hours before I brought shirts to 303 then rolled through the tunnel into campus. Before I even made it past the bikepath I got stopped by a cop who apparently thought I was part of a crew that I think she was after. It was kind of weird. But not as weird as how disoriented I felt trying to skate with one ear. To summarize how disoriented I felt I was like 1/5 on kickflips. Ugh. I had played around with some dork stuff before Matt showed. It took me like 10 tries to do the little grind jam up the curb. Half the time I would commit, but miss the curb. That’s how disoriented I was. Matt did it first try. He also did a super solid treflip first try. We did a few lines, basically what’s on the gram here. I also filmed Matt get a Stubborns line. We did a few tricks without lines. Matt got a sketchy fakie 50. I got a crooks and noseslide. The lines were fun. After I got home my ear pain went through the roof. Turns out it was a legit ear infection. Ugh.

(setup 8.38 null atomic cowboy deck, venture 5.8 lights black icon trucks, bones medium bushings, bones 51mm v1 stf, new balance numeric 212 sea foam/salmon size 11, spenco 3/4 thinsole and stock NB insole)
(knee pain 1/10 but I was so disoriented from the ear infection it didn’t matter)

skate journal: broomfield park with a solid crew (july 29, 2018)

Posted in Skate Journal on July 29th, 2018 by corpo

Still feeling sick and worn down from traveling I went to Broomfield park to meet up with Jake and Rob. Jake brought Lazer. Rob told Eric. The crew grew and it was awesome. I was feeling incredibly rusty. Jake started off strong getting a line of front 50 the black box, boardslide the bump to bar, come back and front 180 in to the bank then halfcab noseslide the black ledge. He had moved on to front 5-0 then front tail on the bump to bar before I did the first line, but with a much worse haflcab noseslide. Rob did a better halfcab noseslide than both of us. Lazer was shredding everything. Solid and fast 50s on the ledge and cool transition tricks. Eric had a first try heelflip over the parking block so sick. He also got into some crooks on the black ledge, back 50s the blue ledge. Rob was doing some long front 50s on the blue ledge and got a sick back 180 out, manuals around the top part of the park, manuals on the mountain bank. Jake did some f/s flips on the hump, front tails on the steep bank, then battled front noseblunt for awhile and did it right after I turned off my phone. Kevin showed up with his friend Mike. Rob and Eric bounced. Sean showed. At this point I had given up ollies and joined Lazer with a low to high session. Lazer did front pivot and rock fakie too. He bounced shortly after that with Jake. I have never skated it before. It took me about 100 tries to do the disaster. In that time Kevin had done tail, switch rock and front pivot. I got his back when he did the front pivot. Mike and Sean were skating the manny pad. Mike had some sick kickflip manuals and close to kickflip nose manual. Then another dude joined in on the manny fun (as I battled front disaster). Other dude did kickflip manual, kickflip nose manual, manual kickflip out and I think nose manual nollie flip. Sean did kickflip nose manual front 180 super easy. Fun session, but man I was rusty and sore.

(setup 8.38 null atomic cowboy deck, venture 5.8 lights black icon trucks, bones medium bushings, bones 51mm v1 stf, new balance numeric 212 sea foam/salmon size 11, spenco 3/4 thinsole and stock NB insole)
(knee pain 3/10 but I was not feeling well)

skate journal: switch flips on the carpet (july 28, 2018)

Posted in Skate Journal on July 29th, 2018 by corpo

After a very long drive back from TN I was dead an unmotivated. And then it rained. So I just stood on some carpet and hucked switch/nollie flips on my rug. Got close a few times. Switched around shoes between some 420s and 212. Not much of a skate day, but if I had landed one I would have been super hyped. Oh yeah, I had put an old deck on too because the board sitting in the trunk of my car throughout Tennessee got super warped. Doh.

skate journal: some blah behind the big lots in jefferson city again (july 24, 2018)

Posted in Skate Journal on July 29th, 2018 by corpo

Warmed up with some bs 180s into the bank. Was feeling pretty sick and run down. Did slappy switch noseslide down the last part and eventually back 180 nosegrind. Well, not of much grind really. Maybe if I had wax. Then I pulled out a plastic crate and thought about the trick dave challenged me to: back 5-0 back 180 out. I wasn’t close at all then decided who cares and setup the phone then two tries later I magically got the worst one ever. I was so hyped (until later on when reviewing the clip and sending it to Dave and realizing it didn’t count). I had hucked flippers, but didn’t get much. Then I piled up the crates to make a nice looking ledge, but got the boot before getting much on it. So then I made myself do 10 flip tricks. They went something like: fakie flip, fs halfcab flip, heelflip, fs halfcab heelflip, halfcab annoyingly took forever, bs flip, fakie varial flip first try, terrible 360 flip, gave up on nollie tre so did kickflip then varial flip.

(setup 8.25 null perception deck, venture 5.8 lights black icon trucks, bones medium bushings, bones 51mm v1 stf, new balance numeric 212 sea foam/salmon size 11, spenco 3/4 thinsole and stock NB insole)

skate journal: a little flat at the vacation house (july 23, 2018)

Posted in New Shoes, Skate Journal on July 29th, 2018 by corpo

New shoes which take awhile to get the flick. But I got an early treflip which relaxed me some. Heelflip took awhile. My board felt small. Got backside flip, halfcab flip, fakie varial flip, fakie flip, a couple treflips and an easy feeling halfcab flip. Didn’t get nollie flip, Nollie varial flip or nollie tre. No fs halfcab flip either. All things considered it was still fun.

(setup 8.25 null perception deck, venture 5.8 lights black icon trucks, bones medium bushings, bones 51mm v1 stf, new balance numeric 212 sea foam/salmon size 11, spenco 3/4 thinsole and stock NB insole)

skate journal: jefferson city exploring. fun bank to curb and manny pad (july 21, 2018)

Posted in Skate Journal on July 29th, 2018 by corpo

Little bank to curb was fun. Did these tricks in a few tries then moved on.

On the manual pad I never got a clean manual. Tried for awhile. It was really rough on top. Tried a lot of treflips and nollie flips but never got either. Ended with a line of kickflip up, back 180 off the hard way then a halfcab flip on flat. Then as I came back I got a treflip.

(setup 8.25 null perception deck, venture 5.8 lights black icon trucks, bones medium bushings, bones 51mm v1 stf, new balance numeric 212 black/white size 11, spenco 3/4 thinsole and stock NB insole)

skate journal: university of missouri messing around with the family (july 19, 2018)

Posted in Skate Journal on July 29th, 2018 by corpo

A very cryptic entry from some notes I jotted down a couple days after the session.

Thick insoles felt weird. Some fun hills to start. Didn’t find anything for awhile. No forensics on some good looking ledges. 3 stair ollies took awhile. Front 50 was scary on bench but hyped on it. Got crooks and boardslides. Almost died on the noseslide on the long 4 stair ledge. Never really landed past the stairs. Landed on the last stair. The 4 stair ollie took too long and I didn’t really pop.

(setup 8.25 null perception deck, venture 5.8 lights black icon trucks, bones medium bushings, bones 51mm v1 stf, new balance numeric 212 black/white size 11, spenco 3/4 thinsole and stock NB insole)

skate journal: wilville struggles and triumphs on new stuff (july 18, 2018)

Posted in New Deck, New Wheels, setup change, Skate Journal on July 18th, 2018 by corpo

After packing for a fun filled family road trip and setting up a new board after yesterdays board focus I intended to drive to Douglas. But then I saw Wilville and went with it. I had a new 8.25 deck and new wheels. Also forged baseplates instead of regular. I had done some research throughout the day in my journal and I’ve had come good days on this setup. But as expected starting out was not easy. I dropped into the middle bank a couple times then worked my way towards the ledge. A few BMXers showed up too which was kind of annoying watching the ledge get destroyed. Although maybe their pegs were plastic. Either way they weren’t overly nice so I’m glad they left quickly. I slammed on some noseslide and boardslide attempts. You know, really tech tricks. But things would come together at times. I did a line of halfcab flip, crook jib on the ledge then ride down the narrow bank. It was scary because my heel scraped the wall. Had a few boardslide pop outs on the narrow side, switch noseslides. Tried noseslide shove for awhile and got a sketchy one. Then I tried front 50s forever. They were so scary for me. Not only was the ledge tall, but it was dark and there are cracks everywhere. I would try a slow 360 flip on the way back. Normally I would bail it, but I landed on a few sketchy ones. At first I tried to front 50 the first part which meant ollieing from the bricks which was wavy and weird. Then I started coming in with a big angle and 50 the second part. It only took like 50 tries, but I started getting into it. I landed a really slow and bad one, but it made me happy. That is a tall ledge I’ve never 50’d before.

(setup 8.25 null perception deck, venture 5.8 lights black icon trucks, bones medium bushings, bones 51mm v1 stf, new balance numeric 212 black/white size 11, custom orthotic insoles)

skate journal: flatground frustration then rain (july 17, 2018)

Posted in Skate Journal on July 18th, 2018 by corpo

Had about 30 minutes to skate. As I left work it seemed pretty nice out, maybe some rain in the distance. I went to the dog park. I was getting through some warm ups. Had done a line of kickflip, no comply 180, fakie flip when some rain drops started. Then it fully dumped. I focused my board and left.

(setup 8.38 null perception deck, venture black icon 5.8 trucks, 52mm oj ez edge wheels, venom 91a bushings, NB# 212 black/white size 11, spenco 3/4 thinsole orthoric and 5mm Footprint insole)

skate journal: loveland skatepark lameness with riley and hayden (july 16, 2018)

Posted in Skate Journal on July 18th, 2018 by corpo

After work and some Chipotle I made it to the Loveland skatepark to meet Riley and Hayden. I was getting shirts from MRKT and luckily Hayden was kind enough to grab them for me and save me some driving. Although as we later found out it wasn’t really worth it. As I pushed into the park I saw Riley slam on a switch nose manual fakie flip out. It looked painful, but was still funny. Hayden showed up right after that. The motivation was low as this park kinda blows. Those dudes warmed up in the street area. I went over to that little spine and did a few little transfers. The air over it is fun even if it took me a few tries. Then in the ‘street’ area things started getting more crowded and crowded. There was a bunch of bikers there and they would literally sit with their pegs on the coping instead of up on the deck. Tools. I tried some lines with a trick on the tiny qp then b/s flip over the A frame. I got close to the b/s flip. My favorite qp trick was a front lip where I slid. I mean I haven’t done a lipslide in forever, only disasters. So to just slide it like it was nothing, granted it was only a few inches, felt great. My highlight though was easily when I was filming Riley and Hayden. As I was standing on the deck on my board I did something weird and forgot that the ground wasn’t level so I dove into the quarterpipe. I wish someone was filming that because I’m sure it looked hilarious. Anyways, Riley and Hayden were over it pretty quickly. That park has the worst scene. Even half the skaters wore headphones and cluelessly skated around with no regard of anyone else.

(setup 8.38 null perception deck, venture black icon 5.8 trucks, 52mm oj ez edge wheels, venom 91a bushings, NB# 212 black/white size 11, spenco 3/4 thinsole orthoric and 5mm Footprint insole)