skate journal: terrible slappy attempts (feb 20, 2024)

Posted in setup change, Skate Journal on February 20th, 2024 by corpo

After a long day of work there was a little sunlight so I went across the street to get some slappy crooks in. I have been changing my setup basically every day because why not. I’m only doing slappys so maybe I’ll have some luck figuring out a setup I really like. And I very quickly reminded myself that I absolutely hate Thunders. I somehow could barely even push. Even worse I couldn’t slappy crook. What the heck!

(setup 0/10 8.5 sample 14.25, thunder 149 hl, bones v1 52mm 103a, new balance numeric 272 teal size 12 half insoles with spenco 3/4 orthotic insoles)
(pain level 6/10 I guess even just pushing in vulcs hurts these days)

skate journal: rocky mountain sunday still no jumping for me (feb 18, 2024)

Posted in setup change, Skate Journal on February 20th, 2024 by corpo

On a nice Sunday I picked up Jesse and we left snowy Boulder for an almost entirely dry Longmont. Jesse and I got there first and started the warm up process which is basically all I have now since I shouldn’t be ollieing yet. Jesse had some good flippers, fast plants, noseslides and slappies right away. I dropped in and did some slappies. Might have even ollied into grind a couple of times. I did have one fun dumb line of front slappy, slide around 180, switch noeslide, slappy front crook. Rob hasn’t skated this winter, but came and did some really long manuals. Dave’s back hurt so he kept it “mellow”. Nose stalls on the bank to sideways curb, crazy switch roll in to the brick median with a drop, ride on slides, switch slappy crook. It was a fun day with a good crew, but man I’m really looking forward to my knee feeling better and trying flippers again.

(3/10 setup 8.5 14.25 sample, jessup ultragrip, royal 149 ultralights, snot 52mm pink, emerica og-1 with currex run-pro insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

skate journal: more light dorking at a couple mellow bank spots in boulder (feb 17, 2024)

Posted in setup change, Skate Journal on February 17th, 2024 by corpo

After a cold and snowy morning the sun came out and it was quite nice out. My left knee is still swollen and painful, but starting to feel better thanks to PT and not jumping. So I set out in the afternoon for some more no-pop skating. I started at basemar and half piped it at the kicker. I didn’t even know what I would do when I got there, but then started messing around with nollie shove then fakie side rock. I would end up getting all 4 of the no pop shoves combined with various side rocks. It was pretty fun even if I was hating my setup (do I ever like it?). Then I drove around until I found the bank with the side curb which was fun too. Tail to fakie and shove was really fun. I came close to a nose stall manual, but the crack got me. My knee started to hurt a bit so I called it a day after driving around and looking at a few other spots.

(setup 1/10 8.5 14.25 sample, jessup ultragrip, slace low 8.5s, snot pink 52mm, emerica og-1 black size 12 currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

skate journal: a couple sloppy slappy crooks (feb 15, 2024)

Posted in Skate Journal on February 17th, 2024 by corpo

Going crazy not skating. Had to get out on my board. Went across the street and did a couple of slappy crooks through some puddles. Maybe an ollie and nollie or two.

skate journal: fun in the streets not popping (feb 11, 2024)

Posted in Favorite, setup change, Skate Journal on February 12th, 2024 by corpo

On a nice afternoon I couldn’t resist the urge to skate a little. I was sore from PT exercises, but in a good way and the knee felt better than it has in months. But I’m trying to still be patient. Just because it’s feeling better doesn’t mean it’s healed up. My knee is still quite swollen. I went behind Safeway hoping the super mini bank to curb was dry and it was! Took a couple tries to do some axle stalls then went in on the pivots. The f/s one took a big I kept putting the front wheels down in the crack. It was fun though and some of the attempts grinded which felt cool on my new Slappy trucks. Then I went to the ride on grind off Pearl parkway. I also did a couple ollies that felt good and popped pretty well. But I kept it to literally only two ollies. Then lastly over to the arapahoe bank with the holes thinking maybe I could carve over a hole or two but there was a lot of snow. So I just did some no pop noseslides on the ledge and called it a day. It was incredibly fun to get out and street skate even if I didn’t pop.

(setup generator 8.5/14.25 sample, jessup upltragrip, slappy 8.5 hollow, 52mm snot pink wheels, new balance 212 b/w sized 12 spenco 3/4 orthotic insoles and 272 insoles)
(pain level 2/10)

skate journal: quick little slappy fix (feb 2, 2024)

Posted in setup change, Skate Journal on February 3rd, 2024 by corpo

After my last session my knee felt totally done and I knew I had to take some time off. I almost made it 3 weeks before needing to get out for a brief slappy fix. I may have done a couple tiny ollies too, but mostly just slappy crooks and a couple attempts at front slappys. Knee is feeling a little better, but definitely planning on giving it a while longer before really skating.

(setup generator sample 8.5/14.25, jessup ultragrip, ace 55 af1 lows hard bushings, 52mm stf bones v1, vans wayvee white size 12 custom orthotic insoles)
(pain 3/10)

skate journal: private old dudes session at square house (jan 13, 2024)

Posted in Skate Journal on January 14th, 2024 by corpo

On a very cold night I had arranged a private session at Square House. The crew ended up being Dave, Mike, Jess, Jack B and me. Jack and I got there first. It was cool being able to just slowly skate the middle of the park without being in anyones way. But it was clear right away that my knee did not feel good at all. As others showed and warmed up I was in a very dark place about my knee and skating. Had I not been the one responsible for locking up I would have left and perhaps left my skateboard behind for good. But I’m incredibly stubborn and tried to feed off the fun my friends were having. Dave was shredding quickly and did a wallie from the parking block over the euro. Pretty unreal. Jesse quickly did varial flip, halfcab and then fakie ollie up the euro. The fakie ollie was nuts. The park seemed extra slippery and I think everyone had some odd slams. Dave slammed dropping in once hitting something right as he got to flat and it looked like a pretty bad slam. Jack had some good ollies over the bump, back 50s the bank to curb, pop shoves to fakie on the bank even though I somehow missed most of it filming. Mike with a lot of wallride variations on the china bank. I went in on the kickflip to fakie from “high” to low which took me way too long and I almost lost my mind. When I did finally land it I got a fakie bigflip after which brought a brief smile to my face. I had also kickflipped up the euro and a couple noseslides on the bump to ledge. Dave kickflipped up it too and followed it up with a front board transfer into the china bank that was my fav trick of the session. Mike had back 180s up the euro, no comply up it, lots of back 50s the bank to curb. Jack got a bunch of front tails on the tiny qp and even a crail on it. I took too long to do back 50 to fakie and one front tail. Jesse and Dave were going for back 50 and back feeble the bank to curb (respectively) from high to low. I don’t think Jesse got it, but Dave did as the session came to an end. Pretty amazing crew and thank you Brian for allowing us to skate. I hope I didn’t come off as too much of a whiny baby, but man this knee thing really as me down.

(setup 1/10 8.25 pmg, jessup ultragrip, royal 144 hollow kingpin, bones stf v1 pj 103a, es swift b/w size 12 with spenco 3/4 orthotic insoles)
(pain level 8/10)

skate journal: blue skies lunch break with dave (jan 12, 2023)

Posted in Favorite, setup change, Skate Journal on January 13th, 2024 by corpo

Was in the office, but took a lunch break and met Dave on a cold and windy day. I got there first and struggled through some warming up. I had a goal of a line of boardslide, kickflip, ollie to fakie on the bank, switch front nose, fakie flip. But I only got to the fakie flip once and didn’t land it. I was really struggling with flippers because of the wind and my confidence. Dave showed and it got more fun. He started in on hippy jump then boardslide to fakie the flatbars. I skated really slow with some other tricks, got a couple noseslides, one really bad crooks, a couple kickflips, remotely close to some random hucks, one nollie shove to fakie on the bank that was scary. Oh yeah, Dave was trying nollie back tail on the flat bar and I was trying switch front nose. A couple of tech rail skaters here. We got them. Dave would go on to get a line of front board to fakie, fakie flip, halfcab noseslide, front 50. Pretty sick! I didn’t land much, but it felt like progress and it was fun reliving the Blue Skies era with Dave again.

(setup 6/10 8.25 pmg, jessup ultragrip, royal 144 hollow kingpin, bones stf v1 pj 103a, es swift b/w size 12 with spenco 3/4 orthotic insoles)
(pain level 6/10)

skate journal: silver session fun (jan 9, 2024)

Posted in setup change, Skate Journal on January 11th, 2024 by corpo

On a cold and windy night I struggled with motivation to go to square state’s silver session. Much to my delight there were only a few people there. I started out on the little kid area getting used to my dumb setup change then went to the ramp with Nick and Gray. I was somehow rustier than last time with almost no confidence at all. Gray got distracted then Nick and I skated flatground for a bit. I haven’t landed a treflip in months so I went in. My knee was hurting pretty bad and it was hard to do treflip since you have to put a lot of pressure on the front foot. I would kind of get one and didn’t feel like cleaning it up. Nick did some f/s cabs and shove reverts. Then off the the main area that was just a line of people doing tricks up the euro. Jason did nollie tre which was pretty epic. There were also nollie inward heels, nollie front heels, treflips and back heels. I would get a kickflip up it pretty quickly which made me somewhat happy. But not before I decided to dive down the euro bank to flat on my side. It was a crowd silencing slam and I almost left, but in some weird way it was fun to slam again. Although my knee would totally disagree. Then I spent the session trying to do kickflip and b/s flip on the mellow bank and really really struggled. Kind of got them. Kind of hate thunders. was trying to line the kf to fakie out with a fakie nosegrind on the little baby ledge but I couldn’t get the kf so it never worked. Steeze was there doing lots of flippers. Jesse was ripping. Fun night, wish my knee would be happy with me.

(setup generator 2/10 8.5 14.25 blank, jessup ultragrip, thunder 149 hollow with royal bushings, 51mm bones stf v1 pj 103a, es swift b/w size 12 with spenco orthotic 3/4 insoles)
(pain level 7/10 that f’ing left knee)

skate journal: spring canyon with the nullers on a cool sunday (jan 7, 2024)

Posted in setup change, Skate Journal on January 7th, 2024 by corpo

Up to Fort Collins on a cold Sunday with the Nullers. Jack, Joe, Garrett, Sean and I met up with Hayden, Peyton and Noè. Jack is smartly not skating yet and letting his body heal. Sean was ripping back nosegrinds and nollie back nosegrinds, manuals, quick footed pop. Noè did switch nose manual fakie flip then turned around and did switch nose manual fakie varial flip, 100 nollie flips, every other flip trick, varial heel to fakie on the weird bank. Hayden nollie lip up a potato chip, smooth manual combos, looked good on the football deck. Joe was popping high out of the gates, showed up Noè with a first try nollie hard, front smith the bench, had some steezy Reeboks. Garrett came in second in the game of SKATE which is basically like winning when you’re playing Noè. Peyton was going for varial mute over the channel and got really close. He pushed full speed for like two hours and didn’t quite get it. Doh. I skated absolutely terribly. I had done a few stationary ollies on various setups and definitely ollied the 8.5 with aces the highest so I brought it. And I hated it. I would get a couple of very slow 50s, halfcab noseslides on the low ledge. Managed a few noseslides on the bench. Couldn’t get flip tricks to save my life and was like 0-50 on super slow treflips.

(setup 8.5 null vhs, null grip, ace 55 af1 hollows, 51mm spitfire 99a classic f4, es swift b/w size 12 with spenco orthotic insoles)
(pain level 4/10 not bad for all of a sudden skating and popping three days in a row)