skate journal: cold flatground friday before work (dec 14, 2018)

Posted in Skate Journal on December 15th, 2018 by corpo

I wanted to skate later during lunch, but I knew the work day would be too crazy.  So I went to the dog park on a cold morning that felt even colder than I thought it would.  It took me a really long time to do the warm up line of kickflip, no comply 180 then fakie flip.  In fact I gave up on it and came back to a first try fakie flip after also getting a first try halfcab flip.  I didn’t land anything else for quite awhile.  I setup a couple bricks as something to ollie over.  I made a T out of them and it felt pretty tall for how early and cold it was.  I had an ollie over it followed by a 2nd try sketchy treflip which stoked me out.  Couldn’t get nollie tre, got one super slow heelflip, one super slow halfcab heel, first try slow fakie varial flip, slow f/s halfcab flip, maybe a couple other slow tricks.

(setup null 8.25 lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, bones  bushings (medium big bottom one, hard small top one), no washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf v1 pj wheels, new balance numeric 345 black/white size 12, old rubbery sole tech insoles)
(pain level 4/10 and my right foot was so cold)

skate journal: short boulder park before work (dec 13, 2018)

Posted in Skate Journal on December 15th, 2018 by corpo

Went to Boulder park before work on a cold morning, but somehow it didn’t feel so cold.  I had the park to myself for awhile except for a random homeless dude doing paperwork near the ledge (wtf?).  I had switched to some old 345s for no real reason other than I think it really does help my feet to rotate shoes.  I did some random stuff, but managed to not skate transition at all.  Ha.  I had those smaller harder wheels and they felt a little weird at first, but then I started popping ollied and they felt great for that.  I did a noseslide to fakie down the no runway hubba.  Well, only slid for a bit then landed in the bank which was kind of hard and fun.  Then I tried back 50s down it for awhile.  Never quite got in, but did commit at least.  Tried b/s flips over the tiny hip for a bit, but never put both feet on it.  Then front 50 across down the main ledge 2nd try.  Somehow that got me the courage to try and front 50 on just the downhill which I haven’t done in forever.  Downhill scares me.  But I did it like 5th try going super slow.  I wanted to go back and do it faster, but I needed to get to work and was happy leave on a good note.

(setup null 8.25 lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, bones  bushings (medium big bottom one, hard small top one), no washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf v1 pj wheels, new balance numeric 345 black/white size 12, old rubbery sole tech insoles)
(pain level 4/10 didn’t do many morning stretches)