skate journal: boulder park before work (jan 13, 2022)

Posted in Skate Journal on January 13th, 2022 by corpo

Somewhat warm morning in the upper 30s and my first day without an early meeting. Perfect opportunity to go to Boulder park for the first time in months. Took me awhile to get going and I only had an hour to skate. I did nothing worth mentioning, basically just tried to ollie up things, close to some manuals, had some fun noseslides across the mini bump to ledge, took too long to do a front 50 on the bump to ledge, only did halfcab flip and backside flip on flat, ended with a really slow front 50 shove on the low ledge. There was probably more, I didn’t skate terrible and it felt good skating a park again.

(8.25 null vhs, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollow thunder bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 288S grey size 11.5)
(pain level 3/10)

skate journal: garage night back to 8.25 (jan 12, 2022)

Posted in setup change, Skate Journal on January 13th, 2022 by corpo

Had some time before dinner to skate. Went to the garage feeling kind of run down and started slow. Grabbed the 8.25 and it felt better and stuck with it. Didn’t really try any treflips, but hucked a few switch tres that were not close at all. Got halfcab heel and close to front heel. Hucked a bunch of flippers 1 try near the end which is always kind of fun.

(8.25 null vhs, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollow thunder bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 288S grey size 11.5)
(pain level 3/10)

skate journal: garage treflip fails (jan 11, 2022)

Posted in Skate Journal on January 13th, 2022 by corpo

Out to the garage after a fun night of dealing with dishwasher problems. Was feeling pretty motivated and started getting through flippers quickly. Even got a couple fakie heels. Then I went for treflip. I really wanted to get one in 10 tries and all of those tries were very close. Instead I went 0-50 and had to focus so hard to not focus my board. Then I went inside and watched the Nuggets blow a 25 point lead. Not the best night.

(setup null burnout stumpy 8″, pj jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 high cast plate hollow hanger venom 91a bushings both washers, 51mm spitfire f4 101a classic shape, new balance numeric 288S grey size 11.5)
(pain level 2/10)