skate journal: a little big of parking lot skating (dec 12, 2023)

Posted in setup change, Skate Journal on December 11th, 2023 by corpo

Went to the same parking lot as the day before as most stuff was still snowy. My knee didn’t feel as good after all the skating before. I had a new setup. 8.5 with ace lows. For some reason in my head I thought I must relearn skating with an 8.5 and I pretty much absolutely hated it. I had some fun boardslides, slappy crooks, but once I got to kickflip and it was too painful I basically stopped. Man, I hope the next HA injections help my knee more because this pain is not worth it.

(setup null vhs 8.5, null grip, ace low af1 55, bones stf v1 52mm, new balance numeric 600 size 12 left currex insole right half insole)
(pain level 7/10)

skate journal: another attempt at skateboarding (dec 9, 2023)

Posted in setup change, Skate Journal on December 11th, 2023 by corpo

Had a hyaluronic acid injection in my knee a couple days ago and my knee felt better than it has in weeks. It had snowed several inches overnight though and almost everything was wet except the old faithful Valmont lot near dog park. I felt so incredibly rusty, but had some fun popping my board. Found that ultra micro hip which is basically a crack. But I had a fun line of axle stall a parking block, pop shove the hip, front smith stall a curb, nollie front 180 the hip, fakie bigspin. I had done a few kickflips, but they got increasingly harder each time. Went in on backside flips, but that started to hurt my knee so I decided to stop.

(setup null 8.25 glenosaur, jessup ultragrip, venture v-cast 5.6 bones medium bushings, bones 51mm pj stf v1, new balance numeric 600 size 12 left currex insole right half insole)
(pain level 5/10 still some sharp pain at times)