skate journal: niwot ledge trying to pop again (march 10, 2024)

Posted in Skate Journal on March 10th, 2024 by corpo

After a fun day of hanging with the family I got out for a short session. Which was good because my legs didn’t have much anyway. I had thought of this spot and after some lurking ended up just skating here. The ledge is somehow taller than it looks. And I’m not just saying that because I haven’t tried to skate a ledge in a couple months. I warmed up with some no pop lines like switch front nose then fakie shove. Noseslide to fakie then fakie bigspin. Got to crooks then kickflip which I thought would come quick, but no, never landed a crooks. Unheard of! That ledge isn’t really a good crooks ledge though. I got a few very slow front 50s that barely grinded. One halfcab noseslide that felt pretty good but then I couldn’t do it again. I didn’t film long because I didn’t really feel like filming considering how badly I was skating. I got a line of ollie onto the pad, front 180 off then switch noseslide the ledge going so slow. It felt cool though. Got one ultra slow jib fakie front nose. Couldn’t get a back 50. I got a few flippers I haven’t done in a couple months. Varial flip and both halfcab flips. I was pretty beat, but overall pretty happy that I skated and started trying to pop onto a ledge again.

(setup 7/10 generator 8.5/14.25, jessup ultragrip, thunder team hollow 149 royal bushings, 52mm bones stf v1 103a, new balance numeric 212 b/w size 12 spenco 3/4 thinsole orthotic and 272 insoles)
(pain level 3/10 unbelievable! after skating for 3 days in a row)