skate journal: dog park blah with dave (june 9, 2025)

Posted in Skate Journal on June 10th, 2025 by corpo

Was tired and sore, but Dave had a bit of time to skate so I met him at Valmont. But when I got there it was overrun by striders and bikes. In fact, one little kid ran into me as I stood by the entrance to the park. It didn’t hurt, but what the heck. Dave was skating the bank to curb. He did like a million back pivots and kickflips and then would get a backside flip. I took too many tries to get a no comply to tail, front pivot and front 50. We both did nollie back tails too, Dave’s was actually good though. I posed a lot of flippers. Dave left and I had the whole park to myself but I was beat. Did a line around the park like boardslide a flat bar, front 50 the lurb, crooks the bench, back 50 the curb, halfcab noseslide the green box. Then I was complete toast.

(setup 2/10 null time warp 8.25, null grip, slappy lights 8.25 indy 92a bushings, spitfire f4 99a radial slim green 51mm, new balance numeric 430 b/w size 12 half insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 7/10)

skate journal: more broomfield, this time with a big crew and some energy (june 8, 2025)

Posted in setup change, Skate Journal on June 10th, 2025 by corpo

Left Boulder and it was cloudy, cool and looked like it was going to rain. Got to Broomfield and the sun had come out and remained sunny the four hours we were there. I got there the same time as Dave and Rob. Kyle was there. Luzius and Cass would come too. It was a fun crew, everyone seemed to skate pretty hard and good. It was cool catching up with Kyle and seeing him skate so well even though he’s had some gnarly disease. Didn’t get to see Luzius skate a whole lot, but saw a casual manual or two. Cass had some poppy kickflips, good noseslides and 50s both ways. Rob had manuals, front boards, g turns, fakie bigs to nollie shoves, nollie lip, good seeing him shredding. I had better luck with flip tricks and would get quite a few including a questionable treflip. Struggled with front 50s though and barely got one into the bank. Hucked some treflip noseslides because why not. Dave was beast mode as usual. He had a line near the end of boardslide the brick qp, front 50 back 180 out the bump to ledge then kickflip into the bank. Also lots of other tricks on the brick qp, great slappy variations, so much more that I’m forgetting. It was a fun session, good peoples.

(setup 6/10 null time warp 8.25, null grip, slappy lights 8.25 indy 92a bushings, spitfire f4 99a radial slim green 51mm, new balance numeric 430 b/w size 12 half insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 3/10)