skate journal: short weird willville and some rain (july 11, 2025)

Posted in setup change, Skate Journal on July 11th, 2025 by corpo

Went to Willville after work with rain threatening. I wanted to start somewhere else so I went back behind the medium pads and kind of found a new curb spot I want to rub brick. It’s like a mini bank to curb spot with some weirdness. I tried this warm up line of switch 180 off a curb, ollie on a mini bank, curve around slappy crook. But I never got the slappy crook in a line. Then I backed up and started trying a kickflip off a bump beforehand. Oh, here’s where it gets weird I had a setup and shoe change so kickflips felt off. 8.3, thunders, vulcs. I would eventually get the kickflip got to the curb again and hucked kick back tail which was not close at all. Then the line started with ollie down the 3 stair. I would get a first try halfcab flip that felt great, but trying to ollie up the 3 felt absolutely impossible. Then I went to the little ledge at the bottom of the main pad, but it started to rain. I had done a couple ultra basics, but the rain it really came so I left.

(setup 6/10 8.3 null time warp, jessup ultragrip, thunder team hollow 149, sptifre f4 99a classic shape orange/black 52mm, new balance numeric 574 vulc grey/orange size 11.5 half insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)

skate journal: broomfield evening meh with cass (july 9, 2025)

Posted in Skate Journal on July 11th, 2025 by corpo

After work and a couple naps I went to Broomfield on a hot night. There was only two other people skating and I was there for a good 20 minutes before Cass showed. My warm ups went well. Basically everything until ollies or flipping the board. But it was fun, I felt sore, but good. I would get some front 50s, maybe a back 50 on the blue lurb, some boardslides on the bump to bar, hurricane the bank to curb, noseslides to fakie on the bank to ledge. It was fun. But the front 50s were pretty hard on the black box and it ate at me. Not as much as how hard flip tricks felt though. They felt impossible. Cass was skating decent. Some front noses, front nose shove, 5-0s, front shoves out of the bump. We played a game of SKATE and I SUCKED. I took 5 tries to get a kickflip and the only other flip trick I landed was halfcab flip. Cass won it. I went home depressed. I had wanted to change my setup before this session, but I didn’t because I’m sick of madness. But I hated my board beyond belief.

(setup 1/10 null time warp 8.25, null grip, venture 5.6 v8 with hollow hanger, 52mm bones stf v1 103a, emerica og-1 black size 12 gameghanger insoles)
(pain level 6/10)