skate journal: sunny boulder park before work and dog park after (aug 12, 2025)

Posted in Skate Journal on August 12th, 2025 by corpo

Had some time so stopped at Boulder park on the way to work. Had one goal which was to front 50 the bench before leaving. I started off pretty good. There was just a couple kids at the park. I would get some basics on the qp, hump to ledge, one first try b/s flip over the hump, a few accidental 5-0s on the bench pretty quickly and one that turned into a 50. I should have left then, but since the grinds were coming somewhat easy I wanted 50 shove. So of course I could no longer get up onto a 50. I left angry.

After work and a positive review I stopped at dog park. Ted was there. We hucked some tricks. Like all kinds of crazy tricks. I got close to kick back tail on the curb. Kind of close to kickflip noseslide on the bench. Did nollie front tail 270 shove and nollie shove noseslide on the curb. Had some other basics. Ted was doing front shove front noseslides, front heel nose. We played a game of SKATE and new guy Nick joined. I sucked and was out first so I left. Had a decent halfcab flip at least.

(setup 1/10 null 8.25 time warp, jessup ultra, thunder 148 team hollows t2 bushings, spitfire f4 99a 52mm classic pink/green new balance numeric 600 size 12 black/gum half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

skate journal: more douglass struggles and then dog park anger (aug 10, 2025)

Posted in Skate Journal on August 12th, 2025 by corpo

On a nice day I went driving looking for a new spot, but ended up at Douglass again. I didn’t feel great on my board to start, which I did on the side. About lost my mind unable to kickflip or 50 the curb initially. Would eventually get a line that I hardly remember anymore. Like front 5-0 then kickflip flyout. I had thought I’d do treflip flyout too. Nope. Really I didn’t do anything. Went to the front as a storm appeared to be rolling in. It would of course never rain. I had some okay noseslides, and a couple crooks. Then I went in on front 50s. As you can see I didn’t really get it. I really do not want to go back there and try anymore.

Then I went to dog park. Not sure why. I should have waited for Dave to be able to skate. There were some toddlers playing cat/mouse. Like little kids without scooters even just playing. That got on my nerves for some dumb reason and then when I bailed a couple 50s on the lurb I left.

(setup 3/10 null 8.25 time warp, jessup ultra, thunder 148 team hollows t2 bushings, spitfire f4 99a 52mm classic pink/green new balance numeric 600 size 12 black/gum currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 6/10)

skate journal: broomfield saturday morning with cass and gordon (aug 9, 2025)

Posted in Skate Journal on August 12th, 2025 by corpo

Was supposed to be a cooler day, sure didn’t feel that way on a sunny morning. I met Cass and Gordon at broomfield park. Taylor was there. Warming up was okay. I had done the rare thing of eating early so I was lazy to start. Gordon was doing his moves. He was close to pop shove nose manuals. Also a cool line of nollie front 180 over the parking block then sw 180 manual the blue pad. Then a kickflip over the parking block, manual, front 180 fakie 50. Cass seemed to do his tricks pretty well and quickly like he does. Front shoves out of the bank, front noses, back 50s, looking good. Green Boi showed up after a while. Good to see him. He can still manual and grind really easily. I had an okay performance as far as did some basics. At the end I managed a crook on the bank to ledge which was maybe the only thing I was proud of.

(setup 5/10 null 8.25 time warp, jessup ultra, thunder 148 team hollows t2 bushings, spitfire f4 99a 52mm classic pink/green new balance numeric 600 size 12 black/gum currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 5/10)