skate journal: brief slappies at the school (oct 13, 2025)

Posted in New Shoes, setup change, Skate Journal on October 13th, 2025 by corpo

Still feeling run down I went across the street after work on a nice and cool day. I had a setup change. 8.3 with T2s. Felt great to roll on, but I really didn’t do much. I had forgotten wax for the curb and it didn’t grind well at all. Managed some front slappies and crooks both ways. Got one kickflip that felt great, one that felt terrible. A couple nollie front 180s that felt great. Maybe a few shoves.

(setup 6/10 null 8.3 flaherty, jessup ultra pj, thunder t2 149, spitfire 51mm f4 99a classic, vans half cab wafflecup beige size 12)
(pain level 3/10 but I didn’t really do anything)

skate journal: short tired windy manual fails (oct 12, 2025)

Posted in Skate Journal on October 13th, 2025 by corpo

On a really windy day I randomly ended up at this little downhill driveway / manny pad / wallride spot. I was tired from the punk show and a little under the weather. Skating didn’t go well. I did some brief dorking around to warm up before going in on a line. Manual, ollie up, wallie nollie off. I got a couple manuals right away, then couldn’t do it again. It was so frustrating. Something about how short the little manny pad was scared me. I kept bailing ever kickflip trick in between tries too and it was driving me nuts. I finally just filmed the wallie nollie. Then I tried some frontside whirlybirds that wen’t very close.

(setup 1/10 8.25 null timewarp, jessup ultra, venture 5.6 v-hollow, spitfire f4 99a 52mm pink/green classic, new balance numeric 272 army size 12 with half insoles and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 5/10 pretty sore)

skate journal: dog park after being sick all week (oct 11, 2025)

Posted in setup change, Skate Journal on October 13th, 2025 by corpo

Went to dog park after my first 4 day stint off the board all year I think. I hate not skating. I also hate being sick. Bratcher was there, Fergs too, Gordon after a while, Ace one of the only solo youth showing up by himself and totally ripping. I felt quite out of it and even dizzy at times, but skated okay mostly. Halfcab flips worked finally, crooks, noseslides, 50s on the lurb. Ace rattled off like 20 tricks in a row on the big wood ledge, it was crazy. And casually doing hard qp tricks too. Gordon had his good manuals and grinds and tried some other moves. Bratcher was getting his feet back after another bad slam. After a while Eric showed too, took a bit to get manual. I squeeked out a couple nose manuals. I battled front 50 on the annoying bench and was about to get very upset, but luckily put down a couple. One of which even felt good. It started raining and I was happy about that as I was beat.

(setup 6/10 8.25 null timewarp, jessup ultra, venture 5.6 v-hollow, spitfire f4 99a 52mm pink/green classic, new balance numeric 272 army size 12 with half insoles and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10)