Got out of work early and went home instead of skating. That basically sums up how bad I felt. I pushed over to the school after a walk with Liz on my 8.38 setup. I did a few crooks stalls and stuff then went home.
Went to the dog park after work on an absolutely gorgeous day. Seriously incredibly beautiful. Temperature, no breeze, etc. I started off terrible. Actually started to think maybe I should go to the doctor because I felt so disoriented and weird. I’m going to blame insomnia. It took me about 20 minutes to feel comfortable with kickflips. Jake showed up around then and went into a game of SKATE. I wasn’t expecting much, but ended up getting quite a few tricks. He got me on treflip and switch front shove. Also a couple of other tricks I forget. But I had landed a couple rare ones like halfcab heel and fakie heel. I ended up winning on a f/s no comply 360. I had no idea Jake doesn’t have that trick, but I certainly will remember that. Ha. Second game was no repeats. I took a long time to get a backside flip, we both failed at fakie tres, I forget what else went down, but I won it. Then I wanted to do a treflip before I left. Well, 30 minutes later I landed a crappy one. Ugh. Total damper on my first ok feeling session in awhile.
(setup null message 8.1, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum 12)
Went to Louisville park on a cool evening. I am still dealing with insomnia and trying not to nap in the afternoon. When I arrived there was one skater being filmed by his girlfriend and 3 bikers just talking to each other. It took awhile before I felt comfortable enough to do anything. Ugh. I would eventually get a line of slow front 50 the lower part of the long ledge, boardslide the low part of the flat bar, then kickflip on the bank. I tried to do another line starting with front 50 180 or front 50 shove, but it never happened. I got a couple of crooks on the ledge. Came close to nollie f/s flip in the corner. Posed hardflips over the hip. Basically still feel out of it and exhuasted. Ugh.
(setup null message 8.1, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum 12)
Went out to the garage, did a few “manuals” and a couple kickflips.
Went to Safeway after work on my way to Crisis. I was dead tired. It was absolutely gorgeous outside. I fell asleep in the car instead of getting out to skate. That’s when it really hit home to me that something is wrong. Ugh. After waking up I attempted to skate, but it was terrible. 50s were as far as I got on the list. My feet were hating me for wearing the smaller shoes again. Gotta go back to the 12s.
(setup krooked manderson 8.1, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum 11.5)
After driving down from the mountains and chilling awhile I went to good ol’ Valmont to try my luck with the lipslide shove again. I quickly felt like crap. Total crap. It was like I was learning to skate all over again. I had done a couple of bad 50s and taken awhile to land a kickflip (but got a heelflip first try) before forcing myself to lay into more lipslides. My already cracked deck did not like that. I ended up basically just trying it over and over. It was kind of funny watching the crack spread across the deck a little further with each failed attempt. It became too soggy to even try flip tricks. After awhile I focused it and setup an old Krooked Manderson board that was in my trunk. I went back into lipslides with it, but was so tired at that point that I basically gave up and went home.
(setup null message 8.125 deck/krooked manderson 8.1, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum 11.5)
On the way to my mom’s in BV we stopped at the Fairplay park. No one was there. It was cool out, but not cold and no breeze whatsover. Ollie was cruising around the park quickly. I was hyped to skate, but quickly proved I had no energy once again. I bailed a lot. Ollie doesn’t skate much, but it’s fun when he does. He was doing manuals around the hip, carves over the rock love seat, pushing mongo everywhere, front 180s off the little wedge and halfcabs over the hip. I had done a couple of back 180’s over it and decided I wanted to backside flip it. 30 tries later I got one. Ollie with the hype. Then we left. I was hyped to get that trick.
(setup null message 8.125 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum size 11.5)
Had to force myself off the couch after a long day of work and a long week of staying up late (Dinosaur Jr twice!!!). I got to Valmont shortly before 9pm and my energy level was seriously low. I skated absolutely horrible. I felt like I had never skated before. Even kickflips felt weird. I took awhile to do front 50s on the low part, noseslides even felt weird. Flip tricks were impossible. I was wearing the size 12 PJs. They felt huge. I tried to do a few front lips after the grate, but I kept cracking my board a tiny bit worse with each attempt. So I moved down to the curb area and managed to slide a few lipslides and contemplate shoving out. But I ran out of energy and decided to leave. Ugh.
(setup null message 8.125 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)
I was so completely exhausted from two nights of Dinosaur Jr. I started my laundry, opened the door to the garage for a minimum manual dork trick and ended up just trying this one for about 10 minutes. After getting one I asked Ollie to film it so I could share it with my fans (ha ha ha). I got another one in a few more minutes.
(setup null message 8.125 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)
Went out to do the minimum powerslide session, but ended up pushing over to the school and hitting the curb. I did a couple of slappy crooks. Then I did a nollie disaster shove out like I had shoved out of disaster several times. Josh has challenged me to front lip shove out so I tried to actually do it. I got surprisingly close. It put me in a good mood to go see Dinosaur Jr again!!!!
(setup null message 8.125 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)