Alright, it might not look like I have new shoes, but I do. They are the same steele grey PJs as before, but now in size 12 instead of 11.5. Ever since removing my orthotics I’ve realized I need bigger shoes. I originally thought 11.5 would be enough, but nope. So I hit 303 and got some PJs in the same color as to not look like a total poser with new stuff again. They are way more comfy, maybe even feel a bit too big, but we’ll see. I skated for about an hour. My board felt tiny with the bigger shoes and I felt pretty clumsy. It took a few tries to land a kickflip. I really didn’t skate good, but at one point I did a line of fakie f/s flip, nollie tre then heelflip. That was my saving grace as I laid into treflips after that and came up empty handed. Well, not totally, my hands did keep me afloat on one over 60 make. I hucked some switch f/s flips again and got remotely close. Close to nollie varial flip, not close to nollie flips and struggled with fakie bigflips again. Doh.

(setup null riley persing 8.125 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 51mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)

Met up with Chad at the Broomfield park around 9:30 am. I was feeling a little better then yesterday, meaning I could squat a little at least. Warming up was ok. Quartapotty tricks, blue ledge, parking block. Chad was pretty tired from his baby keeping him up and had a sore ankle. I had some ok runs going like switch 180 into the bank, crooks the ledge, front rock the brick qp then slappy crooks the parking block. Chad was almost doing front nosegrinds on the black ledge, front tails on the blue ledge. Chad left and I kept skating as Rob was on the way. I got a few tricks like front 50 shove on the black ledge, haflcab noseslide, more basic tricks. Got a line of kickflip on the hump, back 180 into the bank, halfcab noseslide. Rob showed. He manualled the top of the park quickly, crooks the ledge, boardslides, tailblocks the hump. I got a really, really bad back 50 on the black ledge, a little line of switch noseslide then the fakie triple rock on the wedge. I guess that’s pretty much it, seems like more happened, but I’m struggling to remember right now.

(setup null riley persing 8.125 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 51mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)

I had done a bunch of lunges at work the day before and was feeling it. I could barely squat at all. I started doing rock ‘n rolls and stuff on the “qp” part of it. Then on the ledge it was tough to even do a slappy crooks at the top of the ledge. I would eventually loosen up a little though. Somehow flip tricks didn’t hurt too much. I did a couple lines starting with slappy crooks then kickflip to fakie or kickflip over the “hip”. Then took a few tries to get noseslides and got nollie and regular back 360s over the “hip”. Did a few of the worst/slowest back 50s the ledge has ever seen. Then I hucked back 360 kickflip over the hip for awhile. Like 10th try I did one. It amazed me. It felt a little pivoty, but pretty much perfect. I of course tried to film it, but the phone overheated before I landed it. I might put that one on the stubborns trick list. Going back up I tried a lot of front crooks. They felt good, but that ledge needed wax and I would stick. Got close to pulling in a few though. I added a really bad cab over the hip to my collection of tricks over the hip. Then it was time to go pick up India at the mall. I drove to the wrong mall to pick her up, but you get the point.

(setup null riley persing 8.125 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 51mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)

Went to the Dog Park after work and checking on Ollie. I was feeling really run down, it was cool out and a bit breezy at times. Warming up turned into the full session. I could not land a b/s flip and I just started to hate how much work the wider board takes to flip. I struggled with fakie bigspins (wtf), halfcab flip as well, got a couple floppy heelflips, 0-10 on treflips. Was going to give up, but decided to huck switch f/s flips for awhile. I got close to a couple of them, but them madness to pull my smaller quiver out and skate it got to me. I went home ..

(setup null riley persing 8.38 deck, venture 5.2 hi, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 52mm spitfire f4 101a, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)

.. and pulled the 8.1 setup out of the garage and skated in front of my house. My kickflips felt better, everything felt better. I did a fakie bigspin that took no effort and made me a believer in the smaller setup. Halfcab flips worked again, heelflips every try (felt so good). It wasn’t magic though. I still struggled with treflips although they did flip around quicker and I technically finally landed one. Nollie tres were close every try. I’m not sure why I’m so drawn to small/low setups, but something about it really appeals to me. It makes me happy to look at and motivated to skate.

(setup null riley persing 8.125 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 51mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)

Went in front of the house feeling tired and just pushed, slid some 180s around then did a couple of longer powerslides.

After a busy day of work I went to Crisis, did bidness and chilled for a bit before heading to Broomfield park. I had the whole park to myself for about 5 minutes of fun basic warmups. Then a couple carloads of scooter kids showed, some locals and eventually Carleigh. I had a new board and it was feeling good. 8.38 with 8″ trucks. I think I’ll run this combo for at least a few more days. Ha. I skated mostly the black and blue ledges. Got front 50, front 50 shove, front 50 180, crooks, halfcab noseslide, back 50 (on blue only), halfcab boardslide all relatively quick which was a nice change of pace for lately. Carleigh showed and we skated the pole jam for awhile. We both got really bad no comply grab jams. It was new for her. Then she shredded the bowl while I tried to look cool standing on the deck. I did drop into the shallow/hip at least. Then it was more back to the normal routine for me between the ledges and quarta potty. Got close to a fakie front 50 b/s halfcab out. Carleigh was trying back disasters, didn’t get one this time. I got a front feeble to fakie on the quartapotty, a 360 flip on flat. Didn’t get front nosegrind the blue ledge or noseslide 270 shove the black ledge, but I still had fun.

(setup null riley persing 8.38 deck, venture 5.2 hi, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 52mm spitfire f4 101a, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)

250 days in a row! So tired from the Nullbraska roadtrip I just went into the garage for a minimum. I did 1 ollie, 1 nollie, 1 fakie ollie, 2 switch ollies, 1 nollie shove and 1 fakie shove.

@youknowmystee in York, NE. Thanks for the spot guide @ericjeckert. #nebraskaroadtripsection

A video posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Sep 5, 2016 at 7:59pm PDT

The temp was warmer, we got close to 8 hours of sleep and we went to this bank spot as our final destination before heading home. Jack and Riley were dead from the night before. Garrett, Hayden, Joe and Eric had the fire though. Garrett filmed a gnarly dump truck and I filmed Hayden get a sick line. I had tried to skate a little before that, but it was just hucking around. I joined Joe and Eric on the steep bank after I filmed. Joe had already rattled off a few tricks and Eric was in the process of rattling off a bunch of new ones for him when I joined. Joe did kickflip to side rock and fakie bigspin. Eric did tricks that I don’t know the names of. They involve sal flips or both feet on the table blunts to fakie in the middle of the bank. I tried a bunch of no comply bigspins. I was the last one skating, I kept getting close, but not landing it. I was stressed as I was the only one skating and PMG (positive mental glen which is the oppopsite – basically self depricating/hating glen). I got a couple, but they were landed really poorly. Oh well. Then we ate at Runza and piled in the car to head home. Good trip, good people, all that. It ruled.

(setup old null bottom of the well 8.38 deck, venture 5.2 hi, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 52mm spitfire f4 101a, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)

Slept good on a road trip what? It ruled. Woke up a little later then we wanted and after being baptized at the grocery store we went to York park. We all started on the mini. As you can see, the boys killed it. They were on fire. I skated ok. Didn’t get to far on my list, but managed to do more then axle stalls. While Eric filmed them rip it I kind of messed around trying to get it going. I don’t remember landing anything so it must not have been so good. Then we filmed for awhile. Hayden and Riley got some bangers then we headed to Lincoln. We went to the Bay for what was supposed to be a short session, BUT THEY WERE PLAYING DINOSAUR JR RADIO!!! Ha ha ha, I was so hyped. Plus, we got to skate it for free and there was only a couple of other people there. It was almost too much for me, I was too excited. Garrett and Hayden were shredding. I didn’t see much of Jack and Riley dipped out pretty quickly too as we were supposed to leave for the contest. But I kept skating. I started with back 50 on the slanted ledge, then back 50 on the long qp (so fun) and then bailed ledge tricks on the long ledge. I did a bunch of crooks on the center ledge and took a long time to do a front 50 (which I shoved out of once I got in it). We met Joe there and he was ripping. Front 50s every try with some twist. 50 shove, 50 to front board, lip to 50, lip to 50 to shove, etc. He was one sweaty stoked mess. After awhile I started trying my current dream trick, nollie tre over a hip. I tried it over and over and amazing tunes were playing. I added a back disaster on the little qp in the background. It was bad, but probably my first one on something other then Wells Fargo or Zuni park. I did not get the nollie tre, but there were a couple that were close. It just felt great to try so hard, have such great music playing and skate with such awesome people. The contest was a blast too. So fun to watch and rad seeing Jack and Riley do so well.

(setup old null bottom of the well 8.38 deck, venture 5.2 hi, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 52mm spitfire f4 101a, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)

@youknowmystee and @siouxer666 in Kearney, NE. #nebraskaroadtripsection

A video posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Sep 6, 2016 at 5:25am PDT

A Null mission! I was super hyped on this. It’s been too long. Jack and I met Hayden and Riley at Garrett’s house and we rolled off to Nebraska. The main purpose was for Riley and Jack to enter a contest they had been invited to. We were going to stay in York with Eric, but when we heard it was raining we stopped in Kearney. We went to the skatepark. It was hilarious. Such a small town scene. At least almost everyone had a skateboard. But there were teenage girls sitting nearby yelling at people saying they want to see a slam. They sucked. There was one young kid trying to prove the park was his by trying every trick that Riley, Garrett or Hayden did. It was quite hilarious. He quickly gave up and started asking what all the tricks were called. For some reason I just kept saying he was doing “Phantom” grinds, jumps, etc. No harm was done, it was just fun. I sucked it up. Those dudes were absolutely destroying. It was fun to watch, I flimed a little, but tried to skate as much as possible because I knew I would be doing a lot of filming. I had some fun on the mini at least, it was perfect. For some reason I kept getting in to sweepers, but couldn’t jump into the ramp. I also took forever to land a boardslide on the smallest bump to bar ever. I kind of blame my smaller setup. Argh. But that would change soon as Hayden snapped his deck so I had no choice but to give him my brand new 8.25 and setup my old 8.38 deck. It’s like 4 years old so it has no pop. We just filmed at that point anyway though. Jack got a couple of bangers and Hayden too. We moved on to York and met Eric at a mostly dark and wet skatepark. It was a mellow session. I did kickflip to fakie and b/s flip on the bank, but that was about it. Hayden ripped it pretty hard, but then we called it a night.

(setup 8.25 null riley persing deck, venture 5.2 hi, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 52mm spitfire f4 101a, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)