My foot still hurts from Monday, but the weather is looking good and I got some new shoes to make my foot feel more supported (Vox – JT Aultz). Hopefully they haven’t knobbed Clipper yet, because I can’t believe no one has kickflip front crooked it yet. I’m on it. First try no warm ups.
Song of the day and part of the day. Heard this song on my pandora station then had to watch the part. So sick! Maldonado, east coast ripper.
Pranks like this give me faith in humankind.
Little Jack and his little brother skating for fun.
Some new indoor park in Sacramento, CA. Looks amazing. Team Pain may be my favorite skatepark company these days. They did the new CO Springs park too.
Someone I work with brought in a huge bag of these because they didn’t like this flavor. I don’t know what’s wrong with them, but these are now my favorite Tootsie Pops of all time. Just thought you should know.
Super warm night. T-shirt weather. So awesome! Jake picked me up around 8pm and we headed downtown. My first few warm up ollies felt horrible. Jake just pushed fast down a street and I was trying manauls and kickfips and stuff. I catch up to him and he’s staring at me like a longboarder stares at you when they pass you. Ha. We went up into a parking garage and ollied this weird kicker. Jake got it quickly, but it took me several tries and I got really frustrated. Ugh. We rolled down the garage and that was fun. I kickflipped at one point going a decent speed and ollied onto a manual pad going too fast and thought I was going to die. Somehow I survived. We kinda cruised around a few spots before settling on a lot of parking blocks. Jake manned up and ollied over two blocks with a gap in the middle. Pretty sick. I attempted it, but can’t ollie. I had a fun boardslide transfer and kickflipped a parking block a couple times. I used to be able to kickflip parking blocks like they were nothing. Now it takes more effort/courage. Ugh. Nate met up with us and added to the stoke. He ollied the gap too. Damn 20 year olds. Ha. Before leaving the parking blocks I tried a few b/s feebles and hurricanes on a parking block. I’ve never actually tried feebles before. It wasn’t remotely close, but it felt cool to try it. Next up was a game of SKATE on Pearl. Things were going pretty good until I did a 360 flip first try out of turn and then hurt my foot trying to do another one. Ugh. I hit the bone in my foot I think I fractured a bit last year. Hope it heals up before SF!
I can thank Corey Duffel for introducing me to this one.
Little Jack sent this one to me. So good.
After a decently long hike with Liz and Ollie in the morning (India was still at a sleepover) I met at Brian’s and we were off to Ft Fun. We started at the jersey barrier spot and Brian, Neil, Jason and Lazer killed it. I got wallrides both ways on the barrier and a b/s flip on a mellow part of the nearby bank. I used to have that trick on lock. Ugh. Next up we skated the O Ledge. It was funny because for some reason the ledge seemed huge. None of us got on it right away. Eventually some boardslides and noseslides were landed and Neil no complied it. It was not a pretty session. I ate shit on a front 50, but managed front 50, front 50 front 180, front 50 shove and a front 5-0. I wanted a front 5-0 shove, but it didn’t happen and that ledge is tall.At this point we split up and Jason and I rolled with Sean to a street spot while the rest of the Factory skated the Northside skatepark. The spot was so close to being epic, but the main surface was 20 year old rough ass asphalt. Nothing worthy went down, but it was fun.