{"id":2167,"date":"2010-07-15T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T15:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nullozinejr.com\/zine\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2010-07-15T15:47:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T15:47:08","slug":"skate-journal-valmont-with-john-jason-and-tons-of-mosquitos-july-13-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/2010\/07\/15\/skate-journal-valmont-with-john-jason-and-tons-of-mosquitos-july-13-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"skate journal: Valmont with John, Jason and tons of mosquitos (July 13, 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/esskateboarding.com\/product\/fall-2010\/footwear\/la-brea\/dark-grey-white\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"la brae\" src=\"http:\/\/esskateboarding.com\/content\/products\/fall-2010\/footwear\/la-brea-dark-grey-white.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a>Woke up in Seattle, ate a good breakfast, checked out of the hotel then walked\/trained\/flew\/bus&#8217;d back home and my legs seemed happy to be back in the nice dry air of Colorado. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t want to wear the Etnies anymore because they were pretty blown out and my legs needed more support. \u00a0Seeing as how I have a stack of shoes at the moment I chose to rock some new eS La Brea shoes and their fake vulc goodness. \u00a0I picked up Jason and we met John at Valmont. \u00a0The mosquito population quickly discovered our whereabout, but it didn&#8217;t seem to really bother John and I too much. \u00a0After a minute Jason retreated to the car instead of skating. \u00a0He had already done front 50s, front tail, front nose, back nose, halfcab nose and back 50 anyway. \u00a0John did his patented sw slappy noseslides, fakie back tails, fakie front 50s and some other moves. \u00a0I struggled at front 50s, crooks, slow back 50s using my 90 degree approach, halfcab noseslides, etc. \u00a0After awhile John and I skated the low part of the kicker. \u00a0He hates doing tricks off drops, but managed front shove and kickflip pretty quick. \u00a0I did those as well, a lame halfcab and tried fakie bigspins unsuccessfully. \u00a0John put down a good halfcab and fakie ollie so I tried fakie ollie too and did the worst one ever before we left. \u00a0Sweet. \u00a0Coming home is nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up in Seattle, ate a good breakfast, checked out of the hotel then walked\/trained\/flew\/bus&#8217;d back home and my legs seemed happy to be back in the nice dry air of Colorado. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t want to wear the Etnies anymore because they were pretty blown out and my legs needed more support. \u00a0Seeing as how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skate-journal"],"wppr_data":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9K4-yX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}