{"id":3872,"date":"2011-08-01T20:58:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T20:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2011-08-01T20:58:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T20:58:49","slug":"skate-journal-mostly-valmont-with-jack-july-31-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/2011\/08\/01\/skate-journal-mostly-valmont-with-jack-july-31-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"skate journal: mostly valmont with jack (July 31, 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bigboard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bigboard-640x849.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"i&#039;m a big boy now\" width=\"640\" height=\"849\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bigboard-640x849.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bigboard-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bigboard.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well it&#8217;s official, I&#8217;m on the big board bandwagon.  New 149 Thunder &#8220;Light&#8221; Trucks and an 8.25&#8243; board.  I guess Fuzz gets the most credit for the upgrade because I don&#8217;t want people to think he has a bigger deck than me (oh man such a bad joke).  But at least mine is lighter (still a bad joke) because I got light trucks instead of the regular ones.  I mean why even get the regular trucks when you can get the same truck, but lighter?  Now when he can&#8217;t ollie something as high as me (which will never happen because Fuzz could ollie way higher than me even if he was skating a shopping cart) I will make sure to point out that his trucks are too heavy. <\/p>\n<p>Ok, time to talk about skating.  Oh wait, first, it was almost 100 degrees and I was lazy and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/?p=3857\">starving<\/a>.  We went to a covered manny pad to start things.  Nothing special went down.  We went to a nearby building where Jack beat himself up to get a rather unique and cool trick that I didn&#8217;t film very well.  After some driving around we ended up at Valmont which ended up benig a blast.  Jack started out with a manual up the escalator ledge balanced to a stop then went fakie and did a fakie flip out.  Ridiculous.  The kid in him couldn&#8217;t resist the loading dock, but the old man in him couldn&#8217;t do a little kid trick.  He did a few no comply 180s down it while I jibbed some front tails on the sticky ledge.  I did a few crooks and back 50s and flipped the board around a bit to try and get used to it.  It was going ok.  Jack did an early grab off the loading dock so I tried too.  Three tries later I got it and it was fun.  Jack added early grab one foot and almost early grab late shove wtf?  Then he did a boneless pole jam bonk thing that I had to try too and somehow came away first try.  After that we played a long game of SKATE without too many kickflip variations because Jack&#8217;s ankle is still sore.  Overall the big board\/trucks felt good and maybe I&#8217;ll end up liking it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&#8217;s official, I&#8217;m on the big board bandwagon. New 149 Thunder &#8220;Light&#8221; Trucks and an 8.25&#8243; board. I guess Fuzz gets the most credit for the upgrade because I don&#8217;t want people to think he has a bigger deck than me (oh man such a bad joke). But at least mine is lighter (still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-3872","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\/p1j9K4-10s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872","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=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3874,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions\/3874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}