skate journal: flatground and ledgy with jack then some valmont manny pad action (feb 7, 2016 day 38)

Posted in Skate Journal on February 8th, 2016 by corpo

Pre game front blunts by @jackspanbauer. #gobroncos #ledgy 📷 @corpoglenny

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Brought Ledgy out and found some decent flatground to put it. I started with mostly flatground and tried to skate a little faster again. Man it makes tricks so much more difficult and I was once again unable to land a 360 flip. Ugh. I did have a few decent heelflips at least. I did a back 50 first try on Ledgy which was relieving, but then it took awhile to get it again. Argh. Jack showed up and immediately started trying pop shove crooks which he would eventually land. Along with kick back tail, front smith, a bunch more tricks. It’s rad skating with Jack. He is infinitely better at skating with me, but I still feel like I can skate like myself around him. I didn’t really land anything else, but tried a few front crooks.

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Then we went to Valmont manual pads. I was so sore I couldn’t even ollie up the curb for awhile. Jack did a manual the long way to back 50 right away. I would try it for the next hour before getting it. Ha. In the meantime Jack also did manual kickflip back tail. So crazy! He also did a bunch of back 180 fakie manual halfcabs out. Even one with a fakie bigspin out. I got somewhat close to nose manuals and kickflips manuals, but really I was just sore and stoked to be skating with Jack. Finally getting the long manual to 50 was pretty darn fun.

(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 venom 91a bushings nb# pj stratford 533 patriot)

skate journal: rock kickflips, flatground then darin’s ramp (feb 6, 2016 day 37)

Posted in Skate Journal on February 8th, 2016 by corpo

mega air

Met Dave at this spot after driving around for awhile trying to find something dry. I we started with some did some kick turn warm ups and stuff before settling on some tricks to try. I was set on rock ‘n roll kickflip out. Dave was doing fakie front shove. We did them. We filmed them. Dave added a popped ollie after and I added a no pop 180 over the snow gap. We filmed each other. It was cool. Dave had to split out and I decided to try the rock ‘n roll kickflip some more as a challenge to Josh in the game. Fun. Although I did bruise the harch of my back foot on some of the failed attempts that didn’t flip all of the way.

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Then I found this perfect section of concrete and played around for awhile. I tried to skate faster which made tricks harder and I didn’t get too far on the list. I couldn’t do a 360 flip or nollie tre. It was mostly fun though.

#highfivehideout thanks @dnutz37!

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Then I met Fuzz and a bunch of others at Darin’s ramp. I was pretty sore and tired and unmotivated. I had a decent first run and added a weak front feeble as a new one there. Others were ripping. Justin did a blunt kickflip to fakie. CJ had 20 minute runs with every trick looking perfect and learned blunt kickflip to fakie at the very end. Austin’s back d’s look like Grant Taylor’s back ds. Fuzz’s halfcab back blunt first try ruled. Darin did the longest back tail I’ve seen him do. Adam pops blunt to fakie higher then anyone.

(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 venom 91a bushings nb# pj stratford 533 patriot)

skate journal: mellow rough curb session (feb 5, 2016 day 36)

Posted in Skate Journal on February 8th, 2016 by corpo

Feeling oh so tired and sore I got out of work early and met Dave for a short and mellow session at one of the dry spots we could find. The concrete was ok, a lot of bigger cracks though. The curb itself sucked as it was so rough. A lot of wax didn’t get it going. I didn’t feel like ollieing or doing many flip tricks. Dave was cruising around doing lots of switch ollies and switch shoves. Neither of us could get the curb to grind so we mostly did stall tricks. Dave had some totally great old man style BSTS where the last S means stall. And they were barely even that. Ha. I kept trying to get the thing to slappy crooks and it would eventually do so. We tried a bunch of switch crook stalls and each got some. They were fun. I was trying to switch ollie up the curb to start the line, Most of the time I was kind of spracking up it, but whatever. I also tried kickflip crook stalls and got remotely close. The sun set and we took off for warmer times with our families.

(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 venom 91a bushings nb# pj stratford 533 patriot)