skate journal: garage frustrations with treflips (nov 17, 2016 day 322)

Posted in Skate Journal on November 18th, 2016 by corpo

Went out to the garage excited to play on the “putter”. Aka the 7.5″ board with 42mm wheels. I did a few warm up tricks then started trying nollie heel. There were a few I got incredibly close on. Then I moved on to treflips. Ugh. I probably landed on 30 or 40 of them and put one or two hands down. But I wanted a clean one. I landed on almost every one of them, but I just couldn’t get a clean one. I was yelling in anger at times. I eventually went inside to get my regular board (8.1″) and man it felt HUGE after skating the putter. It took me a few tries before I even was able to flip the big board around enough, but after several more hand(s) down makes I finally got this “clean” one. My mood lightened. I tried a few switch flips and got incredibly close. I may have finally figured out a foot position that works for me. Man I would love to learn that one.

(setup putter, reg 8.1 board)

skate journal: slappy crooks and a new rock ‘n roll trick (nov 16, 2016 day 321)

Posted in Skate Journal on November 18th, 2016 by corpo

curby

beautiful photo of my exotic hyundai elantra

Stopped by hear on another warm day after work. I only had about 30 minutes to skate and I didn’t really want to ollie. I settled in to a line of slappy crooks then rock ‘n roll 360 out. I had never done the 360 out of a rock ‘n roll that I know of, but I eventually got one. I saw a clip of Reynolds do it, but couldn’t find it now to link it. Doing a million slappy crooks was fun. I also did a few front 50s on the low part of the ledge and attempted a few switch flips that weren’t close at all.

(setup 8.125 null message deck, venture 5.2 low custom hollow trucks with 3 washers inside each axle, stock thunder bushings, 50mm bones stf v1 wheels, swiss bearings, new balance numeric pj stratford 533 navy shoes 12)