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)