After a busy day at work and a quick bite I went into the garage and did about 5 “manaual” tricks on the sheet of wood before heading out to pick up Zach for the Nuggets game.
On a sunny, but cold day I went to Redder curbs to meet Dave. Outside in the sun it was bearable, but everything was covered in snow. In the garage it was frigid. But we skated. I had thought of a line there and my whole warm up process was basically geared at it. It’s all simple tricks, but I had thought about it anyway. I got it. Kickflip the curb, front slappy the parking block, front 50 the median past the parking block, slappy crooks. I ended up trying it over and over and Dave ended up filming me. It didn’t take that long, but I switched the front 50 for 5-0 and added a slappy on the parking block then a back 180 over the parking block I started on. I was hyped. I had also done a few slappy front crooks earlier. Dave did a first try back 180 fakie 50, long back 50s through the kinked curb, tried to no comply both parking blocks, slappy crooks to fakie on the parking block, a bunch more. Near the end we were trying tricks on the stand alone parking block. Dave’s switch no comply is ridiculous. I got a couple no comply flips and helped coach Dave get the one he did. Then the day was over.
Oh man, totally forgot that before all of this I went into the garage to try nollie frontside flips again. I might have tried 5 of them before I stopped and told myself I would rather just lose the game of OLDFART. I want to go into 2017 with no skate goals other then to skate less, skate better and have more fun.
(setup 8.38 Null Riley deck, Venture 5.8s, Venom 88a bushings, old 52mm Spitfire F4 99a classic shape wheels, washers outside, old swiss bearings, NB# PJ 533 maple/black)
Went into the garage on a super cold and snowy day. Had the space heater cranked. Did a few warmups then tried nollie frontside flips for a long time. Got close. Took a break. Tried again. Got closer. Felt frustrated and over it. I would try on my normal 8.38 setup most of the time and when I would start to not get close I would try my luck on the putter. Sometimes I got closer. Normally about the same.
(setup 8.38 big setup/ putter 7.5″ setup NB# PJ 533 maple/black)
On a lazy Friday night I went out into the garage for a minimum. Knees were still burning. Did a few basic manuals on the sheet of wood.
Dorked around in front of my house for a bit while waiting for Rob. It became apparent quickly that my legs were aching. It was 55 degrees, but a huge cold front was coming and my arthritis let me know about it. I could hardly bend my knees, they hurt so bad. Rob came and we went to the research ledge. It was quite windy there and there was a bunch of gravel near the ledge. Oh, the joys of winter skating. We went down the hill a few times doing little powerslides and stuff. My knees hurt to bad that even bending down for powerslides hurt. Luckily I’m stubborn and kept skating. We hit the top area for a bit. Rob did a far manual or two. He had a line of ollie up the curb, wallie nollie the wall then back 180 off. As well as the line above. I got a line of switch 180 up the curb, wallie nollie, back 180 off the curb. All done terribly. Tried to no comply up like Rob, but wasn’t committing right. Then we hit the ledge for a bit. Rob did some good boardslide pop outs. I got noseslide to fakie and crooks. Couldn’t do halfcab noseslide or back 50. Winter sucks.
(setup 8.38 Null Riley deck, Venture 5.8s, Venom 88a bushings, old 52mm Spitfire F4 99a classic shape wheels, washers outside, old swiss bearings, NB# PJ 533 maple/black)
I saw Babes In Toyland in Minneapolis at Lolla Palooza in 1993. It was awesome. They are from Minneapolis, so it was pretty epic to see a somewhat smaller band get so much love on the big stage.
The most famous of the girl grunge bands. L7 rules. Their next album Bricks Are Heavy was huge and a great excuse to play loud annoying grunge music when girls were around.
Tad was not my favorite, a little to rough for me, but this mellower song of theirs is great.
Time to get a little later in the 90s when slacker music ruled the world. Archers opening for Weezer (original blue album tour) was one of the best shows I’ve seen.
To find new music I used to record MTV’s 120 minutes every Sunday night. On Monday I would go through the show and hope to find new bands I liked. This video came on once and I immediately went to the record store to buy it. Treepeople is one of my all time favorite bands and at the top of my list for bands I wish I had seen live.
Pavement Ist rad. This band was huge. Everyone enjoyed Pavement. As a side note, they are way better live now then they were back in the day.
I wanted to pick a different Superchunk song, but the fact is this song is one of the greatest songs ever made.
Nirvana is of course the quintessential 90s band. And for good reason, they absolutely ruled. My brother paid $35 for the Hormoaning cd and we popped it in on the way up to Minneapolis to go look at new snowboards. We were so blown away by this song that we started moshing in the car. Ha. Oh to be young again.
If you make it through this song please let me know.
Okay, gotta end it with the greatest band of all time. This song was released in the 80s, but still played throughout the 90s. This band basically changed my life and turned me into who I am. They are still my favorite. I love how su
Went into the garage for a minimum, but ended up putting in some actual effort. At one point I did some type of 540 jib manual that I couldn’t do again. It was fun. No ollies though.
(setup 8.38 Null Riley deck, Venture 5.8s, Venom 88a bushings, old 52mm Spitfire F4 99a classic shape wheels, washers outside, old swiss bearings, NB# PJ 533 maple/black)
I’ve been on a huge 90s kick as of late. Music was so good then. So here are a bunch of favorites I’ve been revisiting.
Feeling mentally better, but still pretty arthritic I went to Louisville park on a cool, not not too cold night. No one was there when I arrived so I sat in the car for a bit while the lights turned on. Warming up when ok and it didn’t take long to start trying tricks. That is when I started to not skate so good. It took a long time to get a front 50. I have no idea how I have completely lost that trick, but it sucks. I tried lines. Like ollie up onto the little ledge, front 180 off, fakie flip on flat, switch front nose. Or front 50 shove out, shove, boardslide, kickflip on the bank. But I got neither. I tried a lot of nollie frontside flips near the corner when setting up. They felt close sometimes, but still never flip all the way. I fear they will be the end of the O-L-D-F-A-R-T game. Tried a bunch of 360 flips too, landed none. Posed lipslides on the little ledge. Didn’t get a decent back 50, but had a goof feeling halfcab noseslide. Tried a few fakie 50s. Some other dudes showed up for awhile. Like only 10 minutes then bounced. I was trying kickflips over the backside hip for awhile. I thought I was sucking horribly, but then realized the crack at the bottom is monstrous now and it was throwing me off. I landed one and it felt good. I split as it was getting quite cold and I was tired.
(setup 8.38 Null Riley deck, Venture 5.8s, Venom 88a bushings, old 52mm Spitfire F4 99a classic shape wheels, washers outside, old swiss bearings, NB# PJ 533 maple/black)
Went out to the garage after a busy evening of running errands for Jason and Christmas. I must have gotten some gluten in me over the weekend because I felt terrible. I think the depression must have started because of that. Anyways, I had kind of thought about trying nollie back shove nose manuals on the sheet of wood, but I quickly learned they wouldn’t work. So I hucked nollie frontside flips for a bit. I realized I was too stiff sore and not motivated enough to really try them so I went inside.
(setup 8.38 Null Riley deck, Venture 5.8s, Venom 88a bushing , old 52mm Spitfire F4 99a classic shape wheels, washers outside, old swiss bearings, NB# PJ 533 maple/black)