Happy Independence Day! 🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇 @nolancormier #worstfirecrackerever

A post shared by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Jul 4, 2017 at 1:59pm PDT

Went to Broomfield park on a hot morning by myself. I had talked with Nolan the night before and thought I’d be Filmer Glen so I wanted to get some skating in before that. I felt pretty good. The stiff insoles felt a little weird at first again, but the amount of pain they avoid in my knees is worth it. I avoided ollies for awhile, but not too long. Actually manualled the blue box, front 50s and accidental 5-0s on the black box, crooks and noseslides the black box. Tried some lines. Got front 50, kickflip to fakie the mellow bank, super slow halfcab noseslide. Bank ride the steep downhill bank, ollie up on the black ledge, front 180 off, fakie flip on flat. Just ollie’ing up the black ledge felt cool. I got a very slow back 50 on the blue ledge, kickflip to fakie on the quick up blue bank. Was able to pop and do tricks for a solid couple of hours. I had stopped when Nolan showed and warmed up again with him doing lines on the parking block and quartapotty. Nolan did a bunch of boardslide combos and pivot fakies. I was hyped on doing fakie back 50s to fakie on the qp and some form of a switch front board that involved a truck grinding (I don’t even know which one). Nolan was more tired than he thought and we tried to film a few things on the quartapotty. Het got a lunch breaked blunt to fakie on the hubba above it, couldn’t get blunt treflip to fakie. We were thinking of a 4th of July post when some dudes lit off firecrackers and we thought it would be perfect. Stoked they gave us a few to try. Our timing was off the first few tries, hyped we managed to get it on the last firecracker. We laughed so hard looking at the results.

(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.2 highs, venom 88a bushings, bones stf v3 52mm, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, nbnumeric pj 533 black/gum/hyperfeel size 12 with spenco full length thinsoles)

Still no calls for work, went to research around 1pm. It wasn’t too hot. I tried a different insole. The old basic Spenco Thinsole orthotic I rocked for like 15 years. I immediately felt better. It has almost no cushion, but somehow it seems to help. It gave me more confidence and it showed. I skated mostly in lines. I don’t remember an exact line, but I had a couple basics that stretched from the road to the manny pad. I had a first try crooks, the best feeling halfcab flip I’ve done in awhile, actually committed to 360 flips (didn’t get one – only tried a few though), tried noseslide 270 shove out for awhile, landed on switch noseslide shove out. Thinking of the session I didn’t get many tricks, but it felt better. My knee didn’t hurt as much, I was less scared of committing to tricks, etc.

I had to meet Hayden out at Erie to give him some boards, but I didn’t really want to skate that park. I brought Ollie and we hit Lafayette for awhile. My legs had gotten really sore. Doh. Ollie didn’t seem too into skating. He did his frontside halfcab on a bank though. He also tried my dork trick on the manny pad. Deck check up to manual to deck check off. He basically did it without the second deck check. The stiff orthotic insoles felt weird at the park. I got one line I liked of rock wallie the corner then b/s flip on the bank. Didn’t get the other line I wanted though. Bs 180 into the mellow bank, switch fs 180 into the next one, kickflip to fakie the bank. The switch 180 was scary and I had a couple slams trying it. I bailed all the kickflilps I tried. I threw my board. We left. I was still happy to have the ledge session not hurt me.

(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.2 highs, venom 88a bushings, bones stf v3 52mm, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, nbnumeric pj 533 black/gum/hyperfeel size 12 with spenco full length thininsoles)

Didn’t sleep well because I had been told I would be called for work early Saturday morning. Somehow I didn’t get called and later in the afternoon I decided I should take advantage. I went to the slappy curb for awhile. It became obvious that my legs were not good very quickly. When the pain kicks in, so does depression and lack of motivation. I got a few slappy crooks and moved on. This is when I knew I was stubborn and shouldn’t be skating. I did a line of slow flatground kickflip, ollie up the curb, ollie the tiny 3 stair, back 180 off it. It took awhile. Ugh. Then I went up to the two stair area above. I noticed a little section had been waxed up. I did a back 50, it felt cool. Then I tried two lines in the opposite direction. Halfcab crook then kick back tail one way. Ollie up the two, front 180 off, switch crook. I had nothing. Never got into the halfcab crook. Did get into kick back tail, but they were really lame. The ollies up the 2 stair hurt. I kept doing them though because I’m sick of not being able to ollie. Never got the switch crook. I was trying to find motivation to move into campus more, but instead I just left.

(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.2 highs, venom 88a bushings, bones stf v3 52mm, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, nbnumeric pj 533 black/gum/hyperfeel with footprint gamechanger insoles)

Worked from home on a warm Friday. Had it set in my mind that I would do a flatground friday, but Saul sent out an invite and the way my body was feeling it seemed more fun. I biked over there. At first it was just Saul and I and it was really fun. Again my first few runs had me doing different lines and then I settled into my normal lines. I had put high trucks back on. Being able to roll around the whole bowl is cool. Saul had hurt his should a couple days before, but I didn’t notice. He was ripping. Still rolling in, those really quick grind lines. Longer 50s. We both worked on feeble grinds at one point. I think his were better. I tried a back smith stall and got it first try (and a few more times) which felt neat. Dave showed. He flowed around for awhile and got another one of his incredibly long boardslides, manuals. Dave and I might have started a ‘gotta land a kickflip before you can roll in’ goal. At least when it isn’t crowded. I had a couple more runs I was really hyped on. Got the little 50 near the hip then front rock on the big coping. Tried a front disaster and did the weird smith thing, got a few front slashes in the deep. This was my favorite time skating there. Carve grinds too, the funnest trick. Saul can do lines with so many in a row. Looks so fun. We called it around 8pm and Dave and I watched BATB. So fun.

(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.2 highs, venom 88a bushings, bones stf v3 52mm, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, nbnumeric pj 533 black/gum/hyperfeel with footprint gamechanger insoles)