skate journal: feeling better at research then brief lafayette blah with ollie (july 2, 2017)
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)