skate journal: rusty at southern hills (aug 1, 2018)

Posted in Skate Journal on August 2nd, 2018 by corpo

Feeling better, but still without much energy I went to Southern Hills close to sunset. No one was there when I arrived. But as soon as I set my board down two cars screeched into the parking lot and some high schoolers got their boards out. Doh. But all they did was parking lot manuals for awhile and then a couple more cars came and they played basketball. I had gotten a couple warm up lines in before the spot got mobbed. Boardslide, kickflip, noseslide. Noseslide to fakie, halfcab flip, crook. Flip tricks felt terrible. I tried a line for awhile of fakie flip, halfcab noseslide. But never got the halfcab noseslide. Wasn’t able to ollie up the two stair either. Managed one incredibly slow front 50 and didn’t get another actually moving. Got close to kick back tails on the curb, had a few kickflips into the handicap ramp. Couldn’t get a treflip or nollie tre. That spot is hard.

(setup 8.38 null atomic cowboy deck, venture 5.8 lights black icon trucks, bones medium bushings, bones 51mm v1 stf, new balance numeric 212 sea foam/salmon size 11, spenco 3/4 thinsole and stock NB insole)
(knee pain 2/10)

skate journal: a few switch flips on the rug not feeling well (july 31, 2018)

Posted in Skate Journal on August 2nd, 2018 by corpo

Feeling sick, but with less ear pain thanks to antibiotics I just did a few switch flips attempts on my rug. About 15 tries. Same thing happened. It flips great when I don’t commit, it only flips halfway when I do. Argh.