skate journal: short blah dog park (aug 21, 2024)

Posted in Skate Journal on August 22nd, 2024 by corpo

Didn’t sleep well, long day in the office, but it was nice out so stopped by dog park. Paul and Rob joined. As did some youth that were flying around the park. One dude in particular with some incredibly fast lipslides on the low bar, heelflips and treflips going mach 10. He was chill, but man it was crazy being around that type of energy. I spent some time on a nollie tail 270 shove on the curb that I tried to do while sliding but probably came to a half first. Had some okay crooks and kickflips. Couldn’t halfcab flip again though. My knee was hurting. Rob was in a bit of a funk and his trucks that were half way through the axle were not helping the grinds. Paul had some of his normals. Paul and I played a game of SKATE when Rob left. I think kickflip was the only flipper, I lost. Then I left.

(setup 4/10 8.5 nullosaur, jessup ultragrip, indy 149 forged hollow knox royal bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 440v2 wide white size 11.5 footprint gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 7/10 left knee killing me)

skate journal: broomfield with darin’s crew and will (aug 20, 2024)

Posted in Skate Journal on August 22nd, 2024 by corpo

After work, chill time and dinner I made myself get up and go to Broomfield park. My reward for hurrying to the park was rain as soon as I pulled in. Ha. Darin was still there as was Jameson. We dorked around a little in the covered area on the bike rack. Jameson brought out one of those 14″ egg boards and we goofed around on it. I couldn’t commit to kickflip, but he treflipped it first try. The park dried super quickly though. Those guys warmed up on flat near the tables, I warmed up on the bank to curb. I was wearing some vulcs and yet felt very off initially. I was able to get a hurricane pretty quickly, but not a blunt to pivot. Jameson was rattling off tricks. Darin went in on treflips so I did as well. We both took a while to get over-50 makes, but left them at that. Both got first try heelflips after that. He would add kickflip, which I surprisingly took like 5 tries to get one. Then Will and I hit the ledges for a while. He rattled off tricks. Front 50 then front tail then front smith into the bank. Back nosegrind and back tail on the black ledge after. I would finally get a front 50 into the bank after more struggle than normal. Bailed several crooks. Justin had shown and was shredding. I’m not sure I had anything else. It sounds like nothing and I definitely don’t have much to show for it, but it was a fun session.

(setup 4/10 8.5 nullosaur, jessup ultragrip, indy 149 forged hollow knox royal bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 574 vulc blue/white size 11.5 footprint gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 4/10)