skate journal: some dog park and then a little dorking at an out ledge spot (april 6, 2025)

Posted in Skate Journal on April 7th, 2025 by corpo

Feeling very sore from the day before I went to dog park to meet Bratcher and Gordon. Was pleasantly surprised to see most of 98% dudes there. I didn’t skate very hard as I was so sore. Did a few basics, liked how my setup felt on halfcab noseslides, crooks and ollies. Didn’t really do much for flippers. Wore vulcs for less pain, didn’t really help or hurt I guess. Then I went to the out ledge spot and all I did was dork around on a mini bank with curbs on the sides. Did a switch nose jib shove.

(setup 7/10 null keyhole 2 8.3, jessup ultragrip, indy forged hollow knox 149 royal bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 306 navy size 12 half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 6/10)

skate journal: fun saturday after the snow at casey (april 5, 2025)

Posted in Favorite, Skate Journal on April 7th, 2025 by corpo

After the snow had cleared and sun came out I went to skate. I felt like going to a street spot and ended up at Casey for some reason. I started out in the back on the rock area which was less appealing than I remembered. For a while I tried to manual the rock lowest rock, but couldn’t do it. I couldn’t ollie the whole thing either. So I settled for a rock ‘n roll which was dumber and harder than I wanted too. I did have a few flippers in between tries at least which felt pretty good.

Then I went to the stage area. I had ollied it and 180’d it and wanted to do more. Decided on front shove and made myself ollie up before each try. The ollies up were way harder. Like so hard for a while and I was getting really frustrated. But then they started to work and I was committing to front shoves. But those turned into a battle too. I was so tired from jumping up and down. But when I got it it felt great.

Then I went down below to the weird manny pad / ledge thing and didn’t really find much to do other than a couple backside ledge tricks. Crooks felt really good. Not shown is the weird approach having to swerve around a rail. Fun day, skated hard.

(setup 7/10 null keyhole 2 8.3, jessup ultragrip, indy forged hollow knox 149 royal bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 440v2 wide navy size 12 half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10)