skate journal: flatground friday at blue skies with rob and dave (may 18, 2018)

Posted in Favorite, Skate Journal on May 19th, 2018 by corpo

Took a lunch break to skate flat at blue skies with Rob and Dave. I got there first. I did my newish dynamic stretches then started pushing around as Rob and Dave assembled. The warm up wasn’t easy for anyone. I got my first kickflip though, then 5 more in a row. Tried the Iron Man a few times, but didn’t get heelflips at that point. After awhile Rob put Dave’s putter in the middle of the rink upright to do tricks over which made things a little more fun. Dave did a switch ollie over it pretty quickly. It’s crazy how casually he can do that. Rob was starting to link long lines together with kickflips, bs flips, back 180s over the board, halfcab over the board, fakie bigpins and a 360 shove. At one point he had a really long run with like 8 tricks. So nuts. There was a period where things were working very well for me. Kickflips and heelflips felt so good. Got a couple kickflips over the board which felt awesome. Couldn’t get the treflip after for a line though. Was also doing a randon flip trick then front 180 over the board, fakie flip and trying fakie treflip. Got close, but never got both feet on the fakie tre. Dave worked for a nollie front 180 over the board. Dave and Rob tried for kickflips over it. Rob might have got one with a scratch violation. I hucked a few nollie back heels. That trick seems so possible. I also got a first try 360 shove.

Then we played a game of SKATE. It went pretty well for me even though Rob was the king of second try on double or nothing. Ha it was funny. I think it was fakie flip, heelflip and varial flip he got 2nd try. His luck ran out eventually though and after a couple double or nothings he went out. I had landed a few flippers in a row. Dave was close to all of them too. Fun flatground friday. It was tough going back to work. Can’t believe how good my shoes felt and the bigger board.

We ended on 360 shoves. It took me several tries to get one this time. Dave was close and added some switch flip attempts. Hyped on 360 shoves though.

(setup 8.38 null atomic cowboy deck, venture 5.8 black icon trucks, 51mm bones stf v1, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, bones medium bushings, es accel slim all black size 11.5, footprints gamechanger lite insoles)

skate journal: broomfield park on a gorgeous night with a great crew (may 8, 2018)

Posted in Favorite, Skate Journal on May 9th, 2018 by corpo

After a nap, dinner, some chatting with Liz I went to Broomfield park running late to meet up for the first Tuesday night session in awhile. Rob, Ed, Donnie, Garrett, John, Darin were already there ripping. Rob especially. He was silently stacking tricks like bigspin front nose, back 50 shove, back 50 back 180, close to halfcab boardslide shove. It ruled seeing John skate as it’s been a long time. He was ripping too! He was sliding his patented switch noseslides, front shove revert, close to nollie flip. Garrett and Donnie were on one together racing to back nosegrind on the sad ledge. John and I were trying some lines like front 50 and back 50 on the little ledge, but when we tried to add 180’s to the mix we just kind of lost interest and did our own thing. We did flatground versions of some footplant trick Dave can do casually on transitions. It was kinda fun. There was a lot going on so it remembering all of it is impossible. Darin and his crew were mostly just skating the quartapotty. I was 5-5 on halfcab noseslides for the night. It was awesome. They weren’t great, but at least I wasn’t bailing. I really think the pop training Rob and I did the day before over the cone helped. Gotta ollie stuff more. John put down a long line with front 50 on the black ledge, ollie the little rail, noseslide the black ledge, and almost switch noseslide 270 shove the black ledge.
I had some decent lines too. Front 50, boneless over the rail, best crooks I’ve done in awhile. Donnie was charging the bank spot and it was inspiring. So I tried to push as fast as him (I couldn’t) and just boardslide the flat bar. That felt cool and I tried to ollie the 6 after. Well, kind of. I posed it, but didn’t really have enough speed or commitment. Most people had left. The park was just 3 other dudes, Donnie, Garrett and me. Garrett and Donnie never got kick back tails on the black ledge. They were amazed at how tech I was getting with front 50 shove though. Ha. I did get one and it felt cool and I almost lined it out with a halfcab flip on the mellow bank and fakie nosegrind on the black ledge. Last thing for me was to take 30 tries to scratch grind the bank. I was inspired by Donnie charging it so hard. It felt cool. Garrett’s bigspin onto it was sick. Donnie had done b/s flip onto it too and like 20 tricks grinding like 5-0 up it over the steep bank, switch front crook, switch back 50 (serious wtf), front 50 and the tricks in the video. What a fun night. Skating with friends is great.

So now for the shoe change reasoning. I just couldn’t put the NB# 288s on again. The heel is so high I was too scared of rolling my ankle. So I put some old Es Swifts on and they felt really good. I had put some gamechangers in for a bit of the session, but they didn’t feel good.

(setup 8.38 null atomic cowboy deck, venture black icon 5.8 trucks, bones medium bushings, 51mm bones stf v1 wheels, 3 washers outside each axle, es swift 1.5 grey shoes size 11.5 with stock insoles)

skate journal: stubborns saturday marathon in the streets (april 28, 2018)

Posted in Favorite, Skate Journal on May 3rd, 2018 by corpo

Work has been so busy I haven’t had a chance to write this for almost a week after. So I’m apologizing up front for how much I have forgotten since then.

Rob, Fuzz and I met up with Jack at the high school in Denver with all the ledges we remember as being fun. I don’t remember if it’s East, West or North high and we definitely couldn’t tell Jack until we were almost there. But we would eventually all be there remembering that the ledges aren’t so easy to skate and the place is covered in cracks. Warming up took awhile. With the exception of Jack it was awhile before any trucks grinded the concrete. No pop noseslides and crack nollies helped. Jack did a couple back 50s before laying into the first of two impossible tricks. Ollie up to crooks 360 shove to 5-0 the lower ledge. That really is what he was trying and getting frustrated with not landing. ha ha. Fuzz and I were trying lines for awhile starting with the downhillish ledge and ending with the pointy ledge. Fuzz was trying no pop noseslide, kickflip a big crack, chinese nollie one right after it, then front 180 nosegrind the pointy ledge. He got real close. I was trying switch front nose, switch 180 over the tall crack, crooks the pointy ledge. I got it at some point. I also tried to ollie onto the a ledge, ollie up the next level, ollie the 2. I don’t think I linked up all 3 and the second ollie up was never graceful, but it was fun to try. Rob was doing halfcab noseslides then back 50s. Fuzz was doing nollie front tails and got a nice front 5-0. Fuzz got me to ollie the bump to gap. He made it look so easy and did the next flat gap too. Jack had moved on to try cab back noseblunts and was going in and out of being close to landing it. He would eventually get a cab nosegrind, but not quite the noseblunt. Dan, Collin and a friend of their’s who’s name I forgot showed up. Dan had some nice tailside variations, Collin with the boardslide and noseslide tricks and tucked in shirt guy with the mega pop front 50 on the second level. Rob heated up with some good back 50s and got a back smith! So sick. Rob and I got crooks on the granite ledge. Man crooks on granite is the most fun feeling.

Radical day. #thestubborns

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Then we went to this weird wallride spot. We were pretty slow to get on it. Jack did a wallride in the hard spot, Fuzz did a fakie thruster on it. Rob and I did the wallie nollies on the mellower part which wasn’t easy either. I started messing with a line that I didn’t think would come together, but Jack started filming it so I figured I better make it work. 500 tries later I had another kickflip for my part and a wallie nollie. Ha, it was actually awesome though. I got the line 3 times technically. Once when Jack had just started filming, but it was crappy. Then again a lot of tries later, but both tricks were crappy. So I did the ‘3 more tries’ rule and next time I got to the wallride I did it way better. The kickflip was maybe the best one too. Man it felt awesome. Thanks for filming Jack, I think that might end up being one of the better lines I’ve filmed.

Then we went to Hinkley which I’ve never really skated. And that would be the case once again as my legs had shut down for the day. I couldn’t really convince my body to ollie and I only got one crappy front 50 and a good slam hitting a stop twig. Rob killed the manual and nose manual quick. And I think he did a 180 up, fakie bigspin and then bean plant off? Jack got gnar on a gap to grind, then pulled a pop shove nose manual nollie heel out out of nowhere. It was amazing. Fuzz had done a sick line of front nose drive shove, front shove, front 180 all quick footed and we tried to film it. He did it again, but wasn’t as happy. It’s still sick though.

One heck of a day with the dudes. I need to skate with friends more, it’s so fun.

(setup 8.38 null monico deck, venture black icon 5.8 trucks, bones medium bushings, 51mm bones stf v1 wheels, 3 washers outside each axle, new balance numeric 212 size 11 with footprints gamechanger orthotic insoles)

skate journal: birthday flatground challenge then some boulder park and saul’s on a great day (april 12, 2018)

Posted in Favorite, New Deck, Skate Journal on April 13th, 2018 by corpo

Most years I challenge myself to my age in flatground tricks. It’s kind of torture and gets harder each year both physically and having to add another trick. Last year I wasn’t up for it, but here’s the one from two years ago. It was a beautiful morning, no high winds. The 45 clip isn’t exactly in order. I didn’t skate to warm up at all. I just filmed everything starting with the nose/tail no pop shove, moved into shoves, did some flippers, some no complies, finished the flippers, then finished with the easy part of 180s and some bonelesses and stuff. The trick I was most worried about was treflip as it’s given me lots of problems lately. When it came in a few tries I felt stoked, relieved and encouraged. Dave showed up when I had done most of the flippers and was finishing up on fakie tre which took the longest. I did sex change after that, but no more flippers. I was so exhausted. Dave had a couple cameos, Matt with the first try treflip while out with his dog. Going through the clips later in the night I had actually done 46 tricks. So I deleted the ugliest one which was a creepy spin where I didn’t fully rotate at all. Calling it my ugliest trick with all of the ugly tricks above is saying a lot. Ha ha. I was very hyped on the nollie varial flip and nollie treflip. The fakie tre took the longest, but felt amazing when I landed it. Getting both halfcab heelflips felt rad too. I really need to learn some switch tricks to make next years a little more interesting. I must say the Thunder trucks flip great, but the weird turning sure makes for some weird tic tacs.

Then Dave and I met Jake at Boulder park. They skated the mini while I ate. Then I joined them in the combi bowl. I thought we would just be carving around, but they were really skating it. Jake was grinding the deeps, trying sweepers. Dave was doing front pivots on the crazy steep narrow corner, manualling the deck, airing the little bumps. Hopefully I’ll post a clip of it at some point. I got in on it and tried a line of roll in, tiny grind, back 50 into the bigger bowl. I was so content with the flatground session that my brain couldn’t get me to roll into the little 3 foot section. I did eventually though and got the line with some good tic tacs on the back 50.

Then we went to Saul’s. Jake and I were already beat. The only thing I really did was a few carve grinds. Jake had a killer run. Ed joined and ripped it. Saul gets more coping in one run than anyone. It was a fun ender for a great day.

(setup 8.25 null monico deck, thunder 148s with old forged baseplate, venom 88a bushings, 51mm bones stf v1, new balance numeric 212 b/w size 11, footprints gamechanger orthotic insole)

skate journal: flatground in front the house then the school again on a big setup (april 4, 2018)

Posted in Favorite, setup change, Skate Journal on April 5th, 2018 by corpo

Yeah so here I am in one of those setup OCD cycles. One thing I’ve come to learn is proportions are very important. The board should be as wide or wider than the trucks. Skating the 8.25 in Seattle with 8.5″ trucks doesn’t work well, it does’t flip as fast and it just feels weird. So after work I grabbed a barely used 8.5 from a previous setup spat and put the 8.5″ Ventures on it. After dinner I went out front of the house thinking if flatground goes terrible then I’m over it and I’ll go back to the 8.25 with small trucks. Only it didn’t go bad, it actually went very good. My halfcab flips felt better than they have in awhile, I did like 8/10 heelflips, one in a line with a bad treflip. But the fact that I landed a treflip at all made me happy. I had hucked a bunch of flippers. All of them felt fine. Then I wen across the street to the curb area and had a grand ol’ time. I landed a switch front 50! It felt cool. Which led to me doing a fakie front 50 without turning out. It felt cool. And I almost got one with a switch 180 out. Couldn’t do front tails, but most everything else was going well. Kickflip up the curb, fakie ollies up, kickflip off, b/s shove off, back 50 front 180, front 50 back 180, intentional front 5-0s. Even got a sketchy bs flip up the curb. After awhile I was sitting and posting the vert clip on the gram and Ollie came out of nowhere and scared me so good. Ha. Then he skated for about 20 minutes. He had a few clean ollies up the curb, a back 180 up the curb! Manuals into 5-0s, kind of a front hurricane trying to back 180 up, then he actually tried a hurricane and got one. He also did his first ever nollie shove. Fun night.

(setup 8.5″ null rabethica deck, venture black icon 5.8″ trucks, venom 88a bushings, old 52mm bones stf v5 wheels, 3 washers outside each axle, lakai ellis black/white size 11.5, spenco 3/4 orthotic thinsole and thin adidas insole)

skate journal: #cloggingyourfeedwithstokepartdeux day 5 long acres diy then garfield (march 31, 2018)

Posted in Favorite, Skate Journal on April 5th, 2018 by corpo

After skating til almost midnight we were up by 7:30 to get Joe to the airport. After a breakfast we were back to knowing the only thing we know how to do besides eat. Skate. We ended up at Long Acres DIY. At first it was just Josh, Nate and I. Chip joined for awhile. Then later on it was also Nolan, John, Matt, Sam and a couple locals. It was good seeing Chip. He tries a lot of flip tricks and I love seeing it. He wasn’t able to stay too long. Josh, Nate and I skated surprisingly well considering how beat our bodies felt. Having little wallie options to get going is fun. Transferring over the keg spine was so fun. Josh had disasters on the qp right away, ollies over the hips, pole jam, sweepers on the mellow bank. Nate got going on the granite ledge with front smiths, front nosegrind (I think), and I think back 5-0. I was skating the best I had all trip. Doing lines with basic tricks. Had a line with comply shove on the mellow bank, front 50 the coping ledge, turn around on the qp, kickflip fakie on the mellow bank, switch noseslide the granite ledge, transfer the keg, kickflip on the bank. I had some other fun tricks like no comply flip on the bank, front rock on the qp, switch front nose the granite ledge. It was fun. I started to get sore so Nate was kind enough to film a line of me. It was okay, I kind of wish I had tried something else in retrospect. Oh well. I filmed Josh get a line first try. Polejam, back 50 transfer the qp, keg transfer, sweepr. So good. Nate was up next and got a banger of a line. Front smith the granite ledge, frontside ollie the qp hip, keg transfer, nollie 270 flip on the mellow bank. Whoa what! After that Josh and I didn’t skate a whole lot. Nate did nollie inward heel on the bank and another crazy trick. I filmed Nolan destroy it. Dude rips so hard, especially stuff like this. Matt and Sam ripped it. John ripped it. What a fun crew.

@nolancormier #pivotfakie #cloggingyourfeedwithstokepartdeux

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Then we went to Garfield school to see it in person. When we showed filmer Jon was there who was so rad to see. The dude he was filming wasn’t stoked on people watching him though. Ha ha. We dorked around with some wallrides at the top. We had miniramp lines with a drop in then wallride. Matt had really high wallrides. Nolan had a gnarly pivot to fakie. Ha. Then we found this fun little bank ride hand plant around the corner that is amazingly fun. Nate went frontside, Matt did a push up, Nolan went up and down the whole bank. It was an epic ender for the trip. Then we had tacos at a nearby taco truck and I went to the airport. What a fun trip. I can’t believe how great the weather was. Thanks to everyone for such a great time, especially Josh for hosting us in such an excellent way.

(setup 8.25 null atomic cowboy deck, black venture 5.8 v-light, 3 washers outside each axle, 88a venom bushings, 51mm bones stf v1 wheels, old swiss bearings, new balance numeric 255 baby blue size 12, spenco 3/4 thinsole with 5mm footprints insole)

skate journal: epic crew at an epic spot. hip spot in denver (march 3, 2018)

Posted in Favorite, Skate Journal on March 5th, 2018 by corpo

On another gorgeous day Jack and Carleigh picked me up, we met up with Fuzz and Kevin and we went to this spot in Denver. Apparently it’s normally covered in dirt and the city just came through and cleaned it out. Jack’s board went into the water first try. That would happen to everyone’s board at some point. It took some getting used to. My ollies were so pathetic, they were just like little tail scrapes, but I did get a kickflip pretty quick. Jack too. It was surprising to see flip trick master Kevin struggle with kickflips. Fuzz got front 360 quick. After I took too long to do a front shove I filmed Fuzz and everyone else for awhile. Carleigh put down a few pop shoves. Chelsea almost put down some crazy popped kickflips. Kevin had a sick hardflips. Jack did a bunch of tricks like 360 flip, varial flip, impossible and the coveted kickflip late shove. Then I started skating again and eventually I started trying varial flips which seemed like it would be easy. I’ve never done it over a backside hip before. It wasn’t easy. Carleigh was throwing backside flips. It was crazy because she didn’t look close for awhile and then put her feet on it once or twice and then she did it a few tries later. So sick. She did another one too. Both were perfect. Kevin was going in on nollie f/s flips and it took awhile. It was just Carleigh, Kevin and I still trying tricks. Oh yeah, Billy was there earlier. He was mostly chilling, but would take his cruiser for some casual crushing and almost did f/s flip over the hip. Carleigh tried straight kickflips for awhile. Kevin and I were so close so many times. He got a perfect one. Then it was just me skating feeling lame for taking so long and wanting to quit, but thankfully Jack kept encouraging me to try so I did. I finally landed it and it felt really cool. Lots of times when you finally land a newish trick (done plenty of varial flips, but not ever a backside hip and definitely not over a somewhat gnarly street hip) the first make feels weird, but this one just felt great. I was hyped. Kevin had started skating again and worked on switch backside flip for a minute before doing such a good one. Then we went on a journey around the corner to a mexican restaurant and enjoyed some good food and margs. Awesome day. I was incredibly sore after which is the only negative. Not sure I should be without orthotics while skating.

(setup 8.25″ null monico deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, 52mm spitfire F4 101a classic shape, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, bones medium bushings, adidas busenitz vulc white/blue size 11.5, stock insoles)

skate journal: lafayette fun with ollie and gabe (feb 28, 2018)

Posted in Favorite, Skate Journal on March 2nd, 2018 by corpo

Ollie, Gabe and I showed up at Louisville park around 6, but the lights wouldn’t turn on so we went to Lafayette. The park was pretty chill, some people and some snow, but mostly skatable. Ollie and Gabe mostly hung out near the entrance at first. Doing stationary shoves and hitting the bank. Gabriel hasn’t skated a park so it was all new to him and he was scared just rolling down some of the banks initially. I had a pretty good slam on a nollie back 180 on a bank to start my session. Not sure where that came from, but it hurt. Ollie was doing fakie shoves and f/s halfcabs on the bank. Gabe did an ollie to fakie which kind of blew me away having not skated a bank before. I had fun with the rock corner wallie. I was trying to skate the black ledge, but people kept hanging out by the landing so it was kind of annoying. I struggled with the angle for front 50s, but would get front 50, front 50 shove, front 50 front 180 out and then a manual which was the hardest of the lot for me. Gabe got a clean ollie onto it. What the heck? Kid is gonna be a ripper. Ollie got on it too with a quick jib, but had some nice 180s off. We hit the toilet bowl for awhile. Gabe managed the easy roll in entry and got a few kickturns. Ollie kind of did some grinds. I didn’t get much, the coping there is weird. Some dudes came and put the parking block after the little bank and had a fun session going. I tried to no comply flip into the bank. Got close a few times, but was struggling with the flip. I got halfcab flip on the easy bank. I tried front shoves to fakie on the narrow bank by the snake run for awhile. Ollie came in and did a few tricks to hype me up. Then moved on to skate with Gabriel before I landed the front shove. We ended by ollieing off the tight qp by the entrance. Then Ollie front 180’d it in a few tries. Man it was cool seeing Ollie skate so hard. Him having a buddy to shred with is great.

(setup 8.25″ null monico deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, 52mm spitfire F4 101a classic shape, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, bones medium bushings, adidas busenitz vulc white/blue size 11.5, custom orthotic insole)

skate journal: Hawaii! schools on a beautiful day (feb 19, 2018)

Posted in Favorite, Skate Journal on February 25th, 2018 by corpo

After a lazy/hangover/rainy/surf day off we got back to it on Presidents day where schools were off. We started at this spot. It’s so beautiful. This palm tree lined sidewalk, a nice bench that wasn’t too tall then a two stair. There were some other things at the school, but this was where we spent most of our time. To my surprise Jake front 50’d the ledge before I had even ollied up the two stair. Guess he was feeling better! He went on to rip. Front 50, front tail, a line of front 180 up the two stair then fakie nosegrind the ledge then nollie bigspin on flat. Paul was shredding. Super fast front 50s and back 50d the awkward 2 stair ledge, manuals from the two stair. Neil was in shred mode too. Noseslide up the two, crooks shove the bench, lots of shoves, another line with front shove, switch boardslide, shove the two and hung in with me to film a line since I take forever. I had another shaky start, but eventually was ollieing up the 2 easy, front board jib down it, got a couple 50s and crooks on the bench. Then spent a long time trying a line of no comply 180, fakie flip, switch noseslide, back 50 the ledge. I eventually scrapped the no comply as it wasn’t working, but I’m still happy with the fakie flip along the palm trees. The back 50 came out of nowhere. This spot forces you to come in at a right angle so I guess it worked for me. I was really hyped.

@neilsoffire in paradise. #stubbornwithaloha #sunburntandstubborn

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Then we went to this school. On the 15 minute car ride there my body got so stiff. I never really recovered, but I did stubbornly skate through it. The spot had so much to offer. Trick into bank, crazy ledge, wallrides, stairs, more ledges and even more ledges. Paul started with a couple tricks into the bank, but nailed some crazy back 50s threading the needle through a pole. He backed it up with a high speed kickflip and some ollies down the 4 – 5. Neil did a sick line and I filmed him. At first he did 100 shove it’s into the bank to get started, but then he did kickflip in and that line was the one. Kickflip, powerslide, wallride, powerslide, crooks shove, shove on flat, hill bomb. Man, so epic. Jake and I took awhile to get tricks into the bank. I had done a bunch of switch front 180s and a couple halfcab flips, but when it came time to filming I just settled with switch front 180 in. It was a cool feeling line even though I look slow and the filming was from a mile behind me. Switch 180, powerslide, wallride nollie, cali grind, noseslide. I was hyped on how it felt. Jake had tried a bunch of f/s flips and 360 flips in, but came up empty handed. I started skating the lower triangle ledge with Neil and Paul while Jake tried f/s flips to start out a switch hill bomb the whole hill. Gnarly! I filmed Neil get a sick line of nose manual, no comply 360 then front tail on the far ledge. He did it so good. I took awhile to get the hang of the downhill approach, but had some fun front 50s, accidental front 5-0s and front 50 shove. I had some visions of a line to the other ledge and had some fun nollie back 180s and halfcab flips, but I couldn’t seem to land anything on it. The whole trip my bushings felt like jello. I guess that makes sense considering how much the freeze up in cold weather. Anyways, I got a couple halfcab noseslides on the far ledge, tried fakie nosegrind. I could have skated it longer, but everyone was done and I was probably too sore to be skating anyway. I loved these spots and it makes me want to skate ledges more. Thanks for bringing us to these spots Neil!

(setup 8.25″ null monico deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, 52mm spitfire F4 101a classic shape, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, white venture bushings, adidas busenitz vulc white/blue size 11.5, custom orthotic insole)

skate journal: 3 up 3 down filming mission with jack and carleigh (jan 7, 2018)

Posted in Favorite, Skate Journal on January 9th, 2018 by corpo

Having kind of a weird day after insomnia and Iphone frustrations I met up with Jack and Carleigh at the 3 up 3 down on the hill which I haven’t been to in forever. When I got there they were already taking turns filming each other. Jack was going for pop shove manual and Carleigh was trying no comply up kickflip down. I messed around for a bit trying to get warmed up. Some kickflips, axle stalls on the stairs, etc. Then I tried to get in the mix with ollie up no comply shove down, but man ollieing up that 3 stair was not easy at all for me. Jack was either getting close, getting served or doing a perfect shove up, but not landing in manual. Carleigh was struggling most with the no comply up and would try kickflips off once in awhile. I finally got to a point where I could ollie up the stairs. I thought I would only be able to do it a few times so I went with it, but I was scared to try the no comply shove. I tried a couple b/s flips which I could have maybe done instead, but I’m sure it would have had some terrible tic tacs or something. Then Carleigh did her line. Perfect. It was so good. So that left Jack and I to skate. Jack was battling anger. I was kind of just happy that I was ollieing up the 3 somewhat frequently. I stuck with the no comply shove and finally got one. It felt pretty awesome. As I rolled away Jack gave me a high 5 and got his trick a few tries later. We killed it! Jack went on to get some really good Stubborns tricks and that was that. It’s kind of funny to have skated for over two hours, but only try like 3 tricks. I’m hyped though (and very sore). Stubborns!

(setup 8″ null Monico deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, 50mm bones stf v1, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, white venture bushings, new balance numeric arto 358 black/white size 11, custom orthotic insole)