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A slappy a day

This morning I was working on backside slappy grinds, on the easy curb. A few of them went well, but I've ways to go to get on that curb without much thinking about it. Right now I intentionally have to think about turning my shoulders, that's

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Back in DC

For spring break we're doing a week long sightseeing trip to DC this year. The Airbnb we're staying in is not too far from Shaws skatepark, only about a 15 Minute bike ride or so. Shaws SkateparkI went to that park first time on the DC

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Changing season

It was kind of a short and crappy snowboarding season. Snowfall was OK, the problem are the temperature swings throughout Winter. January was abnormally cold, -6°C was the high, by far the warmest temperate we had on the slopes. Starting the day at -12°C was the normal. And

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-6

It's a cold day here, 6°C below zero. Sun and blue sky bump the felt temperature a little but, and make it bearable to go out skate. After a long time, over 2 months I guess, I went back to the larger park around here. The one

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JAX beach

The other really good location here in Jacksonville is at the South Beach Park in Jacksonville Beach. It's fairly new, and I particularly love the layout, a circle shape where you just keep going and hit banks, ledges and quarters left and right. Wide section with pool coping

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Kona

Not sure when I learned about the Kona skatepark. It certainly wasn’t on my radar when I was younger. I guess it must’ve been when I was researching skateparks around Jacksonville. We’re visiting family again in Jacksonville, and today I be ventured out to spend some time

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Back again, sort of

Even though my toe is still not 100%, going out skating is doable, sort of. I manage to push around, pop easy ollies and slappies. For the time being I'm staying off the flat bar. Bailing still feels sketchy, and gives me instant pain in the toe. But

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DC

Arrived in DC and ventured out to the Shaw skatepark this morning, a chilly but sunny day so far. What I've discovered is that the best way to get around DC is by eBike.  It's fast and you're not as exhausted as you would

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Superstitious

We're spending Thanksgiving in New York City, visiting friends. This morning I snuck out to hit the new Riverside skate park for a little bit. It was a chilly fall morning, cold and windy. My big toe is not yet a 100% recovered. I can walk almost normally,

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Bellyflop

We had a nice warm November day today. Sun was out and temps climbed up to the 70ies. During my lunch break I went out to the small park nearby, the one with the nice red curb, a couple of ledges and the knee-high flatbar, that I'm trying

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Happier Slappy Lipslide

The lipslide gods were much friendlier to me this morning when I went out to the curb for a quick session before work. I guess the hack that finally unlocked the lipslide was to do a tiny Nollie hop when turning onto the curb. Not sure if that technically still

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Sloppy Lip Slappy

When a slappy grind goes wrong I often end up with this weird move, where one truck is on the curb, the other one hanging off it and I'm doing a mini boardslide. This got me thinking that a slappy boardslide can't be that hard to

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Backside slappies

After adding frontside slappy grinds pretty much to my standard repertoire, I'm trying backside slappies now. They're supposed to be easier, maybe for some people, not for me for sure. Granted, it took me only one session to get up on the curb, but I had

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Nose tappin’

Doing a little bit more practice on both, first the plain nose stall and then the nose slide. It's hard, I get the nose up most of the times, but my weight doesn't shift over. Maybe trying to roll on faster? Not sure, I feel like

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Nose slide progress

We're getting there. Today I practiced rolling straight into the ledge and getting up into a nose stall. It's the timing of ollieing and shifting my weight over onto the nose that's the biggest problem here. Breaking it down helped. Once I got the

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Nose slide practice

Ever since I got the slappy nose slide I wanted to get up on a ledge and do an actual real nose slide. Even though it’s suppused to be one of the easy and very basic tricks, I find it quite hard to get that nose up there, and

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A new curb

I found a new curb, a glorious DIY curb that somebody poured and dropped at the playground. A few years back we often went to this playground, it was our go-to. The kids really liked. It also has some small skate features, a few ledges, small stairs with a table

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Wallie, part 1

The other day I saw somebody doing a wallie to a frontside 50-50 on that angled bank/ledge. It looked so smooth, and so much fun, and also not to hard, something you could drop into your line without thinking too much about it. I had to try it. Getting

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Frontside disaster progression #2

On the tiny quarter I manage to get nose pivots to disaster pretty OK. Next step is to actually frontside 180 into a disaster. It doesn't quite work on the quarter yet, so I deferred to the mellow volano in the park. There's no coping, just

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Pivot down, pivot up

The nose stall revert that I figured out last week made me realize that if I've enough time to turn while sliding down, there should be enough time to just turn and do a proper rock and roll. So there's that, yes, rock and roll works

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Nose Stall Revert

Easy peasy on the mini quarter, 2 sessions and I got it. First, getting comfortable with nose stalls and dropping back in switch, then figuring out how to turn and slide down. It's really much easier than it looks. I want to try it on a slightly higher

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Project Nose Stall Revert

There's a new trick on my list: a nose stall revert in transition. First step was to actually get into a nose stall. Dropping back in fakie or switch was a little bit more out of my comfort zone than I thought it would be. It took me

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Easy, and oddly satisfying

I kind of want to get another board, for no particular reason, there's plenty of life in my current one. It's just that itch of having a new toy. But my current board's nose is still pretty much pristine, just a few scratches on

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Practicing the basics

A quick morning session before heat and humidity roll in and make skating a dire outdoor activity. I decided to hit the mellow bank a few times and practice some basics: Ollie, Nollie, Frontside and Backside 180ies and Pop Shove-Its. Getting all of them consistently, and in an acceptable form,

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Morning session in Ithaca

Sneaked out this morning to check out the local skatepark and get a quick skate session in while we are on a short New England vacation. The park is a little bit crusty and doesn't really have a lot of flow to it. At least I couldn'