The 9 inch Mudpluggers got around really well on the big gravel.
The Gravel Flux was great for camping.
I would have brought the Almost a Flux if I had finished it up… But this worked out nicely.
Camping was mostly great but something really bad happened…
After many hours cruising on the Onewheel, my buddy Chris rode up the gravel hill later in the night and did not make it back down…
He doesn’t have a ton of Onewheel experience but has been skateboarding his whole life…
And he was doing fine on the Onewheel even on the big gravel which is the gnarliest…
But somehow at the top of the hill when trying to turn the Onewheel took him down hard and claimed his clavicle…
I really need to make a thread dedicated to finding the best high top wide toe box “barefoot” skate shoe. I’ve fallen alllllll the way down the rabbit hole lately. I imagine that thread will just be me and you and @glyphiks going back and forth but could still be useful to have somewhere to compare notes.
I’ve been wearing a super minimalist pair of barefoot shoes (“Within” brand on Amazon, the low top mesh ones) for two years now. But they’ve just been my everyday walking around shoe. I felt that they were too thin and flimsy to be suitable foot protection for esk8 (not to mention low-top, which I long ago decided was not ok for esk8). So I’ve still been wearing Vans Sk8-hi MTE as my skate shoe.
Except recently, my feet have been hurting more and more while I skate. I figured it was just normal foot fatigue, until a couple weeks ago when I got on my board and realized that my feet were in serious pain pretty much as soon as I started riding. That’s when I realized it was because, after years of wearing a wide toe box barefoot shoe daily, my foot had returned to a more mature splayed-toe shape, and cramming them back in the narrow pointy Vans was only getting more painful.
That’s when I decided to bite the bullet and dive down the rabbit hole looking for a wide toe box high top shoe I can safely and comfortably use for skating. I decided on the Lems Boulder Grip Waterproof. It’s not perfect on paper. Doesn’t check every box. But it’s the best I could find after over a week of frantic searching lol. They will be delivered today or tomorrow.
In the mean time, I just did a 10mi skate to my workshop this morning in my Within shoes. I kept it slow and easy, conscious of the lack of foot protection if I fell, but so far so good. The board feel was awesome, being able to spread out my toes and really dig into the concave of my deck felt really natural, and I didnt have any of the foot/toe pain of my Vans.
I’m feeling very optimistic, and I really hope these Lems work out. I would hate to have to wear my Vans all day for CarveSEA in a couple weeks
Oh yeah man, those are the good stuff. Tattoo aftercare bandaging is the same type of stuff but way cheaper and you can cut your own size from the roll as needed
Hydrocolloid bandages are also great for road rash.
These are cheap and good in my experience. Large enough to cover most road rash. No untreated border, so if you need to overlap them to cover a larger wound it’s easy.
but could still be useful to have somewhere to compare notes.
