Mikemo 100 Flatground Challenge: Kickflips

After 3 and a half years of not being healthy enough to skate, I found a brace that can actually help my paralyzed foot out (Drop Foot). Its made a huge difference in the way I am able to skate and even beyond that, just being able to walk around and live life like a normal human.

When I was growing up, I always wanted to do a trick good enough where I could do 100 of them in a day. I noticed anytime that I ever did 100 in the same day the trick would always feel so much easier and I forever had the trick locked into my muscle memory. So I am using the same process as a kid, but this time I’m trying to learn with a paralyzed foot haha. Some of these tries will be sloppy as hell, but gimme a break! 100 a day. – Mikemo Capaldi

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Mikemo And Vince Capaldi Mailorder Memories

Something rad always happens when we pull out our archive of catalogs from back in the day and look through them with other skateboarders. We showed up to Mikemo and Vince Capaldiā€™s house in Simi Valley with a box full of catalogs and had them grab some that they remembered from their childhood. It turns out Mikemo found the very issue he ordered his first pair of shoes from and even better than that, he actually had them hiding out in a closet in his room. To think that all that buttery smooth flat ground started in a pair of shoes from a CCS catalog is exactly why we do this shit. We love these stories.

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