A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on May 6, 2015 at 10:51am PDT

Met Dave at Blue Skies under cloudy skies with rain threatening. I arrived first and had about 10 minutes to get warmed up. I allowed me to get to the point of doing one line I had thought of. Ollie the flat bar, kickflip to fakie the bank, switch 180 on flat, back 180 the low part of the snake bar. When Dave arrived I tried to do front 180 the flat bar, fakie flip on the bank and then noseslide to fakie the tall ledge. Never got the noseslide fakie and really struggled with the front 180. Doh. Dave said I should add some spice with a switch hippy jump after the 180, but I’m not that cool. He demonstrated how easy the switch hippie jump was. He also did nollie shove revert (maybe it was fakie. goofy footers are so hard to figure out) on the bank, a bunch of boardsldies, a bunch of kickflips and more Dave smoothness. I got close to front 50 kickflip out, but then the rain started.

(setup 8.25 null venture wides bones med bushings stf 51mm nb+ stratford 479)

Another rainy night in Colorado. I headed out to Rampy for a bit. I wanted to try back tails and the dream was to do a TX Plant and a back tail in one run to prove I’ve really learned the tricks of the game. But the Texas Plant never happened. Every time I committed I slammed. Sometimes pretty hard. Doh. I got somewhat close to back tail stall. I had a few runs at first that had a lot of different tricks in them. Got hung up on hurricanes for awhile and never got one. Skated flat quite a bit too. Mostly trying nollie heels which were remotely close. Man I would LOVE to learn that one. Got a first try treflip and a few other flippers. Skated a little over 30 minutes. Didn’t land much, but had fun.

(setup 8.25 null venture wides bones med bushing stf 51mm nb+ stratford 479)