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A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 21, 2015 at 10:06pm PDT

Had some time to kill before Ollie went to his friends. He didn’t feel like doing much so I skated. I started on Rampy and it was pretty fun. I didn’t skate flat at all. Skated for almost an hour. Did quite a few basics initially. Then started trying a line with a back smith in it and then a blunt to pivot. Never got the blunt pivot. Ended up heading outside to skate flat. I wasn’t feeling the big board anymore and decided to check out what shape the old spare 8.25 deck was in my car. It seemed good so I set it up. It felt awesome. I felt decent on my board. I did a lot of tricks, some of which were absolutely horrible, but I didn’t seem to really care. Nollie tre, tre, varial heel, fs halfcab heel and a rick flip! Totally landed not even moving. Other tricks were landed ok.

Then Ollie left and I went to Red Curbs to meet Matt and Dave. Fuzz would show a little later. It was a long session so I don’t really remember how it went. I felt good on my skateboard for awhile though which seems rare these days. I had some flippers like nollie tre and tre, nose manuals, got some front lipslides (they weren’t clean) and got closer to back lips, but even closer to kick back lip (so much easier). Dave was hauling ass. Long boardslides to fakie, or 270 out, front lips, a back lip, front 5-0 shove and lasted the longest of everyone (well except he hadn’t already skated for two hours like me! ha ha). Matt had super fast 5-0s, fakie nosegrinds, the back lip, front 5-0 shove, treflips easy, struggled with switch stuff which makes sense because it’s impossible. Fuzz lived up to his reputation as the 180 guy and did 180s before every trick. He took awhile for some of his basics, but then put down tricks like back 180 fakie 50 halfcab out first try (note there are 2 180s in that trick). Almost got back lip. I sat for awhile and filmed as I was tired. We ended with Dave and I doing slappy crooks on the red curb.

(setup 8.5/8.25 null venture wide lights thunder bushings 52mm stf v3 nb+ pj stratford 533 cream)

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