@fullertrron and I have been feeling every bit of 40 something lately. Here's some 'highlights' from yesterday. Dave with the smooth and me still trying to skate like a 13 year old.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Aug 24, 2015 at 9:20am PDT

Went to Stonehenge hoping I’d be able to warm up enough to skate, but they were moving again. Doh, drove to Arapahoe ridge and Dave called me. We agreed to meet in Gunbarrel and skate his manual pad as a bank to curb on this mellow bank. It ended up being super fun. I had changed bushings because I was sick of wheelbite. I went with the stock Venture bushings since the bottom one is a barrel bushing that should limit the trucks from touching the board. I liked it for the most part, but I was mostly skating straight. They were stiffer for sure, but I never once had wheelbite so that is awesome. Anyway, the skating, it went way better then yesterday. Especially because I did Dave’s trick in a few tries as he showed up. F/s cab tailblock nose grab (no idea what you would really call it even though Dave told me). We setup his little box and went through the basic grinds. Dave quickly did some really long front tails that were super good. I was kind of all over the place and had some problems with the kingpin hanging up on the wide coping. Darn low trucks (ha! I love them). I would do a few other tricks like kick back smith stall (trying 50), front 50 and 5-0 to fakie, failed at front smith kickflip out for awhile, failed at kick back tail, had some front lipslides and even a tailslide that actually slid and what you see above, almost a front nosegrind or two. Dave took awhile to land his first back tail shove out. It was tight when he got it. His pop shoves to nose were great too. Flatground went ok for me, the stiffer bushings definitely felt weird on tricks like treflip. I did have a few poorly landed b/s flips and a first try nollie varial flip though. Not having wheel bite was awesome so it might work out. A lot more went down then I remember, but it was a fun session. I set the phone down to film the last few minutes of it. Otherwise the clip would have tons more hammers.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows stock bushings 52mm stf v3 nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum)

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