Feeling tired and slightly hungover from date night with Liz (I have zero tolerance anymore) I headed to campus on another hot day. I was really hating my setup the day before and how stiff the trucks were so I took off the lower washer. This gave it some wiggle and I liked it. I started off at the little downhill manny pad. Not sure if I even did a clean one or not, but I definitely did on the way back to my car later in the day. I did ollie off the ledge in the background before the scooter was there. I had fun doing 180 variations over a manhole.

Then I skated this amazing ledge. Ha. I tried a line of halfcab flip, back 50, ollie the next 3 stair. The back 50 kept sticking for me. Doh. I started going f/s halfcab flips instead. I would eventually get the line, but the 3 stair ollie was horrible. So I switched the heelflip as the first trick and then did it good enough to move on. I checked out a couple spots, but they had cars or people in the way. Actually, the brick area near the ledge I was just at would have been good, but these new Sptifires, which are supposed to be the 99a, seem hard as hell and the cracks were really annoying.

I ended up here for my most frustrating part of the day. Front tail this ledge, curve around a picnic table, ollie onto the ledge, stop, turn around and kickflip off. I never got the ollie up. The shortness of this board was really bumming me out on the front tails and ollies. The ledge wouldn’t have slid really anyway, but I feel like I posted up on some front tails good at least. I managed to kickflip off at least.

Then I went here which was pretty crowded with college students at times. I tried a line of ollie up, varial flip on the top, front shove off for awhile. the ollies up felt alright, but varial flips were being elusive and pissing me off. I would managed to get the line though and it felt awesome. Then I went home.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows without lower washer 51mm spitfire f4 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)

Picked up Nolan around 10am after a couple of boardslides on the mini bank to curb at his apt. Then we headed north and stopped at the old taco thing by Walmart in Loveland. I did a few bank rides and a rock ‘n roll. Nolan did a bunch of tricks. We filmed a couple for the gram and one for the video. He’s good. Then we brought boards to MRKT, ate and rolled into campus to check out a few things. First spot was that steep bank. I was thinking Nolan could do a trick into it, but he had nothing other then some drop ins. Nutter had joined us and he front noseslid the crazy steep/kinked rail out front. I filmed it. Then I filmed Nolan try some nose manual nollie flips out, but he didn’t get it. Man it was hot. We looked at the clark building hip for a bit, posed some tricks over it then headed back to the car.

In 30 years of skateboarding I've never landed a real wallride before. @nolancormier made me do it. Well, kind of. #mostuncordinatedskaterever #iamcomingforyouneil

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 27, 2015 at 10:05pm PDT

Stick with it. @nolancormier 🔨🔨

A video posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Sep 27, 2015 at 8:02am PDT

We went to this alley. I wasn’t sure what Nolan would think of it and he wasn’t really into it. Especially with someone pouring stuff into the drain and it smelled horrible. He did some wallrides on the one above and I started thinking it would be a good time to finally land one. We were waiting on Bernie and Scotty to join us. Some large amount of tries later I had kind of landed it. Neat. Then we all goofed around for awhile.

@nolancormier tubular in Fort Collins.

A photo posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Sep 27, 2015 at 6:51pm PDT

Then we went to the fullpipe. The last time I skated there I took the a really bad slam. This time I survived and had fun. Bernie ripped it. Scotty hauled ass down it. Nolan filmed a really cool line.

Then we went to Fossil Creek. I struggled. Nolan mostly chilled. Scotty has a broken toe so he mostly chilled too. Bernie was ripping hard. Nose manuals the long pad every try. Kickflip manuals. Front smith front 180 out easy. He tried a line of nose manual, then a quick manual as a setup for front smith kickflip out, but never got the last trick. I had some fun crooks. Tried a line of front 50 shove out then front shove down the 3 stair. I really struggled with the front 50. Just getting on that ledge was hard for me. The new null 8.1s that generator sent this time around are shorter and the smaller tail seems to be effecting my ollie. Argh. And every since putting those new Spitfires on my board my trucks have felt really tight. I don’t know why.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 51mm spitfire f4 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)