Fun extended lunch break with these dudes!

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 28, 2015 at 1:06pm PDT

I haven’t skipped out for lunch at Blue Skies in forever. I also haven’t skated with Rob in forever. Warmups seemed good for everyone. I think Dave had been there for awhile because he was ripping. Fakie shoves on the bank. He also beat me to a kickflip to fakie. Luckily I had my new setup as an excuse (can it still be an excuse since I almost always change something?). Rob hadn’t skated in awhile, but he didn’t look rusty. He had kickflips on the bank, boardslide to fakie the flat bar, no complys, no comply bigspin, crail, boardslides on the ledge and those steezy back 180s. Dave was front 50’ing from low to high on the main ledge really fast. Also got a line with switch shove on the bank then boardslide shove out on the flat bar. I had front 50, front 50 180, front 50 shove, some bad crooks, did ok with flip tricks. Took too long to get kickflip to fakie, but got fakie flip first try. Tried halfcab flip on the bank for awhile, but couldn’t get it. Rob and I left as Dave was doing feebles on the flat bar. He probably skated for a few more hours.

(setup 8.25 null venture vlight lows venom bushings no bottom washer 1/16 riser 4 washers on the inside of each axle 50mm spitfire f4 101a adidas suciu adv)

Went out to Valmont with my fresh new setup. I made it even fresher with some new Venom bushings I got at Meta on the way. I felt pretty good initially and went through the various no ollie noseslide maneuvers. Struggled a bit with crooks, struggled a lot with front 50 on the medium part. Was 2-2 on treflips and kickflips felt good too. I was surprised at how close I got to nollie inward heel. Man, that would be awesome. I went into huck mode after awhile. Front smith, front tail and front crook on the medium part. Got a really bad front tail and somehow almost got a front smith too. Hucking is fun. Technically landed two kickflip noseslides, but they were not posted up at all and just dinged the edge. I’m pretty happy with the 8.25 and low trucks at the moment. It’s the first time I’ve gone run that setup. Not sure I’m feeling the bushings. Oh well. Full on nerd out on my setup in the “setup” section below.

(setup 8.25 null venture vlight lows venom bushings no bottom washer 1/16 riser 4 washers on the inside of each axle 50mm spitfire f4 101a adidas suciu adv) whew.