Ok @boredzinejp here's my varial flip fakie and the next challenge for you. Rick flip!!! I've only landed a few of these so it felt awesome to land one again. I accidentally deleted a better varial flip at Broomfield park. Oh well. Good luck! #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #slowmotionontopofslowskating #stoked

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 24, 2016 at 2:54pm PST

Went out to Valmont area feeling pretty lazy, but wanting to get the varial flip challenge out of the way. I warmed up on the bank then went over to the main area. The ledge is almost skateable finally, it was wet, but no ice. I did a line of kickflip up the curb, ollie the wood pallet then ollie off the dock over the ice. It felt really cool. I had tried the line with a heelflip instead of the ollie over the pallet, but I couldn’t land the heelflip. It felt cool to ollie the pallet anyway as it forced me to go faster. Then I spent some time trying to manual across and down a sidewalk pad off the street. Next up was the varial flip which didn’t take long. I tried to do a fakie varial flip too and landed a few, but so horribly that I didn’t want to use it. It was funny because I landed one of them as this dude randomly cruised by on a longboard with his dog. It startled me then made me laugh. Lastly I went and tried Rick Flips for about 30 minutes and got so stoked when I actually landed one! It’s been a long time since I’ve landed one of those.

(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 bones med bushings nb# pj stratford 533 burgundy)

Happy Birthday @iamnotacreepyjake!

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 23, 2016 at 12:57pm PST

Feeling lazy on a Saturday morning (Liz’s fault) I eventually headed to Broomfield park with birthday boy Jake to meet Riley, Carlie, Ladd and Nolan. We started on the quarterpotty where Jake quickly did 31 tricks. I did quite a few too, but not that many. Nolan would come later and warm up with 25 tricks in 10 minutes on the quarterpotty. Ha. It ruled seeing Riley skate again. Jake and I played a game of SKATE while Ladd and Riley played two games. Ours was way better though. Ha. Actually though we both landed a lot of tricks that we both don’t normally land. 360 flip, heelflip, f/s flip. I struggled with a bunch of tricks, but ended up winning with double flip. Our game took a really long time. After that I did a varial flip on the blue bank. I figured since there were no steeper banks I would at least do it on the one that you had to ollie onto. But it turns out I never hit record. Doh.

Those t-shirt weather days in January. ❤️☀️ #thankyoucolorado

A photo posted by carleigh samson (@gnarlycarleigh) on Jan 23, 2016 at 5:09pm PST

Then we went to Darin’s ramp for what would be a totally awesome session. Darin, Dave and Adam were already skating. Everyone seemed to skate really good. I took a long time to land a front d revert and also got a bean plant to tail and my second every creeper which was really fun. Watching Nolan and Riley shred was so awesome. Everyone got along and seemed hyped on the great weather. It ruled. Carliegh did like 100 back disasters and may have landed a backside blunt after Jake and I left. Dave was floating backside and frontside ollies, doing a bunch of plants again, everything. Darin got mad tricks. Ladd almost got blunt kickflip to fakie. Adam pops out of his blunts so high. Riley did a front nosegrind across the whole ramp. Nolan did everything including a blunt treflip to fakie.

(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 bones med bushings nb# pj stratford 533 burgundy)