Feeling more exhausted then I should I was woken up by Joe and crew around 8am. They wanted to skate! I dragged more then normal, but we headed out for Broomfield around 9am. After a coffee stop we arrived at a crowded and bright park. It was hard to get things going. I tried to pace myself. Joe and Damon were ripping, played SKATE. Rob met us. Fuzz too. Carleigh even later. I was skating the big board, not really liking it. Most of us eventually settled in on a blue bank session. Joe and Fuzz did various 180 combos. Rob was the manual king. Damon was doing fakie tres. I switched to my little board temporarily and hated it, went back to the big board and did a bigflip on the bank. Carleigh did a back disaster on the brick qp.

Fun spot, fun crew.

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After some Chipotle we went here. This spot rules. It’s been a couple of years since I’ve been here. Fuzz and I started with a game of no pop SK8. I owned him. Ha. People warmed up with ledge tricks. Joe and Fuzz tried fakie willys. Joe landed a good one to forward. Fuzz landed a hilarious one, but it counted! Fakie 50s to fakie, those two were killing it. The setup got further back each time and before long we were lining it out. I think everyone ended up filming lines before too long. Carleigh learned straight no complys and did one in a line off a drop. I did a line with the only two tricks I can do moving faster then a snail (kickflip and front shove). It was incredibly fun when I got it though, as the front shove off the tiny drop felt like a Baker Maker. I filmed Fuzz, Joe, Carleigh for awhile. All got good stuff. Joe tried fakie 50 to back 50s for awhile and got a good one. I tried front 50 kickflips out for awhile and got pissed.

@joerhamilton spot #3

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Then we went to 287 ditch. It was muddy and not as fun as last time. Well, for me. Dave met us and slayed it. Him and Joe were skating hard. I tried to get going, but couldn’t. Damon ripped it too actually. Kickflip to fakie, front 50s, front boards. Richard showed up at the end and did a back blunt on the parking block almost immediately. So sick.

This happened. #IggyPop #epic Thank you a million times @joerhamilton

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Then Liz, Joe and I went to the Iggy Pop show! It was pretty incredible!

(setup 8.38 null ollie deck, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, bones 51mm stf v2 nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

@boredzinejp here's my bad attempt at the Casper stall thing. If you say it counts for #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge (please remember I am on defense) then I challenge you to another fakie big flip, but over a hip this time. The Casper was insanely hard. Proper guest Casper stall by @fullertrron

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Apr 3, 2016 at 8:05pm PDT

On a cool day I went out to Louisville park. I would meet up with Dave and eventually Rob. I started out just kind of cruising around, nothing special. Did a few long cali grinds. Started trying front 50 kickflip out. Didn’t get very close. I was on the bigger board again. It felt good for the most part. Dave showed and a mostly hip session went down. I took a long time to get a backside flip over the hip. Dave did a frontside cab and some good pop shoves. I hucked 360 flip, half cab flip, cab flip before settling in on fakie bigflip which also took awhile to land. Dave started trying these sketchy back 50s with no setup and grind into the bank. I thought he was going to die. I was happy when he stopped trying it. Ha. Then Rob showed. Rob! On his first day back on a board after his annual trip to Ireland. He looked good out there. Front board pop outs, manuals, ollies over the hip, crailslides. Killing it. I was liking my bigger board until we went to the hockey rink for flatground friday. Man that big board was harder to get around. We played a game of SKATE which I managed to win, but it was only because Rob didn’t want to try fakie flip yet. Skated flatground a bit longer. I didn’t land much, but a halfcab flip felt really good so it kept me from obsessing over my smaller setup sitting in my car patiently waiting for me to skate it again.

(setup 8.38 null ollie deck, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, bones 51mm stf v2 nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

Another minimum night in the garage. I had a little more desire to skate at least, but still didn’t ollie.

(setup 8.38 null ollie deck, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, 51mm stf v2)

Almost ended my streak and goal of 366 days this year. I was determined, but Ollie made me go out in the garage for a minimum sheet of wood manual session. He joined me. It was fun, we goofed around. I rode a big board that was in my garage instead of my little one. It felt good. I didn’t ollie at all and my streak of doing at least one kickflip a day is over. Kind of sad about that, but it was ruining me.

(setup 8.38 null ollie deck, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, 51mm stf v2)