skate journal: colorado springs with a smaller crew #weekendatglennys day 4 (may 29, 2016 day 150)

Posted in Favorite, New Deck, Skate Journal on May 31st, 2016 by corpo

This one is for you @boredzinejp #weekendatglennys

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The Fremonsters and I hit Memorial Park in CO Springs to start a nice day. Chris was there! After a brief run or two through the park dodging kids we quickly decided to get out of there and skate the vert ramp! Ha. It was a blast though. We all pumped it. Chris did a mini demo and showed us some inverts that were gnarly! I was super hyped on early grab airs that I just learned a few days prior. Great warm up.

Just got rained out, classic CO trip #weekendatglennys

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Then we went to the bank school with steps to grind. Most of us skated the mellow steps for awhile. Some of us, like me, stayed on the beginner section the entire time. My list of tricks I landed is so expansive. Front 50, sketchy back 5-0. Yeap, that is it. Got close to crooks at least, but it started to rain. Everyone struggled with the smaller section though. Even Nolan couldn’t back tail it first try. Fuzz had some nice front 50 back 180s. Matt did a bunch of tricks including front tail, front 5-0. Nolan had crooks and front nosegrind. Rob, Fuzz, Dan, Joe, Nolan had a bank session going. I didn’t see them land a whole lot. Ha. Rob did a crazy no comply bigspin grab. Fuzz did Sal flips. I think Nolan did 360 flip to fakie. Dan got close to fakie inward heels. It started to rain and Joe did a front 5-0 on the bigger set of steps. Sick!

@mattrief gettin dem angles #weekendatglennys

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After some lunch we ended up at Harrison, one of the best spots ever. Everyone had fun carving around to get things started. That spot is so awesome. People settled into tricks. Nolan took awhile to do back tail which was kind of surprising, but he had so many amazing tricks. Rob had some rad lines. Joe did a fakie 50 amongst many more tricks. Matt filmed. Eric did transfer to tail and a long back 5-0. Fuzz had a rad Sal flip transfer. I took a long time to get a kickflip, did a GleNBD of early grab back 5-0 and came close to noseslide 270 shove out. Dan kind of had fakie crook.

Then it was the last spot of the trip. The OG park. I was so excited to skate the little ledge. Joe challenged me to a game of SKATE which he eventually won. It was a good warm up. Most people were done skating. Fuzz was rolling fast around the park with an old homie that was there. Joe and I kept skating the ledge avoiding the dumbest group of beginner bikers I’ve ever seen. They were biking around trying to clap their hands. Anyways, I can’t remember all that Joe did, but it had tricks like fakie 50 back halfcab out (thats what he beat me with), front lip to 5-0, front 5-0 to front board. I was skating pretty slow and without confidence, but I managed to get some back 50s, back 5-0, front 5-0 shove, front nosegrind, got into front crooks, close to kick back 50. The session ended with me doing a b/s flip over the mellow hip and Joe doing a Creepy spin over the hip. My favorite day of the trip.

(setup 8.25 null awkward vectors deck, thunder 147 lights stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, Es Swifts black/white)

skate journal: denver spots with everyone #weekendatglennys day 3 (may 28, 2016 day 149)

Posted in Skate Journal on May 31st, 2016 by corpo

Frontside to fakie at a crusty Denver DIY #weekendatglennys

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Stoprockville, CO. #weekendatglennys

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Up not quite as early we met everyone at York St. The soundtrack from the get go was stop rocks stopping and annoying everyone. Matt and I played in the back for awhile on the polejam training section. We would do a pole jam then had a game of SKATE going on the way back. Matt won it. Doing pole jams was fun though. They were really mellow and easy. A lot of ledge action was going on. Some crazy quarter pipe action which I sat and filmed for awhile. The crew was huge. Like 30 deep. We were there for a long time and am completely at a loss how to document it. I know Fuzz and I got crooks on the metal ledge. Joe got a line with a front smith. So much going on.

30 deep. 90s style. #weekendatglennys

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Then we went to this school. I thought the crowd would thin out, but it turns out that everyone went there. We were like 30 deep! It was a rad 90s vibe. I hung out in the back ledges with Carleigh and a couple others. Carleigh got close to front 50s. I did crooks and got close to back 50, but then we got the boot.

Math Reef nizzle slizzle #weekendatglennys

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Repost from @cookiegrinder13 good times with the #weekendatglennys crew!

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Off to Valdez where I continued to skate like crap around a million people. I tried to skate the regular ledges, but the crowds really god to me. I played a game of SKATE with Joe and he beat me then tried to pose kickflip noseslides. Matt noseslid the ledge. Dan front 50’d it. Hayden did boardslide shove. Richard almost did back 5-0. Fuzz kept the landing clean. Neil, Illya and Joe jumped on the regular ledge.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, thunder 147 lights stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, Es Swifts black/white)

skate journal: wood bank, north side, launch, spring canyon with the fremonsters #weekendatglennys day 2 (may 27, 2016 day 148)

Posted in Skate Journal on May 31st, 2016 by corpo

Wake and skate. #weekendatglennys

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Up early in the morning and off to skate. We hit this spot. True to this spot we were met with a rotating bunch of retired folks alternating between angry we were skating and happy to see us making use of this “art”. Matt got a sick line. Eric and I did rocks to fakie. Other tricks were felt out, but not landed.

Got to meet Ben Raybourn @choadped in Ft Collins today, crushing it here with @kevin_kowalski #weekendatglennys

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Then we hit MRKT, got food and hit Northside after a rain shower. I started really slow. Others were doing the up/down ledge/manual. Dan went up and back. Joe grinded it. Rob had a boneless over the top. So much more I don’t remember. We tried a line of cali grind a hump, kickflip on flat, front 5-0 the weird ledge in the corner. I was the only one of us that didn’t land the 5-0. The park was quite crowded and then the Indy team showed up making it even more crowded. There was so much going on, I can’t even begin to remember much of it. I know I wasn’t happy with how I skated.

@launchskate 😀 #weekendatglennys

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Then we hit Launch for a bit. I took a run and bailed. Then I did a few flatground kickflips with Dave and then I just went and sat with Andy. I guess Dave took a really bad slam. Seemed like people were having a good time. Jack and Carleigh joined.

@gnarlycarleigh with a belly flop and the make #weekendatglennys

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Got pink slipped in a game of SKATEBOARDMAG with @waywardnephew #weekendatglennys

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@corpoglenny stackin' letters against Chris Haslam in SKATE #weekendatglennys

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Then we went to Spring Canyon. The park was empty when we first showed, but quickly filled up. Everyone was skating. I saw Dave do a nice front nosegrind, Rob die pushing, Carleigh die in the bowl and do a nice pole jam, Riley and Garrett joined and killed it, man there is way too much to remember. The only trick I was proud of was a front nosegrind on the little ledge. The Indy team showed again and after awhile I challenged Chris Haslam to a game of SKATE. Rather then do it when I felt good I did it right after sitting for awhile and getting stiff. It was a blast though. He was cool. I didn’t land much, but it didn’t really matter, we were having fun and he said he’d rather skate flatground anyways. He just rattled off trick after trick while I posed them.

Cool down session @mattrief

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Make them stop. @ericjeckert carve over the light. #weekendatglennys

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After a nice long dinner we stopped by Loveland park and it had kind of cleared up after some more rain. It was freezing. So cold. The Fremonsters said we would only skate for ten minutes. Yeah right. Until the lights shut off 45 minutes later. Eric and I hit the snake run for a bit. Some “street” stuff was skated. Eric and I skated the bowl. He got the carve over the light in a few tries and I was getting close when the lights shut off right after I went down the waterfall. It was some of the most scared I have been on a skateboard. I thought I was going to die. Loveland was more fun then I thought it would be though.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, thunder 147 lights stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, Es Swifts black/white)

skate journal: boulder street spots with the fremonsters #weekendatglennys day 1 (may 26, 2016 day 147)

Posted in Skate Journal on May 31st, 2016 by corpo

It's on. Spot #1 #weekendatglennys

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And it begins… #weekendatglennys

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The Fremont dudes come out every year around this time. They arrived on a cool evening and we went right to skating. This was the first spot and it ended up being well received and a great start. I’m writing this 5 days after it happened so remembering everything is impossible. I remember I felt very stiff and awkward and even kickflips were hard. Similar to last years trip the first footage came from Eric and I doing doubles. This time he rode off a junk kicker and I showed him up with an early grab. Ha. Damon was then supposed to show us both up, but he couldn’t get the ollie over the whole kicker. Eric and Joe had been playing SKATE on the bank. Matt was rattling off ledge tricks. Dan was lining out heelflips to fakie and fakie nosegrinds. Matt and I filmed lines. I got one I was hyped on. Slappy crook, noseslide, kickflip on the bank. Matt got blunt transfer things, nollie front tail, nollie flip out of the kicker.

The one and only @buffalogums #weekendatglennys #totallyamake #seriously

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Then we went to this little gap without much runway. I did early grab drop early grab and tried early grab drop to early grab back 180. Damon tried to fakie ollie it. Eric did double drop rocks. Joe tried for two quick 180s in a row. Matt did quick ups. Dan shut it down with a weird board balance dance that was so sick.

Spot 3 bangers #weekendatglennys

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Last up was this ledge spot and this clip pretty much sums it up. I guess it doesn’t show that I took 30 minutes to land anything and then landed all my tricks in a few tries at the end when the sprinkler was shutting things down. Oh yeah, Matt House had joined us.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, thunder 147 lights stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, Es Swifts black/white)

skate journal: brief research ledge flail (may 25, 2016 day 146)

Posted in Skate Journal on May 26th, 2016 by corpo

Went to the research ledge after work. As I was pulling in 1190 played Ovlov. Got me hyped! I started with some barely moving noseslides, slightly moving noseslide to fakie, almost moving boardslide, maybe moving crooks. Ha. Took awhile to get into front 50, couldn’t back 50, got a really bad halfcab noseslide, switch front nose. Posed a few more tricks. It was just kind of a rapid fire 30 minute session going slow just trying to skate ledges more. I ended with a great feeling crook.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, thunder 147 lights stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, Es Swifts black/white)

skate journal: flatground and campus fun with a fun crew and new shoes (may 24, 2016 day 145)

Posted in New Shoes, Skate Journal on May 25th, 2016 by corpo

Right after work I went to the Dog Park as Rob, Neil, Dave, Blake, Brandon and Alec were in rainy Broomfield and were going to head to campus shortly. So I had a bit of time. I had new shoes. They are a little small, should have got 11 instead of 10.5. Anyways, I was stiff from work. It took awhile before I could ollie, but things started flowing. I got a couple of kickflips and was hyped on how good of flick the Swifts have. Then they kept coming. I posed a few other tricks. Landed both fakie bigflips I tried which I have been struggling with for some dumb reason lately. Halfcab flips, fakie flips, heelflips even. I started trying the “Ironman” (coined by Darin) which is kickflip, heelflip, treflip in a row. I got super close. Heelflips have been a pain lately, but I probably got like 20 of them and was hyped. I landed on most of the treflips, but just didn’t quite ride out. I landed on nollie tre, close to fakie heel, remotely close to nollie flip. I felt the best on flatground I have in awhile.

Then we met on campus at the spot us old guys love. The banked ledge/manual pads/etc. Those dudes were already filming. I guess Neil’s knee was hurting bad so he wanted to just film. Blake was doing slappy crooks easy, wallies over the whole ledge, and slamming while trying to ride across rocks. Rob was ripping. Slappy grinds, wallrides, long lines with fakie bigspins, front shoves, kickflips, etc. Dave was doing slappy tailslides, slappy crooks, slappy back 5-0, eventually switch slappy crooks (wtf!), accidental fakie slappy tails, lines with back 180’s over a grate and cabs. I got one line I was hyped on of front 180 a grate, fakie bigflip, pop shove, slappy crook. Near the end we were trying lines starting off the ledge. Rob had back 180, fakie bigspin, kickflip, and front tail (I think). Oh yeah, Rob had also done some rad push carve grinds that looked oh so fun looking. Dave was going for switch ollie off the ledge, switch shove, switch crook. Don’t think he got it. I was going for kickflip off the ledge, heelflip on flat, .. but I never got the heelflip. In fact I took a primo to the arch and it hurt so bad it pretty much shut me down.

@pantry_raider 50-50-50-50

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A little more skating was done on the bank to curb and and double ledge area. I was sitting as my foot was killing me. Blake did the gnar double 50, even with a shove out. Neil was trying to get things going on the little bank to curb, I think he did nose manuals on it. Dave did something cheer worthy, but I didn’t see it. Fun night with the exception of the primo slam.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, thunder 147 lights stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, Es Swifts black/white)

skate journal: early grabs at broomfield park (may 23, 2016 day 143)

Posted in Skate Journal on May 24th, 2016 by corpo

Lazy grab night. @neilsoffire @lazerneedsintagram

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After a nap, dinner and unloading boards I sped to Crisis to get there before closing time. Did some business then hit Broomfield with Lazer, Rob and Neil. Yes sir, Neil is in town! The park was pretty crowded. It seemed to be a mellow session. Neil’s knee was hurting. I just started on the quartapotty and that’s all that we skated. Well, Rob was disrupting the flow doing halfcab noseslides against the grain. Lazer did and early grab and Neil and I decided to do it as well. I don’t think I’ve ever done that before. Landing one was fun! Neil had a good line with pop shove, early grab, nose manual. Lazer added some others. Chill, fun, night. I wanted a chill night.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, thunder 147 lights stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)

The Dime Video wins last week

Posted in Best video part of the week on May 23rd, 2016 by corpo

And probably much more. This is incredibly awesome.

skate journal: nollie flips suck (may 22, 2016 day 143)

Posted in Skate Journal on May 23rd, 2016 by corpo

Getting desperate I put together a small board from old stuff in my garage. 8″ board, 7.75″ trucks, small wheels. I headed to campus. I was nice out. The little board felt cool initially. I got kinda close quickly to nollie flips on the fence bank. I set up Hosercam. Still close. Then after awhile I just wanted to stop. I tried some nollie heels on flat to entertain myself a little. After awhile I left feeling defeated once again and wanting to quit this game that brings so much misery.

skate journal: some research ledge fun then more nollie flip attempts (may 21, 2016 day 142)

Posted in Skate Journal on May 22nd, 2016 by corpo

front crooksie

Went to the research ledge not feeling all that motivated and pretty sore. I rolled down the hill a few times, started with 180s, eventually got to kickflips. Got a boardslide first try so that kind of cheered me up. I was skating slow, had some long lines though with basic flippers. Something like b/s flip, halfcab flip, heelflip, crooks. I got crooks the first try and it felt really good. I was kind of nervous about how the Thunder trucks would crooks, but they were good. I tried back 50s for awhile, got a bad one. Never got front 50. I was feeling really sore. I wanted to stop skating, but then decided to just do the things that make me feel happy for awhile. So coming downhill I just did Cali grind, crooks, cali grind, pose a nollie back heel. Coming uphill I tried front crooks then nollie flip. I have never front crooked that ledge. I was not quite getting into them, but managed a few quick little jibs. I guess it’s progress though. I got quite a few crooks and they did cheer me up as I thought they would.

Then I went to the training wheels bank to try for nollie flips. Never got too close. Never landed a 360 flip on the way back. It didn’t bum me out too much since I had fun earlier.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, thunder 147 lights stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)