After a lot of sleeping and lounging I headed out to the dog park to try and relearn flip tricks. I started slow, was going through some of the basics at a decent rate and then stalled out at 360 flip. It was so incredibly frustrating. I posed other tricks too, got close to switch flip and nollie front heel, but could never get the 360 flip. I wanted to focus my board, but luckily I landed on a treflip in the middle of snapped the board. I was hyped! Ha.

I miss the midnight Alaska sunsets. #cantbelieveitsdarkalready

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 12, 2016 at 8:24pm PDT

Later on I went out to the research ledge. I had a new deck and new trucks. I had been skating some old Thunders that had really bad axle slip and I remember why I gave up on them a long time ago. I had traded a pair of free Ventures for them. Oh, and I had new shoes I started earlier too. Ha, I’m a poser! My last Swifts were too small and they were killing my feet. I started off pretty bad missing noseslides and it almost sent me into a rage. But stubborn me stuck with it and I would have some kind of fun. I got a lot of the basics for me. Noseslide, noseslide fakie, boardslide, crooks, switch front nose, horrible back 50, horrible halfcab noseslide, noseslide shove. I could not get a front 50 though. I got into a bunch, but never landed one. It was dumb. I posed a lot of flippers too. Got a couple over 40 treflips (whew), close to switch flips and had a few more of the basics.

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

Ollie with an ollie at SeaSK8 yesterday with a view of Seattle in the background.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 12, 2016 at 10:55am PDT

After a red eye flight, walking through campus, skating a tiny bit, eating a lot and being a grouchy family we ended up at the Seattle Center. The girls split off to do the Space Needle while Ollie and I hung out at the skatepark. I say hung out at because I was dead tired and I could barely muster up the energy to kickturn. Ollie seemed to have more energy and was having fun cruising around the park. He had some 180s and other flowy moves. The only thing I did was a crooks on the ledge that took a long time.

I got the day wrong, we only had a couple hours and we got rained out. Other than that it was perfect. Great seeing you @corpoglenny and Ollie! With @chipbaker and @jgomer. #glenssupershortlayoverofradical #beaconofstoke #radwashad #jpskatecrap

A photo posted by Joshua Pluger (@boredzinejp) on Jun 11, 2016 at 4:41pm PDT

So good. So pogo.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 11, 2016 at 3:41pm PDT

Old Dog Chip picked us up and we went to the Jefferson skatepark to meet up with Josh and crew. The park was mobbed with people. Seeing a kid on a pogo stick was a new one for me. In the bowl even. There were also scooter kids, skaters filming, etc. It was pretty chaotic to walk into. Chip, Ollie and I were having fun though. Josh and Justin would show up after awhile. Josh was ripping that park quickly, it was rad to see. Front and back lip transfers on the qp hip, front 50s the bank 50 ledge and ledge to bank, back tailslides. I was starting to feel good. Had a couple fun noseslides on the bench into the bank, some back 50s over the hip, maybe some more, but it’s all a blur. Ollie was having fun cruising around pushing mongo. Chip was grooving, I thought I saw a kickflip to fakie, but he later said he only got close. Then the rain started to it. We stated a game of SKATE. Ollie watched. I landed a backside flip,but other then that got letters on tricks like fakie flip and front shove (wtf). Then Josh ended my game with another trick I should land – 360 flip. I don’t think the winner was determined as the rain became too much. Fun times seeing those dudes though. Josh rips so hard.

(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)

More parks need perfect little boxes!

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 10, 2016 at 12:25pm PDT

Got a ride to the Anchorage park when it opened up at 10am. No one else arrived until a couple bikers right when I left. The asphalt is rougher then it looks. The miniramp wasn’t much fun, so I just hit the part that looked the most fun to me, the ledges! The narrower ledges moved quite a bit when you ran into them, but they were still fun. I had a bunch of front 50s on the little one, front 50 180, front 50 shove, front 5-0, crooks, the worst back 50 ever, halfcab noseslide and close to halfcab crooks.

(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)

Totally exhausted after not sleeping at all camping I did the minimum in the Alaskan driveway. This one included a pretty good slam from a stop rock.

(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)

Before going camping I rolled around the driveway a bit. Some manuals, nollie shoves, powerslides.

(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)