Feeling better I woke up way too early excited to skate. It has snowed a trace overnight and some areas has snow/ice on them. I went to research ledge before 10am and it was dry! I was feeling pretty tired as I tried to skate it though. Noseslides were a battle, but got me warmed up. I had a boardslide popout and then took a long time for crooks. Had a couple bad back 50s before losing them for a long time. It was so frustrating. I hucked some flip tricks, but didn’t land much. It felt good to fall down though. I setup hosercam to try and capture either a front smith grind or crooks bigspin for The Game. Didn’t get either, but got close to both. I tried to skate a little faster which made tricks harder. Oh well.

@boredzinejp the nose manual shove was harder then I remembered, but it was indeed fun. I was thinking halfcab flip on a bank for the next challenge then randomly thought of a fakie sex change. Ha. So here's your challenge sir, fakie sex change on a bank! #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #anotherdumbandslowfliptrickwithnopopfromglen

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 31, 2016 at 11:53am PST

After awhile I packed it up and headed to Valmont area to do a new trick for the challenge. In my head I was thinking halfcab flip, fakie sex change or maybe fakie hardflip. I got the first two. That is the first time I’ve done a fakie sex change on a bank. It was pretty fun.

I was pretty sore and achy, but felt like trying a line. Ollie a little gap over a curb at the very top of the photo, kickflip up the curb, ollie the little gap off the corner of the 3 stair then ollie over the tall curb. The kickflip took awhile because of how rough it is up there, but the line felt great when I got it.

Poor mans kickflip for the boy.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 31, 2016 at 6:55pm PST

Later that night I wanted to start breaking in some new PJs as the burgundy ones finally got a hole in the sole. I was doing some kickflips in the garage when Ollie came out! I was so stoked. I messed around with some silly tricks while he was out and we did the poor mans kickflips together. He was hyped on it. Then he went in and I posed nollie flips, treflip and varial heels for awhile. After skating the burgundy PJs beyond how long I normally skate them the new ones feel so stiff and bulky. Oh well, good shoes take awhile to break in.

(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 venom 91a bushings nb# pj stratford 533 burgundy/patriot)

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