@matthouse and @fullertrron (learning switch crooks at 47 hell yes!) ripping at Blue Skies today. I sucked. #arthritissucks #itevenhurtstowalk

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Feb 12, 2016 at 12:30pm PST

Feeling arthritic again I went to Blue Skies on a nice Feb day. Dave was there. Matt joined shortly. When I first started it felt like I might not actually be able to skate at all. Ugh. I would struggle through and do some very horrible skating. At least watching Matt and Dave was cool. We all tried switch crooks for awhile. Dave got one (above). So sick. We mostly skated the ledge. I mostly tried halfcab noseslides and had two horrible ones to show for it. Matt had never skated there before. He was able to 50 the tall ledge. No back tail like Dave and I were hoping though. Ha. The back 50 back 180 out was hot. So was Daves front 50 180. Dave also had some back 50s that surprised me. And a feeble on the flatbar all easy. We left after Matt front 50’d the whole narrow ledge. Wowsers.

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

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