Skated with Dr Terry Spittles today! First time in years and years! That Null deck is from ~2007. @powtao

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 29, 2016 at 2:07pm PDT

@powtao still got it!

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 29, 2016 at 8:20pm PDT

Drove up to Fort Collins on a cool, but nice morning. I arrived to an empty park. I pushed around not feeling all that great or as motivated as I thought I would. Another dude showed for awhile and I finally got a little warmed up. Then he left. I set out the GoPro and tried to film a front 50 kickflip out on the little ledge for awhile. Got close a couple of times, but the ledge was so inconsistent that I gave up. I tried a few lines for awhile. Ollie the small part of the rail, ollie onto the dragon bank and axle stall the qp. Never got it. Nose manual, front tail over the tiny hip, back 50 on the ledge. This actually took me a long time. Back 50s are the devil lately. Was trying a line of nose manual, b/s flip, halfcab crooks when Steve showed up. I haven’t skated with him in like 8 years. Crazy. He still had it. After some warming up we played a game of SKATE. Right away he hit me with some of his old classics that always got me letters. Nollie back 360, nollie heel, creepy spin. The game would take awhile and I didn’t land much, but I would end up winning it. We skated the park for awhile. Steve was skating the bench without problems. I couldn’t get the fire going, but I did have some ok flippers including a nollie 360 flip that felt awesome. We played another game of SKATE that went T-T before I won. Then we played on the tiny mound qp for awhile. It was fun. It’s the only place I can do pivots to fakie. I also got a blunt to back disaster. That trick kind of rules. Front pivot to fakie, tried front noseblunts. Steve did some rad bluntslides. That was pretty much it. I was dead tired, so incredibly sore and bummed on my state of skateboarding. I think I need to give up on the goal of skating every day this year. It’s killing me and making skating not so fun.

(setup: 8.1 null control room, venture 5.25 lows with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

Matt and I met John at the Broomfield park. We pulled in at the same time. Actually John pulled in right as Matt was opening his door and it was close to taking out my passenger door. Ha. We tooled around for a bit before skating the flow bowl for quite awhile. It was fun. John was shredding. Rock’s both ways on the pool block, blunt on the noping, switch carves, feeble grind the pool coping. Matt took awhile to get the channel ollie, then put down a good one, had some good frontside carves. I did some axle stalls, realized low trucks suck for carving, started popping micro airs up into the small qp on top. It was fun. Then we mostly skated the black ledge. Matt killed it with so many first try tricks. Fakie 5-0, fakie nosegrind, backside nosegrind, back nosegrind back 180 out, front tail, back tail, I don’t really remember, but he rattled off a ton. John got a fakie 50 to fakie, switch noseslide shove. I only tried noseslide 270 shove and switch noseslide tricks. John and I started hucking switch tail kickflip out. I mean why not? Then i was off to the Polar premiere.

(setup: 8.1 null control room, venture 5.25 lows with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)