Today marks 365 days of skating in a year (thanks to leap day). Still going for all 366 days of 2016. Snowy night 1mph treflip in my garage that took an hour to land.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Nov 17, 2016 at 7:55pm PST

Went out to the garage excited to play on the “putter”. Aka the 7.5″ board with 42mm wheels. I did a few warm up tricks then started trying nollie heel. There were a few I got incredibly close on. Then I moved on to treflips. Ugh. I probably landed on 30 or 40 of them and put one or two hands down. But I wanted a clean one. I landed on almost every one of them, but I just couldn’t get a clean one. I was yelling in anger at times. I eventually went inside to get my regular board (8.1″) and man it felt HUGE after skating the putter. It took me a few tries before I even was able to flip the big board around enough, but after several more hand(s) down makes I finally got this “clean” one. My mood lightened. I tried a few switch flips and got incredibly close. I may have finally figured out a foot position that works for me. Man I would love to learn that one.

(setup putter, reg 8.1 board)

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