@boredzinejp challenged me to a 'poor man's switch 360'. Well this is as poor as it gets. I learned it right away then totally lost it. This is all I documented before the deadline. Next trick Josh is halfcab heel. This is an ode to @patsnacks #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #twotricksnospeed #mymostembarrassingpostyet

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 1, 2016 at 8:27pm PDT

Got out of work early, took a nap, then added a new setup to my collection. This one was a Null 8.25 with 8″ Venture highs and 52mm Spits. I felt better then the day before. Perhaps because I sat down more at work so my legs weren’t so tired. I started at the dog park as it was about to get dark. It felt good to roll around and flip tricks were starting, but it got dark right away and started to rain. So I went to the Valmont garages and started at Redder Curbs. It was fun to cruise around it even though I didn’t seem to land anything. I wanted to do halfcab heel and that garage isn’t too great for flatground. Well, the lighting at least. So I went into Blank Curbs and went to work. It took me about 20 minutes to get the one above. It felt so good I wish I didn’t have to see the footage. Ha. In between tries I mostly posed flippers like nollie flip (kind of close), nollie heel (not close at all, but there was some hope in there) and switch tre (no chance at all). I was not in a terrible mood for once and had fun. As much as I want to skate parks, I really hate the scenes at them sometimes. I don’t like spending my skate time with kids I don’t know playing with scooters. It kills me.

(setup 8.25 null riley persing deck, venture 5.2 hi, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 52mm spitfire f4 101a, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)

So excited to set up a Riley deck that I went for a full new complete!

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 27, 2016 at 6:01pm PDT

It seems like every single post I start by saying how tired I am. Well after an 8 hour drive, a short bike ride and some food I went out on a totally new complete for a brief session. I felt better then I thought I would though. I hate having a brand new complete so wanted to skate it initially on a ledge and not show up at a park with a brand new complete. A few noseslides in a huge mob of people went by following Pokemon or something. It was weird. I got a couple of crooks, a couple bad back 50s, couldn’t halfcab noseslide or front crook. Did a few real basic flippers and hucked some nollie and switch flips that felt close. Did a line of front 180 up the curb, fake flip on flat, switch front nose. Got tired and left. Not bad considering how tired I was and everything was new, even my insoles.

(setup 8.1 Null Riley deck, venture low v-hollows, stock thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 52mm Reed wheels, New Balance Numeric Quincy denim/gum)

Got out of work early, chilled, then ran to Meta and Crisis and had an hour to kill before leaving for Denver. I went to Safeway ledge. I was hoping to start the night off strong, but I didn’t. Everything was hard. I messed around with some nollie cab back tails. Never got it, but it seems possible. Did 50s both ways, got a kickflip back 50, another not-dipped-enough front smith or two, front 50 yank out. Jake showed, but it was time to meet at Crisis so we rolled over there.

Jake and I played on a parking block in front of the shop while we waited. It ended up being pretty fun. We did some basic pivots at first, some blunt pivots, etc. Rob and Dave showed as Jake and I put down our parking block enders. Jake did front nosepick and I got his back with front pivot kickflip out. That one hyped me up. Then we all tried some lines going down the parking lot. Rob ollied over a manhole to manual the whole parking lot. Jake was doing ollie over the manhole, powerslide then kickflip into a steeper section. I was trying switch front 180 over the manhole, powerslide the steeper section, kickflip up a curb, ride off a 2 stair, ollie up a curb to front rock. Did it all except for ride away from the front rock. Managed to flat spot my new wheels really bad too. Doh. Dave was going switch ollie over the manhole and some manuals around the sidewalk. Fuzz finished setting up his board and we left for Denver.

We parked by the pedestrian bridge and walked over it arriving at our first spot. Most were skating the round banked bases to the bridge. I was kind of stuck in a zone of trying to ollie a 3 stair then noseslide off a one stair so I didn’t really see what everyone did. I saw Dave do a front pivot. Fuzz joined me with some manuals then noseslide attempts. I couldn’t do the manual. I started doing a different line. Wallride the jersey barrier, ollie up a curb then crooks the ledge off the curb. I got it second try. The crooks made me happy, even though I couldn’t do it again. Jake was trying front tails. Dave was doing fast wallride/wallies. We moved on to the cheese wedge spot. Fuzz did front 50 down one. Dave did boardlide to fakie. Rob had front boards and a pretty gnarly slam on a boardslide (or maybe it was a halfcab boardslide?). Jake manualed up one. I posed back 50s. More pushing. I think next was a ledge spot against a fence with a lot of strop rocks. Everyone else skated a red curb near it for a bit. I posed on the ledge, got a back 50. Jake did front tail, front 50, noseslide. Fuzz did front 50. Then we crossed the street and found a really fun new spot. I saw Rob get a boardslide on a really fun looking granite ledge and we got the boot.

We went along the bikepath for awhile. But not before Dave slammed super hard on some gravel on one of the most painful looking slams I’ve seen in awhile. Doh. Ended up at a weird spot that only I skated. I tried a line of wallie nollie, kickflip up a crack and then ollie a weird 3 stair. I tried it for awhile and realized everyone had left. Took a minute to find them. Got some snacks and a 7-11.

#thestubborns out past bed time.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 23, 2016 at 10:58pm PDT

Ended up here for awhile. Dave killed it with the 4 stair ollie then 4 stair firecracker. Also he ollied over the little skate stopper into the bank. I did the little back 90 tail drop into the double bank. Everyone skated the bank to skate stopper for a bit. With hands on the rails for assist. I tried to get a good photo, but nothing good came up. Lots and lots of pushing later we ended up at the skyline park granite ledge. I was too tired and sore to skate it. That says a lot. Jake put down a lot of tricks. Back 50, front 50, front 5-0, I don’t remember anymore, it was a blur. Dave did another fast boardslide to fakie, tried front crooks for awhile.

@_f_u_z_z #profilepic

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 24, 2016 at 12:03am PDT

~ this is the first time that I have ever seen @corpoglenny tired of/from skateboarding. #heshumaunafterall #profilepic

A photo posted by Jeremy Frankovis (@_f_u_z_z) on Jun 24, 2016 at 1:38am PDT

Then we went down into the old parking garage. Again, I was too sore and tired to skate it. Look at me pouting above. Rob had some halfcab boardslides and noseslides. Fuzz had some front 50s. Dave did boardslide to fakie again, front 50 nollie 180 out, back 50 nollie 180 out and I think switch crooks. Jake did too many tricks to name. 50s, front 5-0, front tail, front lip, crooks, crooks shove, 180 nosegrind, fakie nosegrind, fakie 50 halfcab out. Wowzers. That was it, we skated well past midnight.

(setup 8.25 null awkward vectors deck, thunder 147 HL stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 51mm bones stf v1, Es Swifts grey/white)

Woke up at 5am feeling way too much pressure to do Josh’s challenge (fakie front pivot to back pivot to tail). So got up on my Friday off and went to Arvada park determined to do the dumb trick. Ha. Well, the qp I had in mind to do it had a really bad approach for fakie and I couldn’t do it on the other one I imagined. I tried for about 30-45 minutes before giving up and trying to have fun at an almost empty park. Had some fun carving the snakerun. Skated the little qp up top for a bit. Had a fun line of rock ‘n roll, front 50 the granite low to high ledge, ollie into the mini euro, manual the bump to manual pad, bailed a 3 flip to fakie on the blue chip. Skated the miniramp for awhile. Did a few basics. Skated the pier 7 ledge for awhile. Got some front 50s and “nollie” front tails and a scary switch front noseslide. Got a bigflip on the blue chip. Posed b/s flips over the hip. Tried switch flips on the blue chip for awhile. Left feeling depressed that I was getting another letter.

Later in the afternoon I met Dave and Rob at the “Dawg Park”. I was pretty sore, but kickflips came easy. I hucked and landed on a lot of tricks. I landed very few tricks. Tricks I landed on, but didn’t ride away from: 360 flip, nollie varial flip, nollie flip, nollie 360 flip, halfcab heels, varial heel, switch f/s flip. Doh. We ended with a game of SKATE. I was the first one out. So then I posed switch flips and cab flips. Then I went home and had some GF beer.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, venture lows, venom 91a bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)

Took and ‘off’ day. I’ve been liking the bigger setup so much I committed to it with a new deck. While I was at it I put some new wheels on that weren’t worn down under 50mm. The 360 manuals with ollieing really are fun.

(setup 8.38 null control room, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, bones stf 51mm v2, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

50 days in a row spoiling myself with a new complete. Everything except the old bushings. Perfect.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Feb 20, 2016 at 7:38pm PST

All new everything (except for bushings)! I was feeling extremely lazy, out of it and sore and didn’t get out skating until around 2pm. I was going to meet Jake and Carleigh at Valmont ledge. I got there first and was starting to warm up when a truck backed in so the destination was changed to research ledge.

I actually had some fun there for awhile. Noseslides and crooks worked. It was fun trying to get the crooks groove going on some new trucks. Jake had them too. Carleigh did noseslides and noseslide shoves. She does that trick good and doesn’t come to a halt on the noseslide like most people (me). Carleigh also did a bunch of kickflips and got into front noseslides and battled front 180 nosegrind for awhile. Jake was rattling off tricks. Front 180 up the curb, fakie back tail the ledge. Back 50, front 50, front 5-0 180, front tail, front tail shove! Geez. I never got a clean back 50 or front 50. I managed a front 5-0 on accident instead. Flip tricks were going ok for me. Did some kickflips up the curb. Almost a line of front 180 up the curb, halfcab flip on flat, kick back 50. Never got the kick back 50, haven’t ever done it there. Carleigh left first. Jake next. My stubborn self stayed awhile putting my body through more needless pain. I tried back 50 shove, but when you can’t back 50 it’s hard to do that. I ended trying a few tricks 5 times going slow. Halfcab noseslide, halfcab crook (didn’t get it), switch front nose, fakie 50 (didn’t get it) and for complete science fiction I hucked 360 flip noseslide (not even remotely close). I felt ok earlier on, but I was mostly just bummed when I left.

(setup: 8.25 null awkward deck, venture v-hollows 5.2 hi with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm spitfire 99a wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 patriot)

Went out to the garage with my new setup without much intent on skating hard or long. I started on the “manual pad” and a few tricks in I slammed, did the splits and hit the back of my head on a bike pedal. Awesome. I did a few more manuals tricks then decided to bring in Ledgy and see if it would be possible to skate it in my garage. I went to move the ‘manual pad’ and noticed how convenient it would work to make a sweet bank to curb. I played with that for awhile, but it needs a sign at the bottom to make it good. The sign I have was in the back yard and covered with snow. Next time. I still messed around for awhile, just lifting up the crack and doing nose stalls and front rocks and stuff. I think it will be quite fun.

Then I put Ledgy out to skate. I only did stalls obviously since there is no room. I’m not sure I could actually do grind tricks, but I did backside nose stall shove and frontside nosestall shove. Both were really fun. Don’t think I’ve ever done the fs version before. Then I made myself do a front tail stall and called it a night. Oh yeah, I hucked a few switch flips without getting close. The new setup is a 8.38 board. Why am I going bigger? Because I’ve been into ledges and I think the extra board room helps me.

(setup 8.38 null venture wides bones medium bushings 50mm v1 bones stfs nb# pj stratford 533 black/white)

After a long and horrible night (get well soon Riley!) I went to Valmont shortly before sunset. I waxed the ledge up good and did some kickflips and no-ollie noseslide variations to get the blood flowing. I had some new Emerica Westgates and some 50mm OJ wheels. My PJ shoes were getting really bald and my Spitfires had huge flatspots after powersliding the day before. I went through a few basics. I just skated the low part of the ledge as I was super exhausted and unmotivated. I didn’t feel like bailing stock tricks so I hucked hard ones. Front smith, “nollie” front tail, kickflip noseslide (technically got one, but it was horrible) and finally my dream trick of halfcab flip noseslide which I got remotely close to. I hucked some flippers too, got close to varial heel, got a bad bs halfcab heel, a couple of bad 360 flips. The new shoes felt ok. It’s weird because they are softer and more flexible then the PJs, but somehow they seem to have less board feel. They seem good enough to keep skating at least.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 1/16 riser 50mm ojs emerica westgates grey)

I had new wheels on my old board. I didn’t think it would go so good as it was a big change. My old wheels had worn down to 45mm-48mm depending on the wheel. I got some new 51mms. They felt huge. I know that is pathetic, but it changed the timing of everything. With that said, I started off pretty good. This spot is hard to skate. Wayyy harder to skate then it looks. I was sore for some reason, but started trying lines with ledge, bank, ledge action. First was noseslide, back smith stall, front noseslide 270 out. Second was switch front nose to fakie (coming out forward that’s confusing eh), front tail stall, front board pop out. Then crooks, ollie to fakie, switch noseslide. Next was switch front nose, fakie ollie on the bank, front 50. One of the switch noseslides was the best one I’ve ever done. Things were looking good even though all of these took longer then you would think and were done way worse then you can imagine. I was happy and sad trying to push switch at this spot. Then I wanted to do back 50, frontside ollie, front tail. I got a few back 50s pretty quickly and bailed the ollies. I was still hyped though. I was hucking flip tricks when I bailed and that was ok. Heelflip, treflip, halfcab flip, hucked some ones I can’t land.

Then I got into a rut where I could not do a back 50 to save my life. This spot is so much harder then it looks. You come around a corner on the narrow path (crack kills) and you can’t really see the ledge as you’re approaching because of the bush. Anyways. I mostly bailed, fell back into the grass a lot or would lock in like the photo above and come to a stop. It was very depressing. I would eventually get another back 50, bailed the f/s ollie after. UGH. Then another back 50 attempt that turned into back 5-0. I took it! Got the f/s ollie, but the f/s tail failed me. I didn’t care anymore. I left. Stopped by Valmont manny pads briefly. Got manual first try, nose manual 20th try WTF. Then hucked kickflip manual and manual front shove out briefly before having to go pick up Ollie.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 51mm spitfire classic f4 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)

Went out in front of the house on another nice cool evening. I had some new wheels. Yes, new. I always have new stuff. Well basically the 54s were just way too big for me and I measured the old wheels and they were down to like 48 or 49. Too small to start with. I had scored some of the narrow Bones 52s and plan on sticking with them. Flatground went ok actually. My newish shoes grip really well and it added a bit of comfort. I didn’t get too far into the list. Got close to nollie 3 flips. Got a good feeling heelflip which I’ve struggled with lately.

Then I grabbed Ollie and we went to Red Curbs. I was supposed to learn back lipslides and figured it was a good spot for them. It didn’t go so great for me. I got kind of close, this clip is the closest, but yeah, not so close. Ollie was ripping. He did several manuals across the little manual pad. I’ve never seen him ollie into a manual before. He also did his first real boardslides. He was hauling ass and staying on the ledge. He did land one perfect that was like 6 feet long, but here’s the best we captured. He also did a boardslide to fakie, like 20 nollie shoves which he claimed are new, fakie shoves going fast, 180s everywhere, halfcab, etc. He’s one trick away from being better then me (kickflips). At the end I gave up on the back lip and had fun doing some 50s, slappy crooks, almost kickflip manual, almost 3 flips.

(setup 8.5 null venture wide lights thunder bushings 52mm bones v3 nb+ stratford 533 pj cream)