Coffee, DIY and plenty of all-over body pain. With @the_neviathan, @corpoglenny and @chipbaker #ibuprofenpatrol #cloggingyourfeedwithstokepartdeux #jpskatecrap

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Great weekend skating hanging (and eating) with a great crew of people @nolancormier @boredzinejp @the_neviathan @corpoglenny #mattspears #sam

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After skating til almost midnight we were up by 7:30 to get Joe to the airport. After a breakfast we were back to knowing the only thing we know how to do besides eat. Skate. We ended up at Long Acres DIY. At first it was just Josh, Nate and I. Chip joined for awhile. Then later on it was also Nolan, John, Matt, Sam and a couple locals. It was good seeing Chip. He tries a lot of flip tricks and I love seeing it. He wasn’t able to stay too long. Josh, Nate and I skated surprisingly well considering how beat our bodies felt. Having little wallie options to get going is fun. Transferring over the keg spine was so fun. Josh had disasters on the qp right away, ollies over the hips, pole jam, sweepers on the mellow bank. Nate got going on the granite ledge with front smiths, front nosegrind (I think), and I think back 5-0. I was skating the best I had all trip. Doing lines with basic tricks. Had a line with comply shove on the mellow bank, front 50 the coping ledge, turn around on the qp, kickflip fakie on the mellow bank, switch noseslide the granite ledge, transfer the keg, kickflip on the bank. I had some other fun tricks like no comply flip on the bank, front rock on the qp, switch front nose the granite ledge. It was fun. I started to get sore so Nate was kind enough to film a line of me. It was okay, I kind of wish I had tried something else in retrospect. Oh well. I filmed Josh get a line first try. Polejam, back 50 transfer the qp, keg transfer, sweepr. So good. Nate was up next and got a banger of a line. Front smith the granite ledge, frontside ollie the qp hip, keg transfer, nollie 270 flip on the mellow bank. Whoa what! After that Josh and I didn’t skate a whole lot. Nate did nollie inward heel on the bank and another crazy trick. I filmed Nolan destroy it. Dude rips so hard, especially stuff like this. Matt and Sam ripped it. John ripped it. What a fun crew.

@nolancormier #pivotfakie #cloggingyourfeedwithstokepartdeux

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#skateboardingrules @the_neviathan #cloggingyourfeedwithstokepartdeux #skatetourist

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Then we went to Garfield school to see it in person. When we showed filmer Jon was there who was so rad to see. The dude he was filming wasn’t stoked on people watching him though. Ha ha. We dorked around with some wallrides at the top. We had miniramp lines with a drop in then wallride. Matt had really high wallrides. Nolan had a gnarly pivot to fakie. Ha. Then we found this fun little bank ride hand plant around the corner that is amazingly fun. Nate went frontside, Matt did a push up, Nolan went up and down the whole bank. It was an epic ender for the trip. Then we had tacos at a nearby taco truck and I went to the airport. What a fun trip. I can’t believe how great the weather was. Thanks to everyone for such a great time, especially Josh for hosting us in such an excellent way.

(setup 8.25 null atomic cowboy deck, black venture 5.8 v-light, 3 washers outside each axle, 88a venom bushings, 51mm bones stf v1 wheels, old swiss bearings, new balance numeric 255 baby blue size 12, spenco 3/4 thinsole with 5mm footprints insole)

@boredzinejp @joerhamilton @the_neviathan and I had an epic “vert” session last week. Its kind of hard to distinguish Josh and I, but he’s the one actually skating vert. 😂 #cloggingyourfeedwithstokepartdeux #vert

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@boredzinejp 🆙🆙🆙 #cloggingyourfeedwithstokepartdeux

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Just look at the list of spots we skated in one day. What were we thinking???? Anyway, Joe, Nate, Josh and I started our day at the infamous SVR. We were there at 10am. Josh was cool about letting us play on the bottom with no expectations or attitude. The three of us joked and tried to run up and hang on the coping. I think I was the only one that didn’t touch it. We pumped around. Man it’s a lot of work on 51mm wheels. Ha. Josh dropped in right away. It’s insane. It’s 13.5 feet tall! Josh did some airs, grinds right out of the gate. He even dropped in on the extension which is so gnarly. Might have to start calling him Joshy Way. The 3 “street” skaters kept it to the qp and well under vert. There will be a video post above too at some point. We all took some time to get different tricks. Joe did the silly hat trick rock, f/s halfcabs, front shove to fakie, switch front shove, fakie front shove and a kickflip to fakie. Nate was hilarious. He was doing flatground kickflips and then turning around to do a kickflip on the qp. It was pure comedy the way he was falling. He did have some good front slashes on the little qp. I was having fun trying different ways to get hyped for a kickflip. Front slash, axle stall, front rock. I ended up getting a line that felt incredible. Axle stall, weak f/s ollie, b/s flip, kickflip to fakie. When you see the footage you’ll see I was like 10 feet under vert, but it felt incredibly fun. Oh yeah, I had a couple early grabs that we jokingly compared to Josh’s. For all of those wondering, I soundly beat Josh in the ‘Who did it better?’ poll. Ha ha. What a fun session.

The Roxhill Radmuffins. With @justin_gollmer, @the_neviathan, @nolancormier @corpoglenny and @joerhamilton #roxhillradmuffins #cloggingyourfeedwithstokepartdeux #jpskatecrap

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Then we went to a park called Roxhill and joined up with Justin and Nolan. After a few cruises around everyone else decided everyone should boardslide the tiny rail. I was scared. Ha. Luckily when it came my time to do it I was able to get it. Josh went on to murder the bank to ledge. Front 50, back 50, front 180 180, back feeble (I think), crooks to fakie and probably like 10 more tricks. Nolan had a sick crooks on it, some rad lines with feebles on the flat bar, back tail or smith the tall qp, noseblunt the bank so perfectly. Joe was getting in on the bank to ledge too. Front 50, front 50 180 out. Nate, Nolan, Justin, Josh nose manualled the manny pad. I had fun doing front 50s on it. I never got a bank to ledge trick. I did have some fun long back 50s or 5-0s on the bank at the top. We played a game of SKATE. Oldest to youngest again. I didn’t do as well, but it did get further into the order. Josh got everyone with front 180 one foot. I came surprisingly close to getting it. I forget what I got out on. Nolan got a turn and did his patented ‘Shit Flip’ which resulted in a bunch of people trying it at the park. Pretty funny. There was a rad crew there. One dude that looked like Kalis who was destroying the ledge. Halfcab noseslide nollie heel out. I tried a few noseslide 270 shoves, but then it was time to go.

We split up for awhile. Josh, Joe and I went to Judkins. We lasted long enough for me to roll in on a 4 foot section and do a disaster on a tiny qp. Joe did a front 50. But we weren’t feeling the vibes at that park.

So we went to Benefit which was a rad park, but I was too dead for it. It had some weird tiny hip that was fast one way and slow the other, a bunch of ledges, a qp, manual pad, pole jam and some angry kids playing basketball. Joe went to work on the ledge. He got a couple new tricks. Front lip to front 50 shove out, front lip front shove front board out, smith 180 out. Josh was lining out the quarterpipe with every transition trick, hitting the manual pad with manual, nose manual or nose manual 180 then popping some ollies over the hip. His friend Ken joined us for a bit and did some stylee qp tricks. I did a b/s flip over the hip, a couple qp tricks, couldn’t ollie up the manual pad or ledges and then spent a long time trying no comply pole jams which I ended up getting right as it was time to go. Fun ender for the day.

Or so I thought. We ended up at Bellevue that night too. I was so beat. It was Josh, Nate, Joe and I and we met up with Pat. I was so sore and tired I could hardly ollie onto the 4″ tall hubba. I don’t know how everyone else was still popping. Nate and Josh wallied a plastic barrier. Nate did his boardslide transfer a bunch and some manauals up and down the bank. Josh wallied over the cement barrier. Joe was lining out the ledge on the bottom with tricks over the hip, even doing back 50s on the drop down ledge. I don’t remember much more until everyone but Joe started messing around with the ride on stair grinds. Easily my favorite part of the night. Ha. We normally went frontside on the 2nd stair. I had a fun front 50 back 180 into the bank. Pat was going for smith. Josh had to go backside. he did like 3 tricks in a row at one point. Back 50, back 50 to bank ride, back 50 front 180 out. We ended as Joe boardslid the rail. Then we went and loaded up on crappy food as we had burned so many calories skating all day.

(setup 8.25 null atomic cowboy deck, black venture 5.8 v-light, 3 washers outside each axle, 88a venom bushings, 51mm bones stf v1 wheels, old swiss bearings, new balance numeric 255 baby blue size 12, spenco 3/4 thinsole with 5mm footprints insole)

#cloggingyourfeedwithstokepartdeux might be over, but I’ve got like 10 more of these to go. @boredzinejp @shopdeckcollisioncrew @nolancormier @the_neviathan @justin_gollmer @joerhamilton

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Apr 1, 2018 at 6:39pm PDT

Went to a new park in the morning with some rain threatening, but never actually rained. The park was cool. Justin joined us as did John and Nolan a bit later. People warmed up in the manner that they do. Mine was a rock kickflip to fakie on a little wedge. Josh was doing real tricks on quarterpipes and stuff. Joe and Nate were getting at the ledge. I was hyped on the rock kickflip to fakie even though it took awhile. Then we all played a game of SKATE (before John and Nolan arrived). We went oldest to youngest so I was up first. I went through a few basics. A couple letters were had. Then it was Justin who got a couple letters on me, but I was happy that I somehow landed switch front shove and nollie back bigspin. I think the heelflip got everyone. Next up was Josh who I think got everyone with back 360 except Justin. I was at SKAT when Josh did a frontside flip turn around that was counted as a frontside flip. I did a very defensive kickflip spin 180 that wasn’t counted as a frontside flip. At least I landed going backwards. Oh well. I was feeling pretty good at that point, did a few backside grinds on the noping that were fun and then everything started to hurt. I just filmed everyone after that. It was fun to watch. Everyone was ripping. The triples boardslide was so sick.

@dadbrett (22) @imjustamaintencekid (24) @nolancormier (28) #thehomienick (30) @the_neviathan (33) @joerhamilton (34) #jonnyfunbags (37) @justin_gollmer (39) @boredzinejp (42) @corpoglenny (44) #skidmarkskatemag #youngatheart #skatingkeepsyouyoung #skatingmakesyoucrazy #collisioncurbclub #skatefam #gregoryisaacs #SM1Lens @collisioncurbclub

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Then we went to Kenmore after a lunch. This park is so sick. Mellow hip, solid ledge, mellow bank, weird obstacle, mellow qps and a bowl. Nate and I tried to skate, but we couldn’t. We were too sore. Argh. We sat for awhile. It was a fun session to watch. Justin, Josh and Nolan were ripping the spine in and out of the bowl. Joe went in on the ledges. The hubba front 50 was gnar. Josh had some rad manuals across the weird thing then 360s over the hip. After awhile John said he wanted to make a clip of everyone starting by youngest going to oldest. Since me and Nate only skate for the camera we got up and started trying to skate. But actually it did work as motivation to struggle through the pain. Nate was doing 5-0 180’s on the bottom of the weird thing into the bank. I hucked tricks I’ll never land over the hip. Well, I guess I got one really bad b/s flip. Flipping the board with the wider trucks was hard. Hucking f/s cab heelflips feels possible. Gotta keep going at that one. I was nervous when it was my time to film the line. I was trying no comply 270s over the hip, but gave up and thought I’d struggle with kickflips. Somehow I was 3-3 on kickflips though. The first two were garbage though. After the filming Joe did like 100 tricks on the ledge. The best part was him actually working on front 50s and taking his hat off and putting it through his legs. Ha ha. Justin’s crook on the ledge was so good. I dorked around with Nolan at on point doing little carves over the rock and doing handplants. My first attempt was funny because I ran right into the rock and dove over it. At the end Nate was trying a Suciu trick of 180 nose manual switch 180 out on the weird thing. He kind of landed it. Then we retired for food and rest.

(setup 8.25 null atomic cowboy deck, black venture 5.8 v-light, 3 washers outside each axle, 88a venom bushings, 51mm bones stf v1 wheels, old swiss bearings, new balance numeric 255 baby blue size 12, spenco 3/4 thinsole with 5mm footprints insole)

Joe and I spent the morning making it impossible for Josh to get any work done while he was “working from home”. Then on a lunch break we went to Josh’s stomping ground Green Lake (Lower Woodlands) skatepark. We have an ongoing joke about this park because I don’t like it much. Would that change this time around? Nope. Ha. It took awhile before I got annoyed though. It’s just one of those parks you need to skate a lot. Or at least to me, Joe was having fun. Josh was ripping. Tricks on the tiny vert qps, grinds around the bank to curbs, spine transfers, beanplants, lipslides, slappy crooks to fakie, front nose the tall ledge, solid crooks the tall ledge, manual and nose manual the narrow bump to ledge, front 50 and front tail the pyramid ledge, totally bolts 360 flip out of a rounded bump. Dude was ripping. Joe had some tall front 50s, I think boardslid down a rail, got a halfcab flip out of the bump to end it. I had a warm up line of wallie up onto the narrowish ledge, kickflip on the mellow bank, noseslide the pyramid ledge, got a b/s flip out of the bump, got a nollie varial flip on the top area (was hoping for nollie tre though) and rode around a lot avoiding weird obstacles.

@nolancormier is so fun to skate with. #cloggingyourfeedwithstokepartdeux

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After distracting Josh some more Nate and Nolan rolled into town and we went to Northgate. Nolan’s friend John would meet us and then Brett. The people already there skating were rad. I was quite sore. Argh. Joe and Nate went to work on the ledges. Nate’s long back 5-0s are amazing. He was lining them out with no complies on the round bank. It ruled seeing Nolan skate again. He destroys. I skated the barrier thing with Nolan at one point. He ollied into it, did pivot fakie first try and blunt bigspin. I did the rock ‘n rolls and the tiniest front slash imaginable. Nate did the pole jam 50 which was nuts. This was after someone else did it during a nearby car wreck that distracted us and he ran into Nate and still landed it. Joe did fakie 50 fakie ollie out then started hucking fakie 50 fakie flip out. He would get it! I didn’t really do much of anything now that I think about it. Tried halfcab crooks for awhile. John was all over in a rad way. Nolan had super long back tails, the kickflip on top of the oval middle after a 360. Brett skated the ledge. Nate ended the session with a textbook Janoski flip on the round bank. Then it was off to Treepeople!!!

(setup 8.25 null atomic cowboy deck, venture icon 5.8 trucks, 51mm bones stf v1 wheels, 3 washers outside each wheel, venom 88a bushings, new balance numeric 255 baby blue size 12, pinnacle powerstep insole)

Brief curb session with @fullertrron while the ❄️ melts.

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 27, 2018 at 12:14pm PDT

So I went with 8.25 and the wide trucks, got new wheels and it felt great. I had the day off work with some time before my flight to Seattle. Dave stopped by for a lunch skate and we went to the curb across the street. I felt good right out of the gate. It was kind of surprising. We were both trying a lot of lines. Up curbs, down curbs, grinds, slides, flippers. It was cool. Dave had kickflip, manual front 180 out, 50s, back 50 nollie shove out, no ollie tailslides and some good back 5-0s when I wasn’t taking a photo. I tried front 180 a puddle, fakie flip on flat, fakie 50 a curb, but never got the fakie 50. Had 50s, intentional front 5-0s, hucked a bunch of tricks I haven’t done in awhile like kickflip front 50, switch crook, front nosegrind. I got a line of switch front 180 a puddle, kickflip back 50 then almost back 50 (ha ha, got the flip in, but not the easier version) and ended by landing a new trick in the slowest way possible. Front 5-0 no comply shove out.

Straight off the ✈️ to #cloggingyourfeedwithstokepartdeux @boredzinejp @joerhamilton

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Then after a bus ride and a flight #cloggingyourfeedwithstokepartdeux was on!   We went right to Jefferson skatepark.  Half of it was lit well, the other half was not.  There was also several youth hanging out tagging the park or vibing.  It was pretty cold, but it’s a different cold then CO.  It’s in the 50s, but humidity makes it cold.  Once you get warmed up it’s good.  We did our thing warming up.  Joe had done a few ledge tricks as had Josh.  Josh tried a couple fakie 50s and then Joe comes and shows him up with a first try fakie 50 shove out.  Take that Josh!  I took a few tries to get a back 50 on the qp over the ledge which was very fun. Even though the lower area wasn’t lit very well Josh was ollieing the kicker, doing lipslide transfers over the qp hip, beanplants, a lot more. I had a fun line of front 50 the lurb then noseslide the ledge into the bank. Joe did the fakie 50 into the bank so good. Josh took a break for a bit, I battled the front 50 over the qp which was scary at first and took quite a few tries. Thanks for filming it Josh! Then Josh and I did the doubles routine and Joe and I finished the night off with a frontside ledge into the bank session. And by that I mean Joe rattling off tricks like front 50 180, front lip to 50 while I took too long to do front 50. But the front 50 felt awesome. Fun first night.

(setup 8.25 null atomic cowboy deck, black venture 5.8 v-light, 3 washers outside each axle, 88a venom bushings, 51mm bones stf v1 wheels, old swiss bearings, new balance numeric 255 baby blue size 12, spenco 3/4 thinsole with 5mm footprints insole)

After flatground with Jake I had some madness going on. Not being able to land treflips or nollie treflips got to me. I knew I wanted to setup an 8.25″ for my next board, but wasn’t sure if I wanted to put the bigger trucks on. And since I’m leaving for Seattle in a day I had to figure it out. So I setup two 8.25s out of old decks/trucks/wheels in my garage. One with the lows I’ve been skating with the 8.1, and another with the wide trucks. The board with the lows was in somewhat decent shape, but the board with high trucks was terrible, warped and delaminating. I went through trick by trick comparing the two. At points I thought for sure I would stick with lows, but then the highs would feel better for the next trick. I did a kickflip on the low board and got real bad wheel bite and slammed. That kinda changed everything as I was sick of that. I had a good heeflip with the highs, came closer to tre and nollie tre, but couldn’t make halfcab heel seem possible. I could with the lows though. I had better ollies with the lows and their quick snap, but I went in after awhile and setup a new board on the 5.8 wides. Just in time for Seattle. Whew.

Feeling very sore I met up with Jake around noon at the Dog Park. Warming up wasn’t great. Jake was doing lines over the cone. Ollies, front 180s and halfcabs. I had a first try heelflip, but struggled to ollie the cone. Jake and I started a game of SKATE. But he broke his deck on a frontside flip make. So while he setup a new board that he had in the car I went for the cone ollie. Took quite a few tries, but I did get it and it felt awesome. Then we resumed our game. With added grip Jake was now able to get 360 flip (ha ha Jake). At one point I was up SK – SKAT with tricks like halfcab flip, heelflip, fakie flip, but he tied it up with a fakie 360 shove and something else. We both wanted to end on fakie tre, but gave up after awhile and tried some random tricks. Too my surprise I got a halfcab heel which Jake had never even tried before. It’s a rare thing for me to actually win against Jake so that was cool. Then we just kind of went slow trying new or rare tricks. Jake wanted a heelflip and wanted to learn fakie varial flip, but never quite got either. I don’t think I put down anything either even though I came close to an awful lot. Was most bummed on how I couldn’t land a 360 flip or nollie 360 flip. Oh well. That was it for skating, felt good to only skate for an hourish.

(setup 8.125″ null maze deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, 52mm bones stf v3, bones medium bushings, new balance numeric 255 blue size 12, pinnacle powerstep orthotic insole)

On a beautiful morning I drove to Longmont park to meet Dave. He was meeting with some other older skaters that were mostly going to skate the bowl. Dave and I started in the main area though. I started off really bad actually, skateboarding wasn’t feeling right. Maybe I was rusty from taking my first day off in awhile. Ha. I was doing axle stalls then kickflip to fakie on the bank. Or axle stall then b/s flip. Then tried to do f/s flip, but kind of got distracted and annoyed by other skaters. Dave had some rad lines with switch ollies on the bank, front tails over the hip, nollie shove on the bank first try, boneless, front pivots and a cool powerslide body varial over the hip. We skated the steep to mellow hip a bit. Dave got a perfect back bigspin over it. I randomly decided to try front 270s over it. I never set one down, but some felt close. Dave was shredding the bowl. I tried nollie treflips to fakie on the mellow bank for awhile and came really close. Kevin showed up and quickly did kickflip to fakie, nollie flip to fakie and switch flip. Then him and I skated the f/s hip near the big qp. It’s really hard to skate because it’s so boosty. Kevin was trying nollie b/s flip and I was trying regular b/s flips. We went at it for awhile, both getting close at times. I kind of did one, but it was really bad. Only spun like 30 degrees, put my hand down and almost rode back in the direction I started. Ha ha.

Then we went to Rocky Mtn Elem. When we first got there I didn’t think I’d be able to skate anymore. My legs were shot. Young pup Kevin was manualling the brick medians on the bank and front tailing the ledge before I had even landed a slappy. Fuzz was on the slow start too with slappies. There are some really good curbs there for slappies. Dave got on back 50 on the ledge right away and some manuals on the bank medians. I kept it mellow for a bit and just skated the ledge. Got the slowest front 50 ever, a few accidental front 5-0s that I didn’t land, noseslide. Got a couple lines. Kickflip up the curb then crooks the ledge, front 180 up the curb then switch front noses. Fuzz, Kevin and Dave were mostly on the bank. Dave had the sick feeble stall on the edge, Kevin had front pivot on it, then I think Dave did the pivot too. Dave and Kevin were going hard at a bank. Then Dave started filming Kevin since he was trying a ridiculous line. Front 180 up the curb, switch flip on the bank, nollie back 180 off (or back bigspin later on). I also tried some lines where I ollied the first median, manualed the last brick median, then hucked kickflip back 50 and kickflip noseslide. I committed to the kickflip noseslide, but wasn’t close. I was hyped I was skating so hard, but not hyped I never got a clean ollie over a median, I kept doing a tail jib. Fuzz was in on it with a Sal flip and then kickflip to fakie. I was nervous about ollieing up the curb that fast, but joined. Ended up getting a couple no comply finger flips to fakie and a no comply shove to fakie. Kevin got the non bigspin version of the line and after a couple more slams called it good. Dave was contemplating some more skating, but had a couple bad falls on flatground and a rock. I bailed out to go on a hike with Liz. Had a good time with the dudes and forgot sunscreen so I got burnt too.

(setup 8.125″ null maze deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, 52mm bones stf v3, bones medium bushings, new balance numeric 255 blue size 12, pinnacle powerstep orthotic insole)

Up in BV for a couple days since my brother is in town with his boys. We went to Salida so the kids could swim. Ollie was there too. I swam and hung out with them for an hour then bailed early so I could skate some flat at a basketball court next to the pool. At first I was very winded and didn’t think it would work out too well. But I kept at it and would have a decent little flatground session. I tried a bunch of nollie flips, but wasn’t close. Tried the ironman line again, but couldn’t seem to do a heelflip to save my life. I did get a very slow backside halfcab heel though. Tried a few nollie varial heels, that trick is starting to seem possible. Had b/s flips, varial flip, sloppy treflip, halfcab flips. After awhile a dude came to play basketball so I only had half of the small court. I tried nollie tres for awhile, but then my wheel fell off and I couldn’t find the nut and my brother and the kids were ready to go. Hyped I got a little skating in.

(setup 8.125″ null maze deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, 52mm bones stf v3, bones medium bushings, new balance numeric 255 blue size 12, pinnacle powerstep orthotic insole)

Skipped out for an early lunch to meet Dave at Blue Skies. I was crazing some tricks on the flat bank, but when I arrived Dave was in the rink. So we started on flat. It was pretty crisp and cool, but that would change quickly into absolutely perfect weather. It’s amazing how impossible skating feels at first. I was sore and the warm up had me thinking kickflips might be out of the question. But a few minutes in I had to beat Dave to kickflip and ended up getting 5 in a row. That was a good omen. Also a switch no comply 180. Dave struggled with shoves for awhile which is rare to see. But he would get them in all directions. The switch ones were so good. I got a bs halfcab heelflip pretty quick. That’s a rare one so I was hyped. Shortly after a nollie varial flip. I was trying the Ironman line the downhill direction. Kickflips and heelflips were feeling good. I kind of got the treflip once. Still felt cool to do the line. Dave was hucking like crazy. Fakie flips, fs halfcab flips, varial flips and I saw him stomp a heelflip and back it with a back bigspin. I added a sketchy fs halfcab heel to my list of rare tricks for the day. Hucked a lot more that I hope to someday land. It was so beautiful out it was hard to go back to work. Fun day. Today was the first time where it felt like all the flatground skating lately is paying off. So many more tricks to learn…

(setup 8.125″ null maze deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, 52mm bones stf v3, bones medium bushings, new balance numeric 255 blue size 12, pinnacle powerstep orthotic insole)