Went to dog park right after work feeling very angry and depressed. I started off pushing hard then worked up to ollies then kickflips then went through my normal routine. I got closer to switch flips then normal though. Also a couple of nollie tres, the first of which felt great. I couldn’t land any heelflip tricks. I got a couple of hands down treflips. Worked on b/s flips. Tried some nollie heels, switch front heels and lots of switch flips. Did alright with halfcab flips.

Then to the research ledge for a bit before going to Jason’s. Boardslide, noseslide, noseslide fakie, crooks, terrible back 50 happened quick. Terrible front 50 and halfcab noseslide took a long time, but I managed to get into it a lot. Was flipping switch flips really good, but never landed on one. Ended with a fun feeling crook.

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Went into the garage for a short minimum. Some manuals and nollie shoves.

Went to the warm up bank at Valmont spot not feeling very good or motivated. I went through a few tricks and was feeling ok before trying nollie back heels for awhile. A few were remotely close, but I gave up after awhile. Then I tried treflips to fakie for a bit and broke my really cracked board. Doh.

After going home to set up a new board I went to the hardest spot in Boulder – Southern Hills. I went on to suck incredibly bad there. I had no energy. First line was noseslide to fakie, switch front 180 then crooks. Second line was supposed to be boardslide, ollie up the two stair, kickflip into the handicap ramp then front 50 another bench. I never got it. I gave up and started trying the line that I had thought of and the reason I went there. Crooks, backside flip, halfcab noseslide. Well, I never got that either. I did like 20 crooks in a row, but couldn’t get a backside flip. So I subbed it out for a back 180 and eventually got it. It was cool because right around then The Grind crew from Silverthorne rolled in. They were cool and hyped on the spot. I had to go though to celebrate my mom’s birthday. I had tried several front or back 50s too in between tries. Only got one bad front 50. Ugh, I wish I could ollie.

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@nolancormier Saturday fun

A video posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Nov 13, 2016 at 5:47am PST

Nolan and I rolled out to the Lville tech center to meet Fuzz, Carleigh and Rob. Which turned into a carload with Fuzz and then eventually another carload with Hayden to pick up boards for me. Nolan and I started on the wallride/manual side. We tried to do cali grind to manual to cali grind. After a bit of messing around I got upset about bailing a dork trick and took off to the little bank that Nolan noseblunts in the clip above. Nolan joined after awhile. We goofed around. He did noseblunts. I did bad back tails. I also slammed on a kickflip into the tiny bank. Everyone else joined us. Some goofing around was had. Then we ended up at another spot. Tricks up a curb, into a little downhill. Or ollie up a ledge to quick wallride. Kevin and I were going for flip up kickfilp off(me) or nollie flip off (Kevin). Fuzz and Nolan did some good wallrides to fakie. Then the Fort Collins dudes showed and they had a rub brick and a bump to ledge session ensued. It was a sick ledge. Kevin killed it. 50s, front nosegrind, front tail, back tail. I got some weak noseslides. Carliegh was locking in, but had to leave. Nutter charged it hard. Hayden made it look easy. Bo was gonna film Hayden. Then we got the boot. Some more goofing around was had at the original wallride spot. Nolan did the shit flip to manual. Hayden wallride. Nutter slammed but was unscathed. Then we went out and had some food. It was good.

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Nate and I met Matt, Rob and Fuzz at good ol’ Safeway ledge. The goal was to skate early enough to get some fun in with Fuzz. We started up around 10:30. It was a little chilly in the shade. Nate clearly had the road trip hype and young guy energy and was popping tricks quickly. Matt wasn’t really skating since ankle surgery, but he would push form side to side and maybe do a manual or two. It was great seeing him. Rob still has the best back 50s of anyone and rattled off a bunch of tricks. Almost had nollie lip body varial. Fuzz fulfilled Neil’s front tail to fakie request first try without even knowing he was supposed to do it. I skated somewhat ok. I don’t remember anything special. I did land on a nollie inward heel, but after showing Nate he did one in a few tries. He good! Speaking of good he did back 5-0s and ended things with a nollie back 180 to fakie grind half cab out. It was gnar!

After some time at Crisis we went to Broomfield park. It was pretty fun. Rob won a game of skate with Nate and I. Nate tried a bunch of back 180’s to fakie manual. I don’t think he ever got one. Rob manualed the blue slant very casually. I cannot remember a single trick I did.

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A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Nov 11, 2016 at 4:07pm PST

Then Nate and I met Dave and Mike at the 287 ditch. It should be renamed the Fuller Ditch though, because he destroys that spot. It was cleaned out all good. Nate and I skated a “hip” for awhile. Nate had some boosty ollies. I had a not-boosted kickflip. Dave was doing feebles across two parking blocks, or feeble to boardslide, or boardslide both. Mike 50’d one. Me too. Nate front tailed it. Dave did a bunch of nose bashes, front tailslides, ollies, bonelesses, etc etc etc. Fun day!

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Met Dave at Meta shortly before closing time. I started so incredibly slow. We skated from Meta to the spot and I don’t think I even cracked an ollie. There were people smoking weed in the alley, cars parked in front of fun obstacles and it was not lit very well. Eventually we started doing tricks. I had a few frontside whirlybirds over the pad. I shot out in the wax once. I forget what Dave started with, but he got close to some crazy ones like cab manual, nollie shove manual. I hate when I get so far behind on my journal entries. We skated the ledge for awhile. Dave had some good back noseslides and 50s. I struggled to get a couple bad front 50s and not close to back 50s. We ollied the 4 stair. Dave first try. Me like 5th try. At one point I had a really long run of badly done tricks like slappy 50 the electric box curb, whirlybird the pad, no comply 180, halfcab flip (i think?) then a terrible back 50. We did more, it was fun. Dave was ripping. He ollied a trash can out of the bump. So sick.

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Yesterday was a new low but ended at one of my favorite places with two of my favorite people 🙏❤️ And today is a new day…and it's time to skate again.

A photo posted by carleigh samson (@gnarlycarleigh) on Nov 10, 2016 at 10:45am PST

After a really emotional day dealing with the election results and some tough news about Jason’s situation I went to Crisis then Broomfield with Jack and Carleigh. The No Love crew was there shredding and are always a fun crew to be around. There was a lot of people skating all over the park so it was pretty chaotic. I just kind of did my thing on the quartapotty and avoided ollieing for awhile. I had some fun slappy crooks on the parking block. Jack did a few no comply flips over it easily. Carleigh rattled off a few tricks on the brick qp before taking awhile to land back disaster. But when she did it was in a line with boardslide down the little rail. She had some black ledge boardslides too and some other tricks I remember commenting to Jack at how good they looked. Jack was trying backside flip nosegrinds on the black ledge. He got a couple. Crazy! I had a few crooks and mostly just did switch noseslide tricks because I didn’t want to ollie. I came close to switch noseslide shove. I was trying lines of back 180 into the bank then halfcab noseslide. If you could see the two hc noseslides I landed you would laugh. We ended as Jack was trying cab nosegrinds and I was trying 360 flips on flat. Neither of us got them. At least Jack’s trick would be a new one. Skating really helped the day. I am really happy I am friends with Jack and Carleigh.

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Went into the garage, did a few nollie shoves and a few manual tricks on the sheet of wood.

After working early I went to the bikepath ledge spot again. I felt somewhat decent. I had some fun, some struggles and then some more struggles. At first I was doing ok with front 50s on a somewhat taller part of the ledge, but then my pop went away. I had one really slow 360 flip, several fun feeling slappy crooks, a few back 50s that weren’t tic tacky, a crooks, a couple back 50s on the lower escalator ledge, a few front 50s going uphill. Man, that’s not much at all.

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Woke up early and felt like hitting up this park. I was hoping when I arrived at 8:30 am that I would have some time before the scooter tools showed up. Nope. Families of them. Remote control cars, parents sitting on ledges, GoPros strapped to chests, kids on Strider bikes. Man I miss when skateparks were for skateboarders. I started off feeling ok though and though I would skate well. Wrong. I was able to turn it up a little at times though. I got a pretty long line of ollie up the euro, front slash the qp, boardslide the bump to bar, kickflip into the slight bank, back 5-0 the little ledge. I tried a bunch of front 50s on the bump to ledge or the regular tall ledge and came up short. It was very depressing. As were kickflips over the hip. I was able to ollie the 3 stair most tries at least. Did a few bank ride to manuals. Also a little frontside nosegrind. There was a brief period where I had the park to myself. It was under 5 minutes. In fact I remember being stoked, but looking down the road saw two scooter kids headed toward the park. The remote control bike kid was almost too much. At least he kept it in the bowl. Dave showed. I was trying a long line of ollie the 3 stair, noseslide the hubba, 360 flip on flat and something else, but I never got the 360 flip and I kind of lost all motivation to skate. Dave had a nice feeble stall on the round bar. Simon with some good boardslides and manuals off the 3 stair ledge. Dave might have gotten a backside bigspin over the hip. I got a crappy backside flip over one.

Then we skated this in the round about entrance to the skatepark. It’s really hard to skate with the curb right in front of it. Simon was ollieing up the curb, it was sick. He did a nice back blunt. I got a little boardslide. Simon also got a boardslide fakie, some back 50s and front slash. Dave did front 5-0 quick, front tail, front board to fakie and eventually a front board 270 after I had left. As hard as that was to skate at least we hit some street for a bit.

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