Sunset time lapse with some dork trying to relearn lipslides. 0-1 @boredzinejp

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 5, 2016 at 5:43pm PDT

Went out to do the minimum powerslide session, but ended up pushing over to the school and hitting the curb. I did a couple of slappy crooks. Then I did a nollie disaster shove out like I had shoved out of disaster several times. Josh has challenged me to front lip shove out so I tried to actually do it. I got surprisingly close. It put me in a good mood to go see Dinosaur Jr again!!!!

(setup null message 8.125 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)

Went out in front of the house and did a few powerslides. It was pretty fun.

After a tough dinner discussing how sick our little cat Nugget is I lounged around for awhile then went to the garage for a minimum. It was so windy outside there was no skating outdoors. I setup the ol’ winter manny pad and my smallest setup and did some of the basic 180 and 360 jib spin manuals. Then I tried a few nollie heels on the smaller board. My legs didn’t have much so I called it a night.

Feeling very lazy on a warm Sunday I drove to a few spots before settling on this bank. I started slow and worked my way through the trick list. Started with all 4 variations of cab without ollieing, Then all 8 shoves, kickflip to fakie, f/s and b/s kickflips, halfcab flips. Took awhile to get a heelflip to fakie. Wanted to do a new trick so tried front heel for a long time, didn’t get it. Ended up going for fakie heel instead and would eventually get a bad one. It felt cool though, I’ve never done that on a bank before. Then I tried 360 flip to fakie and got one with one hand down (hand down!). Tried nollie varial flip for awhile, didn’t get too close then switch flip for awhile and got close. On the way back to the runway I tried a lot of nollie heels. Got kind of close. I would commit, but the board just didn’t flip enough. For how lazy and sore I was feeling this was a decent session.

(setup null message 8.125 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)

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A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 1, 2016 at 12:50pm PDT

Rob said we were gonna skate Safeway around noon. I was running early so I went to Broomfield park around 11. There was only one other person (Taylor) there when I got there. The warm up process didn’t feel all that bad. Nothing really stands out though. Carleigh and Rob arrived awhile later and it got more fun. Actually, Crisis kids Matt and James showed up too. It was fun watching Matt warm up on the ledges just going slow and messing around. Then him and James played a game of SKATE that had a lot of crazy tricks in it. Carleigh was mostly skating the pool with Marg. Rob was on the back 50s on the blue ledge quick, boardslides, crooks on the black ledge. I had a good feeling 360 flip on flat and tried to finish off the session with a manual on the blue ledge then ollie onto the downhill ledge after it. It wasn’t easy. Ugh.

Then Rob and I went to Safeway to meet Fuzz which meant warming up over again. Noseslides without ollies and 50s for everyone. Rob did a rare front 5-0 and a sick nollie front lip to fakie, Fuzz was getting into fakie nosegrind 180 out. I tic tac’d kickflip back 50’s. Fuzz suggested we try some lines with flipper then ledge or ledge trick then flipper. It started pretty slow for everyone, but we did some stuff. Fuzz’s fakie flip was so good. Rob almost had a 3 trick line with back 180 then cab and I forget the ledge trick. I took awhile to land heelflip, but managed to do better after that. Got halfcab heel then front 5-0. Got a great feeling treflip then went for kick front 50. Got really close, but bailed out at the last second. I really should have stuck with it. Fun day, love these dudes.

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#SimonLoveless is crazy good

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 1, 2016 at 9:12am PDT

Went to Lafayette somewhat early in the day. It had been sprinkling off and on and when I arrived it got bad enough to sit in the car for a bit. There was a dude visiting from Ohio named Luke that was one of the nicest dudes I’ve ever met. He came up right away and introduced himself. He was having a blast cruising around on a big board slashing grinds and popping airs. It cheered me up and made my slow start not feel so bad. I did a couple of ok things for me. Had a line of back 180 into the first mellow bank then switch front 180 into the next and kickflip to fakie on the bigger bank. I didn’t have a lot of charge on other stuff. Front 50s on the little ledge are fun. Granite is the best. Then Dave showed. We tried slappy crooks on the shark fin for awhile. Dave did some good ones. Then we kind of did our own thing for awhile. I was pretty sore for some reason. Simon showed up. He said he was sore too, then went on to rip Lafayette a new one. Lines for days, so many tricks first try. I was trying kickflip to bank ride on the snakerun to steep bank. Simon did a back blunt on it, took a bit, but he did it so good. He also front tailed it. Dave was doing boardslides to fakie down the scary round rail. After awhile I just filmed Simon then headed home to hang out with Liz.

(setup null message 8.125 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)

I went out to Valmont feeling sore and unmotivated. Half of the lights weren’t on at the ledge and after running into it I moved across the street. I ended up starting out at this mellow bank spot. I would roll off the sidewalk doing a brief grind then try wallride to fakie. I got a couple. It was kind of fun and got me somewhat warmed up. I also did a couple nollie back 360s. I thought I was feeling better and moved up the lot. I was trying a line of pop shove off the the curb up top then manual around a couple of medians. I was hating my 8.25 and wishing I didn’t try the bigger board. I bailed a manual and my temper got the best of me and I shot my board forward as hard as I could .. right into a loading dock and the nose shattered. Ugh. Stupid temper, stupid big board too. I put the board out of it’s misery and went home.

(setup null abstract 11 8.25 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)

@fullertrron #goldenhour

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 28, 2016 at 6:12pm PDT

After work I met Dave and Rob at the dog park on a beautiful warm autumn afternoon. Warming up was a struggle of course. It’s the norm now. I cannot remember the last time I went skating and felt like I could even try a kickflip with the first few minutes of skating. Perhaps I rushed it too much as I took a lot of falls right away. Not painful ones, but with how stiff I still was they hurt more then they needed to. Rob was getting some nice three trick lines going. Back 180, cab, almost halfcab flip. Front shove, kickflip, b/s flip. (I might not have these correct). Dave was doing lots of switch ollies and switch pop shoves. I got close to a lot of tricks, then had a line with heelflip, 360 flip and landed on nollie varial flip that cheered me up. I was trying fakie flip then fakie treflip. Got close to the fakie tre a few times. We played a game of SKATE and all of a sudden I could no longer do a fakie flip to save my life. Ugh. The game lasted a bit. I got a letter on backside flip, managed to somehow defensively do a cab, back 360 slide, I don’t remember the other tricks I got letters on or the last trick where I missed twice and kicked my board. Rob ended up winning and took Dave out with the ol’ pop shove rewind. Dave had hucked a few switch tres before the game and was looking good and went back to battle. I joined him. I’ve never tried that trick that many times. I felt like it is somewhat obtainable, but I would like a smaller board for sure. I did a couple of regular tres after awhile to break up the bails, one of which felt really good. Dave mixed in some switch backside bigspins and got close to that as well. I tried some switch front heels for awhile and they feel really doable and in need of a smaller board. Ha. My board is always to blame! I tried to end it with nollie then fakie tres, but never got the nollie tre and then Dave left so I did too.

(setup null abstract 11 8.25 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)

Went to the Pearl ledges, Started trying pivot to fakie and realized how incredibly sore I was. So I just did this for about 10 minutes and left. I probably only landed like 3 or 4 of them. I got to see a lady use her phone flashlight to pick her dog’s poop. That was pretty funny.

(setup null abstract 11 8.25 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)

After work I went to Crisis and met up with Rob. We rolled over to Safeway. I was not feeling good at all. I had a new board. I setup 8.25 this time for no good reason and I ended up not liking it. I skated it though. I started super slow with “slappy” noseslide variations. Rob jumped on grinds quickly. His back 50s rule. He did some front 5-0s which I haven’t seen him do much. Close to halfcab noseslide shove out. I took awhile to get a back 50 without tic tac’in in it. It felt good. Then we both hucked a lot. Rob was going for kick front noseslide. He got a couple kind of with the back wheels hitting the ground, and close to several proper ones. That would be so sick. I tried kickflip crooks and didn’t get very close then kickflip noseslide and then just kind of got tired. We did some powerslides down the hill and Rob did some wallie nollies while I failed at getting a cool artsy birds eye photo.

(setup null abstract 11 8.25 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)