Lazy grab night. @neilsoffire @lazerneedsintagram

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on May 23, 2016 at 8:09pm PDT

After a nap, dinner and unloading boards I sped to Crisis to get there before closing time. Did some business then hit Broomfield with Lazer, Rob and Neil. Yes sir, Neil is in town! The park was pretty crowded. It seemed to be a mellow session. Neil’s knee was hurting. I just started on the quartapotty and that’s all that we skated. Well, Rob was disrupting the flow doing halfcab noseslides against the grain. Lazer did and early grab and Neil and I decided to do it as well. I don’t think I’ve ever done that before. Landing one was fun! Neil had a good line with pop shove, early grab, nose manual. Lazer added some others. Chill, fun, night. I wanted a chill night.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, thunder 147 lights stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)

Getting desperate I put together a small board from old stuff in my garage. 8″ board, 7.75″ trucks, small wheels. I headed to campus. I was nice out. The little board felt cool initially. I got kinda close quickly to nollie flips on the fence bank. I set up Hosercam. Still close. Then after awhile I just wanted to stop. I tried some nollie heels on flat to entertain myself a little. After awhile I left feeling defeated once again and wanting to quit this game that brings so much misery.

Went to the research ledge not feeling all that motivated and pretty sore. I rolled down the hill a few times, started with 180s, eventually got to kickflips. Got a boardslide first try so that kind of cheered me up. I was skating slow, had some long lines though with basic flippers. Something like b/s flip, halfcab flip, heelflip, crooks. I got crooks the first try and it felt really good. I was kind of nervous about how the Thunder trucks would crooks, but they were good. I tried back 50s for awhile, got a bad one. Never got front 50. I was feeling really sore. I wanted to stop skating, but then decided to just do the things that make me feel happy for awhile. So coming downhill I just did Cali grind, crooks, cali grind, pose a nollie back heel. Coming uphill I tried front crooks then nollie flip. I have never front crooked that ledge. I was not quite getting into them, but managed a few quick little jibs. I guess it’s progress though. I got quite a few crooks and they did cheer me up as I thought they would.

Then I went to the training wheels bank to try for nollie flips. Never got too close. Never landed a 360 flip on the way back. It didn’t bum me out too much since I had fun earlier.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, thunder 147 lights stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)

Skateboarding sucks the big one sometimes

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on May 20, 2016 at 9:35pm PDT

Went right to ‘work’ after a long day of work on nollie flips. Straight to this bank again. Warming up sucked, but not as bad as trying nollie flips over and over. Dave had some fakie flips that I thought were nollie flips at first and his pop shove body varial. I went home feeling pretty depressed and bummed on this game of OLDFART I’m signed up for.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, thunder 147 lights stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)

Went out in the garage for a few 180 and 360 slide arounds. That was it. Needed a break.

After work I went home and changed my setup. I put some old Thunder trucks on. I’ve been stubborn for awhile about Ventures. I like how they look, I like how they feel on some tricks, but the lows are limiting and since I haven’t been landing much anyway, I decided to try a change. I was running late to meet Rob and Dave at 6 and then there was a graduation ceremony on campus which made me park like a mile away from the meet up spot. When I finally arrived Dave and Rob were trying to ollie the flat gap between the manual pads. I wasn’t up for that so I just played warm up on the banked ledge. My first kickflip felt extra good. Guess those Thunders are light! I had just watched Busenitz’ part in Away Days so I was pretty hyped. I had a fun line of front 180 off the little ledge, switch front 180 over the manhole and then noseslide the ledge. Then we were captured by the man and asked to chill while they confirmed we weren’t some hostile youth. It was chill. Rob took it the hardest. Then we started up again in the parking lot. Dave ollied the gap again. I dorkingly ollied to axle stall. Rob almost did manual to manual to boardslide so I started filming. He never quite got it, but got a rad line. Dave was getting served trying to do switch nose manuals.

Eventually we left for the bank spot by the stadium. I had to warm up again. Rob slayed it quick with kickflips, wallie nollies on the wall, one foots, more, then bolted. Dave slammed hard a few times. It was his theme of the day. Then we just tried nollie flips to fakie over and over since it was my new challenge. Both of us got close on a few, but were very inconsistent.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, thunder 147 lights stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)

I knew it was going to be a tough day when I went to warm up doing jump rope at home and could barely jump. Still I went skating though. I was gonna try the research ledge, but it was sprinkling so I went back to the Engineering area. I tried a “warm up” line of kickflip, boardslide the bench, back 50 the 3 stair ledge. The back 50 took a long time and everything was hard. Then I tried a harder line of pop shove the little crack gap, noseslide to fakie the bench, halfcab flip on flat, front 50 the narrow ledge by the rail, kickflip into the next bank, and then a dream of doing b/s flip up the sideways curb. It took me for ever. I mean like over an hour. I would try nollie flips or 360 flips on flat. Landed a couple 360 flips very poorly. Got the line eventually without the b/s flip. It felt kinda neat. THen I tried to ollie up the 3 stair a few times and almost died so I left for home feeling very depressed about skateboarding.

(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)

Rainy evening garage session before dinner. Starting out was hard, I was sore. Eventually got a couple kickflips then settled in to posing. Nollie heel one way, switch f/s flip the other. Not close to either, but sw fs flip felt doable. Then I posed nollie flips and was surprised I could not get close. Got a heelflip, b/s flip or two, then a few badly landed 360 flips. Somehow this occupied an hour.

(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)

Went under the Engineering Bld on a cool and wet night. I arrived before Dave and Rob and warmed up pretty good and was actually feeling motivated and skating ok. I had sone a few slappy tailslides in the narrow area by the rail, back 50s off the 3 stair curb, kickflip variations were working well, etc. Rob and Dave showed up as I was trying to get the courage to slappy crook the 3 stair curb. But it was too straight and I couldn’t. I was bummed to hear that Rob and Dave didn’t like the spot. It’s got good flatground, curbs, ledges, 3 stairs, benches, etc. Oh well. We still skated it for awhile while it dried up outside. Dave had a banger line of slappy noseslide the narrow curb, front 180 into a bank, turn around, ollie up a 3 stair then front 180 the next. Hammers! I had a great line for me of front 50 the narrow curb, kickflip into the bank and then ollie up the 3 stair. The front 50s felt so cool there as the ledge is chunky.

Then we went to this bank to curb. Rob had a front tail right away. The worst part about this spot is you can’t really see what your friends are doing. I think Dave got a back tail, Rob a back 180 fakie 50. I took awhile to get a front 180 fakie 50 to cab out. The one I rode away from had a nice lunchbreak in the middle.

@fullertrron wallie nollie on a rainy night.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on May 15, 2016 at 10:29pm PDT

Art director @43shifty wallie nollie. #skaterownedandoperated #gate8

A photo posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on May 15, 2016 at 10:31pm PDT

It started raining. We were walking back and saw this hallway. Wallie nollies were done by all. Then we all learned wallie nollies to fakie. Well, I say we “all”, but I’m not sure what mine technically was. Then we hit the ‘kicker’ for awhile. Dave had some good ollies and back 180s over it. Rob had no comply shoves, bean plants, front shoves. Dave took awhile to get a kickflip. I took awhile to do backside flip and then even longer to do 360 flip. Dave was close to 360 flip. I offered him a free board if he beat me. He was close. This was the most fun I’ve had skating in awhile. 🙂

(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)

Quick stop on the way to my moms. #minutesbeforethreecarloadsofscooterkidsarrived

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on May 14, 2016 at 12:33pm PDT

Ollie and I stopped at the Leadville park on the way up to my mom’s house. The park was empty when we arrived. I took a less then thrilling run or two in the bowl before having some fun lines in the ‘street’ section. First run was a back axle on a bank, cali grind a wedge, ollie up the euro, roll in, manual up the little A ledge. Ollie kind of just cruised around lazily for a bit. Tried some tricks he used to be able to do, but since he doesn’t skate much anymore he doesn’t seem to care and he stopped. Doh. I started trying noseslide 270 shoves on the bump to ledge. It took awhile, but I did get one and I was quite happy about it.

(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