Ledgy, moon, moon filter. 🌕

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 24, 2016 at 9:48pm PDT

Brought Ledgy out and drove around trying to find somewhere dry to skate it. I looked at Red Curbs and there was water everywhere. So I figured most parking garages would have water in them from cars dragging it in. I found a nearby lot that was lit well and had a good section of flat that was dry. I was warming up just skating flat for awhile when a security guard came, slowed down, then drove right on by. Rad. I was skating an old Null 8″ board because I really hated that MJ board. The Null 8″ is longer then the Chocolate 8.1. I skated pretty bad and I didn’t like how small the 8″ felt. I didn’t do much on Ledgy, I don’t like it very much. But I had the dream of doing halfcab noseslide 270 shove out. I didn’t get close to the 270 shove out, but I did get better halfcab noseslides then normal. If I ever get that trick I would be beyond hyped. I never got a front 50, I came somewhat close to front nosegrind. Got a couple crooks. Flip tricks were not good at all really.

(setup: 8″ null, venture 5.25 lows with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

Went out into the garage after working from home during a 25″ snow storm. UGH! I wasn’t too motivated so I went with just trying a trick 10 times and that’s it. Here’s how it went.

Nollie flip 0/10
Kickflip 2/10 (seriously bummed me out)
switch heel 0/10
360 flip 0/10 (landed on a couple. one of which shot into the bike above and they all fell down like dominoes)
nollie inward heel 0/10 (kind of close to a couple)
switch flip 0/10
switch front heel 0/10
heelflip 2/10 (finally landed something)
backside flip 3/10

I finished with some ollies trying to get my back foot to leave the ground.

(setup: 8.125 chocolate mj, venture 5.25 lows with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

Went to Lafayette a little later in the evening. The park had it’s average crowd. Lots of kids on bikes, scooters and a few skaters. We started in the little toilet bowl. Matt struggled with back 50s and I struggled with moving faster then a snail. We kind of did our own things for awhile. I was trying a line of ollie into the bank, wallie the corner of the rock, little slash, little ollie to fakie the volcano, fakie flip on the bank, crook the bump to ledge. But I never got the fakie flip and the crowds of flyout bikers ruined my chances. Matt had some fast back 50s on all the ledges, had trouble with 360 flips for once. Then we hit the bowl for awhile. Matt had some good carving out of the gates getting up into the tile on vert. I had to baby step it, but had a few fun carves up onto the vert section. Then it was time for the lights to shut off so I got scared. Matt came close to back 50’ing the shwallow end. I played in the toilet bowl at the end for a bit trying blunt to back d. Got close. Happy I didn’t ollie too much as I’ve been incredibly sore.

(setup: 8.125 chocolate mj, venture 5.25 lows with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

Not feeling like skating at all I went over to the school to dork around on the curb in the back. It was totally covered in little rocks. Ugh. I held onto the handrail and posed a couple tricks, but I can’t really do that. I went to the front, did a kickflip and went home. I had some new PJs. These ones seem extra comfortable. This shoe rules.

(setup: 8.125 chocolate mj, venture 5.25 lows with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

Here you go @boredzinejp. I tried to do crooks transfer up a curb, but when I saw the footage I don't really know what it is. So I just went with the ol' fakie bigflip for the next challenge. #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #unwarrantedslomo #runningoutofideasfortricks Guest crooker @fullertrron

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 20, 2016 at 4:20pm PDT

#extrastubbornsunday

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 20, 2016 at 3:07pm PDT

On a cool morning I headed to Longmont to meet Dave and John. I checked out the other bank school, it was kind of snowy so I went to Rocky Mtn. This spot rules. I waxed up a section of curb that we hadn’t before. It ended up being really fun. I started by doing a line over and over of dropin on the kinked bricks, slappy crooks, ollie up the crub, noseslide. I tried to get noseslide 270, but couldn’t. Going the other way I was doing switch noseslide, frontside slappy, kickflip. I realized quickly that I didn’t have much energy. I’m not sure why. John showed next and mostly got tech on the curb. Back 180 fakie 50, halfcab front 50 back 180 out. I thought I learned crooks transfer, but it turns out it’s some weird nosegrind. Still fun. Then I filmed him do a line for awhile. Dave was ripping around the spot. Ollies over the medians, 180 nose manual to fakie, After filming John those two were doing the bank think where you gotta push fast, ollie up a curb then do a trick on the bank. Dave got close to nollie shove manual. John did front shove to fakie and kickflip to fakie. I tried to get my legs going. Never got a front 50. The little crack weirds me out. I don’t want it to, but it does. John did some front tails. Dave was doing great back 50s and following them with front pivot on the bank to curb section which was gnar. I tried to ollie up onto the flagstone ledge over and over with no luck. John was doing cool ollies onto the rock. I ended up giving up on anything good and just slowly did tricks up the curb then on the ledge. Kickflip up the curb, crooks on the ledge, fakie ollie up the curb, switch front noseslide, front shove up the curb, never landed back 50, halfcab up the curb, tried crooks to fakie and failed. Tried to end the day with a fakie bigflip since I had nothing else for the game. I did 5 in a row before John grabbed the camera, and then took 10 tries to land it. Figures. Dave outlasted me and did his variation of crooks 180 transfer up the curb.

(setup: 8.125 chocolate mj, venture 5.25 lows with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 black/gum)

After a long family day (football in the snow with Ollie, bringing India to a friend’s concert in Aurora) I got out around sunset. I went looking for a manny pad as I thought maybe I could do a kickflip nose manual for the game. The main Valmont pads were snowy, but this mini one was clear. It became clear pretty quick that I wouldn’t get it. I messed around a little, did some switch 180s off a curb, posed flip tricks then left for something a little warmer.

Got to skate a little after a fun filled family day. It was great. #stoprockssuck

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 19, 2016 at 7:09pm PDT

Ended up in this garage and on my first few pushes hit the rock. I didn’t let it get me down. I probably skated for about 30 minutes. Hucked a lot of flippers, curb stalls then kind of settled on trying a line of 360 flip on flat, kickflip over a parking block, nollie treflip (never landed it), f/s flip (if i never got the nollie treflip why even say I was trying this? Because it makes me sound cooler obviously). I hucked some tricks like fakie flip front tail on the tiny curb. It was chill. I went home to hang out with the girls, but they didn’t seem do care. I should have kept skating.

(setup: 8.125 chocolate mj, venture 5.25 lows with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 black/gum)

I really needed a new deck and I was out of 8.125 Nulls so I picked up an MJ board at MRKT. It’s a horrible graphic in my opinion, but it’s the right size and MJ is one of my favorite pros so I got it. There was a foot of snow on the ground and it was still dropping. After working from home I went out in the garage wanting to land a new trick. I started in a zone of trying to get a perfect backside flip going down the garage, nollie flip going up. Never got the nollie flip and the b/s flips I got were anything but perfect. Then I went with my 5 treflip minimum down the garage and rotated between switch flip (close), switch heel and nollie inward heel up. That took awhile. I got a nollie varial flip at least, a crappy nollie bigflip (I was still hyped on it!), and an over 40 varial heel. I hucked switch front heel for awhile and came so insanely close on one of them. That trick somehow feels possible. Fun night, I was motivated. Skating flat and listening to old cassette tapes (Daisy Chainsaw!) and new ones (Bilge Rat) is fun.

(setup: 8.125 chocolate mj, venture 5.25 lows with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 black/gum)

Old man night at @launchskate. Aka single file through the walkway to slow flipper.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 17, 2016 at 7:47pm PDT

Went up to Fort Collins after work with Dave for “Over 30 Night” at Launch. The ramps were kind of heated so I started on the parking block. Brian and I joked that I drove an hour to skate a parking block. I argued that it was heated so it was worth it. Ha ha. I had a few slappy crooks. Jake and Dave too. Dave might have done a switch one as well. I was trying to 270 out, but never got it. Brian did a slappy crooks after I had a very embarrassing slam where I ended up on the flat of the ramp. I have no idea what happened. Then I skated the smaller miniramp for awhile. It was a weird vibe, but fun. I did one of the better front feebles I’ve done in awhile as well as a fakie pivot to fakie. Then I saw Jake doing kickflips on flat and did the ol’ ro sham bo look to him to see if he wanted to play SKATE. He did. I was hyped. Until I ended up not landing basically anything. The tight space got to me. I got a letter on 360 flip and two letters on fakie flip. Unbelievable. I only got him with halfcab flip, no comply finger flip and varial flip. Marcus and Donnie were skating with us too. It was rad seeing Marcus skate for the first time in years. He was on a 7.75. So sick! I might have skated the ramp a bit more, but I think I mostly just chilled in the lounge and tried to learn carpet hardflips with John. He was ripping the carpet! Ha, kickflip followed right by switch flip. Alright night, I wish I would have skated the big ramp more, but I think I would have just iced the heated session.

(setup: 8.125 null, venture 5.25 lows with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 black/gum)

Had the day off work. In my perfect dream world I would start every day off skating flatground for awhile. I had the say off work so I went for it. The Louisville rink is the best so I went there (yes I drove 10 minutes to skate flatground). The start was really rough. I was so sore and still dealing with the change in setup. After about 30 minutes I thought I might only be able to land kickflip, fakie flip and halfcab flip. But after awhile they started coming together. I got heelflip, 360 flip, b/s flip, f/s flip, f/s halfcab flip, fakie big flip. I got really close to nollie flip, nollie 360 flip, nollie big flip, nollie inward heel. It was fun.

@boredzinejp challenged me to a blunt to back disaster revert for #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge. When I first saw the challenge I thought it would be a letter for sure as I've never even tried blunt to back disaster before. But it ended up being a really fun one and I got a bonus trick too. Three new tricks in one day! Rad. @fullertrron added it to his bag too. New challenge soon Josh..

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 16, 2016 at 8:20pm PDT

Then I met up with Dave and we went to Northglenn park. Josh had given me a new challenge. I hadn’t really thought about trying it at Northglenn, but when we got there I saw this tiny little qp option and thought it might work out perfect. I had never tried blunt to back disaster before. I got one 3rd try. I was super hyped. And about 10 more tries I got the revert as well. Dave filmed it and then got one himself. It set the tone for a fun session.

@fullertrron shredding with some #extremeparkour in the background

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 16, 2016 at 4:13pm PDT

Dave did the line above pretty quickly. It’s really gnarly. That silly jersey barrier thing is the worst. He tried to feeble in as well, but never got it. The front 50 transfer came much later and was the first time he did it. It’s so gnarly. I was mostly skating slow and trying to do lines on the ledges. The closest I got to a line was kickflip into the top “bank”, crooks the ledge, turn around front 5-0 shove out. Didn’t ride out of it. Most of my attempts were pretty lame as I was pretty sore from skating flatground earlier and ollieing kind of hurt. At one point I slammed and lightly hit my ribs on the corner of the ledge. It was close to being a bad one. Whew. Dave started doing switch front crooks on a bank. They were really good. I tried noseslide 270 shove for awhile. Never got it, but landed on one. We skated the bowl a bit. Dave had some good runs, lofty ollies. I lost interest after an axle stall. Ha. I tried to b/s flip the small hip for awhile while Dave did crooks to fakies on steeper bank. Then the wind picked up and we called it a day. Fun one! I like my little trucks!

(setup: 8.125 null, venture 5.25 lows with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 black/gum)

Off to Broomfield park attempting to skate a ton so I would actually sleep. I had setup an old 8.125 Null deck since I don’t have any in stock right now. At first it felt weird being on the low trucks. I just went back and forth on the quartapotty and bank for awhile. It was fun. I had to weave through a bunch of people walking through the park with baseball bats to the batting cages a couple times. There was only a couple people when I got there. They would leave shortly. That’s the effect my lame skating has on others. I felt good on the quartapotty. I felt a little weird ollieing onto the ledges as low trucks feel quite different. But it worked out. I had one really fun line of rock ‘n roll on the steep bank at the top of the park, front tail the mound, front 180 into the mellow bank then halfcab noseslide the black ledge. Also the same run mostly, but with a nollie into the bank and a crooks on the ledge. Crooks are so much easier with low trucks. I haven’t had much confidence on my board in awhile and that was still the case. I had troubles manualling the blue box and even more trouble back 50’ing it. No idea why. I had a line where I finally got back 50 on it then I followed it by kickflipping over the red Crisis parking block. I tried halfcab crooks on the blue ledge for awhile and got somewhat close before running out of energy and calling it a night. Oh yeah, my flatground game was not really on point either.

(setup: 8.125 null, venture 5.25 lows with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 black/gum)