Mi amor.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Apr 8, 2016 at 4:46pm PDT

After work I stopped by my new favorite flatground spot and slowly warmed up. I had done a few tricks like heelflip, halfcab flip, etc before asking Matt, Josh and Nate for a 10×10 list. Matt responded first with the following
Fakie flip
halfcab flip
fakie bigflip
b/s flip
f/s flip
360 flip
nollie treflip
switch flip
switch heel
nollie heel
Other then 360 flip and b/s flip I got the first 7 relatively easy. I was not close on the other three at all. Although I did try a few nollie heels while holding on to a support beam and landed one. So that was cool. I tried a few more tricks. Hardflip, fakie hardflip, halfcab heel, varial heel. Got close to them all. Then headed home for family night. I was going to post my 10×10, but I accidentally deleted the nollie tre. And since that was the best trick I landed and all the others are the same ones I always do I just deleted them. Fun day though. Flatground rules. 99 days in a row!

(setup 8.38 null control room, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, bones stf 51mm v2, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

Went into the garage for a brief manny pad session. Didn’t even have my current skate shoes on and just skated the tiny 42mm setup. Just did a few of the 360 spin “manuals”. Slammed once. Then went and played football with Ollie.

After work and a little down time I met up with Rob and Dave at the Dog Park. Dave found this right by the dog park and this is the first time we’ve all skated it. It’s quite incredible concrete. Perfect flatground. I felt very awkward and stiff when I began. Rob was already killing it. Dave and I speculated he was secretly training in Ireland. Ha. He had some good lines with cabs, kickflips, halfcabs, 180s, etc. I think Dave was on a front shove, kickflip, nollie halfcab program. Then we played a game of SKATE. Rob missed a couple double or nothings so he ended up out first. At that point I appeared to stop landing tricks. Dave got me with a new one, pop shove body varial. I ended up winning with a sex change.

Then we all went over to the manny pads. Rob continued to shred with long manuals and one with a body varial out all perfect. Dave went to work with switch ollies up one pad then switch nose manny attempts on the next. I couldn’t find the nose manual balance, but got a switch front 180 manual and close to kickflip manual. Rob took off. Dave continued to huck and ended up getting a perfect switch nose manual 180 out. It was bonkers rad. Then he left too.

So I went to the ledge which ended up being fun even though I struggled with noseslides and crooks initially. My two easiest staples. Actually, I struggled with everything. I got front 50s on the low part fine, but not the higher part. I couldn’t land 360 flips. I mostly hucked nollie inward heels though and had a couple really close ones. Front tails, back 50 both sucked. So I started hucking and it was fun. Got a b/s hurricane! It felt really cool. Got close to front and switch crooks. Started hucking switch front nose shoves (after failing to do 270 shove out) and ended up kind of landing one. So even though I really didn’t land much of anything I had fun. I guess trying new stuff is fun for me.

(setup 8.38 null control room, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, bones stf 51mm v2, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

Took and ‘off’ day. I’ve been liking the bigger setup so much I committed to it with a new deck. While I was at it I put some new wheels on that weren’t worn down under 50mm. The 360 manuals with ollieing really are fun.

(setup 8.38 null control room, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, bones stf 51mm v2, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

It’s been awhile since I’ve skated this spot. Mostly because it’s not really skateable during the winter as the bricks retain moisture. But it was good on this day and way more fun then I remembered. I warmed up slowly on the tiny banked curbs, started going noseslides and before long got into it. Pretty quickly I had a fun line of crooks over one brick section then noseslide to fakie over the next. It felt really cool. I tried to get better crooks, but never really did. I randomly hucked a kickflip nose stall and pretty much did it first try. I got close and technically landed one, but still never posted up like I want. It’s weird how the bigger board felt better for it though. Took too long to do front 50 over a gap, couldn’t get shove out. Did some switch noseslides. Only a few flippers here and there. That old board is pretty shot, flippers would benefit from a new one. Couldn’t get halfcab noseslide over a gap or back 50s. Started hucking front crooks (not over a gap) and got into a bunch of them. It felt pretty awesome. Never landed one, but got really close and it brightened my day.

(setup 8.38 null ollie deck, venture wides, bones stf 51mm v2, venom 91a bushings, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

Had a lazy Sunday going after such an action packed day the day before. I headed to research ledge late in the afternoon. I brought some wax and it was kind of melted from the warm weather so it caked the ledge. Maybe too much. I started with noseslide and noseslide to fakie, then crooks, boardslide popout, back 50, halfcab noseslide. Some of these were done really badly, but I didn’t want to focus on them. Then went crooks to fakie which took awhile and finally I tried back 50 shove out for awhile and forgot how to back 50. Ugh. I got a little mad at that point. Doing flatground going back up to the starting point went better then expected. I got a lot of my basics. The heelflip first try kind of surprised me, that is one of the tricks I’m supposed to lose with the bigger setup. I ended trying crooks shove out the hard way. I didn’t get close at all, but it seems possible. That’s kind of a dream trick.

(setup 8.38 null ollie deck, venture wides, bones stf 51mm v2, venom 91a bushings, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

Feeling more exhausted then I should I was woken up by Joe and crew around 8am. They wanted to skate! I dragged more then normal, but we headed out for Broomfield around 9am. After a coffee stop we arrived at a crowded and bright park. It was hard to get things going. I tried to pace myself. Joe and Damon were ripping, played SKATE. Rob met us. Fuzz too. Carleigh even later. I was skating the big board, not really liking it. Most of us eventually settled in on a blue bank session. Joe and Fuzz did various 180 combos. Rob was the manual king. Damon was doing fakie tres. I switched to my little board temporarily and hated it, went back to the big board and did a bigflip on the bank. Carleigh did a back disaster on the brick qp.

Fun spot, fun crew.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Apr 2, 2016 at 3:58pm PDT

After some Chipotle we went here. This spot rules. It’s been a couple of years since I’ve been here. Fuzz and I started with a game of no pop SK8. I owned him. Ha. People warmed up with ledge tricks. Joe and Fuzz tried fakie willys. Joe landed a good one to forward. Fuzz landed a hilarious one, but it counted! Fakie 50s to fakie, those two were killing it. The setup got further back each time and before long we were lining it out. I think everyone ended up filming lines before too long. Carleigh learned straight no complys and did one in a line off a drop. I did a line with the only two tricks I can do moving faster then a snail (kickflip and front shove). It was incredibly fun when I got it though, as the front shove off the tiny drop felt like a Baker Maker. I filmed Fuzz, Joe, Carleigh for awhile. All got good stuff. Joe tried fakie 50 to back 50s for awhile and got a good one. I tried front 50 kickflips out for awhile and got pissed.

@joerhamilton spot #3

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Apr 2, 2016 at 4:46pm PDT

Then we went to 287 ditch. It was muddy and not as fun as last time. Well, for me. Dave met us and slayed it. Him and Joe were skating hard. I tried to get going, but couldn’t. Damon ripped it too actually. Kickflip to fakie, front 50s, front boards. Richard showed up at the end and did a back blunt on the parking block almost immediately. So sick.

This happened. #IggyPop #epic Thank you a million times @joerhamilton

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Apr 2, 2016 at 10:43pm PDT

Then Liz, Joe and I went to the Iggy Pop show! It was pretty incredible!

(setup 8.38 null ollie deck, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, bones 51mm stf v2 nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

@boredzinejp here's my bad attempt at the Casper stall thing. If you say it counts for #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge (please remember I am on defense) then I challenge you to another fakie big flip, but over a hip this time. The Casper was insanely hard. Proper guest Casper stall by @fullertrron

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Apr 3, 2016 at 8:05pm PDT

On a cool day I went out to Louisville park. I would meet up with Dave and eventually Rob. I started out just kind of cruising around, nothing special. Did a few long cali grinds. Started trying front 50 kickflip out. Didn’t get very close. I was on the bigger board again. It felt good for the most part. Dave showed and a mostly hip session went down. I took a long time to get a backside flip over the hip. Dave did a frontside cab and some good pop shoves. I hucked 360 flip, half cab flip, cab flip before settling in on fakie bigflip which also took awhile to land. Dave started trying these sketchy back 50s with no setup and grind into the bank. I thought he was going to die. I was happy when he stopped trying it. Ha. Then Rob showed. Rob! On his first day back on a board after his annual trip to Ireland. He looked good out there. Front board pop outs, manuals, ollies over the hip, crailslides. Killing it. I was liking my bigger board until we went to the hockey rink for flatground friday. Man that big board was harder to get around. We played a game of SKATE which I managed to win, but it was only because Rob didn’t want to try fakie flip yet. Skated flatground a bit longer. I didn’t land much, but a halfcab flip felt really good so it kept me from obsessing over my smaller setup sitting in my car patiently waiting for me to skate it again.

(setup 8.38 null ollie deck, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, bones 51mm stf v2 nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

Another minimum night in the garage. I had a little more desire to skate at least, but still didn’t ollie.

(setup 8.38 null ollie deck, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, 51mm stf v2)

Almost ended my streak and goal of 366 days this year. I was determined, but Ollie made me go out in the garage for a minimum sheet of wood manual session. He joined me. It was fun, we goofed around. I rode a big board that was in my garage instead of my little one. It felt good. I didn’t ollie at all and my streak of doing at least one kickflip a day is over. Kind of sad about that, but it was ruining me.

(setup 8.38 null ollie deck, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, 51mm stf v2)