Early bird gets the fog.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Feb 13, 2016 at 7:18am PST

Woke up early on a Saturday feeling much better then the last few days. So I drove through some dense fog to Broomfield park where I had the park all to myself for a couple of hours. It was really cold initially, but the sun would eventually come out and warm things up. I started on the quartapotty and blue box area, but was getting on the blue and black ledges somewhat quickly. I never stuck with any one thing too long. I struggled with back 50s once again, but would eventually get them on the blue box. Front 50 shove, front 5-0, crooks on the black ledge. Front tail on the blue ledge, tried fakie front 50 switch 180 out, but never got out of it right. Boardslid the little rail, had a couple 360 flips, manual the blow box, couldn’t nose manual it. I cruised around a lit trying different things. I couldn’t get nosegrind on the blue ledge either, but I did get pretty close. That park is so fun cruising around solo. Eventually a couple kids showed up and would complain about being tired/sore and sit down frequently. Wusses. Ha.

Later on I met up with a fun crew of Nullers and more. Riley, Bernie, Nolan, Ladd and Carleigh. I was super tired in filmer mode and didn’t really skate the first spot. Nolan got close to doing a cool pole jam rock fakie. Then we went to this kicker spot. Riley rattled off like 20 tricks as did Ladd. Nolan had a nice 360 flip and switch 360. Carleigh had shove quick, kickflip and front 180. I did a couple early grabs which were fun so I started hucking and went with f/s halfcab flip. 2 hours later I landed it! (pretty poorly, but it kind of adds to it)

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@matthouse and @fullertrron (learning switch crooks at 47 hell yes!) ripping at Blue Skies today. I sucked. #arthritissucks #itevenhurtstowalk

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Feb 12, 2016 at 12:30pm PST

Feeling arthritic again I went to Blue Skies on a nice Feb day. Dave was there. Matt joined shortly. When I first started it felt like I might not actually be able to skate at all. Ugh. I would struggle through and do some very horrible skating. At least watching Matt and Dave was cool. We all tried switch crooks for awhile. Dave got one (above). So sick. We mostly skated the ledge. I mostly tried halfcab noseslides and had two horrible ones to show for it. Matt had never skated there before. He was able to 50 the tall ledge. No back tail like Dave and I were hoping though. Ha. The back 50 back 180 out was hot. So was Daves front 50 180. Dave also had some back 50s that surprised me. And a feeble on the flatbar all easy. We left after Matt front 50’d the whole narrow ledge. Wowsers.

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Research ledge is dry! I’ve been waiting for this day for awhile now. If only the ledge missed me as much as I missed it. I had felt fine all day and for some reason right before skating I started to feel weird and nauseous. It made for a horrible session. I only skated it backside as the gravel in the frontside run up was too much. Plus I didn’t have a lot of energy. I started with boardslide, noseslide, noseslide to fakie. Then took awhile for crooks which isn’t all that bad, but it felt like a trick I’ve never done before. I don’t know what was going on with my body, but I don’t like it. Going up the hill I would try switch flips over and over, getting close a couple of times. I also tried about a million 360 flips to start my downhill descent towards the ledge, but never landed one. I was bumming so hard, but stubborn me just kept trying to land tricks. I got a very tic tac’y back 50, bad switch front nose and halfcab noseslide. Tried fakie front 50 for awhile never getting close, did another crooks that finally felt ok. Ended posing a couple halfcab crooks and realizing there is no way I could land it feeling the way I did. Went home.

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After work I picked up Matt and we rolled to Arvada park on a super nice day in the 60s. The park would go through waves of crowds and for the most part was too crazy for me to enjoy. We started out on the little qp at the top of the park. Matt took three tries to get an axle stall. Ha. But then did front and back d, front tail, treflips, heelflip, switch flip, etc. I got most of my tiny qp tricks, the hurricane took way longer then it should have. Then I started trying a line. Front smith the qp, no comply 180 on flat, halfcab flip on flat, crooks the marble ledge. Never quite got the crooks. Matt did back 50 on the marble ledge, front lip down the low rail then some other stuff. I had fun doing a manual across the euro to box and then a kickflip to fakie on the blue bank. Next thing I remember is trying to ollie the marble flat bar and boardslide it coming back the other way. I would get both, but not good. Matt had front and back lip and managed to get in the way of Mr 360 flyout several times. Matt took awhile to get a treflip over the hip. I posed kickflips and b/s flips. I got a couple ollies onto the tall blue pad and almost front shove off. Then it was off to the premiere of fl.oh.CO which totally ruled.

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Went out in the garage on a warm night still feeling sore and burnt out. I did the first kickflip, but it was sloppy. Bailed the next one. Landed the next one good and called it a night.

Feeling completely burnt out and sore I went into the garage for one kickflip. It took 4 tries. Then I went inside.

Pre game front blunts by @jackspanbauer. #gobroncos #ledgy 📷 @corpoglenny

A photo posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Feb 7, 2016 at 2:45pm PST

Brought Ledgy out and found some decent flatground to put it. I started with mostly flatground and tried to skate a little faster again. Man it makes tricks so much more difficult and I was once again unable to land a 360 flip. Ugh. I did have a few decent heelflips at least. I did a back 50 first try on Ledgy which was relieving, but then it took awhile to get it again. Argh. Jack showed up and immediately started trying pop shove crooks which he would eventually land. Along with kick back tail, front smith, a bunch more tricks. It’s rad skating with Jack. He is infinitely better at skating with me, but I still feel like I can skate like myself around him. I didn’t really land anything else, but tried a few front crooks.

Then we went to Valmont manual pads. I was so sore I couldn’t even ollie up the curb for awhile. Jack did a manual the long way to back 50 right away. I would try it for the next hour before getting it. Ha. In the meantime Jack also did manual kickflip back tail. So crazy! He also did a bunch of back 180 fakie manual halfcabs out. Even one with a fakie bigspin out. I got somewhat close to nose manuals and kickflips manuals, but really I was just sore and stoked to be skating with Jack. Finally getting the long manual to 50 was pretty darn fun.

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Ok @boredzinejp since you wouldn't let me do the hurricane I challenge you to a silly one. Rock 'n roll kickflip. The @fullertrron spin ruled, great challenge. Hope you like this one and if you want you can even do it on vert! Ha. #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #itwasagoodday

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Feb 6, 2016 at 8:32pm PST

Met Dave at this spot after driving around for awhile trying to find something dry. I we started with some did some kick turn warm ups and stuff before settling on some tricks to try. I was set on rock ‘n roll kickflip out. Dave was doing fakie front shove. We did them. We filmed them. Dave added a popped ollie after and I added a no pop 180 over the snow gap. We filmed each other. It was cool. Dave had to split out and I decided to try the rock ‘n roll kickflip some more as a challenge to Josh in the game. Fun. Although I did bruise the harch of my back foot on some of the failed attempts that didn’t flip all of the way.

❤️

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Feb 6, 2016 at 12:42pm PST

Then I found this perfect section of concrete and played around for awhile. I tried to skate faster which made tricks harder and I didn’t get too far on the list. I couldn’t do a 360 flip or nollie tre. It was mostly fun though.

#highfivehideout thanks @dnutz37!

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Feb 6, 2016 at 3:32pm PST

Then I met Fuzz and a bunch of others at Darin’s ramp. I was pretty sore and tired and unmotivated. I had a decent first run and added a weak front feeble as a new one there. Others were ripping. Justin did a blunt kickflip to fakie. CJ had 20 minute runs with every trick looking perfect and learned blunt kickflip to fakie at the very end. Austin’s back d’s look like Grant Taylor’s back ds. Fuzz’s halfcab back blunt first try ruled. Darin did the longest back tail I’ve seen him do. Adam pops blunt to fakie higher then anyone.

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A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Feb 5, 2016 at 4:50pm PST

Feeling oh so tired and sore I got out of work early and met Dave for a short and mellow session at one of the dry spots we could find. The concrete was ok, a lot of bigger cracks though. The curb itself sucked as it was so rough. A lot of wax didn’t get it going. I didn’t feel like ollieing or doing many flip tricks. Dave was cruising around doing lots of switch ollies and switch shoves. Neither of us could get the curb to grind so we mostly did stall tricks. Dave had some totally great old man style BSTS where the last S means stall. And they were barely even that. Ha. I kept trying to get the thing to slappy crooks and it would eventually do so. We tried a bunch of switch crook stalls and each got some. They were fun. I was trying to switch ollie up the curb to start the line, Most of the time I was kind of spracking up it, but whatever. I also tried kickflip crook stalls and got remotely close. The sun set and we took off for warmer times with our families.

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I got off work too late to make it to Skatuary with Riley, Bernie and crew. I’m not sure I really wanted to go anyway though. And I had decided I just couldn’t skate in my garage again so I loaded up Ledgy and went to the IHOP garage. I should have hit up some people, but for some reason I don’t anymore. Gotta change that. So I started with a couple runs of ollies and powerslides before laying into the Fullerton spin since I needed to do it for the game. It took awhile and pushing switch uphill to get speed was hard. I had a good slam on one, tore up my knuckles on another and finally landed one. Fun start.

Then I brought out Ledgy and started with front 50s quicker then normal. I was trying to line things out a couple flippers above the ledge, but then a homeless lady started changing near where I was starting so I kind of just stuck to the ledge after that. I still hucked some flippers, but not as much, and I really didn’t land much of anything. After front 50s I tried front smiths and got remotely close. I would skate it backside going uphill, but the hill was a lot less steep then I remembered so it really didn’t matter. I got noseslide and crooks pretty quick and then started the back 50 battle. I don’t know what it is about Ledgy that scares me so much, but it really brings out the worst in me. It’s so short that you can’t really grind much and have to get off right after getting in. So I got hung up on back 50 for close to an hour. It was so depressing. I did land one and it felt so insanely easy that it made me even more depressed. But I had a fast halfcab noseslide that eased the pain a little. I was hucking flip tricks and not landing anything. I tried a bunch of fakie nosegrinds and didn’t land any. I ended trying halfcab crooks (got kind of close) and front tails. I did a little front tail stall and called it a night. It was a depressing night, but I am happy to have finally gone out to a parking garage instead of doing the stationary skating in my garage.

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