Ok @boredzinejp here's my varial flip fakie and the next challenge for you. Rick flip!!! I've only landed a few of these so it felt awesome to land one again. I accidentally deleted a better varial flip at Broomfield park. Oh well. Good luck! #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #slowmotionontopofslowskating #stoked

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 24, 2016 at 2:54pm PST

Went out to Valmont area feeling pretty lazy, but wanting to get the varial flip challenge out of the way. I warmed up on the bank then went over to the main area. The ledge is almost skateable finally, it was wet, but no ice. I did a line of kickflip up the curb, ollie the wood pallet then ollie off the dock over the ice. It felt really cool. I had tried the line with a heelflip instead of the ollie over the pallet, but I couldn’t land the heelflip. It felt cool to ollie the pallet anyway as it forced me to go faster. Then I spent some time trying to manual across and down a sidewalk pad off the street. Next up was the varial flip which didn’t take long. I tried to do a fakie varial flip too and landed a few, but so horribly that I didn’t want to use it. It was funny because I landed one of them as this dude randomly cruised by on a longboard with his dog. It startled me then made me laugh. Lastly I went and tried Rick Flips for about 30 minutes and got so stoked when I actually landed one! It’s been a long time since I’ve landed one of those.

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Happy Birthday @iamnotacreepyjake!

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 23, 2016 at 12:57pm PST

Feeling lazy on a Saturday morning (Liz’s fault) I eventually headed to Broomfield park with birthday boy Jake to meet Riley, Carlie, Ladd and Nolan. We started on the quarterpotty where Jake quickly did 31 tricks. I did quite a few too, but not that many. Nolan would come later and warm up with 25 tricks in 10 minutes on the quarterpotty. Ha. It ruled seeing Riley skate again. Jake and I played a game of SKATE while Ladd and Riley played two games. Ours was way better though. Ha. Actually though we both landed a lot of tricks that we both don’t normally land. 360 flip, heelflip, f/s flip. I struggled with a bunch of tricks, but ended up winning with double flip. Our game took a really long time. After that I did a varial flip on the blue bank. I figured since there were no steeper banks I would at least do it on the one that you had to ollie onto. But it turns out I never hit record. Doh.

Those t-shirt weather days in January. ❤️☀️ #thankyoucolorado

A photo posted by carleigh samson (@gnarlycarleigh) on Jan 23, 2016 at 5:09pm PST

Then we went to Darin’s ramp for what would be a totally awesome session. Darin, Dave and Adam were already skating. Everyone seemed to skate really good. I took a long time to land a front d revert and also got a bean plant to tail and my second every creeper which was really fun. Watching Nolan and Riley shred was so awesome. Everyone got along and seemed hyped on the great weather. It ruled. Carliegh did like 100 back disasters and may have landed a backside blunt after Jake and I left. Dave was floating backside and frontside ollies, doing a bunch of plants again, everything. Darin got mad tricks. Ladd almost got blunt kickflip to fakie. Adam pops out of his blunts so high. Riley did a front nosegrind across the whole ramp. Nolan did everything including a blunt treflip to fakie.

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A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 22, 2016 at 3:24pm PST

Dave and I met Simon at the DIY slab spot in Denver on a gorgeous day. Dave and I were obviously pretty sore and tired. But it seemed like things were gonna go pretty good as we warmed up. Somebody had thrown a monster size candle onto the concrete so I joke waxed the curb. Well, I did actually wax it, just not as bad as it looks in the photo. 50s on the curb were super fun. Simon was ripping the parking block and ledge area. Good combos like halfcab boardslide then front noseslide, nollie front tail the ledge front baord the parking blocks. Etc. I joined him and was feeling good enough that I actually tried to 50 the ledge (it’s tall!). Ha. I’ve been there a few times before and have never even tried the 50. I got no pop. So yeah, things were going good it seemed until Simon slammed hard and ripped his palm open. So we all just chilled for awhile. Simon tried to get it going, but it just wasn’t happening. Understandable. Dave and I skated the ledge/blocks area awhile longer. Dave tried boardslide to feeble on the parking blocks. I posed kickflip boardslides which felt remotely doable. Then we went back to the manny pad area (above). Dave kind of tried to hippy jump a tire out of a really janky setup. I did a few tricks over a little gravel gap then back 50s on the curb. Also kickflip up the curb and 360 flip off (first try!). Then we setup hosercam and recorded us try manuals for an hour. Dave got a couple manual body varials out that were pretty sick. I tried kickflip manuals forever. I didn’t think I landed any, but going back through the footage I actually did do one. Ha. Rad. Dave and I left very exhausted.

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A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 21, 2016 at 4:08pm PST

Got out of work early on a cool day and drove to some crappy parking lot to skate flatground while I wait for Dave to get off work. The parking lot was rough and I started off very poorly. It took awhile to land a kickflip. But the tricks did come. I skated slower then normal probably. It felt cold. I got kickflips, heelflip, halfcab flip, fakie bigflip, treflip and somehow nollie treflip.

So great to see #nullumni member @sweetmalarkey ripping at Northside last night!

A video posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Jan 22, 2016 at 10:32am PST

Then after the drive to Fort Collins and some grub at Chipotle we went to Northside in the cold. Chris Jones was there! Man it ruled seeing him. My warm up was too film him do the line above. It was funny because he slammed hard a few times and said “It’s just like old times right Glen?” Ha. I saw Dave rolling around the park doing some quarterpipe tricks and cruising the ramp area. Chris and Pat left and then I cruised around for awhile and was hyped to roll in a couple times into the ramp area and wanted to do it a bunch more, but out of nowhere a bunch of people came and kind of killed that. I ended up mostly just slowly skating the ledge under the china bank. Front 50s, crooks, switch noseslide shove out and one horribly slow back 50. Dave got the back 50 sooner then me, front 50, noseslide. I saw him to a couple pivot to rock ‘n roll on the quarterpipe.

@nolancormier sandwiched by stubborn. @fullertrron @launchskate (Sorry the hurricane is so slow I couldn't change it after it was transferred)

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 23, 2016 at 8:42am PST

@nolancormier playing on the extension at the @launchskate #miniramp

A video posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Jan 24, 2016 at 8:14am PST

More skating! Ladd and Nolan were at Launch as well as a few older guys. It was fun. Ladd had a bunch of huge frontside ollies, front tails, back ds, front smiths, he can shred. I skated it alright for me, did the same ol’ stuff until the end when I took a long time to get a hurricane. Dave skated the ramp super good, maybe the best I’ve seen him skate it. The mute and backside airs were the highlights of course, but he had so many tricks. A lot of different sweeper / bean plant combos. I don’t know what most of them are, but he did a lot. Speaking of a lot of tricks Nolan did more unique tricks in every run then I did all night. I wouldn’t know even where to begin to document it. Just imagine every trick. Super fun night of skating.

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Went to Blue Skies Skatepark for an early lunch break. It was so nice when I got there. That doesn’t mean the warm up process was easy unfortunately. My warm up line ended up being a boardlide on the flat bar, no comply 180 then switch noseslide on the little ledge and I managed a little crooks after that too. That run took me a long time the last time I was there. Next run was noseslide the flat bar and try front 50 shove. I never got the shove out though. Partly because someone waxed the crap out of the ledge and it was terrifying. Partly because I was trying to skate it faster then normal. I had done a few flip tricks. But then the wind kicked up fierce and kind of ruined everything. I tried to skate through it for awhile. Did my first “switch front nose” on a flat bar. Pretty fun. Tried boardslide shove out on the flat bar, got kind of close. Tried to ollie up the tall main ledge for awhile and got close, but no cigar. Stupid wind.

After work I went out in the garage for a bit to skate flatground. After the warm up period I basically tried switch flips “up” the garage and rattled off other tricks “down”. I never got a switch flip, but I did get very close. I got kickflip, b/s flip, varial flip, fakie flip, f/s flip, heelflip, 360 flip and got stuck on varial heelflip.

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Not even that cold of a night, but I just don’t like much cold anymore so I went out into the garage. I had a new cassette tape by Aural Burrows to listen to so that was cool. That’s one of my favorite parts of skating flatground in the garage, being able to listen to music without it being headphones. I started slow though. 180s, shoves and eventually kickflips. I basically stuck with nollie heel/ switch flip attempts going towards the laundry room and other tricks towards the garage door. I never came remotely close to the nollie heel, but I came super close to multiple switch flips. Going the other way I had varial flip, b/s flip, f/s flip, heelflip, 360 flip, nollie varial flip, fakie bigflip, an over 80 varial heel. Close to rick flip and super close to hard flip.

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Cold Skies was a struggle earlier , but @fullertrron got a new combo at least. #40degreesmyass #itwascold

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 18, 2016 at 1:40pm PST

It was supposed to be a warm day. It was not. It was overcast, breezy and cold. I got there first and the warm up process seemed impossible. It literally took me 5 tries to land a kickflip. That is the worst in a long, long time for me. Dave started slow too and I mentioned we should both focus our boards and leave them in the snow. Ha. It would get better though. I had a line of boardslide, no comply 180 then switch noseslide followed by a crooks on the little ledge. Dave got the combo above. So rad. I got a front shove off the main middle ledge. No ollie up and it took a long time, but I must say it felt really awesome to land it.

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Hope you are having fun in Malaysia @boredzinejp! Here's a little something to keep you busy .. Wallride nollie / wallie nollie / slappy crooks on a wall / whatever it's called. I just learned it this week. Sorry I couldn't do a better front tail shove. I blame the weather limiting spots (instead of my inability to do front tails). #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #baggyisback #wallienolie

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 18, 2016 at 7:59am PST

Feeling pretty tired after celebrating Fuzz’s 40th birthday I went out for a lazy session. I wanted to do a better nollie wallride for the game. I was hoping Valmont would be dry enough to try a better tailslide too, but it wasn’t. So I ended up nearby trying the wallie nollies on a regular wall. I didn’t have it on lock, but man it’s fun when you land it. I also tried a bunch of switch f/s flips and got pretty darn close. Man that would be cool.

I eventually moved on to research ledge to get a little grind on. Noseslides and crooks went ok. But then I got stuck on back 50 and exhaustion had settled in. I would eventually get a couple really bad back 50s. A really back halfcab noseslide. Posed halfcab crooks. Posed a bunch of switch flip and switch frontside flip attempts going back up the hill. Got close. All in all I skated better then I thought I would, but it was still a pretty lazy session.

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Up early on a Saturday morning. Well, early for this time of year. It’s hard to get up real early with the sun rising so late. I went to Southern Hills as I thought it would be a decent place to try the front tail shove since it’s in the sun. Obviously I wasn’t up for the benches, but the step seemed good and in the sun. But the wind came and man did it suck. The wind was so intense at times and made it so cold that I wanted to leave. Instead I stubbornly kept trying front tails on the curb. I would get a couple decent tailslides for me and one tail”slide” shove that meets the minimum requirements. I got a few flippers too, but it was hard with the wind.

We out here being stubborn.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 16, 2016 at 3:38pm PST

After some lunch I met Dave and Jake at India Peaks. The sun wasn’t out anymore, but at least it wasn’t windy anymore. We had to shovel a little, but for the most part it was perfect. Dave did a perfect wallie/nollie real quick. We setup GP (hosercam) to capture it, but somehow Dave was unable to do it again. It was weird. He would actually struggle with most tricks he tried after that too. Pop shoves, switch shoves, kickflips. Tough day. Nothing came easy for me either, but I did come away with some tricks I was happy with. Wallie/nollie (kind of anyway), halfcab flip and sex change. Jake almost came down with frontside wallride and fakie flip. Aki joined us for awhile and had kickflip to fakie and f/s flip. It was cool seeing him outside of the park.

@iamnotacreepyjake tailblock. Brr

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 16, 2016 at 4:31pm PST

Lastly we went to Dave’s ramp as the sun was setting and brr it was cold. There were a couple ice patches we had to watch out for. I guess i continually rode through them without knowing it. That’s how skilled I am on ramps, I don’t even know where I’m going. Ha. I had fun though, got a few of my tricks. Dave was trying Bag Ladies. I think he got one. Lots of other cool tricks. Jake had the rad tailblock above, pivot fakie and a bunch more. Fun ender for a fun day.

(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 bones med bushings nb# pj stratford 533 burgundy)

Early lunch solo on a cool day (low 30s). Warming up was a battle as usual. Something about that place makes warming up hard. I did a couple more of those wallie/nollie things while holding on then tried it without holding on and landed one! Then I landed every one after that. I was hyped! So I solo filmed one. I’ve wanted to learn that trick for a long time. It feels just like slappy crooks. Then I tried a line for awhile. Halfcab flip on flat, crooks up an escalator ledge, turn around on the bank and back 50 up an escalator ledge. After a couple good feeling halfcab flips I tried with heelflip. Never got the line. Close though. The main bank wasn’t really skateable due to yesterdays wind causing snow to drift in. Other stuff, front 50 shove on the regular ledge, halfcab noseslide on it, almost noseslide shove on the tall middle ledge, 0-10 on treflips, couldn’t ollie onto the tall middle ledge. Learning the wallride nollie made up for the rest of the sucking.

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