Feeling pretty sore from slamming at Broomfield still and all the skating last night I went to Blue Skies for the first time in months to skate some flatground. I pushed and carved around a few laps to attempt warming up. Felt the groin on the first ollie attempt. It’s never gonna heal. Because I never stop skating. 🙂 In about 5 minutes I was doing kickflips and shoves. In about 10 minutes I was trying whatever. I took a long time to get b/s flip. But I didn’t stick to just that. I was pretty chill, not trying to skate fast, just throwing trick after trick and not landing much. I would get heelflip, halfcab flip, fakie bigflip, treflip, f/s flip, b/s flip, fakie flip. I got close to f/s halfcab heel, nollie flip, nollie 360 flip. I didn’t get close to b/s halfcab heel, nollie bigflip, nollie inward heel. What a great break from work even if I did struggle.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 51mm spitfire f4 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)

Went out to Valmont not feeling so great around the time it got dark. Skated the ledge for awhile and did some flatground there and there. The ledge was fun, I went through a few basics. Still struggled with front tails and getting front 50s up on the medium part. My trucks feel tighter with the new larger wheels, it’s weird. Harder to do stuff. Tried backside hurricanes for awhile. Got into most of them, but didn’t grind or get the pop out. Tried f/s haflcab noseslide for awhile and didn’t get very close. Had a fun line of kickflip up the curb, heelflip on flat and ollie off the loading dock. I tried to lift my back foot up, not sure if I did though.

#tentricktentryflatgroundfridayfabulousfearsomefunfight My list was probably too ambitious this week even if I was feeling good. I wasn't. I would really have liked to finally get one of Nollie flip, fakie tre or halfcab heel at least. 3.01/10. The .01 is for the over 80 cab bigflip attempt.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 25, 2015 at 5:36am PDT

Then went over and skated flat for about 10 minutes doing the basics before attempting the 10×10. The 10×10 is up for debate, not sure Josh and I want to keep doing it, it’s so hard. I wasn’t feeling very good on flatground so I knew the results would be bad. Especially when it took 8 tries to get a varial flip. I was actually surprised I landed the 3 flip. That put me in a better mood until I couldn’t get fakie tre, halfcab heel and nollie flip. Ugh. The cab bigflip wasn’t close. I can’t seem to spin like I did magically the first day I tried that trick. I do want to get that one down though, somehow that seems like the easiest way to cab. Nollie bigflip wasn’t close, but the nollie inward heel totally felt doable. I left right after.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 51mm spitfire f4 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)

Haven't skated this graphic yet. #hyped #spoiled #hyped

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 22, 2015 at 8:40pm PDT

Arrived to a very crowded park as darkness set in. Thank god for lights! I played on the Quartapotty doing basics. Darin arrived shortly after me and was doing the same. Then a bunch of people joined. I was feeling pretty good with new grip tape (MOB this time around) and softer wheels on the qp. Nolan, Riley and I tried backside kickflips. Nolan got his real quick. 20 tries later Riley landed a really good one and I got his back with one too. I was hyped! My next go on the qp I tried to do front disaster to sugarcane. I slipped out and slammed incredibly hard for me. This pretty much ended my session. I tried to keep skating, but I couldn’t really get it going. I filmed Nolan do every blunt he could in one line. Riley was hurting. Fuller had shown up so I tried to skate with him and Darin on the qp/blue ledge combo. I just did no ollie noseslides and posed kickflip back tails though. I saw Darin do a bluntslide. Dave with some great frontside nosegrinds.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows spitfire f4 51mm nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)

I had new wheels on my old board. I didn’t think it would go so good as it was a big change. My old wheels had worn down to 45mm-48mm depending on the wheel. I got some new 51mms. They felt huge. I know that is pathetic, but it changed the timing of everything. With that said, I started off pretty good. This spot is hard to skate. Wayyy harder to skate then it looks. I was sore for some reason, but started trying lines with ledge, bank, ledge action. First was noseslide, back smith stall, front noseslide 270 out. Second was switch front nose to fakie (coming out forward that’s confusing eh), front tail stall, front board pop out. Then crooks, ollie to fakie, switch noseslide. Next was switch front nose, fakie ollie on the bank, front 50. One of the switch noseslides was the best one I’ve ever done. Things were looking good even though all of these took longer then you would think and were done way worse then you can imagine. I was happy and sad trying to push switch at this spot. Then I wanted to do back 50, frontside ollie, front tail. I got a few back 50s pretty quickly and bailed the ollies. I was still hyped though. I was hucking flip tricks when I bailed and that was ok. Heelflip, treflip, halfcab flip, hucked some ones I can’t land.

Then I got into a rut where I could not do a back 50 to save my life. This spot is so much harder then it looks. You come around a corner on the narrow path (crack kills) and you can’t really see the ledge as you’re approaching because of the bush. Anyways. I mostly bailed, fell back into the grass a lot or would lock in like the photo above and come to a stop. It was very depressing. I would eventually get another back 50, bailed the f/s ollie after. UGH. Then another back 50 attempt that turned into back 5-0. I took it! Got the f/s ollie, but the f/s tail failed me. I didn’t care anymore. I left. Stopped by Valmont manny pads briefly. Got manual first try, nose manual 20th try WTF. Then hucked kickflip manual and manual front shove out briefly before having to go pick up Ollie.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 51mm spitfire classic f4 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)

Old guy morning fun. @iamnotacreepyjake front blunt @fullertrron nosegrind

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 20, 2015 at 2:01pm PDT

Had some time while the in laws were out doing their sunday morning routine so Jake came over and we headed out to Broomfield and met Dave at Safeway ledge. Everyone was a bit skeptical about starting there, but we managed. Dave and I stayed on the ‘slappy’ noseslide routine longer then Jake. He was already doing 50s and 180 50s. Who brought the young guy? Ha. Everyone ended up landing some good stuff. Jake had front tail, front tail fakie, fakie front tail, fakie front 50 f/s halfcab out, front lip, almost back 50 back 180 out. Dave had some really solid front 50s, layback front 5-0!!!, crooks and really solid front crooks. I did 50s, was 1/20 on sliding front tails, front 50 shove, front 50 front 180, kick back 50, nowhere close on front crooks and somewhat close on kick back tail. Flip tricks were feeling good.

Then we went to this little park and continued the fun. Well, when we first started it was kind of overrun with little kids using the skatepark as a playground. Luckily the mom realized they were annoying us and cleared them out after awhile. Not before Dave shot his board into one of them though. Ha, it barely hit the kid though. We went on to have a really fun session. We all skated the park pretty different, it was cool. Jake and Dave had lots of transition tricks, I did lots of axle stalls. Ha. Jake did a pivot to fakie on the steep bank first try. Dave did a sweeper over the hip first try. I took awhile to get a line of crooks the pier 7 ledge, axle stall the qp (or front d depending on how I was feeling), front tail on the steep bank, almost noseslide 270 the top part of the pier 7 ledge. Jake was trying front noseblunt on the steep bank for awhile. Dave was filming it. I took forever to get a back 50 on the pier 7 ledge. Dave was cruising the park in between filming Jake. tranny tricks, almost boardslide transfers on the aframe. I started racing Jake with a front 50 kickflip out while he tried the noseblunt. He won with a sick noseblunt. I would eventually get the front 50 kickflip out and it felt pretty awesome. I filmed Dave for awhile do tricks like nosegrind transfer the lower part of the spine (ridiculous!). I thought we were leaving, but then Jake reminded me of our physical challenge of ollie up, kickflip off the ledge. It took a bit, but we got them back to back all tight like. Then Dave did a totally ridiculous line. Front nosegrind the mini bump to ledge, back tail the qp then boardslide the wide rail. I think the run was even longer then that actually, but either way it was so good. I took awhile to get the boardslide too as Dave did more nosegrind and then we left, both of us late. Ha.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows worn down 52mm stf v3 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)

Brief early am ledge fix before the in laws arrive.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 19, 2015 at 7:49am PDT

Running later then I wanted I had about an hour to skate and went to the research ledge. Warming up wasn’t easy and took longer then normal. I started with a few powerslides down the hill, then noseslides and boardslide pop out on the ledge. Got a warm up line of pop shove, ollie up the curb, crooks and then manual the long pad. I was surprised by the manual. Also did halfcab flip, front 180 up the curb, switch front 180 on flat then back 50. Went for it all with a line of 360 flip, kickflip up the curb, back 50 shove. Got really close, but never got a locked in back 50 where I could shove out. I was going a little faster then normal so the back 50s felt scary. Got front 50, halfcab noseslide. Ended on a crooks that took longer then I wanted it to. This ledge isn’t as good as it used to be.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows worn down 52mm stf v3 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)

Went to rainbow ledge right after work on another gorgeous September Colorado day. I felt pretty stiff and sore, typical after a full work week. I warmed up with some slappys which were more fun then I remember. I thought of this spot because Jack and I were recently talking about ledges in Boulder and he reminded me this one is really good. I get freaked out by the narrowness on frontside grinds, but I should get over that. Anyway, Dave showed up shortly after and we were both mostly doing slappys for awhile and it was fun. I had a crook and then took a long time to get slow back and front 50s. Dave was going mach 2 to try and slappy the whole thing. He got somewhat close. He had some nice slappy 50 to back tail. I managed an incredibly slow front 50 front shove out and a great feeling crooks on the downhill part. Then I had to leave.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows worn down 52mm stf v3 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)

Another poor performance this week. 4/10. I blame @mattrief since he wrote most of my list this week 😉. #tentricktentryflatgroundfridayfabulousfearsomefunfight #postingreallyearlyhopingnottoomanypeopleseethis

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 18, 2015 at 5:25am PDT

Went to Valmont on a beautiful evening. There was a couple older guys skating the manny pad area. They seemed to want their session to be theirs so I just went to the ledge to warm up for 10×10. The warm up went better then I expected. Both ledge and flat. Got pretty far into my flatground and ledge list before doing the 10×10. Noseslide, noseslide to fakie, crooks, front 50, back 50, switch front noseslide, a really fun feeling noseslide 270 out, the worst front tail ever. Then I did the 10×10. It went alright. I have missed b/s halfcab heel and fakie treflip two weeks in a row now. Ugh. I was really close on the nollie bigflip. I went home after that and had a blast with Ollie watching the Broncos. Oh, and I had new PJs. Steezy white/gum.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 52mm stf v3s nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)

My legs felt good, but my head wasn’t in the game. This is probably because I took an unnecessary nap after work. I went to campus to meet Matt and Carleigh. I arrived first and was feeling out a line that should be first try no warm up for most people. Like Matt, he did it first try out of the car. Ollie onto a little ledge, kickflip on flat (he added treflip on flat) then front 180 this stupid tiny little curb into the “bank”. I never got the line and it took me a long time before I got a halfway decent ollie up the ledge. The front 180 took way too many tries.

Then we met up with Carleigh at the manny pad parking lot. She wasn’t feeling the crowds. Matt and I weren’t really either. We did some ollies up on to the red pad and tricks off. I had a nice primo landing on a kickflip. Ouch. Almost ollied over the manhole finally. Front 180 up back 180 off. Matt manualed all of it and did a bunch more I can’t remember right now. Carleigh was mostly doing flippers in the parking lot.

#day251. @matthouse pole ride fakie.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 16, 2015 at 7:34pm PDT

Then we went to the bank to fence area where it took about 15 tries between the 3 of us before a clean kickflip to fakie was landed. Wowsers. We would all get good ones. Matt got treflip next. Carleigh did b/s kickflips, but don’t give her props on them. I took a long time to get a 360 flip to fakie, but I was hyped as that is a hard one for me. Carleigh got pop shove to fakie and then needed to take off. I tried some wallies and fence rides, but nothing really worked out. Matt did some rad pole rides to fakie.

Then Matt and I played a game of SKATE. Not a good game, as evidenced by the fact that Matt won. Ha ha. But really, it wasn’t a good game. I started by missing a kickflip and missing the double for nothing. But we still both ended up at SKAT and Matt ended up winning on fakie treflip. After that we sat and chatted for awhile. Pretty cool, Matt is awesome. The most amazing thing for me was being able to get up after sitting post skating without much pain. I’m seriously hyped on that.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 52mm stf v3 nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum (last day in these))

Ollie learned nose manuals on our sick new manual pad tonight. #🔨🔨🔨

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 15, 2015 at 8:25pm PDT

After a fun night of replacing our garbage disposal I went out to the garage to put some tools away. I did a couple manuals on flat then saw this sheet of wood sitting there and decided to get buck on it. I told Ollie to come check out the huge new manual pad and he was super into it. So we skated it for like 20 minutes and it was a blast. I only did a couple ollies into manual, normally I would just lift up to nose manual or whatever. I ended up getting a slew of tricks. Sure they don’t really count, but yes they do. Nose manual front 180, nose manual back 180, manual front 180, manual back 180, front 180 nose manual, front 180 nose manual 180 out, front 180 nose manual rewind (so fun), back 180 nose manual, back 180 nose manual 180, switch front 180 manual, switch front 180 manual back 180. It was really fun. I was riding my garage board. Ollie had never done a nose manual before. It took him a bit to get the hang of it, but he did. And then he landed a bunch more like nose manual front 180, front 180 nose manual 180 out, front 180 nose manual rewind, manual front 180. Most importantly though he thought it was really fun.

(setup 8″ null thunders 42mm ojs! nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum)