We have a game again! Tried a couple new ledge tricks, but ended up having to go with old reliable. Sorry @boredzinejp , but you knew it was coming sooner or later. @the_neviathan #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #andnate

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 14, 2015 at 9:35pm PDT

Went to Safeway ledge right after work while India was in ballet class nearby. I was gonna try and film a ledge trick for out instagram game of skate. It wasn’t looking good at all for awhile as 50-50s weren’t even really working either way. After quite some time I settled in on the two tricks above that I never landed. Well, I guess I kind of landed one kick back 50 grind shove out, but I wasn’t locked in to 50-50 and I was going to slow to set with it. The front crooks felt amazing though. I had a couple good slams in there, but quite a few that grinded and I had a chance of getting out of. A lot of them went up into nosegrind and I would fall into 50. I didn’t do too many flip tricks. It was mostly just try these two tricks over and over. Then it was almost time to pick up India so I went to settle for nollie 360 flip. I landed one, but I had to slam a few times first. Ouch.

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Went to Valmont without much time and I was feeling really tired. I had wanted to go to Safeway ledge, but ended up not having enough time. I waxed up the ledge real good to start and it made my normal slappy noseslide routine more fun then normal. But then I went on to not land much and just get wax all over my board. I got most of my basics, but couldn’t do front tailslide. Had trouble getting up on the middle part for frontside grinds. Hucked kickflip noseslides for a bit, halfcab flips noseslides then hucked kickflip crooks for most of the session. I landed came super close to a switch flip at one point. I got into a couple kickflip crooks, but never locked in and grinded. It’s definitely way harder on a ledge then a curb. Duh.

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Went to Broomfield park on a sunny and hot day. I was there first. Carleigh, Riley, Bernie, Scotty and Garrett would join later. I started on the quartapotty for awhile then went into the flow bowl. I actually had fun there. Made myself do axle stalls on the pool coping which I haven’t in awhile. Also got some little fs slashes on the mellow part. Everyone else showed up. There was a lot going on obviously so it’s hard to remember what everyone else did. I was unable to nose manual the blue box. Got into several back 5-0s right away, then couldn’t for awhile. Ugh. Bernie was doing his manual thing. Riley was all over the black ledge. Scotty was killing the handplant combos on the brick qp. Carleigh does front disasters really easy on the brick qp, ollies into the bank all steezy and would get a back disaster or two. Garrett skates the whole park really good. Riley, Scotty, Bernie, Garret and I played a game of SKATE. I did alright in it. I think Scotty would go on to win, Riley had to sit out because of hot pocket pain. I did a few tricks on the black ledge. It was so slick. Took a long time to get back 50, well, I didn’t even do 50, I did 5-0. Typical me. I ended by trying to ollie the six stair. It was cool there was this young kid trying it too. Normally that would annoy me, but he was funner then most kids and really positive. I told him if I landed it he had to get my back. I landed it. He took more tries to get it, but man he was hyped! Ha, it was cool. I haven’t ollied a six in awhile so that felt pretty rad. I would love to some day eventually ollie the double set, but it seems so far away.

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A video posted by Matt House (@matthouse) on Sep 12, 2015 at 5:35pm PDT

Then I drove up to Loveland park to meet Matt. Riley and crew were supposed to follow, but they didn’t. When I first showed up the park was overrun by clueless scooter kids. It was insane. I almost called Matt from the parking lot to suggest we go somewhere else. Matt was killing some big ollies, front lip the bump to granite flat bar, back 50s down the smaller hubba. I started out alright with some boardslides and noseslides, but mostly wasn’t feeling the crowds. It would clear out though. We had fun. We hit the smaller lane in the street section for awhile. I had a couple of pathetic front 50 attempts down the tiny hubba before getting a few. Matt crooked the long hubba. So gnar. Then we mostly hucked over the A frame. I tried b/s flips for awhile and never landed one. Matt may have taken a whole 10 tries before getting a treflip. He had new trucks and wheels so I guess that explains it. He would get a nollie flip as well before I landed a really bad halfcab flip. I was doing some fun early grabs over the small part of a sideways cone. Dorky, but fun. Then I eventually barely landed the fakie bigflip above. It still felt neat. Kind of weird spending so much time at skateparks on a Saturday, but whatever, I had fun.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 52mm stf v3 nb# pj stratford 533)

Was cleaning the garage and hucked a few flippers here and there. Basically only tricks that I can’t land. Nollie heel, nollie flip, switch flip and switch heel. Surprisingly the switch heel felt the closest. Tried a few switch b/s flips too. That one seems possible as it’s kind of like switch varial flip.

I worked from home because I had to be on a 7am call. I ended up basically being on the phone for 9 hours straight. I was pretty tired and wanting to skate something other then Valmont, but Dave insisted and didn’t have time to drive elsewhere. Starting out was rough. Really rough for me. I’m not sure why, but I could barely get up the curbs and it took me like 30 minutes before I landed a manual. I added to the fun by taking out the metal grate from the long manny pad to make for some gap/combo options. Dave got manuals and nose manuals way quicker then me, but was struggling with other things. He hucked a lot of 180s out of manuals and stuff which could make for some new manuals soon. He started trying nollie front shove manuals and got one. So rad. I was trying fakie bigspin manuals which I had never done. I had a brief blast of awesome as I landed a nollie big flip then the fakie bigspin manual. I was hyped. Coming the other way I was trying manual to ollie over the huge 1 foot gap (ha) then 360 flip off the curb. I had done a few b/s flips off that felt rad. Dave started trying fakie bigspin manuals and he too came through with it. That’s two new manual tricks for him in one day and one for me. We were hyped. Dave was doing lots of kickflips. I was hucking a lot of flippers and getting close to fakie 3 flips. Dave had to leave and as he was pulling out I finally got the manual to ollie over the gap then a 6 point landing 360 flip off the curb (4 wheels, 2 hands). We counted it. Then it was off to Crisis to see Sabotage 4! It’s a good one.

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

After sparring with Liz a bit I drove off to take some steam off on the concrete. I went to Stonehenge to warm up which was fun. I went through the basics doing both fs and bs. Rock, axle, pivot, smith, disaster (back disaster took me a long time) and tail.

Then I went to Valmont yet again. I wanted to hit a ledge and flatground and didn’t have much time so why bother driving to a crowded skatepark. I started at the ledge and went through some basics and did some flippers in between. It was fun. Crooks, back 50, front 50, front tail, halfcab noseslide. Close to front nose. I did several flippers, came super close to nollie inward heel. Had a fun ollie or two of the loading dock and a front 180 then went and skated flatground with my new 10×10 list:
fakie bigflip
360 flip
fakie 360 flip
nollie 360 flip
bs halfcab heel
nollie flip
nollie varial flip
fs bigspin
varial heelflip
rick flip
I landed fakie bigflip, 360 flip, nollie 360 flip and nollie varial flip. My phone ran out of space halfway through though so looks like I have time to redo it before Friday. I’d like to get rid of fs bigspin as I don’t really care to learn that one.

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Tonight part 1.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 8, 2015 at 8:36pm PDT

Part 2. Young 30 somethings Jake and Matt tired and bored, Dave the Energizer Bunny learning new tricks at 47.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 8, 2015 at 8:49pm PDT

Had an exhausting day at work. After a nap, a little soccer with Ollie and then a brief flatground dorkery with Matt and Jake out front of my house we met Dave at Valmont. It seemed like we took awhile to get going. Manuals were hard. At least I didn’t have leg pain though. I think everyone got manuals. Nose manuals went down. Lots of close to front 180 nose manuals. Matt added kickflip manual, nollie manual and a really good 360 flip up the curb. Jake and Dave started a varial flip duel. Matt and I joined, but tried them switch. In one almost completely magical sequence Dave landed his, I landed mine, Matt landed his and Jake landed on his. So close to perfection. Jake’s knee was hurting so he mostly sat out. Dave went on to land his first ever switch varial flip! Matt and I tried switch tres for awhile, he would eventually land his all good. He also did switch heel which might be the first trick I’ve seen him not look totally natural on. He is human! I added nollie varial flip and nollie treflip to my flippers for the night. Dave and Jake switch ollied a board. I kickflipped it. Then Jake and Matt chilled as Dave came super close to f/s halfcab manual in hopes of eventually doing it to nose manual. He was also flying around doing manuals and nose manuals all good. I was trying a line of kickflip back tail stall on a curb then front 180 nose manual. Got super close. Had some fun flippers too. We ended when Dave did a front 180 nose manual. Fun times.

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

After lots of cleaning and chores, then some rain I went to Valmont with a new board. I waxed up the ledge real good while the puddles dried up. I love skating a new deck at a ledge spot first. I started with the ol’ no ollie noseslide routine and I felt pretty good. Then I started ollie’ing into them and still felt good. Got a f/s one to forward which is rare. Crooks happened quick. Back 50 took a bit. Front 50 happened with no pain in the groin which surprised me. I got a front 50 shove on the middle section that hyped me up enough to put a little dumpster after the loading dock and try to ollie it. But I never ended up committing. Oh well. Back to the ledge I hucked a bunch of tricks. Had a few front tails that actually slid I minute amout. I tried a bunch of nollie flips in between and didn’t even get my feet on it this time. I tried kickflip noseslides for awhile. It took me the time it took a cute fuzzy caterpillar to walk the entire length of the ledge. The one I got was another crappy one where I didn’t lock in. I did get close to locking in a few times though. Had a good nollie varial flip, a few 360 flips that I landed perfect and didn’t ride away from for some dumb reason. Got a kickflip back 50. Tried front crooks for awhile without success. Tried back 180 nosegrind without getting close. Did a couple dork tricks off the loading dock. Got tired and left for home happy that I didn’t have much pain.

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A photo posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Sep 6, 2015 at 12:41pm PDT

Up early on a Sunday. Was at Dave’s around 7am and we showed up in Loveland before 8am. The family above contributed to some initial negative feelings for the park. We avoided the strett area for awhile because of how lame that family was. The snake run was fun to pump and a little scary. Dave had some grinds at least. Then we messed around on the tree root spine for awhile which was quite fun. Dave had a good halfcab to tail that I couldn’t do. I had the little rock revert that got him. We did standard tail 180 transfers, smith/feeble transfers. Then it got fun with some early grab transfers. I’ve never done that before so it was pretty fun.

Then the street area cleared out and we hit it up. I took awhile to get slappy crooks on the bank to curb. Never got one that I was too hyped on. The quarterpipes are all so steep there. I don’t like that aspect of the park. Dave had a good slappy front 5-0. There is a bump to mini downhill ledge which was a fun warm up. I had a couple front 180s to fakie 50. Dave front 5-0’d down it. We hit the kicker for awhile. Dave had good ollies into the steep side and nollies the other way. I had a really weak b/s flip into the mellow side, halfcab flip and fakie bigflip too. All were fun. The quarterpipes around there are fun for doing lines. Both of us did a lot of different tricks on the qps. Dave had a couple really good back tails. I forced myself to front 50 down the mini hubba. I’m scared of downhill. It has a weird start to it, but I would get a few that felt alright. Noseslides down the longer one were fun too. Dave got busy with some nose manual attempts both ways on the bank to curb area. He would get a really good one coming out of the bank. I did a dumb kickflip to fakie on the escalator bank. Dave had some rad switch crooks on the waxed bank. I did some back 5-0s to fakie. Dave said I didn’t even shuffle out, but I’m not sure I believe him. That was pretty much it. We skated the bowl for a bit. Dave did some of his trick, fakie ollie to layback air. So rad. I didn’t drop in, but I had fun carving around and was getting up the hype to dropin when this funny dude from Brazil came to sweep out the bowl. Decent park, horrible family scooter scene.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum 52mm sfts that are down into the mid 40s and telling me to setup new wheels)

Went to Broomfield park while India was in ballet. Had about 2 hours to skate. It was sunny and hot. I was feeling better for awhile and was finally able to ollie without groin pain. It took awhile though. Warming up on the quartapotty wasn’t great. Blue ledge stuff wasn’t all that either. I guess I shouldn’t have expected much since I really haven’t ollied much in awhile. I had a run of boardslide the tiny down rail then back 50 the ledge. Also a run of f/s flip on the hump up top then front 50 shove the black ledge. I wasn’t able to get a crooks on the black ledge. Or a front 5-0. Had a good feeling nollie tre on flat. Other flatground felt alright. Tried to do backside nosegrind on the blue ledge for awhile, but only had a couple that were remotely close to locking in. I started to get really sore by the end.

Later that evening I tried nollie heels and nollie flips in my garage. I would commit to nollie heels every try, but they would only flip half way. I landed on another nollie flip with hands on the ground. Still hyped that I’ve made a little progress with that trick.

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