Nate rules. This part has so much soul in it. Not to mention insane tricks like nose manual janoski flip. Email me (corpoglenny@gmail.com) if you want to buy this on dvd.

After work on a very hot Tuesday I stopped by the dog park with about an hour to skate. When I first got there only a couple people were skating. Withing a few minutes though another 10 or so people showed and all were skating hard. It was the first time I was annoyed with the crowds. Everyone there was around 20. The bigger board felt big, but it felt right. I struggled with lots of basics. About the only positives were that I had some okay back 50s on the low part of the black box, nollie back tails the little narrow ledge. I struggled with front 50 on the bench, halfcab noseslide the bench, crooks the tall part of the black box. I ended by finally ollieing over the wallie barrier without any wheel bonk. Then I went home for dinner and saw my friends were skating Glenn Close. 🙁

(setup 8.5 Null Lazer deck, venture trucks 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger , venom 91a bushings with no bottom washer, bones 52mm stf sidecuts wheels, new balance numeric 379 b/w size 12, currex runpro medium arch insole )
(pain level 5/10 all of a sudden my right knee hurts bad again ugh)

On a surprisingly hot morning I met up with Rob, Chad and Kevin at the Dog park. This older dude Will was there too which I haven’t really skated with before. Daryl and Justin showed up after awhile too. I had put smaller trucks on again like an idiot and hated it basically the entire day with the exception of a couple halfcab flips. It was a fun session. Rob had halfcab boardslides on the butter bench, 50 180s, noseslide the top part of the black box (I need a better name for this ledge). Kevin was doing Kevin right away. 50s, nosegrind, 5-0 the top part of the black box. He even crook bonked the new super tall flat bar. I committed to nosegrind on the low black box, but never got far with it. Had a couple good feeling fakie flips, halfcab flips, but couldn’t heelflip. Will got the pole jam after we both failed to treflip. Then he got one. Daryl and Justin were rad to watch. Daryl had some steezy new PJ shoes that made me jealous. Chad had a cool line of nose manual, boardslide to fakie, halfcab, front board the mid square rail. I also saw a nice back 5-0 first try. Kevin tried to get me to back 50 the low part of the black ledge by doing doubles with me back 50’ing the top. We never got it. But I got it first try on my own. Ha. Then I went on to not do kick back 50. I don’t remember much more. The thing about skating the same spot a lot makes it harder to remember what went down that day. Oh yeah, Jack showed up and skated long enough to do a few rad tracks and snap his tail doing a nollie heel over the barrier. That is a big nollie heel! I felt like I got heat stroke and it never went away the rest of the day. Jack got a banger in the fort, but him and Jack came up short at the bench spot. Doh.

(setup 8.25 Null Lazer deck, venture trucks 5.2 v-hollow , venom 91a bushings, bones stf v2 51mm wheels, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, new balance numeric 379 b/w size 12, currex runpro medium arch insole )
(pain level 2/10)

On a warm morning I drove to Broomfield to meet up with Kevin, Rob, Fuzz, Eric, Dave L. I was late. I’m always late. But I did have a good reason this time (helping my daughter get ready for a funeral). I played a game of SKATE with Dave L and Kevin to get warmed up. Kevin smoked us. We had a few tricks until Kevin got loose and then it was over with the nollie/switch flips. Looked like Dave L could get both those, but didn’t land them. Rob was in demo mode. Straight killing it. 50 180s, manuals, front noseslides. Dave L had some cool manual combos. Manual the blue bank sideways to quick nose manual up the brown ledge. Kevin was killing the ledges as he does. Back tail, switch crooks, switch nosegrind 180, etc. Eric has been charging hard lately. Crooks, back 50s, heelflips, skating fast, looking good. I was stoked to see Fuzz. He chilled awhile, but got things going. I was struggling so I just started hucking switch front noseslide shoves. Kevin wanted to film it so I kept trying. I got a bad one kind of quick, but never a clean one. Some felt so good though. Fuzz got some fakie 50 halfcabs, fakie nosegrind 180s. Then I filmed Kevin get a sick line of switch flip into the bank, a couple ledge tricks and then a nollie tre out of the bank. Wow. Then we were off to 303. Fun morning. Great dudes.

(setup 8.25 Null Lazer deck, venture trucks 5.8 titanium axle on cast baseplate , venom 91a bushings, bones stf v2 51mm wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, new balance numeric 379 b/w size 12, currex runpro medium arch insole )
(pain level 3/10)

Right after work on a warm Friday afternoon I went to the dog park to Meet Rob and maybe Matt. Matt would show a little later. Dan too. Rob and I were in the warm up process when Dan showed up and quickly started shredding. He is one of our faves. Kind of early on I got a line of manual the smallest box, ollie the kinked rail, wallie the barrier. Felt cool even though it was done badly. Rob was killing manuals, nose manuals, nose manual 180, nollie lips, back 50s, front 50s, etc, etc. I was pretty hit or miss. I came close to a front 5-0 180 on the little part of the black box, but couldn’t lock into 5-0 again. Got a line that took awhile of noseslide to fakie the tall part of the box, halfcab flip (which took way too many tries), wallie the barrier, bailed a treflip. Dan got the marathon line and about 5 other tricks across the hard top of the box. Matt showed up and quickly did a bunch of ledge tricks like nothing. The first front noseblunt was unreal. I tried some kick back 50s, halfcab crooks, gotta get those. All in all kind of another disappointed showing from me. Rob got close to front nosegrinds, that would have been sick. He grinds the whole thing. I was too scared to commit to one. Love me the dog park.

(setup 8.25 Null Lazer deck, venture trucks 5.8 titanium axle on cast baseplate , venom 91a bushings, bones stf v2 51mm wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, new balance numeric 212 maroon size 12, currex runpro medium arch insole )
(pain level 4/10)

After my first day back at work in a long time and a nap to recover I went to the dog park on a hot evening. This was my first time going there solo in the evening. There weren’t too many people. Tyler and Veronica were the only people I knew. It seems like a popular spot for college students. Maybe they used to go to the Boulder park, but I wouldn’t know because I never went there. I started out slow, immediately not liking my setup and at no point did I like my setup. I had put the wider axles on. I don’t like wider axles than deck width. Pretty quickly I had a couple great feeling crooks on the tall part of the black box. I tried again later (photo) and couldn’t do it. I messed around for awhile before wanting to try a line. Nose manual the box, ollie the kinked flatbar, wallie the barrier, treflip on flat, crooks the black box. I never got past the ollie. Ugh. I could barely nose manual too. It was kind of depressing. I did get the wallies basically every try at least. Got a halfcab flip. Couldn’t commit to nosegrind on the low part of the black ledge. Took a long time to back 50 it. Took even longer to halfcab noseslide the metal ledge. Argh. Couldn’t halfcab crook it either. Went home questioning everything.

(setup 8.25 Null Lazer deck, venture trucks 5.8 titanium axle on cast baseplate , venom 91a bushings, bones stf v2 51mm wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, new balance numeric 212 maroon size 12, currex runpro medium arch insole )
(pain level 3/10)

After very little sleep we were up early to the York park since that’s where the family was going to pick me up. We were all sore and tired. Zoey joined us. She looks like she has a really fun time on a skateboard. It was cool. She had some side rocks, some board jump offs and stuff. Not sure how to write about it as they aren’t official olympic style tricks. Ha. Joe took a few tries to get a kickflip to fakie so I had to do it first try and rub it in his face. That’s about all I remember from me. Oh and kind of a frontside sal flip thing, but I had to go to tail. Eric’s trick is hard. Then my family showed and we were out. Well, they skated a little longer. Love seeing those dudes.

(setup 8.25 Null Lazer deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow trucks , venom 91a bushings, bones stf v1 53mm wheels, 2 washers on the inside of each axle, new balance numeric 212 maroon size 12, currex runpro medium arch insole )
(pain level 5/10)

On a very hot day Joe and I rolled to Lincoln with no definite plans. We went to Precision first and ended up getting an invite to Phil’s ramp a couple hours later. Sweet! We went to Peter Pan park to pass the time. There was a basketball short wearing local hero really going for it and slamming hard. It was almost inspiring. We started on the miniramp which was really good. I didn’t do much, Joe did his normal tricks. Then we skated the bank, bank to ledge. I went in on the nosestall to tail stall right away and it took awhile. Joe put together a few tricks. Front axle, smith, kickflip fakie. I finally got the nose/tail stall and it felt really cool. Then I went right to kick back axle. The heat was super intense, I thought I would pass out at times. My shirt felt like it grew 2 sizes from the sweat. Joe did the fakie flip and halfcab flip. The approach for those is gnarlier than it looks.

Then we went to Phil’s and were pleasantly surprised to see the ramp was in the shade. Phils’ friend Chad was visiting so it was the four of us. It was still hot, but more bearable in the shade for sure. Everyone except Phil started slowly. He started with a long run with a ton of tricks. This would be a trend as you can see by the 1 minute run. Phil killed it. So many different tricks. Super fun dude to skate with. The dump truck was pretty cool, most of his plant tricks were first try, he had some really long front 5-0s. Chad had some poppy frontside ollies, back 50s. Joe was doing all of his tricks and called the ramp the best ramp ever (it might be). I was kind of struggling and sore, but still having a blast. Took a few tries to get front 50. Got front disaster, kind of front smith, back 50 to fakie, kind of a texas plant and could not do a fakie pivot fakie. At the end the 3 of us tried kickflip rock fakies. I was too sore to really commit. Joe ended up getting it and that was that.

Then it was straight to more skating. This time York park with Eric. There was another dude there ripping which is rare to see in York. I was very sore. Joe pretended to be sore, but it didn’t seem to effect him at all. He was ripping through frontside grinds no problem. Notice I just say frontside. Ha ha. Eric was still hobbling some, but man those frontside finger flips are so sick. He has some cool speed lines, but you can tell the knee is still bothering him. Joe showed me up on a fakie flip, laughed at me and said he ‘sent it’. Ha ha. Well played. I could not front 50 the mellow bank to ledge. I couldn’t really ollie at all actually. I did have some crooks on the ledge, kickflip to fakie, boneless. Joe had a lot of front 50/smith/lip combos on the bank to ledge. Some solid fast front 50s on the ledge. Eric said he wanted to wallie the parking block and I told him it was easy. I went to show him and 8 tries later I kind of eeked one out. Ha. Those slams were not fun.

(setup 8.25 Null Lazer deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow trucks , venom 91a bushings, bones stf v1 53mm wheels, 2 washers on the inside of each axle, new balance numeric 212 maroon size 12, currex runpro medium arch insole )
(pain level 4/10)

On a very hot afternoon I met Matt and a very non-crowded Omaha park. I had new insoles and man they felt good. Currex. We’ll see if they pass the test of time. Anyway, we started no the ledge area, but I couldn’t really do much of anything. Matt had rattled off quite a few “basics” like fakie nosegrinds both ways and b/s nosegrind. Also a halfcab backfoot flip. Then we started playing in the snake run. I wanted to do a nollie front shove rock fakie after doing it on a bank the previous week with Dave. It took a bit, but then I got one. Matt wanted to film it so I took several tries to get another one. Both were super fun, as were the setup grinds. Then Matt got in on the action and did what he says is his first “Joe Hamiltons”. He had some funny bails on back 50s. Then we went to the flat bank and did our tricks. No surprise, but I took the longest. Matt said we both had to do kickflip to fakies. It took me less tries than the b/s flip surprisingly. We were doing the “puff puff pass” game with the phone to get all the tricks. It was motivating. Then to the ledge where Matt did the gnarly nosegrind shove and I was too lame to try anything with an ollie in it. Last was flip tricks into the snake run. Matt did the nollie lazer first try, then took a few tries to get the cleaner version above. I took awhile to get fakie bigflip. It’s been too long since I’ve even tried it. Stupid big setups. Matt gave up on the b/s late flip. I tried a couple treflips. Then this young basketball short wearing kid came and did the treflip in the same spot first try. To add insult to injury he looked back and snickered. Matt said “Welcome to Omaha Glen, worst scene ever”. Ha ha. The kid had no idea whatsoever. I got the really slow one a few tries later and felt good about the smaller setup (except how I couldn’t front 50 earlier). Also really liked the new insoles.

(setup 8.25 Null Lazer deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow trucks , venom 91a bushings, bones stf v1 53mm wheels, 2 washers on the inside of each axle, new balance numeric 212 maroon size 12, currex runpro medium arch insole )
(pain level 2/10)

After some basketball and hanging with my brothers family Ollie and I hit the skatepark. No one else was there.  The park is mostly terrible, but it’s surrounded by ledges. This makes it better than most parks. I was feeling somewhat hungover from partying with my brother and I had a new smaller setup. A new 8.25 board and old small ventures. Yes, I brought extra stuff with me on vacation because I anticipated this change. I couldn’t halfcab noseslide the long ledge. Settled on a line of kickflip to fakie, halfcab flip, noseslide, sweeper. Took a bit. Ollie filmed it. I was very happy with how easily the board was flipping. I had messed around with other stuff too, but not much. Did the ol’ boneless rail transfer too. Ollie did the fakie shove. That was about all he did.

(setup 8.25 Null Lazer deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow trucks , venom 91a bushings, bones stf v1 53mm wheels, 2 washers on the inside of each axle, new balance numeric 212 maroon size 12, footprint gamechanger orthotic insoles)
(pain level 5/10)