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Stubborns Saturday leftovers. Oldest to youngest. Can’t believe how nice it was yesterday. @_f_u_z_z @baffoos @slaherty #thestubborns

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 14, 2018 at 7:27am PDT

I’m writing this several days after the fact and in the middle of the night not being able to sleep. Ugh. Work has been insane and it’s messing with me. So I’m making excuses for this entry not being very complete or entertaining. Anyways, Stubborns Saturday was in effect on a crisp morning that would get pretty warm. The first spot was Red Hawk because Dave and I had some trick ideas. Although we went on to not even really try them. Ha. I got there first and started out on the curb area. The shaded area was still pretty cold. Those ride on grinds are really fun there. I tried to piece together a flatground trick, grind, back 180 up the curb, switch 180, front 50, front board. I might have done that. Kevin was next I think. Or Dave. They both started on the curbs too. Sean showed. He didn’t really mess with the curbs. Then we were mostly down below. Kevin was rattling off lines. Dave ollied up the loading dock and followed it with a solid front 50 back 180 out. Sean skates so fast it was rubbing off on others. Maybe not me so much as I think he could pass me without even pushing while trying lines. But Kevin slammed hard trying to do a fast front 50 and it kind of took him out for the day. He still skated, but his knee was hurting. Kevin and I had some funny tips for each other. After he bailed a back 50 I told him he might want to go slower and use more angle and landed my terrible one. After I bailed a crooks he told me I might want to go faster and use less angle and landed a good one. Ha. I had a lot of accidental front 5-0s and posed kick front boards without ever committing. I was skating so bad I decided to start filming Sean who was doing a line of fakie 50 then fakie back tail 270 shove, but we got the boot.

Off to Rocky Mtn Elem it was. Everyone but Sean was completely wrecked and sore when we go there. I think it was the crazy weather change coming messing with everyone. Or just the old age. Kevin tried to get it going, but he just couldn’t with his knee. Sean ollied the medians so casually and got a cool little clip for the gram. His front tailsides on the ledge were so posted up it inspired me to try and post up more on a more technical trick – noseslide. Dave was shredding the bank to angled curb. He did a crazy nollie shove rock ‘n roll in between some sketchy ollies up. Fuzz showed, but didn’t really skate this spot. The cracks here are so bad. I kept trying for the heck of it. Kickflips up the little curb are really fun there. The noseslide to fakie was fun too, the bigger board is great for noseslides. I didn’t get many flippers. I got a few super slow front 50 that felt like an accomplishment just forcing my legs to ollie that high, but never got the no comply bean plant after.

Then we went to the chocolate chip church. Upon rolling up Fuzz and I were amazed at how much gnarlier it was then we remembered. But after some kickturns and stuff it felt more skateable. I pretty much lost interest right away though and just filmed. Fuzz got the rock ‘n rolls along with a little stubborns line. Sean got a litle gram line and said he wanted to learn ollies to fakie (I don’t believe that he didn’t already have it mastered). Kevin had some painful looking bails, but went in hard on a pivot fakie and just couldn’t quite get it. It was a bummer, but man he tried hard and was limping so bad.

After that was mexican food and margs. Good times.

(setup 8.5 null perception deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 88a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, old bones 51mm stf v1 wheels, new balance numeric 345 black/white size 12, stock insoles)
(pain level 3/10 when we started but more like 7/10 knee pain at rocky mtn)

And congrats on turning pro! It’s well deserved. What a great mix of gnar/tech/dork skating.

On a cold morning I went to Boulder park before work. I wanted to go into work early and then take a long lunch, but I had a suspicion I would be too busy ( I was right). My legs were a little stiff in the cold. Pumping around was alright. I eventually tried some ollies and kickflips. Some younger skaters came and made sure not to make eye contact or say hi. I had some fun hip ollies. The big setup feels great for that. I eventually settled on a line that took too long because I kept being scared of jumping on 50s on the little ledge. Argh. But it was front 50 across and down the little ledge up top, go around the miniramp section then b/s flip the weird hip by the ledge. I got about 10 grinds and managed to land the line right before I needed to leave for work. It was a pretty great feeling even though I think I was about 3 feet above my board in the air. Oh well, the landing felt cool and the bigger setup felt great for that.

(setup 8.5 null perception deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 88a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, old bones 51mm stf v1 wheels, new balance numeric 345 black/white size 12, stock insoles)
(pain level 5/10 cold/sore knees)

On a cold night I went across the street to play on the curb. The motivation was to get a feel for halfcab 50 which Dave challenged me to. I played on the curb for about 30 minutes, but didn’t only try halfcab 50s. I had some fun slappy crook, 50s, nollie tails both ways. I got pretty close to the halfcab 50. I was going ultra slow, but I feel like it’s possible. I also tried a bunch of switch crook which I didn’t get, but I did get a fakie b/s nosegrind. It was a little scratch, but it felt cool. Then I went to the back and played on the rocks. It was weird how quite and crisp the air was. I felt like all the skate noise was way louder than normal. Anyway, I skated them differently. I did a few stalls at first, but rode across the narrower one, axle stall the one by the table, nosestall to fakie the middle rock. Neat. Then I started hucking kickflip nose stalls going one way and front smith or tail stalls the other way. I got really close to all three, but realize now that I didn’t land any of them. How did I let myself go home?

(setup 8.5 null perception deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 88a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, old bones 51mm stf v1 wheels, new balance numeric 345 black/white size 12, stock insoles)
(pain level 2/10)

Got stuck late at work, but was feeling very pent up and needing to skate. It was snowing and I was too tired to leave so I just went to the garage. I did a couple kickflips then basically hucked for awhile. First fakie varial flips which weren’t close. Switch varial flip which was slightly closer. Then treflip which I landed a couple sketchy times.

(setup 8.5 null perception deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 88a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, old bones 51mm stf v1 wheels, new balance numeric 345 black/white size 12, stock insoles)
(pain level 3/10 cold leg blues)

On a wet and cold night Ollie and I headed out to the garage. At first the little plastic ledge was sitting on the ground and Ollie did a few front 50s before my body was willing to ollie. Then we put it up the step and tried to grind up it, but that was dangerous on many levels and we eventually ended up with the contraption shown in the video. It was quite fun. I had done the nose manny shove earlier before the line, but settled for the 180 as it was taking too long. Ollie had fun, but only lasted so long. So I skated flat for awhile. Heelflips were really hard, I barely landed one. This big board is tough for that. I got crappy b/s flips and treflips.

(setup 8.5 null perception deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 88a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, old bones 51mm stf v1 wheels, new balance numeric 345 black/white size 12, stock insoles)
(pain level 3/10 cold leg blues)

After hanging with the family most of the day I went to go skating at the Valmont area. I just wanted to do a couple ledge tricks then try to hosercam film a cab flip on the mellow bank for stubborns. It started misting as I pulled in. I got a first try front tail stall, a couple halfcab noseslides and bailed front 50s. I was on a big board. 8.5 with Venture 5.8s. It felt lovely. I was craving a big board yesterday so I put together a complete from used stuff. The deck was in pretty good shape. But the mist quickly turned to rain so instead of going to the bank I went to redder curbs. They had put in some new parking blocks and freshly painted the curbs. I felt a little bad digging in, but not too bad. I mostly tried some lines. First one started wear the little bumps are. Front 180 in, switch back 180 out (all of them were terrible), front tail stall a curb, kickflip on flat, slappy crook. Then I mixed up a couple lines. Ollie the little median, curve around then back 50 the median, manual the corner of a curb, no comply the parking block. Never quite got it, the short manual weirded me out. Other line was switch front 180 the parking block then something, but the switch 180 proved to be hard and I never got past it. I got tired and played flatground for a bit. Got a first try halfcab flip, but didn’t commit to much and left feeling pretty tired.

(setup 8.5 null perception deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 88a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, old bones 51mm stf v1 wheels, new balance numeric 345 black/white size 12, footprint flat 5mm insoles)
(pain level 3/10 them shoes don’t have much protection)

Crew collected and rolled to Denver in Fuzz’s off road mobile. It was Jack, Sean, Dave, Fuzz and me. First spot was the carwash wallride spot kind of for Dave, but he had remembered it pretty differently than it is. Jack did some tall wallrides immediately. Then to manual and back 180 out. Dave did some good wallrides too. Then Dave and I did the wallie nollie. Fuzz chilled and took photos. Sean setup a board then put together a smooth line. I was filming at this point and Jack was getting close to a wallride shove wallride and Dave close to a wallride kickflip line when we got the boot. Dude was pretty upset considering absolutely no damage was being done. Oh well.

So we went to this nearby ledge where we ended up staying put. I had wanted to switch noseslide off the 3 stair, but never really committed to it and was not feeling confident at all. I couldn’t even do kickflips on flat. Sean was going 100mph and rattling off some smooth tailslides and stuff. Jack was putting together some crazy combos. Fuzz too. Dave came through with some solid front 50 variations to firecracker. Sean was going so fast I thought he could pop his fakie tailslide past the stairs. Jack’s did back tail then back 3 and then a back tail shove to manual first try. Insane. I slowly gained some confidence and was going for switch cheater front nose then switch 180. It took awhile, but I got it. The whole time I was wanting a bigger setup. Fuzz got halfcab noseslide then back 180, fakie 50 then switch 180. Solid. Then we bolted home.

(setup 8.25 null lazer deck, thunder 148 lights, venom 88a bushings, 2 washers inside each axle, 51mm v1 bones stf wheels, new balance numeric black 345 size 12, footprint flat 5mm insoles)
(pain level 1/10 not any pain, but felt very awkward on my board)

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Little windy eh @fullertrron #270flip #over40skateboarding #over50skateboarding

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 5, 2018 at 4:08pm PDT

Got to take another half day at work. It was another beautiful day, although at the end of the session it got very windy. There was another dude when we showed up. His girlfriend was sitting on one of the bump to ledges watching as he hucked some tech flyouts. He didn’t speak much, but he was fine to skate with. Warming up took a bit. I had a goal of tailslide over the hip then 360 flip to fakie the next bank. After taking a bit to do a kickflip to fakie and getting a first try back kickflip on the bank I went in on it. I was annoyed with how small my board was feeling. Dave was warming up with slides over the hip, 180s, did a cool line with a fakie ollie to front 50 down the little hubba. We played with our lines and some other stuff in between then started taking turns filming each other. Dave was trying a line of back 50 the ledge then the ollie on to boardslide, but couldn’t consistently get the back 50. Maybe because the angle was totally insane. But write this day down in history because I got my front tail – 360 flip line before Dave got his line. This might be the first time I did something remotely quick. Dave’s switch 360 boneless over the rail was insane. I tried several ollies over the other rail and it seemed more doable this time around, but I still never committed. I blame the wind somewhat. My other line was supposed to end with halfcab noseslide, but after landing the kickflip so cleanly (for me) I just went with the cheater switch front nose. I had tried a couple crooks and felt very uncomfortable trying them. Weird. Then the wind kicked in heavy and it was time to leave anyway.

(setup 8.25 null lazer deck, thunder 148 lights, venom 88a bushings, 2 washers inside each axle, 51mm v1 bones stf wheels, new balance numeric black 345 size 12, footprint flat 5mm insoles)
(pain level 3/10 right ankle still a little weird)

Chris Mulhern has been my favorite filmer and editor for awhile now. Everything he does looks so incredibly crisp and perfect. Throw in grimy Phili spots, incredible skating and a good tune and this really makes me want to go skate.