On a beautiful evening Carleigh and I met up then went to campus to meet Rob and Jake. We met at the slappy ledge and as I was waxing it a CU cop rolled up hot. But it turned out it was for someone else who actually needed help. We didn’t feel like pushing it and went around the corner to India’s dorm and skated the manual pad. It was quite fun. Carleigh was doing lots of kickflips and getting close to manualling the longer pad. Jake was breaking the tilt record on his manual attempts. Rob went in on nose manual to front tail on the ledge right away. He got one. So sick. He also did a no comply to manual around the sidewalk. I got a manual pretty quick, took awhile to get a nose manual then got a 3rd try kickflip manual. The kickflip manual felt beyond amazing and sold me on the smaller/lower setup again. I’ll use those Indys for my Saulside board. I tried kickflip nose manuals too, but never got close. Some younger kids showed up. Good to see young ones getting out and skating street. We went around the corner to the slappy ledge and the cops were gone so it was good to go. Jake and I went in on lines. Rob and Carleigh were hitting the tall manual pad. Rob got close to manual. Carleigh got close to no comply wallie up. Jake’s line was f/s halfcab, slappy crooks to fakie, front 180 up the manny pad, halfcab off. We tried treflips for awhile, but neither of us got one. My lines got gradually harder. First one was halfcab flip, slappy axle stall, wallie up the manny pad, ollie off. Then started with heelflip and ended with front 180 off the pad. I was skating pretty hard for awhile, trying to ollie the ledge, noseslide the tall flagstone ledge, etc. Last line was heelflip to tail crack, slappy pivot, wallie up, kickflip off the pad but I landed terribly and came to a halt with my hand down. Everyone was done at that point.

(setup 8.25 null monico deck, venture 5.2 awake lows, 1/16 riser, old 51mm bones stf v1, 3 washers inside each axle, white venture bushings, es accel slims navy/white asta size 12, gamechanger insoles)

Such a great feel good trick.

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 20, 2018 at 7:30pm PDT

Was at the nearby Westin for a work conference so went to Broomfield after work on a nice evening. I had the park alone with some scooter kids who did their best to avoid me which was nice. Another skater showed after a bit. My warm up was okay even though my legs weren’t feeling very good. I could tell the dynamic stretching paid off big time. The park felt a little different since I as on my smaller setup. I got the tiny boardslide rail the first few times I tried it and a first try halfcab noseslide, but other than that nothing out of the ordinary before Rob showed up. Another skater showed around then that was fun to skate with even though has doing tricks like heelflip nose manual and switch treflip. Rob wasn’t feeling it so much. After a bit we played a game of SKATE. It started bad with both of us missing shoves or kickflips, but it ended up being good for us. Rob got a solid fakie flip, but two letters on halfcab flip. I think the other letters he got were varial flip, heelflip and I won it on halfcab heelflip. He had gotten me with a cab and something else. We hit the blue ledge for awhile doing 50s where you get on over the corner. I was going backside and Rob frontside. His were sick. The back 50 over the top was my goal for the day so that was cool. It’s easier to commit to with low trucks as you’re just that tiny bit closer. I was beat, but Rob was charging so I started hucking no comply flips. I wasn’t getting too close until I setup the camera and it was first try on film. Nice. Rob closed it out with some nosegrind attempts then a boardslide 180 transfer on the brown ledge. The other dude skating was going for heelflip manual front shove out. So sick. Fun day, but I wish my knees were feeling better.

(setup 8.25 null monico deck, venture 5.2 awake lows, 1/16 riser, old 51mm bones stf v1, 3 washers inside each axle, white venture bushings, es accel slims navy/white asta size 12, gamechanger insoles)

Worked late, Broomfield was cancelled, saw that Dave was green on gchat and that it hadn’t rained yet. Somehow we ended up at Niwot HS. The main ledge was behind a dumpster and not skateable. Doh. We went around the school and skated a terrible bench that had a slight slope up to it. I rode my little board, it felt low and small, but not bad. It took us awhile to even nosestall on it. Dave would go on to get front axle, boneless nosepick. I got front rock, couldn’t get back axle.

Then we hit this speed bump for awhile. It started because I saw a clip of someone varial heeling off a speed bump. We both posed that for a bit. Then Dave did front shove and back shove taking off and landing on the speed bump. So crazy to land back in it. I had a few good slams trying kickflip and got a couple. I took the fatty to flatty approach though. Then we messed around on a couple of the ledges briefly before it rained. Dave got a front nose or two, I got a back nose or two and some tiny crook jibs. Then the rain set it and we were done.

(setup 8.25 null monico deck, venture 5.2 awake lows, 1/16 riser, old 51mm bones stf v1, 3 washers inside each axle, white venture bushings, es accel slims navy/white asta size 12, gamechanger insoles)

On a rainy night I drove around a little looking for new spots. Saw one great looking new ledge spot, but it’s right by a police station. Looked at red curbs, but it was all wet since the rain was so intense. Ended up in the Steelyards garage. I had my normal setup and an 8.25 with Venture lows on it. I started basically doing a side by side comparison. I would try a line on one setup then the same line on the next. I did this for about 30 minutes and I tried to be as unbiased as possible. Both setups felt better/worse at times. The surprising turning point was how much better I felt popping the board on the smaller setup. I had better kickflips on the bigger board, but heelflip tricks were way worse. Doing little grinds on the curb felt similar. Well, it felt about the same to get in, but I had more control with the lows once I got in. Manuals felt better with the bigger setup, but that might be because I was more used to it. After the 30 minutes I skated the 8.25. I posed ollies over the big cone in the photo. It felt remotely doable and hucking it was fun, but I never committed. I tried the ironman line and had a great feeling kickflip, great feeling heelfip, then sketchy hand down treflip. I counted it. Treflips really bring out how big those shoes feel. I’m not sure I can keep trying to skate them. Anyway, the ironman line came kinda quick so then I tried to do a fakie ironman. I had some great feeling fakie flips, one insanely slow fakie heelflip and didn’t land the fakie tre. I hucked other flip tricks, but didn’t land much else. So yeah, here we go, I’ll probably skate the small board for awhile again, get flip tricks back, then want to change to a bigger setup, enjoy it for a bit, then want the small setup to get flip tricks back again, blah blah.

(setups: 8.38 null perception deck, indy 149 ray barbee trucks, oj 52mm ez edge insane-a-thane wheels, bones medium bushings, es accel slim navy/white asta size 12, footprint gamechanger low profile insole
8.25 null monico deck, venture 5.2 awake lows, 1/16 riser, old 51mm bones stf v1, 3 washers inside each axle, white venture bushings, same shoes as above)

The Wade Desarmo footage was all it took, but throw in some great PRod, Villani and McClung and you got the winner.

#fathersday tradition with @ollie.gillingham. Turn the sound up for some hilarious Ollie commentary. #cigregrettes #nicegymastics #fathersonskate

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 17, 2018 at 4:40pm PDT

An unenthusiastic Ollie joined me to Denver for a Fathers Day tradition of skating and making a little montage together. I felt like cruising around spots and needed to get to Denver so we went to the campus there. My legs weren’t feeling very good. It took a bit just to ollie at all. Then a big dog came out of nowhere and scared me and I swore at the dog and owner and Ollie was even more bummed on me. But he started to cheer up when we started filming some stuff. Everything in the clip is in order. I couldn’t ollie up the ledge I kickflipped off to save my life. It sucked. The kickflip was a struggled. I kind of can’t believe I got one. Ollie’s halfcab then back 180 was super awesome. I still couldn’t do a manual there. We went to the little red curb nearby which was fun. Looked at some other stuff then ended up at the line spot I had never seen before. It was setup perfect for lines. After a few poses down the big 2 Ollie started filming me trying the line I needed to motivate myself to jump down it. It was fun, I was skating hard. The first line took about 10 tries. The second line took ~25 tries. The cracks up top prevented a harder flip trick. The crack before the big 2 made it a little scary. I called out “if I get the line this time you have to ollie the 2 stair” and Ollie said OK. So I new I had to do it and somehow it worked out. After this we basically skated back to the car. I was pretty beat after this and Ollie was ready to not skate so we called it a day. I’m happy I at least had some fun trying the lines. I wouldn’t be surprised if I end up trying low trucks again soon.

(setup 8.38 null perception deck, indy 149 ray barbee trucks, oj 52mm ez edge insane-a-thane wheels, bones medium bushings, es accel slim navy/white asta size 12, footprint gamechanger low profile insole)

Today was fun. @43shifty @_f_u_z_z @gnarlycarleigh @ashlyngames

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 16, 2018 at 7:18pm PDT

I was having a lazy morning and before I knew it it was time to go skate. The meet up spot was Douglass. Carleigh, Ashlyn and I got there at the same time basically. Rob and Fuzz a little later. Blaine awhile later. Warming up wasn’t great. I did see Carleigh do a nice first try kickflip though. Ashlyn was getting into front noseslides. I was just kind of messing around not hitting the ledges. Grinding up/down the yellow curb, front 180s off the ledge by the door, etc. When Rob and Fuzz arrived it started to rain a little. It looked like it was going to be really bad, but it never ended up saturating the ground. Rob and I skated through most of it. I was desperately trying front 50s. It took awhile, but I did get one. Well, kind of. I came to complete halt and grabbed my board to help me land it. I was still happy. We did some flatground in the covered area when the rain was at it’s worst. The highlight being 3 heelflips in a row (Ashlyn, Carleigh, Fuzz). I blew it on being the 4th, but I did get a horrible one the next try. As it cleared up Fuzz did a boneless 180 over the little wall then snapped an ollie over it like it was nothing. I tried both, but only kind of got the boneless. I have no idea what it would take for me to get over that. Then a kicker session started. Rob and Carleigh snapped some great ollies and Fuzz took top honors by clearing the whole flat. When I tried to ollie half of it I didn’t even hit the tail. Ha. We attempted to skate it link a bank too, but that didn’t really work seeing as how it’s basically flat. Lines were attempted. Rob and I tried ours for a long time. Rob was doing back 180 up the curb, turn around, boardslide the end of a ledge, then the no comply wallie. As you can see he got it, well a variation of it. It was first try for the camera, but it was after I had already given up and sat down. My line was front 50 up the yellow curb, kickflip/heelflip/treflip (only got one terrible treflip, I blame the shoes being a little too big) then curve around and noseslide 270 shove out. I never got my feet on the noseslide shove, but man I was close. It felt good really trying that trick as it’s been awhile. Fuzz had some steezy shifty ollies up the curb, noseslides on the ledge. Ashlyn was doing high speed heelflips. Carleigh was trying to line out kickflip, back 180, halfcab flip. Blaine had showed. He cruised for a bit, hit some snappy ollies. While most of us sat and chilled Rob and Blaine hit the curb on the side of the school. Rob said he got front tailslide shove. Blaine battled back tails and had the selfie documentation to prove he got one. Then we went off to a laughter filled dinner and spot lurk. Great times.

(setup 8.38 null perception deck, indy 149 ray barbee trucks, oj 52mm ez edge insane-a-thane wheels, bones medium bushings, es accel slim navy/white asta size 12, footprint gamechanger low profile insole)

Left work early. It had rained a little so I avoided dog park and went to the basketball ledges. There were some puddles there too, but not enough to mess with it so much. I started off terribly. I couldn’t do anything. Then kind of out of nowhere I did a line that changed everything. Halfcab noseslide, heelflip on flat (the heelflip felt so great), front 50 (well, more of a front axle stall), front noseslide. After that I had motivation and tried harder. Got a couple crooks, switch front noseslides. Finally started getting on front 50s with some consistency and a tiny bit of speed. Almost got front 50 shove. Then some people showed up to play basketball. I still skated the outside ledges. Got a noseslide shove, switch front nose to forward. Then kind of ran out of steam so I left for the dog park.

At the dog park I rewarmed up with some 3 trick lines. I started real basic then got slightly harder until I went for the Ironman challenge (kickflip, heelflip, treflip). It was fun I was skating pretty hard and the kickflip and heelflip were fast enough to be a little scary. I didn’t get too many clean heelflips though so I was going pretty close when it came time to treflip. But I kept not landing the treflip. I would finally get it, but put a hand down. Oh well. It was a battle and I was over it. I hucked some switch tres, nollie/switch heels, halfcab heels for a bit then ollied the cone. I had a few clean ones, but the one I slightly touched it adds some character. I like having that cone to ollie. For those of you paying too close of attention, I will say the size 12 Accel Slim is too big, the 11.5s I had last time skate better.

(setup 8.38 null perception deck, indy 149 ray barbee trucks, oj 52mm ez edge insane-a-thane wheels, bones medium bushings, es accel slim navy/white asta size 12, footprint gamechanger low profile insole)

After a long day at work I wanted to get some skating in. My body wasn’t feeling great and I didn’t have the motivation to go anywhere so I just went in front of my house. I had a rough goal of doing 20 tricks then going back inside and watching Stranger Things with the family. I started off with the basics. It was still over 90 degrees so the street was a little melted which makes for some weird slow downs/stops sometimes. After about 10 warm up tricks without any flippers I started flipping. I got a few. The melted street was not helping things. Kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, b/s flip, heelflip. Took a long time to get a 360 flip and it was terrible. As soon as I struggle with treflips I want away from Indys. Ha, not gonna bail out this quick though. I got a rare (and terrible) halfcab heel. I hucked quite a bit, it seems like nollie heels are possible. I’ve learned to put my back foot forward and it seems like I just need to commit rather than posing them now. Couldn’t get nollie tre or nollie bigflip. Hucked a few switch tres, switch heels. It was mostly a struggle fest, but whatevs, I skated and tried some stuff.

(setup 8.38 null perception deck, indy 149 ray barbee trucks, oj 52mm ez edge insane-a-thane wheels, bones medium bushings, es accel slim navy/white asta size 12, footprint gamechanger low profile insole)

Feeling mellow on a nice night I went across the street with very little motivation. I did a few basic grinds and started to think about a challenge for Dave. Switch 50 seemed like a good one. I got the 2nd one I tried, but it was dark, then it took about 10 tries to get another. I did a few kickflips and posed treflips. I finished by doing fakie 50 then fakie nosegrind.

(setup 8.38 null perception deck, indy 149 ray barbee trucks, oj 52mm ez edge insane-a-thane wheels, bones medium bushings, es accel slim navy/white asta size 12, footprint gamechanger low profile insole)