A post shared by carleigh samson (@gnarlycarleigh) on Jun 3, 2017 at 12:35pm PDT

Went out in front of my house to try and warm up and knew it was going to be a tough day for me. I had put smaller trucks and bigger wheels on. They felt fine. My legs didn’t. I got to kickflip. Then Carleigh showed up and we rolled to Fuzz’s, stretched then rolled to Golden with Rob. We hit some potential spots on the way. One full pipe had water in it, one had human crap in it. Then we rolled into Golden and looked at a spot, then ended up on campus. First spot was a plaza that I would normally love. Great flat ground and a bunch of ledges. But my legs weren’t working so flatground didn’t really work. Carleigh warmed up doing a bunch of tricks in a smooth area. I tried to do Fuzz or Rob’s lines. Everyone was weirded out by the crack in front of the ledge. Well, not kids that showed up later. Fuzz did two really sick boardslides to fakie 50. Unreal. I got my camera and we tried to film it, but he ended up hurting his back like an old person rather than landing it. Ha. Carleigh picked up the slack and got a boardslide to lipslide to grass flop. It was sick. We moved on. Ended up at a sick spot with a couple of benches, 4 stair, 2 stair, 6 stair. Carleigh reigned champ and ollied the 4 then 6. Rob did a sick line, but it doesn’t count since he wouldn’t let me film it. Or maybe it just deserves parenthesis. (front board, bean plant the 4). Then we hit a steep bank for awhile. Rob and Carleigh did wallrides. I just hiked the hill and did powerslides. It ruled. Nolan showed up and grinded the top of the darn steep bank. Then we went to Holidaily! It was a dream come true, have a couple “beers” with my friends.

(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.2 high v-hollows, venom 88a bushings, bones sft v3 52mm wheels, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, bronson raw bearings, nbnumeric quincy 254 12 gum/cream, fp gamechangers then remind cush insoles)

Good times yesterday @43shifty @iamnotacreepyjake @fullertrron #toomanyscooters #theskateparkisagreatplacetolearnhowtorideabike

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 3, 2017 at 8:36am PDT

With rain threatening Rob and I rolled to Berthoud park to meet Dave and Jake. We arrived to an empty park. I went in to the portapotty and came out and there was like 8 scooter kids and parents sitting on ledges watching. Ugh. Luckily they didn’t stay too long, but there was still a constant wave of scooter kids to ignore all skatepark etiquette. Dave and Jake showed a little later. Rob and I had cruised around, snapped a few ollies, slashes, carves, etc. Dave gets out and was pretty quickly trying nose manuals, 50s, pivots on the extension, etc. Jake had a front tail on the ledge all quick too, back 50, crooks. Rob did the ol’ sick beanplant over the hip, crail slides on the bank, kickflip the hip first try, board slide the tall bench, ripping. Jake and Dave skated the bank to ledge. Dave did switch nose stall and regular nose stall. Jake did front nosespick and they doubled on on front tail/back tail. Unreal. I was in a serious funk and bordering on focusing my board. I forced myself to ollie onto the little ledge. It was hard. I couldn’t get a kickflip over the hip. Then I tried front 50 on the ledge for a long time. Failing over and over. I started hucking flip trick in between fails and got hands down 3 flip and nollie 3 flip which cheered me up a little. I eventually got a few terribly slow front 50s or 5-0s. I might have even gotten a backside flip over the hip after one (or maybe I had moved on to switch noseslide by then). Then we set up the phone to film a hip session since I had done b/s flip and Dave had done front shove. It took both of us awhile to get them again. Rob did the steezy no comply finger flip first try.

Then after food, chilling at MRKT we met Nate at Spring Canyon. He was doing back 5-0s across most of the little ledge and crazy manual tricks across the low part of the manny pad. I was super sore. I was able to get going for a little bit and got some weak 50s on the little ledge and a couple of kickflips, but that was about it. Nate is so good. Fakie 5-0 pop out, fakie 50 halfcab out, nollie nosegrind, fakie back 50, almost fakie back nosegrind, nollie back 180 nose manual 180 out, nollie front 180 nose man, just plain slaying it. Rob picked up on it and was skating super good too. Halfcab manual, no comply manual, manuals around the banks, back 50s, halfcab noseslide the tall bench, nollie front lip. Those dudes were shredding. It was sick.

(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.8 lights, venom 88a bushings, bones sft v1 50mm wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, old bad bearings, nbnumeric quincy 254 12 gum/cream, remind cush insoles)

After work it was raining. I chilled at home for a bit and it dried up and was super nice out. I biked over to Willville and started the slow warm up process. I had new shoes. My legs were sore, the plantar fasciitis pretty bad. I tried pretty hard though. I just felt like trying lines. It took a bit, but I got a couple while. Boardslide pop out the double sided ledge, ollie onto the skate stopped ledge and ride off, flatground ollie (tech!) then nose manual into the bank. Going the other way I struggled a bit more, but would eventually get a line I liked. Curb jib, no comply 180, halfcab flip, noseslide the wider ledge then ride down the narrow path along the wall. Other tricks I got were a tiny crook jib on the double sided ledge, boardslide the wide ledge, tiny front board and tinier front noseslide on the wider ledge, fakie flip. Tried some treflips, nollie flips, switch flips. The first two were close. Also tried switch 180 manual into the bank and switch ollie up the curb then switch 180 into the bank but the switch ollie up was harder than I wanted it to be.

(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.8 lights, venom 88a bushings, bones sft v1 50mm wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, old bad bearings, nbnumeric quincy 254 12 gum/cream, remind cush insoles)

Biked over to Saul’s after a nap on a beautiful night. Had a few warm up runs then we went to move a hot tub. An hour or so later we were back and it was time to skate. The crew was Dave, Will, Saul, Peewee and me. Dave killed it. He does so many really long lines now with so many different tricks. The long grinds back 50s and 5-0s out of the hip transfer are amazing. The front 5-0s, the manuals, all of the old school plants. So good. Will is a quiet killer. Front smiths, chink chinks, switch 50s all in long runs with speed. Saul front slashed the bricks first try, long runs of linked slashes done really fast, and can have a conversation doing axle stalls. Ha ha. Peewee rips with a casual style. Lots of ollies, long grinds and flow. The opposite of me. Carve grinds have become one of my favorite tricks ever. I also got some axle stalls, little grinds, and it was really really fun.

(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.8 lights, venom 88a bushings, bones sft v1 50mm wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, old swiss bearings, lakai manchester 11 black/white, remind cush insoles)

Fun times with young ones (aka 30 year olds). @the_neviathan @iamnotacreepyjake @matthouse @chadsterwick

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on May 29, 2017 at 3:57pm PDT

Jake and I rolled to 303 then went to Civic Park to meet up with Matt, Nate and Chad. Warming up didn’t go as well as I wanted. I felt pretty sore. I had setup a new board. A Jack 8.25. And it felt good. A setup I was finally happy with the whole day. Jake and I tried to get warmed up on the little ledges for awhile. He got tailslides. I did some switch noseslides. Kickflips and fakie flips happened. Chad then Matt then Nate showed. Nate was killing it out of the gate as usual. Matt missed his first 5 treflips. Unheard of! He would get some of course though. After awhile we went down to the new area which is super fun. I took forever to get a manual then crook grind which Jake did way before me. Nate slammed super hard trying to manual a narrow ledge. Chad did some fast manuals then had some ankle pain kick in and took off. Matt and Nate had quick bonks a ledge and Matt did back tails on the ledge. Matt had another sick line with ollie a ledge then front tail to fakie. I had a really slow line of switch nose jib then nollie front tail. It was fun though. It rained for a bit so we sat in the covered area. Then Nate jumped up after sitting for awhile and wanted to play a game of SKATE. My legs weren’t ready and I didn’t commit to a single flip trick so I was out first. Matt ended up taking it and we were skating the two little ledges again. I got a back 50 and some switch noseslides. It was fun. Nate was doing super fast front tailslides and nollie front 5-0s and nollie noseslides. Jake front tails. Matt was chilling and filming the gnar. Ha. Then we got the boot and checked out the nearby wallies which Nate did. Then called it a day.

(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.8 lights, venom 88a bushings, bones sft v1 50mm wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, old swiss bearings, lakai manchester 11 black/white, remind cush insoles)

Met Dave at Broomfield park on a bright, sunny day. The park was mostly empty when I first got there. I felt motivated, but was on the big setup from the night before (with even bigger wheels) and it felt a little weird. Nothing really stands out, but I did more ollies than I have in awhile. Dave was shredding on a 7.75. Back 50s on the black ledge, front tail on the steep bank, back 50 nollie shove blue ledge, bigspins on flat, front nosegrind the blue ledge in a long line and the sick back nosegrind to end it! We also tried treflips for awhile. I couldn’t put my feet on it, the board would land upside down. I did my first front 50 shove in awhile on the little blue ledge. Had some noseslides on the brown ledge that felt good, struggled on the quartapotty. It was a fun session. Then I went over to Safeway ledge. I had gotten incredibly stiff/sore in the 3 minute drive so I had to completely warm up again. I basically just did some 50s both ways. Front 50s felt really good.

(setup 8.5″ null message deck, venture 5.8, venom 88a bushings, 52mm bones STF V5 wheels, Lakai Manchester 11 black/white, Remind Cush insoles)

Went into the garage on a wet night after spending the day with the family and my mom. I started with manuals. Those were good. Then I setup the “ledge” and started doing the cheater nosegrinds 180s. Those felt cool. Then I started trying the cheater nosegrind shove which I eventually landed. I did some kickflips in between. Regardless of how dorky the the cheater part of it is, I was stoked. I ended trying some treflips, but didn’t get any.

(setup 366 day setup from last year. 8.5″ null deck, venture wides .. Lakai Manchester 11 Remind Cush insoles)

trying to get more on the pattern of skating at least a little every day. I pushed/walked up the bike path. Tried nose stall to fakie on the flower pot ledge at the park which actually took a few tries. In fact I almost had some bad slams. It was annoying. Then I pushed down the hill and it was fun. Ollied some manholes on the road back and that was that.

On a rainy night I went into the garage to mess around. I did a few manuals then some ollies and a kickflip or two. Then I grabbed the putter and went at it with 360 flips for awhile. Maybe 30 minutes. It took awhile before I committed. I was wearing some old Lakai vulcs wanting extra board feel and I was on the putter. I ended up landing like 10 with my hands down before finally getting this “clean” one. I don’t care, it felt awesome and was the first one in a few months.

(setup 7.5″ 303 deck, thunder trucks, 42mm OJ wheels, Lakai Manchester 11 REmind Cush insoles)

Woke up super early and couldn’t fall back asleep. So I got up and did some yoga then hit the dog park. Well actually, I intended to go to Boulder park, but when I pulled in there was like 5 kids skating and I wanted to be alone. Dog park was chill because the parking lot was closed. I started off better than I thought considering I was on the big board. I started with the basics and worked up. Ollie, nollie, switch ollie, fakie ollie. Then all 8 shoves. Man some of them were so bad. Then all 8 180s. Then kickflips which were working better on the big board than the small one. I was still skating incredibly slow though. Got fakie fip and halfcab flip. Was trying backside flip when I saw the time and I had to split in 5 minutes. So I posed 360 flip and switch front heels. Didn’t commit to either, but really only tried for a couple of minutes.

Then after work I met Dave at Wilville on a beautiful evening. I skated there. I was sore from already skating, but I wanted to try and power through it. Warming up seemed like it might be possible. We did some tricks on flat and then tried manuals on the top part of the middle bank. I was messing around with switch 180 to manual while Dave was trying manual. We got the boot though. Doh. I got a nose manual on the way out (I think). So we wandered around for awhile and my soreness kicked in. We skated the little curb at the base of Spanish Towers. It kind of sucked. Ha ha. We ended up back at Wilville. We messed around out front for awhile. Dave rolled in on a bigger bank. I posed bonelesses. Then Dave went back for the nose manual and got it. Then he did the gnarly bank roll ins back to back with a slide between. It was sick. I almost died rolling into the second one. Then we hit the boardslide for awhile. I thought I was done, but Dave hyped me up to keep trying. I ended up getting a boardslide even after a few scary first attempts. Dave did 50s, boardslide transfer, a lot. I tried front board transfers, didn’t quite get one. Then we bounced. Glad I worked through the soreness.

(setup 8.38 null machine deck, venture 5.8 wides, Venom 88a bushings, 50mm STF v1 wheels, bronson bearings, new balance numeric pj 533 black/gum “hyperfeel” 12 with Remind Cush Chico insoles)