More Father's Day fun. Campus with Ollie! Make sure the sound is on to hear Ollie laughing at me.

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 18, 2017 at 7:31pm PDT

Had a lazy and awesome day with Liz and India while Ollie was in drivers ed class. I picked him up and we went to campus. We started in the engineering building and worked our way up behind the football stadium. The clip above shows most of it, but it doesn’t show Ollie waiting for me to land all these tricks. Ha. He does his tricks, he has fun and then he waits for me to land my tricks. I didn’t feel like jumping too much, but it was working. I think the stiff PJs really help my ollies. I only tried a couple of kickflips and most of the time I wished I had my bigger setup. After the back 50 I totally bailed an ollie attempt down the next 3 stair. Ollie took a few tries to get the drop down off the ledge into the quick back 180 off the curb cut. The front 5-0 was supposed to be a 50. Ha. I was happy that I was able to get up into the grinds pretty easily though. The street plant hurt to land. I’ve wanted to do that crook for awhile. It was harder than I thought it would be and I wanted my wider trucks the whole time.
Ha ha. Ollies slashes were the best I’ve seen him do. It was a really fun time with him.

(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow highs, venom 88a bushings, bones stf v3 52mm, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, nbnumeric pj 533 black/gum/hyperfeel with old sole tech insoles)

Met Rob around 11 at Broomfield park. There was only a couple people there. I was feeling better after some rest and was wearing the PJ shoes again and the support felt great right away. Pretty early on I ollied onto the black ledge which has been hard for the last few months so I was hyped. We mostly skated the black ledge area. Rob was doing front noseslides, front boards, crooks. I had thought of a warm up line which I kind of did. Switch noseslide, kickflip to fakie on the mellow bank then halfcab noseslide. The halfcab noseslide was terrible, but it was fun. Also got front 50, b/s flip on the mellow bank, crooks the ledge then super close to treflip. Was hyped to also get a front 50 shove. Rob had super sick nose manuals both ways on the blue bank. We played a game of SKATE where we displayed how not to do backside flips. Ha, it lasted awhile. Rob won it with fakie 3 shove.

Then I went to Crisis to maybe get some 8.25″ trucks, but I ended up just going to Safeway. Oh yeah, I was skating my 8.25 setup with the 8″ trucks on it. It felt good at Safeway though. I took awhile to get basic 50s, but I kept at it and ended up getting a few more. Front 5-0s and a super rare back 5-0. Halfcab noseslide. Then started hucking kick back 50 and just stuck with it. I kind of got one where I tic tac’d into feeble and back, but eventually I go too tired and called it a day.

(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow highs, venom 88a bushings, bones stf v3 52mm, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, nbnumeric pj 533 black/gum/hyperfeel with thin adidas insoles)

Met Rob at the Dog Park after work. It was warm and surprisingly windy. I tried to skate, but it because apparently quickly that I shouldn’t skate. I got a few kickflips, but the PF pain was too much. I played around with switch ollies and stuff since they don’t really hurt, but nothing special. Rob seemed to warm up pretty quick and had a line of back 180, cab, sw front 180 then backside flip. So sick! Kickflips, front shoves popped high, no complys, manuals. We ended it quick since I couldn’t really skate and the wind was annoying.

(setup 8.38″ null machine deck, venture 5.8 wides, venom 88a bushings, bones stf v3 52mm, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, nbnumeric 254s cream/gum with nike lunarlon insole)

Got home from work and chilled a bit. Riley was painting the house. Got a text from Saul to come skate and it worked out that Riley was finishing up so we hit it. Riley was hyped as he’s never skated Saul’s before. His first run was less painful looking than Nolan’s the other day, but clearly showed the bowl is harder than it looks. He went on to rip it though. Front noseblunt in the shallow, feeble and 5-0s to fakie in the deep, lipslides, bonelesses, he figured it out for sure. Saul’s runs with the quick carve grinds are so sick. Even his trendepents can’t withstand the abuse. He also locked into some good 50s, had a front slash,etc. I skated it okay and the first few runs had me in different lines which I liked. My heel (plantar fasciitis) was pretty bad so running out was extra painful, but I had fun for sure. Then I went home and climbed on the roof to trim trees and clean gutters. Fun.

(setup 8.38″ null machine deck, venture 5.8 wides, venom 88a bushings, green spitfire F4 52mm classic 99a wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, nbnumeric 254s cream/gum with stock nb insoles)

With everyone here over the last several day the thing that got me the most hyped was seeing ledge tricks go down. It made me really want to work on it again and no better place to go then research center (well I suppose just about any skatepark would be “better” but I like being able to work my way up and go slow and not have a million people watching). I had a few tricks under my belt like noseslide, noseslide fakie, boardslide pop out, switch front nose, switch front nose to forward before I started trying halfcab noseslide. I got stuck on this one for awhile. Nate showed. I was trying nollie back 180 before the hc noseslide. Nollie is a bit of a stretch as I could probably never even pop over a curb. I got a hc noseslide, but it was terrible. I decided to move on anyway and got a first try crooks to put me back in a good mood. Rob showed and him and Nate mostly skated the manny pad below for awhile. I’m not sure what all went down, but Nate said Rob was ripping and nose manualled the long section. I got a second try terrible back 50 and ended up getting another slow one later where I didn’t touch the wall. I tried a line for awhile that was really run. Ollie up the curb, wallie nollie by the entrance, back 180 off the curb, halfcab flip .. . But I never got the halfcab flip. In fact I slammed pretty hard trying it. Oh well. Rob and Nate joined on the ledge action. Nate tried a line over and over of switch flip then switch front nose. His switch front noseslides are real though with a switch ollie in rather than just turning in like me. Rob boardslide pop out, halfcab boardslide pop out, noseslide (maybe it was a crook attempt?). Fun evening.

(setup 8.38″ null machine deck, venture 5.8 wides, venom 88a bushings, green spitfire F4 52mm classic 99a wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, nbnumeric 254s cream/gum with lunarlon insoles)

Day 5. My cramps have shinners! A pre-airport roll around at the mellow Longmont park with @corpoglenny and @ollie.gillingham. Thanks for an amazing trip! See you soon Seattle! #wehaveeachothersback #vertsocks #ColoRadicalSabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift #jpskatecrap

A post shared by Joshua Pluger (@boredzinejp) on Jun 12, 2017 at 3:38pm PDT

@corpoglenny and I with #rabethica tributes on the last day of the trip. #ColoRadicalSabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift #alssucks #jpskatecrap

A post shared by Joshua Pluger (@boredzinejp) on Jun 13, 2017 at 8:18pm PDT

The last day of the trip! Josh was the last one standing. We wanted a mellow park and we got it. We were pretty beat and staring out was hard, but not as hard as I thought it would be. I didn’t try many ollie or flip tricks though. The rainbow grind took Josh and I awhile. Ollie did the wallride every time. Even once with onto the first stair and front 180 off the second. Josh was doing some rad lines using and using the course to it’s potential. Ha. The quarterpipe tricks were sick though, that qp is so weird. The ollies over the weird hip were sick too. Josh did the bean plant transfer and it hyped me up to try it too. It was way scarier then I thought it would be. I eventually got the lame slow motion slider variation, but it was fun. We did sone from nose slides. Correction. Josh did sone front noseslides, I didn’t land them. But for the record I had did one earlier so it’s good. I’m not remembering much else. Josh ripped it. I wish we could skate that park together more.

(setup 8.38″ null machine deck, venture 5.8 wides, venom 88a bushings, green spitfire F4 52mm classic 99a wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, nbnumeric 254s cream/gum with lunarlon insoles)

Day 4. My cramps have cramps! We hit Northside and Spring Canyon. Then we took a nostalgic skate through my Alma mater, C.S.U.. With @bovine_recapitation and @corpoglenny #ColoRadicalSabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift #nostalgiaruleseverythingaroundme #jpskatecrap

A post shared by Joshua Pluger (@boredzinejp) on Jun 11, 2017 at 11:03pm PDT

The Fremonsters split town early. Josh, Chief, Rob, Neil and I rolled up to Fort Collins. After MRKT we went to Northside and the crew started getting bigger. Matt H, Ed, Shane, John, Nate, Hayden, and many locals joined us. I skated like total garbage other than a switch front nose on the ledge. I tried to get back ollies up the MJ ledge, but it was embarrassing. Josh had some sick manuals over it. Regular manual, nose manual, maybe nose to manny? Nate too. Matt and Nate were slaying the ledge. Matt almost did back nosegrind nollie front shove out. I can’t even understand how to do that. Josh was cruising the rest of the park too. It was great seeing John again. He had a nice John Brandow shove. Neil was doing a lot of filming. Rob was ripping. I filmed Hayden get a few tricks first try.

#bffs @hayden.don.miller @jackspanbauer @nolancormier

A post shared by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Jun 13, 2017 at 7:51pm PDT

@nolancormier doubles with @fullertrron #coloradicalsabbatical2017

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We eventually grew tired of the park and left for Spring Canyon where Jack, Carleigh and Nolan joined us too. We started with a game of SKATE where John straight up took everyone out in like 5 tricks. Well, except for Jack and Nolan and a couple others. I was bummed on how much I suck at flatground now. Then I filmed Neil for awhile and he was bummed on my filming and it made me mad. It was good though. There was so much going on with so many people skating that I hardly remember any of it. Nolan doing an air over Fuller was amazing. Jack did a back bigspin to switch manual. Josh had nose manuals and a nose manual big I think? And lots more as he skated hard the whole time. Carleigh with the frontside wallrides and pole jams. Rob halfcab noseslide the tall bench. John with the quick feet to 50 the back of the tall bench. Rob, Carleigh, Dave, John and I hucked 360 flips for awhile. John did his first two and bounced. Dave came incredibly close. I never got one and I blame the bulky shoes. In fact I could barely kickflip. Josh came over and got the 3 flip and added nollie heel to the game. Jack, Nolan and Hayden did BFF kickflips. Then we left for food.

Great times with @fullertrron @neilsoffire @boredzinejp at CSU last night. #coloradicalsabbatical2017 #handrails

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 12, 2017 at 7:46am PDT

Low and behold we skated more! Well, some of us. Rob, Dave, Neil, Josh and I. And even then we basically only skated one spot which is the rail spot above. It was fun. And I had switched to vulcs I had in the car and skating seemed way more fun and doable. But yeah, we skated a rail for a half hour or so. No biggee. It was a blast even though we were all super sore. There were some funny slam. Neil’s street plants were epic. So were Dave’s “ollies”. ha ha. I got a boneless transfer and a boneless 360 bonk (accidental bonk and only 270 but I’m not being judged on number of rotations so I think that’s ok). Josh’s line was sick. I think Rob mostly sat. We went and checked out the Clark building hip which is more cracked out then it used to be. Rob, Dave and Neil bounced. Josh and I 180’d the hip and then basically just walked around campus and reminisced about our days at CSU. The dorm rooms look exactly the same.

(setup 8.38″ null machine deck, venture 5.8 wides, venom 88a bushings, green spitfire F4 52mm classic 99a wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, nbnumeric 868 12 black/gum with old stock NB# insoles(until the end when I switched to 254s with lunarlon insoles)

@the_neviathan nollie lip pop #coloradicalsabbatical2017

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 10, 2017 at 10:44am PDT

First spot of the day – Joey Clams kf manny the top and then the roller coaster ride to the bottom #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift #coloradicalsabbatical2017

A post shared by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 10, 2017 at 11:22am PDT

Up pretty early to skate! It was already very hot outside, but we got to Wilville sometime around 9am. I was on a wider setup so my shoes didn’t feel so big. It helped. There were two separate sessions going on. The manny pad and the ledge area. I went in between both. The ledge was popping. Nate, Joe, Damon, Josh were killing it. Nate nollie front lip pop out, boardslide pop, boardslide pop to fakie. Joe boardslide pop, halfcab boardslide pop out. Damon fakie nosegrind back tail, tried cab back tail. Josh front tail fakie, crooks, boardslide pop out. I got noseslide. Pretty sick huh? On the manny pad Matt got nollie varial heel manual to the bank, Dan was trying a fakie shove fakie manual, Eric pretended he wasn’t ollieing at all when he turned into manual. I tried switch 180 manuals for awhile. Didn’t get too close. Then Josh, Joe and I tried kickflip manuals for awhile. I started off feeling pretty good about it then started totally losing kickflips. What the heck. I started hating the bulky 868s. Josh got one perfect. It was so sick. At that point I gave up. Joe kept with it though and nailed one. Sick!

Day 3: I'm cramping as I write this! Rad-making in a ditch! Spots 1: Willville 2: 287 ditch 3: Crisis curb 4: Red Hawk 5: Brian Ball mini Ditch rippers: @corpoglenny, @neilsoffire @gnarlycarleigh, @_f_u_z_z, @nolancormier and @jackspanbauer #ColoRadicalSabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift #theditchtookoutmyshin #jpskatecrap

A post shared by Joshua Pluger (@boredzinejp) on Jun 10, 2017 at 10:11pm PDT

Then we went to 287 ditch. The crew grew larger and I grew more tired. Fuzz, Rob, Neil, Nolan, Carleigh, Jack joined us. It was hot and I was not feeling it. Josh bashed his shin and wasn’t feeling it either. We sat next to the human crap and watched others. Gross. Jack and Nolan did double noseblunts. Nolan almost got back noseblunt, then did nosegrind on the parking block and switch nosegrind too. Insane. Jack had some moves. Front tail shove, hurricanes, bigspin manuals. Rob front tailslide. Joe kickflip rock ‘n roll. Eric boardslides and surprisingly no staple guns that I can remember. Carleigh with bluntslides and tailslides. Neil was in the back doing his patented ollies on every wall and trying to get things working. Fuzz had some fast and steezy noseslides.

We gathered at Crisis. After awhile we broke in the newly repainted parking blocks. I did a bunch of slappy crooks as did Rob. Jack hurricanes. Boardslides by all.

Got a solid couple hours in before the cops gave us the boot

A post shared by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 10, 2017 at 5:18pm PDT

Then we went to Red Hawk where the crew got even bigger with Riley and Garrett joining. It quickly turned into the Riley demo. First try out of the car manual the stage then immediately to switch manual. He was going full speed into switch manual and fakie ollied into the rock. Unbelievable. There is no way I can remember what all everyone was doing. I was feeling off and kind of trying to hide, but it was hard with everyone there. I had one good crook and that was about it. Josh front 180’d up the stage and nose manual the rock. Neil had an incredible line with front lip then front nosegrind. It was great seeing Neil shred it. Jack and Riley did quick ledge tricks then ollied the 10. Remember a few days ago when Jack thought he broke his toe? There was so much ripping going on. Matt did quick up to nose manny the stage. Joe did front lip to front 5-0. It was quite incredible seeing so many great friends ripping so hard. Unfortunately we got the boot.

Party at Brian's ramp #coloradicalsabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift

A post shared by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 10, 2017 at 6:42pm PDT

@nolancormier taking cues from @brianfrancisball #coloradicalsabbatical2017

A post shared by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Jun 11, 2017 at 7:24am PDT

Fortunately Brian’s was right there and we went to his ramp to skate and bbq. A lot of shredding was had there too. I enjoyed it and had a couple okay runs for myself before retiring to food and mosquito bites. It was fun watching Nolan and Riley there. Brian is so good on the ramp too. 360 drop in?!?! I think everyone did their tricks. Neil almost got killed by a board shoot out, Dan did get killed by one. Fun ender for a fun day.

(setup 8.38″ null machine deck, venture 5.8 wides, venom 88a bushings, green spitfire F4 52mm classic 99a wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, nbnumeric 868 12 black/gum with old stock NB# insoles)

@fullertrron is too good #coloradicalsabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift

A post shared by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 9, 2017 at 11:30am PDT

@boredzinejp knows how to rock #coloradicalsabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift

A post shared by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 9, 2017 at 11:50am PDT

I felt pretty lucky to have been allowed to sleep in all the way to like 7:30am by Fremonsters. We were at Evergreen by 9:30 am or so. Crazy. I love Evergreen park. The crew was Ollie, Dave, Matt R, Joe, Eric, Dan, Damon, Jake, Josh, Chief (who just slept in the car), Rob, Neil so if I miss some tricks let me also say I’m writing this a week later. We were there 2-3 hours. It was hot, but not too hot. I was annoyed with how big and bulky my shoes were and how they made my board feel so tiny. I struggled and the only tricks I got were super sketchy and terrible (b/s flip, halfcab flip, f/s halfcab flip). Joe got his first ever halfcab flip over the hip. Matt and Damon did nollie big heels. Josh had front big and a nice frontside flip. Dave had back bigspins, 360s, front shoves. Dave, Jake and Josh killed the steep qp. The ledges were skated. Dan had 50s to manuals. Eric got the drone angles. I wish I remembered more.

Best skatepark #coloradicalsabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift #oververt

A post shared by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 9, 2017 at 4:38pm PDT

Then we went to Golden. It was my first time there. It was incredibly hot out, but it kept the crowds down. I mostly slacked initially as I was super sore and took a little nap in the shade. The visitors were hyped and skated hard though. Carves in the Big O replica. Ledges, wallies, lines, speed races through the park. Josh and I skated the tiny qp for awhile which was my fav part of it. He got pivot to fakie which he hasn’t done in years. I didn’t. I got a front pivot to fakie though. Ollie did some stuff too. Then we joined the race around the park to ride up the stairs. I was feeling extremely clumsy. Ollie skated almost the whole time. He was pumping the Big O, doing ride on grinds and showing up Joe. It was rad. Eric was grinding the tall qp. Josh slashed the tall bank. Ollie showed up Joe with a f/s halfcab. Matt did a bunch of manual tricks. Damon front boarded the big rail. Chief pumped the Big O for a bit, but it hurt his knee too much. Neil must have been hurting because I don’t remember much Neil action.

@mattrief getting blunted in an amazing backyard bowl #bettercallsaul #coloradicalsabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift

A post shared by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 9, 2017 at 8:14pm PDT

Then after some food and driving back to Boulder we went to Sauls. The crew swelled to a big size. Eric F, Lazer, Nolan, Jake joined. Everyone seemed to have fun. I didn’t skate much as I was sore and I felt like others should enjoy it. Saul showed how to do the quickest grinds back to back to back to back. So sick. Nolan slammed on his first wall, so you know it’s tough to skate. But he ended up totally slaying it. Dan was ripping, lots of disasters. Eric boardslid around a corner. Josh front smiths and disasters. Lazer looking good. Dave displaying his large bag of tricks. Matt Rief with the slam of the night. Eric F ride on grind into the bowl. It was a really fun session.

(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 868 12 black/gum with old stock NB# insoles)

A small sample of yesterday @boredzinejp @ericjeckert #coloradicalsabbatical2017 @idrawmazes @ditchlife

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 9, 2017 at 6:04am PDT

After being in so much pain just skating a little the night before I tried something new. NB# 868s with old stock NB insoles. At first the crew was Joe, Damon, Rob, Neil and me. We played a game of SKATE. My new shoes were feeling great and I actually got first try heelflip and halfcab flip. I ended up losing to Damon, but it was a good warm up. Then I went to get Josh and when I got back the rest of the Nebraskans where there. Eric, Matt and Dan. After a quick hello the shredding commenced. Josh, Eric and I hit the steep bank for a bit. Josh’s front disasters were sick. I took a lot of tries for the front rock. Jack showed. Carleigh showed. Remembering what everyone did is impossible. Especially several days later. I will say I was impressed with how hard Rob was ripping (back lip the parking block!). Jack too. I guess it’s more expected with Jack, but it’s always kind of mind blowing.

First spot #coloradicalsabbatical2017 #weekendatgrennys2tokyodrift #momsspaghetti

A post shared by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 8, 2017 at 8:50pm PDT

Then we went to Stonehenge. I was incredibly sore. Too sore to kickturn on the barrier. I hucked some pivots and stalls on the bank to curb, but not much worked. Josh, Dan and Eric were hitting the barrier. Josh did a feeble on it. Dan fakie tail and fakie disaster. Eric rock to fakie. It rained for awhile. Eventually it dried up and we hit things again. I got a terrible no comply to tail on the bank to curb. Josh did nose picks. Joe had some moves too. Nolan showed and after a few warm up bank to curb tricks went nuts on the barrier. “Hey Glen, should I do the blunt bigspin again?” Dan also did fakie tail revert. Eric decked his boardslide fakie. Richard showed and did front tail revert. Damon did frontside feeble. Nolan did everything.

(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 868 12 black/gum with old stock NB# insoles)