I've always wanted to check this spot out. Last night it happened. @joerhamilton @damon1819 #coloradicalsabbatical2017 #badcameraplacement

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 8, 2017 at 8:21am PDT

Joe, Damon and I rolled to Arvada to the foundation spot. We were in the process of checking it out and rolling around when we got the cowgirl boot. Then we were driving toward triple nipple and I remembered wanting to check out this bank spot. So we did. It was pretty fun and we skated for longer than I thought we would. It grinded really good. There is a light hill so frontside for regs is a bit of work. Backside grinds worked so well. There was also a little bench that Joe 50’d a few times. It had a funny wave in it. I noseslid it, Damon probably did something too, but I missed it. The bank was fun. I thought I did some back smiths, but on the footy review it was just a bad looking slash. I’m bummed the camera missed a lot of Joes tricks, but happy we had something.

Then we went to Triple Nipple. Fuzz was already busting boosty ollies over a boob. Or as Joe said, going Total Recall. Jack found out his toe wasn’t broken so he was skating hard. Lipslide to 5-0, back lip, back 5-0, lots of tricks on the ledge. I saw Carleigh do a bunch of back disasters, kickflips and varial flips. Neil was busy snaking Fuzz, trying to do shoves quick and trying to get a noseslide shove like Carleigh. Fuzz and I struggled with crooks. Fuzz was doing solid back 50s on the ledge, switch noseslides, such a good halfcab noseslide. At one point Nate pretended to snake me which sent me in another dudes path who I collided with and then Fuzz came out of nowhere and nailed him too so we sandwiched him. It was hilarious. Nate destroyed the ledge. Back 5-0, back nosegrind, nollie front 5-0, fakie nosegrind, fakie nosegrind shove out, kickflips into the wedge grind. Totally shredding. Richard showed up and slayed it. Nollie nosegrind, nose manual nollie flip out, back nosegrind, back 5-0, kick back nosegrind. Damon had backside flip over an awkward hip and a lot more I’m not remembering right now. Rob was flying through the park with so much style. My feet were f’ing killing me. I did a switch front noseslide, but other then that it was a wash. A dude at the park did front smith kickflip out. Joe did a bunch of fakie 50 combos and fulfilled our request to do a back 50. Fun crew, fun park, perfect weather.

(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 gamechanger insoles)

Rolled to the research center with Joe and Damon where we met Matt and eventually Carleigh and Jack. There was another dude there skating too, he was cool. We started out riding down the stairs. I had spenco insoles with adidas insoles on top of them and it felt really thick. Joe added a front 180 off the last stair, Matt nosebonked a ledge, we moved on to the main show. The ledge. People were doing their own thing. Sometimes on top of the hill trying lines, sometimes posting at the ledge. Matt missed a few treflips and back 50s so he clearly needs to be skating more. Damon was trying fakie flip lines. Fakie flip, fakie heel, fakie tre. Some other flippers too. He can do hardflips way too easy. Frontside Joe was in effect. Regular or fakie. Front shove or bigspin. Jack and Carleigh showed. Jack hurt his foot so he was just doing manuals and carving around. Carleigh did some noseslides, kickflips and the ol’ Rabethica. I got a crooks, some terrible front nose jibs (some of which were front crook attempts), couldn’t ollie high enough to do back 50. Matt had front tail to fakie and front 5-0 to fakie. Joe was doing fakie 50 front cabs out. Matt and I were trying noseslide 270 shoves. Damon was trying cab back tails. Oh yeah, he got a first try kick back tail. Dang! I was hurting bad and switched to the Gamechangers halfway through and felt much better.

(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, spenco insoles then gamechanger insoles)

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.