Got out of work at a decent time on Friday. It was cold. The dog park was covered in water. I drive by this spot on the way to work often and decided it was time to finally check it out. There were some cool looking humps nearby that I thought would be fun, but they had huge cracks. I tried a couple of other nearby spots on the block before just settling on this spot. I skated flat on the top for awhile. My bushings were stiff from the cold. Flatground went ok. I got a 3 flip with only one hand down which is about all I can ask these days. Couldn’t get nollie tre and didn’t feel too close on switch flip. I ended on a line of a wallie nollie coming out of the corridor on the right then ollie off the loading dock. Fun way to end it.

(setup 8.125 null message deck, venture 5.2 low custom hollow trucks with 3 washers inside each axle, stock thunder bushings, 50mm bones stf v1 wheels, swiss bearings, new balance numeric pj stratford 533 navy shoes 12)

Today marks 365 days of skating in a year (thanks to leap day). Still going for all 366 days of 2016. Snowy night 1mph treflip in my garage that took an hour to land.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Nov 17, 2016 at 7:55pm PST

Went out to the garage excited to play on the “putter”. Aka the 7.5″ board with 42mm wheels. I did a few warm up tricks then started trying nollie heel. There were a few I got incredibly close on. Then I moved on to treflips. Ugh. I probably landed on 30 or 40 of them and put one or two hands down. But I wanted a clean one. I landed on almost every one of them, but I just couldn’t get a clean one. I was yelling in anger at times. I eventually went inside to get my regular board (8.1″) and man it felt HUGE after skating the putter. It took me a few tries before I even was able to flip the big board around enough, but after several more hand(s) down makes I finally got this “clean” one. My mood lightened. I tried a few switch flips and got incredibly close. I may have finally figured out a foot position that works for me. Man I would love to learn that one.

(setup putter, reg 8.1 board)

Stopped by hear on another warm day after work. I only had about 30 minutes to skate and I didn’t really want to ollie. I settled in to a line of slappy crooks then rock ‘n roll 360 out. I had never done the 360 out of a rock ‘n roll that I know of, but I eventually got one. I saw a clip of Reynolds do it, but couldn’t find it now to link it. Doing a million slappy crooks was fun. I also did a few front 50s on the low part of the ledge and attempted a few switch flips that weren’t close at all.

(setup 8.125 null message deck, venture 5.2 low custom hollow trucks with 3 washers inside each axle, stock thunder bushings, 50mm bones stf v1 wheels, swiss bearings, new balance numeric pj stratford 533 navy shoes 12)

With a new album on the way! This is great news coming at a time when I need good news. I love this song and have listened to it like 20 times already.

Went to dog park right after work feeling very angry and depressed. I started off pushing hard then worked up to ollies then kickflips then went through my normal routine. I got closer to switch flips then normal though. Also a couple of nollie tres, the first of which felt great. I couldn’t land any heelflip tricks. I got a couple of hands down treflips. Worked on b/s flips. Tried some nollie heels, switch front heels and lots of switch flips. Did alright with halfcab flips.

Then to the research ledge for a bit before going to Jason’s. Boardslide, noseslide, noseslide fakie, crooks, terrible back 50 happened quick. Terrible front 50 and halfcab noseslide took a long time, but I managed to get into it a lot. Was flipping switch flips really good, but never landed on one. Ended with a fun feeling crook.

(setup 8.125 null message deck, venture 5.2 low custom hollow trucks with 3 washers inside each axle, stock thunder bushings, 50mm bones stf v1 wheels, swiss bearings, new balance numeric pj stratford 533 navy shoes 12)

Went into the garage for a short minimum. Some manuals and nollie shoves.

Went to the warm up bank at Valmont spot not feeling very good or motivated. I went through a few tricks and was feeling ok before trying nollie back heels for awhile. A few were remotely close, but I gave up after awhile. Then I tried treflips to fakie for a bit and broke my really cracked board. Doh.

After going home to set up a new board I went to the hardest spot in Boulder – Southern Hills. I went on to suck incredibly bad there. I had no energy. First line was noseslide to fakie, switch front 180 then crooks. Second line was supposed to be boardslide, ollie up the two stair, kickflip into the handicap ramp then front 50 another bench. I never got it. I gave up and started trying the line that I had thought of and the reason I went there. Crooks, backside flip, halfcab noseslide. Well, I never got that either. I did like 20 crooks in a row, but couldn’t get a backside flip. So I subbed it out for a back 180 and eventually got it. It was cool because right around then The Grind crew from Silverthorne rolled in. They were cool and hyped on the spot. I had to go though to celebrate my mom’s birthday. I had tried several front or back 50s too in between tries. Only got one bad front 50. Ugh, I wish I could ollie.

(setup 8.125 null message deck, venture 5.2 low custom hollow trucks with 3 washers inside each axle, stock thunder bushings, 50mm bones stf v1 wheels, swiss bearings, new balance numeric pj stratford 533 navy shoes 12)

@nolancormier Saturday fun

A video posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Nov 13, 2016 at 5:47am PST

Nolan and I rolled out to the Lville tech center to meet Fuzz, Carleigh and Rob. Which turned into a carload with Fuzz and then eventually another carload with Hayden to pick up boards for me. Nolan and I started on the wallride/manual side. We tried to do cali grind to manual to cali grind. After a bit of messing around I got upset about bailing a dork trick and took off to the little bank that Nolan noseblunts in the clip above. Nolan joined after awhile. We goofed around. He did noseblunts. I did bad back tails. I also slammed on a kickflip into the tiny bank. Everyone else joined us. Some goofing around was had. Then we ended up at another spot. Tricks up a curb, into a little downhill. Or ollie up a ledge to quick wallride. Kevin and I were going for flip up kickfilp off(me) or nollie flip off (Kevin). Fuzz and Nolan did some good wallrides to fakie. Then the Fort Collins dudes showed and they had a rub brick and a bump to ledge session ensued. It was a sick ledge. Kevin killed it. 50s, front nosegrind, front tail, back tail. I got some weak noseslides. Carliegh was locking in, but had to leave. Nutter charged it hard. Hayden made it look easy. Bo was gonna film Hayden. Then we got the boot. Some more goofing around was had at the original wallride spot. Nolan did the shit flip to manual. Hayden wallride. Nutter slammed but was unscathed. Then we went out and had some food. It was good.

(setup 8.125 null message deck, venture 5.2 low custom hollow trucks with 3 washers inside each axle, stock thunder bushings, 50mm bones stf v1 wheels, swiss bearings, new balance numeric pj stratford 533 navy shoes 12)

Nate and I met Matt, Rob and Fuzz at good ol’ Safeway ledge. The goal was to skate early enough to get some fun in with Fuzz. We started up around 10:30. It was a little chilly in the shade. Nate clearly had the road trip hype and young guy energy and was popping tricks quickly. Matt wasn’t really skating since ankle surgery, but he would push form side to side and maybe do a manual or two. It was great seeing him. Rob still has the best back 50s of anyone and rattled off a bunch of tricks. Almost had nollie lip body varial. Fuzz fulfilled Neil’s front tail to fakie request first try without even knowing he was supposed to do it. I skated somewhat ok. I don’t remember anything special. I did land on a nollie inward heel, but after showing Nate he did one in a few tries. He good! Speaking of good he did back 5-0s and ended things with a nollie back 180 to fakie grind half cab out. It was gnar!

After some time at Crisis we went to Broomfield park. It was pretty fun. Rob won a game of skate with Nate and I. Nate tried a bunch of back 180’s to fakie manual. I don’t think he ever got one. Rob manualed the blue slant very casually. I cannot remember a single trick I did.

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A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Nov 11, 2016 at 4:07pm PST

Then Nate and I met Dave and Mike at the 287 ditch. It should be renamed the Fuller Ditch though, because he destroys that spot. It was cleaned out all good. Nate and I skated a “hip” for awhile. Nate had some boosty ollies. I had a not-boosted kickflip. Dave was doing feebles across two parking blocks, or feeble to boardslide, or boardslide both. Mike 50’d one. Me too. Nate front tailed it. Dave did a bunch of nose bashes, front tailslides, ollies, bonelesses, etc etc etc. Fun day!

(setup 8.125 null message deck, venture 5.2 low custom hollow trucks with 3 washers inside each axle, stock thunder bushings, 50mm bones stf v1 wheels, swiss bearings, new balance numeric pj stratford 533 navy shoes 12)

Met Dave at Meta shortly before closing time. I started so incredibly slow. We skated from Meta to the spot and I don’t think I even cracked an ollie. There were people smoking weed in the alley, cars parked in front of fun obstacles and it was not lit very well. Eventually we started doing tricks. I had a few frontside whirlybirds over the pad. I shot out in the wax once. I forget what Dave started with, but he got close to some crazy ones like cab manual, nollie shove manual. I hate when I get so far behind on my journal entries. We skated the ledge for awhile. Dave had some good back noseslides and 50s. I struggled to get a couple bad front 50s and not close to back 50s. We ollied the 4 stair. Dave first try. Me like 5th try. At one point I had a really long run of badly done tricks like slappy 50 the electric box curb, whirlybird the pad, no comply 180, halfcab flip (i think?) then a terrible back 50. We did more, it was fun. Dave was ripping. He ollied a trash can out of the bump. So sick.

(setup 8.125 null message deck, venture 5.2 low custom hollow trucks with 3 washers inside each axle, 1/16″ riser, stock thunder bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 classic 101a wheels, bronson bearings, new balance numeric pj stratford 533 navy shoes 12)