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A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 1, 2016 at 12:50pm PDT

Rob said we were gonna skate Safeway around noon. I was running early so I went to Broomfield park around 11. There was only one other person (Taylor) there when I got there. The warm up process didn’t feel all that bad. Nothing really stands out though. Carleigh and Rob arrived awhile later and it got more fun. Actually, Crisis kids Matt and James showed up too. It was fun watching Matt warm up on the ledges just going slow and messing around. Then him and James played a game of SKATE that had a lot of crazy tricks in it. Carleigh was mostly skating the pool with Marg. Rob was on the back 50s on the blue ledge quick, boardslides, crooks on the black ledge. I had a good feeling 360 flip on flat and tried to finish off the session with a manual on the blue ledge then ollie onto the downhill ledge after it. It wasn’t easy. Ugh.

Then Rob and I went to Safeway to meet Fuzz which meant warming up over again. Noseslides without ollies and 50s for everyone. Rob did a rare front 5-0 and a sick nollie front lip to fakie, Fuzz was getting into fakie nosegrind 180 out. I tic tac’d kickflip back 50’s. Fuzz suggested we try some lines with flipper then ledge or ledge trick then flipper. It started pretty slow for everyone, but we did some stuff. Fuzz’s fakie flip was so good. Rob almost had a 3 trick line with back 180 then cab and I forget the ledge trick. I took awhile to land heelflip, but managed to do better after that. Got halfcab heel then front 5-0. Got a great feeling treflip then went for kick front 50. Got really close, but bailed out at the last second. I really should have stuck with it. Fun day, love these dudes.

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#SimonLoveless is crazy good

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 1, 2016 at 9:12am PDT

Went to Lafayette somewhat early in the day. It had been sprinkling off and on and when I arrived it got bad enough to sit in the car for a bit. There was a dude visiting from Ohio named Luke that was one of the nicest dudes I’ve ever met. He came up right away and introduced himself. He was having a blast cruising around on a big board slashing grinds and popping airs. It cheered me up and made my slow start not feel so bad. I did a couple of ok things for me. Had a line of back 180 into the first mellow bank then switch front 180 into the next and kickflip to fakie on the bigger bank. I didn’t have a lot of charge on other stuff. Front 50s on the little ledge are fun. Granite is the best. Then Dave showed. We tried slappy crooks on the shark fin for awhile. Dave did some good ones. Then we kind of did our own thing for awhile. I was pretty sore for some reason. Simon showed up. He said he was sore too, then went on to rip Lafayette a new one. Lines for days, so many tricks first try. I was trying kickflip to bank ride on the snakerun to steep bank. Simon did a back blunt on it, took a bit, but he did it so good. He also front tailed it. Dave was doing boardslides to fakie down the scary round rail. After awhile I just filmed Simon then headed home to hang out with Liz.

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I went out to Valmont feeling sore and unmotivated. Half of the lights weren’t on at the ledge and after running into it I moved across the street. I ended up starting out at this mellow bank spot. I would roll off the sidewalk doing a brief grind then try wallride to fakie. I got a couple. It was kind of fun and got me somewhat warmed up. I also did a couple nollie back 360s. I thought I was feeling better and moved up the lot. I was trying a line of pop shove off the the curb up top then manual around a couple of medians. I was hating my 8.25 and wishing I didn’t try the bigger board. I bailed a manual and my temper got the best of me and I shot my board forward as hard as I could .. right into a loading dock and the nose shattered. Ugh. Stupid temper, stupid big board too. I put the board out of it’s misery and went home.

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@fullertrron #goldenhour

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 28, 2016 at 6:12pm PDT

After work I met Dave and Rob at the dog park on a beautiful warm autumn afternoon. Warming up was a struggle of course. It’s the norm now. I cannot remember the last time I went skating and felt like I could even try a kickflip with the first few minutes of skating. Perhaps I rushed it too much as I took a lot of falls right away. Not painful ones, but with how stiff I still was they hurt more then they needed to. Rob was getting some nice three trick lines going. Back 180, cab, almost halfcab flip. Front shove, kickflip, b/s flip. (I might not have these correct). Dave was doing lots of switch ollies and switch pop shoves. I got close to a lot of tricks, then had a line with heelflip, 360 flip and landed on nollie varial flip that cheered me up. I was trying fakie flip then fakie treflip. Got close to the fakie tre a few times. We played a game of SKATE and all of a sudden I could no longer do a fakie flip to save my life. Ugh. The game lasted a bit. I got a letter on backside flip, managed to somehow defensively do a cab, back 360 slide, I don’t remember the other tricks I got letters on or the last trick where I missed twice and kicked my board. Rob ended up winning and took Dave out with the ol’ pop shove rewind. Dave had hucked a few switch tres before the game and was looking good and went back to battle. I joined him. I’ve never tried that trick that many times. I felt like it is somewhat obtainable, but I would like a smaller board for sure. I did a couple of regular tres after awhile to break up the bails, one of which felt really good. Dave mixed in some switch backside bigspins and got close to that as well. I tried some switch front heels for awhile and they feel really doable and in need of a smaller board. Ha. My board is always to blame! I tried to end it with nollie then fakie tres, but never got the nollie tre and then Dave left so I did too.

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Went to the Pearl ledges, Started trying pivot to fakie and realized how incredibly sore I was. So I just did this for about 10 minutes and left. I probably only landed like 3 or 4 of them. I got to see a lady use her phone flashlight to pick her dog’s poop. That was pretty funny.

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After work I went to Crisis and met up with Rob. We rolled over to Safeway. I was not feeling good at all. I had a new board. I setup 8.25 this time for no good reason and I ended up not liking it. I skated it though. I started super slow with “slappy” noseslide variations. Rob jumped on grinds quickly. His back 50s rule. He did some front 5-0s which I haven’t seen him do much. Close to halfcab noseslide shove out. I took awhile to get a back 50 without tic tac’in in it. It felt good. Then we both hucked a lot. Rob was going for kick front noseslide. He got a couple kind of with the back wheels hitting the ground, and close to several proper ones. That would be so sick. I tried kickflip crooks and didn’t get very close then kickflip noseslide and then just kind of got tired. We did some powerslides down the hill and Rob did some wallie nollies while I failed at getting a cool artsy birds eye photo.

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Met up with Dave around 10am at the Wells Fargo bank. Well, I was there first, but only briefly. I physically felt pretty good, but when I tried to skate it was all wrong. I slammed super hard on a frontside pivot and was 0-4 on kickflips. I came very close to going home. Instead I stuck it out and Dave and I warmed up. It would get better. A lot better. I messed around with blunt tricks (blunt to axle to fakie, blunt to disaster transfer, backside blunt). Dave was doing back tail and back lip transfers. Sometimes were were lining things out. It took me awhile to get a line of kickflip up the curb, backside blunt, then wallie nollie on the big brick wall. I couldn’t do a flip trick there. Had a fun no comply 360 though. Dave’s transfers are so good. Blunt to back d first t. I kind of had another line with a manual next to the ATM machine, ‘slappy’ tailslide the brick curb, front tail transfer the hip. It felt good to street skate again. The brick area is pretty weird for flip tricks though. Dave and I filmed a little. I was happy that my work phone hadn’t gone off. Dave boardslid the big yellow bar. I did the silly grinds on the pole. Dave did the fakie wallride. We had been there a couple (maybe even a few?) hours. It was a blast. Then we pushed over to the red ledge. We normally only last a few minutes there, but I guess since there was a Broncos game we lasted basically as long as we wanted. Dave has the wide trucks and could grind over the skate stoppers. Pretty funny. We were having fun. Dave did a back 50 and I joked that I was going to show him up. I tried kick back 50, but ended up doing 5-0. First try. It felt awesome. I would go on to do 5 of them total, the last one being my favorite. I was in a great mood. I also had front 50 shove, noseslide 270, switch nose shove, the worst front tail attempts ever, couldn’t get front crooks. Dave rattled off tricks too. Front 5-0, back crooks, back 50, back 50 to back tail and super close to front 50 nollie shove out. We kind of good booted. We headed to the teahouse ledge, but on the way we hit a 4 stair. Dave ollied it 2nd try. I bailed a few times and my board went in to the road timed perfect for a car to focus it. NOOOO! Kind of a bummer on such a great day. Or maybe it just prevented me from getting frustrated on such a good day. We went to the ledge though and I watched Dave get his trick. It was rad. Great day.

First time getting my board run over. 😢

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 25, 2016 at 1:01pm PDT

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Ended up having to work basically all of Saturday. It sucked. Around 6pm I went out for a short flatground session. I was mentally not into it. I wished I had been able to skate all day. I mostly just hucked tricks for awhile. I came really close to nollie flip. Hands down treflip (the originally meaning of hands down. you know, with your hands on the ground). Tried switch front heel for awhile. I didn’t get much, but it did cheer me up to get out at least a little. Oh yeah, I had put some new little 50mm wheels on while I was on hold “working”.

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@boredzinejp challenged me to a back noseblunt to disaster for #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge. I never thought I would even get remotely close so I had @nolancormier film one for my fail clip. But it turns out that I somehow managed to learn a weird pivoty variation that somehow counts as #over40defensivemake! I'm hyped! Next trick used to be easy for me, now it takes awhile. Front 5-0 shove. Take as long as you want with the bruised heel Josh.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 23, 2016 at 2:55pm PDT

Went to sleep super early the night before which of course meant I woke up super early. I got to Lafayette around 7am and didn’t have to be to work until 9:30. So that was basically two hours. My first goal was to do a legit back noseblunt to disaster. Well that didn’t happen. I didn’t try for too long, but I would come back to it every once in awhile and try a couple. I mostly cruised around hitting whatever I felt like at the moment. Front 50s on the little ledge felt good. At one point I started skating mostly the ledge. I did manual, front 50, front 50 front 180, front 50 shove, front 5-0 and then tried front 5-0 shove for awhile. I would do flatground on the way back. Got to treflip and did a couple bad ones. After the 5-0 shove I tried a long line. I would pump through the snakerun and do the tiniest air over the tiny snowboard jump. Today would mark the first time I actually cleared the 1 foot of flat. It felt cool. Anyways, mega air, kickflip flyout off the bank, front 50 the little ledge, front 50 the bump to ledge. Never got the last 50 and was getting super frustrated. I ended up having to leave before I got it. I did at least get into it a few times. It would normally do a 5-0 on accident though.

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#day266 a few quick power slides after a long day at work. Only 100 more days in a row to go!

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 22, 2016 at 6:31pm PDT

Worked a long day. There was a tiny bit of light when I got home and I knew I didn’t really want to skate. So I just grabbed my board immediately and did 4 or 5 powerslides in front of the house. Ollie was kind enough to film one so I could post about reaching day 266. “Only 100 more to go!” Ha. Who cares. It’s hard to skate every day. Those slides were fun though.

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