Had the day off work to skate with Chief and whoever else could make it. It ended up being Chief, Jack, Rob, Fuller and I. While we waited Jack and I played no comply SKATE. We went on for awhile, landing the few tricks each of us did. We had a couple of letters when it was time to go to Evergreen. Jack got me on no comply lazerflip. I don’t remember what I got him on.

@jackspanbauer at the wonderful little Evergreen, CO skatepark. #skatingintherain

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Evergreen was empty when we arrived and the temperature was amazing. Jack proved himself the youngest by landing flip tricks over the hip before anyone else had even touched their tail to the concrete. After awhile a couple of other guys joined that were pretty chill and nice. One dude had crazy good flippers over the hip. It’s impossible to remember what all went down. It seemed like everyone was having fun and skating well. Rob had those steezy boneless complys early. Chief and Rob with the back 180s. Jack had done kickflip, impossible, b/s flip and more I can’t remember (because it was totally boring Jack (ha, joking. but i hope you read this)). Dave and Chief worked on switch back 180s over it. I got a crappy b/s flip then a good feeling one. That trick is incredibly fun. I mostly skated the hip. I went on to also land halfcab flip, fakie bigflip, fakie f/s flip and tried nollie treflip for a long time, but never got one. Chief with the long nose manuals. Rob with the lines, manuals and close to halfcab noseslide to manual. Jack kickflip late shove the hip, the gap stuff above first tries. Dave technically landing switch back 3 and cab big spins. So sick. I had trouble getting on the little ledges, but noseslide to fakie off the “big” one was fun. It started to rain as I was getting closer to the nollie tre. Jack and Dave did backside airs.

A few clips from Wednesday's awesome adventure. Should have probably filmed more, but it was too fun skating. @43shifty @fullertrron @jackspanbauer #chiefstillneedsinstagram #twostepfuller

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 23, 2016 at 11:49am PDT

Then we ate and drove down to Lakewood to his this ramp which was super hard to skate, but super fun. It took everyone awhile to get backside grinds and flow. Well, everyone except for Dave. But he skates there all of the time (or maybe just once). We skated it for a long time. The trick list isn’t very long, but who cares, it’s fun and hard to skate. Chief had lots of front disasters, fakie pops, front tail, close to front disaster revert. Rob had the magic carves through the speed sucking corner and flowed grinds everywhere. Dave “The Dave” Fuller shredded. Grind bonk transfers over the hip, speed lines around the corner, sweepers, 5-0s, etc. I bailed a lot of back 50s and tried to slash frontside over the hip for a really long time. I would eventually get one. It felt awesome. It took Rob doing a run with two of his magical corner carves in it to get me hyped enough. Jack did front 50 over the hip first try, 5-0s, disasters, a lot. We eventually left. Everyone hyped.

@jackspanbauer rips

A photo posted by Rob Helmstetter (@43shifty) on Sep 21, 2016 at 6:36pm PDT

We checked out this nearby DIY spot. We felt weird rolling up when they were working on it, but Bochi ended up being really nice and told us what was up. Rob and I were too sore to skate, but everyone else did. Chief had a nice bump out to manny. Jack back lip and front tail transfers. Dave did a backside sweeper. What more do you need to say? Bochi ripped the place. All of the qps are pretty gnarly. Then we went to the Emerica premiere and had even more fun. Great day. Great dudes. Great skating. Dream day.

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Went over to the school feeling pretty sore/tired. Didn’t ollie at all. Just spins to stall. Like halfcab nosestall without ollieing. Did several variations. Also slappy crook and slappy front crook. Yippee.

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Didn’t sleep well and woke up early. Not the best combo. Liz couldn’t play tennis so I went skating. I had the whole park to myself for the hour I was there. I pushed around for awhile, doing the mellow carves that park is great for.

Then found the tiniest qp in history and started posing some backside noseblunts. Somehow, someway I was able to kind of pivot off my nose into it. I did a couple and was already happy.

But I decided to do it on the worlds second smallest qp as well! Ha, a few minutes later I got one that felt my best. It was actually really fun. I still mostly pivoted rather then ollied in, but whatever. I spent the rest of the time doing wallies on the corner of the rock followed by kickflip or treflip to fakie. Got both, but the treflip was with my hands down. Good thing that’s all the rage these days.

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Went to Valmont on a hot lazy Sunday. I chose Valmont because I didn’t want to be gone too long and it’s shady. Warmups went ok. I did several variations of slappy noseslides. After awhile I started trying a long line. Manual, nose manual, ollie up the curb, b/s flip off the curb then try to get to the ledge. Never got a clean b/s flip. Also tried some lines going down the top of the dock. No comply 180, fakie flip, switch front 180 off the curb. Then a car parked by the manny pad so that was done. Tried a line of kickflip up the curb, heelflip, ollie off the dock. I guess I was so tired and sore that I didn’t land the ollie. I was lazily doing flip tricks here and there, tried a nollie inward heel, came close, tried another and landed it. I giggled for a bit, sent out some happy texts and went back to skating. I didn’t really land much of anything on the ledge. Halfcab noseslide, front noseslide, weaksauce front 50, kind of a front tail. Tried some lines. Front shove off the bottom kicker part of the ledge then a kickflip noseslide. Which technically I landed, but it was another one of those quick little jibs. Another line of kickflip off the kicker then kick back 50. Didn’t get close. Fell down a lot. My legs were tired. Flip tricks didn’t go so hot and I didn’t get a clean 360 flip again. Stoked to land my first nollie inward heel!

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Saturday fun. @43shifty @powtao Jacoby Dork Chief @_f_u_z_z

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 17, 2016 at 6:02pm PDT

Another sunny day. Rob and I cruised up to Fort Collins and met up with Chief at MRKT. Then we met Jacoby and Dr Terry Spittles at Northside. There was almost no one there when we arrived, but it quickly became crowded with beginner skaters. Rob and Fuzz tried to manual the MJ ledge for awhile. I don’t know if either of them got it. Steve was mostly on the ledge. I would join him after awhile. Chief was running the bank. Normally I’m scared to roll into the miniramp section, but I did it several times without fear. On the ledge Steve did back 50 pretty easily. I’m jealous. I got a few tricks, mostly slow and not proper. Front 50 super slow, noseslide, noseslide to fakie, noseslide shove, switch noseslide, halfcab noseslide super bad, maybe a crooks. Then a major bank session ensued. Rob had been slaying the bank for awhile. I think he landed like 10 kickflips. Saw Jacoby do a sick fakie flip on the bank. We hit the bank to curb which was much scarier then it looks. I started it off with an axle stall that scared me. Fuzz put down tail, tail to fakie and noseblunt tail grab. Sick! Jacoby was real close to back tail. I got a feeble too. I know it looks easy, but it was one of the scariest tricks I’ve done in awhile. That bank gets steep at the end. Icing on the cake of the fun session for me was a first try treflip on flat.

Then we went to the post office slappy curb. Chief laid into some 50s quick, Rob slappy crooks, Fuzz manual then a solid slappy front 50. I dorked around on the curb cut with back noseblunts for a bit. Then we got the boot. Good. Ha, I don’t like that spot much.

@_f_u_z_z nosepick to backwards with bgp by @corpoglenny

A photo posted by Rob Helmstetter (@43shifty) on Sep 17, 2016 at 4:30pm PDT

Then we went to the bank to curb spot. It’s way harder then it looks. Cracks, angles, etc. It’s still a great spot though. Rob put down a few gems that were captured on hosercam. Pop shove nose stall, boneless to tail and a few more I’m forgetting right now. Probably because I don’t know the names of them. Steve got a few basics. Fuzz worked on front nosepick to fakie for awhile and kind of landed it. At least photo worthy. Ha. I struggled. I couldn’t do kickflip stalls so it was a weird session for me. I did a few basics, that was about it. Super fun day.

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@fullertrron knocked this out in a mere two hours! #thestubborns #fakiehippyflip

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 16, 2016 at 7:05pm PDT

#flatgroundfriday 📸 @fullertrron

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After a chill day of working at home I met Dave a little after 4pm on a warm Friday at the dog park. Dave was napping when I got there. Ha. He said he was too tired to skate. I started warming up and it seemed like I might skate alright. But once it got to real tricks it didn’t go so good. We kept at it though and tricks began accumulating. I got a nollie varial flip and Dave started trying them. He was doing lines with shoves, cabs and started trying fakie varial flips. He would try other tricks too, but for the most part it was fakie varial flip and he was close for a long time. I ended up landing a lot of tricks from my back. Kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, fakie bigflip, fakie f/s flip, halfcab heelflilp, heelflip, fakie heelflip, bs flip, treflip, nollie treflip, nollie varial flip, nollie cab, no comply 180. Close to fakie treflip, fakie front heel and nollie flip. We skated for a long time. It was fun. Dave got the fakie varial flip so good. I never landed a clean treflip. Not sure why I can’t seem to land that one right anymore. I left with very sore legs.

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Old guy fun. @43shifty @_f_u_z_z @iamnotacreepyjake

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 16, 2016 at 6:55am PDT

Met up with the dudes at Broomfield park around 7. Well, Rob and Jake were there, but Fuzz was still closing up shop. Both dudes were killing it already and the park wasn’t very crowded. I was a little sore after several days without a ‘day off’. Jake was skating the Pier 7 ledge when I got there. First 50, then 5-0. I told him I’d get his back with 50 on his 5-0 and he went and did it. I got into the 50, but not out of it. Luckily he moved on so I didn’t have to keep skating it. Rob was all over the park doing manuals, back 50s, tailblocks, halfcab noseslides, he had some fire going. I struggled with front 50s on the black ledge. Not sure why. Oh yeah, I had a new board, it felt good. It’s the longest 8.1 that Generator makes and it’s my favorite pointy shape. We played a game of SKATE. I had to double or nothing a kickflip. Yikes. Jake got first try treflip and I got a crappy double or nothing defensive make. I was happy to do it though. Jake would go on to win with 3 shove and fakie 3 shove and nollie bigspin (can’t believe I got a letter on that). Then we skated around. I was trying a flatground trick then pivot to fakie on the quartapotty. I got really close, probably close enough to call it a defensive make. I was still pivoting to fakie on the tranny rather then just going in. I had some fun flippers as setups like nollie tre and heelflips. Fuzz showed and played a game of SKATE with drunk kids. Ha. I got another treflip, felt good. Rob did halfcab boardslide on the sad ledge. Jake did the noseblunt. I tried front smith to front rock for awhile and didn’t get it. Rob and Fuzz did their doubles, I did my boardslide and we called it a session. We went over to Fuzz’s and nerded out on youtube clips. It was awesome. I need to hang with my friends more.

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@pjladd edit from #tintodeverano our Sales Manager @rothdigga put together! 🙌🔥

A video posted by New Balance Numeric #NBNumeric (@nbnumeric) on Sep 14, 2016 at 7:13pm PDT

Haven’t done a “best of the week” in awhile, but PJ Ladd takes it. He always takes it even when it’s just one clip, but this is just wonderful.

Went to Redder Curbs around 8pm after a really busy day at work. I was somewhat sore and started by just kind of mini-ramping it with stalls going back and forth on the parking blocks. I had a bail on a feeble that shot some crazy pain through my knee. I almost stopped at that point, but instead I decided to skate it out. I was rewarded with a motivated session. I didn’t land a whole lot, but I did skate hard. A lot of the motivation came from this clip of PJ Ladd. His skating is the best. I got some slappy crooks going on the kinked red curb, started ollieing and trying flip tricks. There was one point where I tried a halfcab flip and didn’t think I would get it at all, but landed it. It made me happy about the smaller setup I’m on these days. Same thing happened on a couple of heelflips. I can’t say the same for trying to ollie over a cone though. I made myself do a back 50 on the median over a parking block. That took awhile, didn’t get over both of the blocks, but it’s scary. Tried a line for awhile of kickflip a parking block, treflip on flat, front 50 the downhill part of the kinked curb. I may have done it once, but basically none of the tricks were under 50 year old makes. Especially the two hands down treflip landing. I never got a clean treflip. Doh. I tried to heelflip the parking block for awhile which I’ve never done before, didn’t ever commit, but it felt doable. Ended in a flurry of trying kick back tails on a curb, treflips on flat or switch crooks on the curb. Got none of them, came the closest to kick back tail. Focused my board so it would force me to setup a new one that is in decent shape.

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Went to Louisville park around 7:30 after a busy day at work. It was cool out. I arrived to a bunch of younger skaters who just aren’t that into skating. They suck. At least they were on skateboards, but they just mostly dork around with each other and not even really skate. And when they do they don’t care about snaking you. I started off in a good mood, but was skating absolutely terrible. I didn’t let it get to me and would eventually start skating alright. The kids left and one somewhat older dude showed up to mostly just stare at his phone. It was weird. I did a back heel on the bank. It might be my first one ever, as bad as it looks it felt fun. I got into some front crooks, but never landed any on the ledge. No back 50s on the main ledge, but several on the little one. Rolled into the snake run for the first time in awhile. Couldn’t get 360 flip to fakie on the bank. I left sweating, happy I skated.

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