Did two kickflips in the driveway after a bunch of swimming. They felt good. Vulcs are good for kickflips.

Ollie skates bigger quarterpipes then me. Woodruff, WI

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 24, 2016 at 8:56pm PDT

Ollie and I went to the park for our agreed upon time of “25 minutes” (which turned into 45 minutes). I was a little hungover, it was hot and we had the park to ourselves for awhile. Ollie mostly just did that line above. I was more on the quarterpipe tip. Did a few tricks on the little qp like front smith, disaster, axle stall to fakie, etc and ended with the hurricane that took quite awhile.Oh yeah, a local showed up for a bit. He was a total small town skater and it was rad to see him. He was trying front foot impossibles in huge shoes on everything.

(setup 8.1 Krooked Manderson deck, venture low lights, standard thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm STF V1, Etnies RCT navy)

Ollie skates bigger quarterpipes then me. Woodruff, WI

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 24, 2016 at 8:56pm PDT

Up early in the morning getting my skating in before the family woke up. I started off not feeling very good and then switched into some old vulcanized shoes I had found in the closet. Some Etnies RCT. They are neat looking and in good shape, but a little small. Anyways, they felt a lot better and I stayed in them. My first sign of life was a line of f/s ollie, heelflip on flat then kickflip over the b/s hip. I had some little 180’s and stuff over a piece of wood, but I mostly just did flippers. Oh yeah, most of the obstacles were totally wet from dew so I couldn’t skate them. I had to use my foot to dry off the hip which was the least wet obstacle there. Did a lame fakie bigspin, some nollie 180s, a rare cab, a couple b/s flips, a f/s halfcab flip that took awhile to land. I had hucked quite a few other tricks like nollie tre, front heel, cab flip, but never got too close. Then I went and picked up some coffee for the Mighty LZA as it was her birthday.

(setup 8.1 Krooked Manderson deck, venture low lights, standard thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm STF V1, Etnies RCT navy)

After a 10 hour drive we stopped at the Woodruff, WI skatepark for a brief cruise. Ollie and I did a few kickturns, manuals, axle stalls, etc. It was a minimum day for sure, but nice to shake the long drive stiffness off a little.

(setup 8.1 Krooked Manderson deck, venture low lights, standard thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm STF V1, eS Swift black/white)

Had a blast in the 95 degree/95% humidity at the York park with @ericjeckert @joerhamilton @damon1819

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 20, 2016 at 5:38pm PDT

After almost 7 hours of driving I met up with the dudes in the early afternoon heat to shred it up. It was 95 degrees with 95 percent humidity. Luckily Eric had brought a cooler full of ice and gallon jugs of water for each of us. It ruled. I pumped around a bit then stretched as I was so stiff from the drive. Everyone else was ripping immediately. Eric skates that park like he lives there. Because he does. Ha. We hit the ramp for a bit, the curb for a bit then kind of spread out to everything. Joe and Damon rattled off tricks on the mini bank to ledge while I just did front 50 and front 5-0. Joe has front smiths so good. I tried some stuff, but mostly tried mutes over the wedge over and over and over. Got so close, would think I did it, but there really wasn’t match of a grab. I would get a couple, but they are brief, quick single finger grabs. Luckily skateboarding doesn’t have an officiating crew like weight lifting making sure that grabs meet regulation. I got one in a run with a frontside flip and a high five to Joe. Pretty awesome. We skated for four hours in the heat. I don’t know how since I really didn’t land much of anything, but it was fun. Those guys got a bro line and we saved my footage for the OLDFART game.

(setup 8.1 Krooked Manderson deck, venture low lights, standard thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm STF V1, eS Swift black/white)

Was driving around looking for a quick and easy spot when I honestly drove by the Boulder skatepark and had completely forgotten about it. So I turned around and joined a bunch of annoying scooter kids for some carves, axle stalls, a front disaster and telling some scooter kids to STFU.

(setup 8.1 Krooked Manderson deck, venture low lights, standard thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm STF V1, eS Swift black/white)

Day 200 in a row! Some flat ground with @iamnotacreepyjake and managed to not make my heel bruise worse.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 18, 2016 at 7:43pm PDT

After dinner and some rain Jake and I met out front of my house to skate some flatground. I was very cautious at first as to avoid hitting my heel bruise. As we warmed up I was able to do kickflips pretty normal and most other flippers. I avoided treflips though as I often under rotate them and hit my heel. I got quite a few flippers including the getting-less-rare halfcab heel. Jake had a line with a kickflip, frontside flip and another trick I can’t remember. Then we played a game of SKATE that went pretty long. It was a fun one. I didn’t even get letters on the normal tricks Jake gets me with like switch front shove and fakie 360 shove. I ended up winning on a f/s halfcab flip.

(setup 8.1 Krooked Manderson deck, venture low lights, standard thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm STF V1, eS Swift black/white)

Finally! #thestubborns

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 17, 2016 at 9:15am PDT

I met Dave on campus at 7am with a lot less heel pain then I had the day before. It was still messing with me though. We skated our little median that we warm up on. It starts with little nose stalls, to nose stall 270s, to axle stalls, manuals, etc. We moved into campus about 50 feet and I noticed a boardslide to manual option for Dave. He did it, then with feeble too. It was the hotness. After that I went to battle with the rock again. Front tail stall 270 shove into the narrow pathway. I got it and it only took 175 tries! Ha ha. I would go through waves of getting close, not being close, etc. The one I landed had a good toe drag, but I have to accept it. The board did a perfect 270. I was hyped. So hyped I asked someone to take a photo of Dave and I. Dave ollied the rock while I sat around on instagram then we went to the flagstone manny pad where he did a nice lipslide 270 or 2. Lastly we dorked around on some long stairs doing 180’s or manuals down them. Dave had a couple epic assists from the rail.

(setup 8.1 Krooked Manderson deck, venture low lights, standard thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm STF V1, eS Swift black/white)

Met Riley, Garrett and Bernie at Broomfield park on a warm afternoon. I was dealing with some serious heel pain and was too scared to really skate. I had increasing pain while wearing the PJ shoes the previous week and then wearing vulcanized shoes for one day sent it over the edge. So I wore my last pair of Es Swifts I had waiting. I didn’t do much other then some axle stalls and slappy noseslides. Riley was destroying. Bernie beat Garrett in SKATE. Then we went off to the DIA rail where Riley ended up getting a pretty unique and crazy trick. Rad.

(setup 8.1 Krooked Manderson deck, venture low lights, standard thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm STF V1, eS Swift black/white)

Tough time with the first #tentricktentryflatgroundfridayfabulousfearsomefunfight in awhile. Had a lot going against me though. 1) it was 8am 2) first time wearing vulcs in a long time 3) brand new deck 4) that family of bikers circling around me. Thanks for the list @siouxer666 @garrettswheelers and @whodeehoo

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 15, 2016 at 11:01am PDT

Above is pretty much it. I had the desire for better board feel and decided to go right into flatground friday with some old vulcs sitting in my closet. Some NB# Quincys before the move to NB. They felt very different then the thick and stiff PJs. I have a good heel bruise going on (which is weird since I’ve been skating the PJs) so that hurt for awhile. I got through a few basic tricks then went into the 10×10. Can’t believe I couldn’t land a nollie tre. I even tried for a long time after the 10×10. I was closer on the fakie tre recently. Doh. Getting used to the thinner vulcs was a little rough, we’ll see how it goes. That family was so annoying though. I was taking up like 50×10 feet of the huge foundation and they had to keep coming right at me. Ugh.

(setup 8.1 Krooked Manderson deck, venture low lights, standard thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm STF V1, old NB# Quincy maroon)