Fun challenge @boredzinejp! @the_neviathan I struggled going to fakie so had to settle for the @fullertrron approved over 40 defense make. Next trick is front 50 no comply shove out. It's a fun one! #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #andnate #sirmenacingdoublehoserofslowville

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 8, 2015 at 8:12pm PDT

Went to Red Curbs with the intention of doing the last trick in the clip above. I thought I would be super tired, but I wasn’t. It took me awhile to get this trick. Like 30 minutes and I was pretty much just going constantly in a loop and worked up a pretty good sweat. Hyped on that trick. Then I went to the nearby parking lot and started a 10×10, but when I bailed fakie tre and halfcab heel once again I stopped and went home.

Fun challenge @boredzinejp! @the_neviathan I struggled going to fakie so had to settle for the @fullertrron approved over 40 defense make. Next trick is front 50 no comply shove out. It's a fun one! #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #andnate #sirmenacingdoublehoserofslowville

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 8, 2015 at 8:12pm PDT

On a totally beautiful night I set out to complete my missions for the oldfart game of skate. First stop was the Good Times barrier to complete Josh’s mission. It took me awhile to do a regular wallride actually, but once I did it was on and the one to fakie was pretty easy. This spot is way scarier then a normal barrier to wallride.

Then I met Dave at Valmont. We did our manual warm up routine, however this I got manual right away rather then taking 20 tries. Whew. Dave and I both did lines with manual and nose manual. I got a switch front 180 manual at one point, but failed to back it up with 180 nose manual. Dave waxed up a section of curb next to the manny pad and was trying boardslide 270 to manual. Seriously. Ha. He got somewhat close. I tried some switch boardslides or 50s to manual. Dave was boardsliding really far. Then we kind of hucked for awhile, Dave trying various 180s in or out of manuals. I struggled with kickflips up the curb. I did feel good on my board for awhile at least.

Then we went to the ledge so I could try fakie back tails for Nate’s challenge. I tried on not as low part for awhile, but could barely get into it. I got a few on the low part like in the clip, but none were good. Dave would get one too. I was trying flip tricks between every try and not landing hardly anything. I was getting wheel bite all of the time. Argh. Alight night at least, felt good at times.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 51mm spitfire f4 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)

Too lazy to head to a parking garage on another rainy night so I went out to the garage. I had a new deck. Another 8.1, but the older longer ones. I started out on the sheet of wood manny pad and it was a total blast. It’s really fun even though they don’t count as real manuals. Nose manual 180s, switch 180 manual, 180 nose manual, 180 nose manual rewind, 180 nose manual 180 out and manual back 180. Flip tricks didn’t go very good. I struggled. I did a few of the basics. Nothing felt great. 360 flips were hard. Ended trying nollie 360 flips and switch flips.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 51mm spitfire f4 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)

Went out to my garage on a cool and rainy night. Started with ollie/nollies/180s/shoves and I was feeling horrible. Tried to do ollies where I lifted my back foot. I was hating my board. For whatever reason the latest 8.1s that Generator sent are a lot shorter then normal and I hate it. I started thinking of tricks that would break the board and late shove came to mind (thanks Jack). An hour later I was coming close, but never quite got one. I did crack my board at least though. But I must admit it was on a regular pop shove. I setup an older 8.1 from the pile that is longer. Hurrah.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 51mm spitfire f4 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)

Fun times doing dawn patrol with @fullertrron downtown this morning. #grindsbeforenine #stackingclips #glenanddaveswonderfulhorriblelife

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 4, 2015 at 2:11pm PDT

Met Dave at Denver park around 7:30am on a cool cloudy fall morning. I started out feeling insanely rusty and kept on struggling. I like that park when it’s not crowded, but I really struggled. Dave says he was too, but he had some moves I thought. He did some slappy crooks on the bank to escalator ledge thing. I had some no-ollie front tails on it. We had some lines going into the park. Dave showed me a fun flyout which I didn’t really ‘fly’ out of. We did some boardslides on the bank to curb. I filmed Dave do backside then frontside. Then somehow things came together for slappy crooks. I was really hyped on that one. Then I did some flatground for awhile. I was SUPER rusty at first and almost slammed multiple times on varial flip. I was pretty bummed on it, but then other tricks started flowing and I would go on to 360 flip and heelflip before filming Dave do a sick front lip and we left for downtown.

I wanted to hit an alley spot with a drop then double sided curb, but there was a car. We ended up at the Skyline Park granite ledge. It was under construction so we had to move a couple barriers a little and wax it up. I was supposed to crooks the whole thing. I started by not even being able to get into a crooked grind. Ugh. I would start to get into some little ones, but it wasn’t magic like the last time. Maybe the fact that I no longer have wide tricks played a part, maybe it wasn’t waxed anymore, maybe it was just a bad day. Dave had some rad front 50s then started getting nosegrind so I filmed him. Unfortunately that seemed to have the opposite effect and he didn’t get too close again and had a bad slam. Doh. Then I tried to film a line for awhile. Kickflip up the curb, crooks the ledge, then boardslide the ledge after. I didn’t really care about the boardslide, but I never got the crooks really good so I wasn’t all that hyped on the line. Next we hit Tabor and Dave put down a few rad tricks real quick. That was it. I went to Emage to sell boards, hit Costco and was home in time to watch the Broncos game with Ollie.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 51mm spitfire f4 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)

Been out for a few days due to back pains. Took some ibuprofen and went for @the_neviathan 's challenge of dump truck. Man it hurt to yank in! Guest dumpers are @halfdeadanimal and judge @fullertrron. Next trick had to be front nosegrind after seeing this amazing one from @pjladd this week. I know it's easy for you guys @the_neviathan and @boredzinejp, but you don't have to do it on as huge of ledge as me. Ha. #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #andnate

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 3, 2015 at 12:53pm PDT

Went to Broomfield park on a beautiful cool cloudy fall day. It’s literally the first weekend without the sun blazing hot in weeks. I haven’t ollied in a few days. I felt rusty as all get out, but I was able to ollie without much pain. After pumping around for awhile I started trying Nates dumptruck challenge. It hurt my back to yank in so after I got the feel for it I set up the phone and stopped at the first possible one that could count. Then I skated the blue ledge for awhile. Did some back 50s, back 5-0 shove, front 50s and laid into front nosegrind for a long time before getting the sketchy one above. Dave showed up around then. Meta Sean was there too totally ripping nosegrinds both ways on the black ledge. I skated around a little bit more doing some basics and then had to leave. Bummed I didn’t get to skate with Darin or Dave.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 51mm spitfire f4 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)

My neck/back pain got pretty intense so I had to take a couple days off. It’s the first time this year I took more then one day off in a month. It felt kinda nice. After a fun dinner with friends Jack and I messed around on an old 7.5″ board with 60mm softies at Lazer’s house. Just a couple kickflips and tricks while sitting. Can’t wait to get skating for real.

Went to Broomfield feeling better then I have in awhile. The park was super crowded though. Argh. Darin was there when I arrived. We started out on the Quartapotty and blue ledge. Things were going pretty well for me. Landed lots of the qp trick, back 50, back 5-0, a couple bad kickflip back 50s. Was trying switch noseslide to back 270 out. At some point I messed up my upper back and was unable to skate. I watched Darin for awhile and Dave showed up. Darin took awhile to get back tail to fakie, but the one he did was tight. He did like a million back tails on the qp as a setup. Dave was going for nosegrinds when I left. Man it hurts. That’s two times in a row at Broomfield park where I’ve been in too much pain to really skate.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows no lower bushing 51mm spitfire f4 nb# pj stratford white/gum)

Was very tired at work all day. Got home and immediately drove to Broomfield to bring India to ballet. After dropping her off I chilled in the car for a bit and took a much needed nap. Then I went to Safeway for a mellow dork session I thought. I started just doing all the various no ollie noseslides. Pretty fun. I’m loving the looser trucks after taking off the lower washer. I was really lazy for awhile. I wasn’t in the mood for trying hard. I did some 50s. Didn’t try many flip tricks other then a few kickflips. Tried front tails for awhile, got some that didn’t slide. Posed back tails for a bit. Tried fakie nosegrinds for a long time and never got one. Tried front lips for awhile and got into a bunch where my tail was hitting the wall so I stopped. Landed on to fakie really poorly as I needed to leave to pick up India.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows no lower washer 51mm spitfire f4 nb# pj stratford 533)

Feeling tired and slightly hungover from date night with Liz (I have zero tolerance anymore) I headed to campus on another hot day. I was really hating my setup the day before and how stiff the trucks were so I took off the lower washer. This gave it some wiggle and I liked it. I started off at the little downhill manny pad. Not sure if I even did a clean one or not, but I definitely did on the way back to my car later in the day. I did ollie off the ledge in the background before the scooter was there. I had fun doing 180 variations over a manhole.

Then I skated this amazing ledge. Ha. I tried a line of halfcab flip, back 50, ollie the next 3 stair. The back 50 kept sticking for me. Doh. I started going f/s halfcab flips instead. I would eventually get the line, but the 3 stair ollie was horrible. So I switched the heelflip as the first trick and then did it good enough to move on. I checked out a couple spots, but they had cars or people in the way. Actually, the brick area near the ledge I was just at would have been good, but these new Sptifires, which are supposed to be the 99a, seem hard as hell and the cracks were really annoying.

I ended up here for my most frustrating part of the day. Front tail this ledge, curve around a picnic table, ollie onto the ledge, stop, turn around and kickflip off. I never got the ollie up. The shortness of this board was really bumming me out on the front tails and ollies. The ledge wouldn’t have slid really anyway, but I feel like I posted up on some front tails good at least. I managed to kickflip off at least.

Then I went here which was pretty crowded with college students at times. I tried a line of ollie up, varial flip on the top, front shove off for awhile. the ollies up felt alright, but varial flips were being elusive and pissing me off. I would managed to get the line though and it felt awesome. Then I went home.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows without lower washer 51mm spitfire f4 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)