Tonight part 1.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 8, 2015 at 8:36pm PDT

Part 2. Young 30 somethings Jake and Matt tired and bored, Dave the Energizer Bunny learning new tricks at 47.

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Had an exhausting day at work. After a nap, a little soccer with Ollie and then a brief flatground dorkery with Matt and Jake out front of my house we met Dave at Valmont. It seemed like we took awhile to get going. Manuals were hard. At least I didn’t have leg pain though. I think everyone got manuals. Nose manuals went down. Lots of close to front 180 nose manuals. Matt added kickflip manual, nollie manual and a really good 360 flip up the curb. Jake and Dave started a varial flip duel. Matt and I joined, but tried them switch. In one almost completely magical sequence Dave landed his, I landed mine, Matt landed his and Jake landed on his. So close to perfection. Jake’s knee was hurting so he mostly sat out. Dave went on to land his first ever switch varial flip! Matt and I tried switch tres for awhile, he would eventually land his all good. He also did switch heel which might be the first trick I’ve seen him not look totally natural on. He is human! I added nollie varial flip and nollie treflip to my flippers for the night. Dave and Jake switch ollied a board. I kickflipped it. Then Jake and Matt chilled as Dave came super close to f/s halfcab manual in hopes of eventually doing it to nose manual. He was also flying around doing manuals and nose manuals all good. I was trying a line of kickflip back tail stall on a curb then front 180 nose manual. Got super close. Had some fun flippers too. We ended when Dave did a front 180 nose manual. Fun times.

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After lots of cleaning and chores, then some rain I went to Valmont with a new board. I waxed up the ledge real good while the puddles dried up. I love skating a new deck at a ledge spot first. I started with the ol’ no ollie noseslide routine and I felt pretty good. Then I started ollie’ing into them and still felt good. Got a f/s one to forward which is rare. Crooks happened quick. Back 50 took a bit. Front 50 happened with no pain in the groin which surprised me. I got a front 50 shove on the middle section that hyped me up enough to put a little dumpster after the loading dock and try to ollie it. But I never ended up committing. Oh well. Back to the ledge I hucked a bunch of tricks. Had a few front tails that actually slid I minute amout. I tried a bunch of nollie flips in between and didn’t even get my feet on it this time. I tried kickflip noseslides for awhile. It took me the time it took a cute fuzzy caterpillar to walk the entire length of the ledge. The one I got was another crappy one where I didn’t lock in. I did get close to locking in a few times though. Had a good nollie varial flip, a few 360 flips that I landed perfect and didn’t ride away from for some dumb reason. Got a kickflip back 50. Tried front crooks for awhile without success. Tried back 180 nosegrind without getting close. Did a couple dork tricks off the loading dock. Got tired and left for home happy that I didn’t have much pain.

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Up early on a Sunday. Was at Dave’s around 7am and we showed up in Loveland before 8am. The family above contributed to some initial negative feelings for the park. We avoided the strett area for awhile because of how lame that family was. The snake run was fun to pump and a little scary. Dave had some grinds at least. Then we messed around on the tree root spine for awhile which was quite fun. Dave had a good halfcab to tail that I couldn’t do. I had the little rock revert that got him. We did standard tail 180 transfers, smith/feeble transfers. Then it got fun with some early grab transfers. I’ve never done that before so it was pretty fun.

Then the street area cleared out and we hit it up. I took awhile to get slappy crooks on the bank to curb. Never got one that I was too hyped on. The quarterpipes are all so steep there. I don’t like that aspect of the park. Dave had a good slappy front 5-0. There is a bump to mini downhill ledge which was a fun warm up. I had a couple front 180s to fakie 50. Dave front 5-0’d down it. We hit the kicker for awhile. Dave had good ollies into the steep side and nollies the other way. I had a really weak b/s flip into the mellow side, halfcab flip and fakie bigflip too. All were fun. The quarterpipes around there are fun for doing lines. Both of us did a lot of different tricks on the qps. Dave had a couple really good back tails. I forced myself to front 50 down the mini hubba. I’m scared of downhill. It has a weird start to it, but I would get a few that felt alright. Noseslides down the longer one were fun too. Dave got busy with some nose manual attempts both ways on the bank to curb area. He would get a really good one coming out of the bank. I did a dumb kickflip to fakie on the escalator bank. Dave had some rad switch crooks on the waxed bank. I did some back 5-0s to fakie. Dave said I didn’t even shuffle out, but I’m not sure I believe him. That was pretty much it. We skated the bowl for a bit. Dave did some of his trick, fakie ollie to layback air. So rad. I didn’t drop in, but I had fun carving around and was getting up the hype to dropin when this funny dude from Brazil came to sweep out the bowl. Decent park, horrible family scooter scene.

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Went to Broomfield park while India was in ballet. Had about 2 hours to skate. It was sunny and hot. I was feeling better for awhile and was finally able to ollie without groin pain. It took awhile though. Warming up on the quartapotty wasn’t great. Blue ledge stuff wasn’t all that either. I guess I shouldn’t have expected much since I really haven’t ollied much in awhile. I had a run of boardslide the tiny down rail then back 50 the ledge. Also a run of f/s flip on the hump up top then front 50 shove the black ledge. I wasn’t able to get a crooks on the black ledge. Or a front 5-0. Had a good feeling nollie tre on flat. Other flatground felt alright. Tried to do backside nosegrind on the blue ledge for awhile, but only had a couple that were remotely close to locking in. I started to get really sore by the end.

Later that evening I tried nollie heels and nollie flips in my garage. I would commit to nollie heels every try, but they would only flip half way. I landed on another nollie flip with hands on the ground. Still hyped that I’ve made a little progress with that trick.

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@boredzinejp and I were g-chatting and came up with some spice for #flatgroundfriday. 10 tricks, 10 tries. My list this go: Halfcab flip Fs halfcab flip Heelflip Treflip Nollie flip Nollie treflip Backside flip Frontside flip Varial heelflip Halfcab heelflip I got 7.5 out of 10. I thought the nollie flip counted until I saw it. But for the record I think that's my 5th one ever. Actually most of my tricks probably shouldn't count. But I'm old. Not sure what will come of this game.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 4, 2015 at 6:39pm PDT

Finally feeling somewhat healthy. After a day of g-chatting at work then a nap I set out to do 10 tricks, 10 tries each. My list is above. I had warmed up a little before that, but hadn’t really done any of the tricks except heelflip and halfcab flip before I started 10×10. It went pretty good I guess. Until I watched the footage that is. Wow my style is bad. The halfcab flip and f/s halfcab heel were first try. The 360 flip and ‘nollie flip’ were 10th try. Everything else was in between. Seeing the footage I probably should have done more attempts to get them looking better. Oh well, live and learn. I was really happy to kind of land a nollie flip because that’s 2 days in a row I landed on it. Gonna keep at that one for sure. The slam on the varial heel got my hip pretty good. It hurts. After the 10×10 I kept skating. Still couldn’t land a nollie tre. So weird. I would eventually land one very sloppily. Other tricks I did. Varial flip rewind, b/s halfcab heel, fakie bigflip, fakie varial flip, a few more 360 flips, more heelflips. Then I hucked tricks I never land for a bit and didn’t get too close to anything. At the end I was hucking cab flips both ways. I wasn’t very close. On the regular cab I decided to go big flip as it seemed like it would help the spin. It did. I did two cab bigfips in a row. Wow! Now before you think it looked like this, remember that it’s me. I was going slow and there was a lot of pivot. Luckily I didn’t film it because in my head it was mostly one motion. I am going to work on it though. Man it’s great to feel healthier.

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Feeling a little better finally. I met Dave at Valmont to skate the little manny pads as that building is vacant. Neither of us could ollie at first. We both just ran into the curb and lifted up. I was skating horribly slow. I tried an ollie and it kind of hurt so I just stuck to kickflips for the most part. I know it’s bizarre that kickflips don’t hurt, but ollies do, but I’m not going to complain. I did a bunch of kickflips up the curbs in hopes of a kickflip manual, but it didn’t happen. Dave was struggling with the basics and took awhile to get manual then nose manual. But when he did it was really good. I did a couple regular manuals after awhile and they felt fine. Yeah! Then out of nowhere I did a front 180 nose manual. Easily the longest and best one I’ve ever done even though I was going really slow. Oh well. I tried a few fakie bigflip manuals or kickflip nose manuals. Dave was trying back 180 nose manual. Then the rain came.

I had to pick up Ollie from football shortly so driving home was pointless. So I just skated this curb protected from the rain by a tree. It ruled. I did a slappy crook stall shove out. Kickflip axle stall varial flip out. I was really hyped, I don’t think I’ve done that before. Got super close to kick back tail shove out. Did a kickflip out of a tail stall which might be a first ever, then almost did it out of a front tail, but I had to leave.

7 years ago before Rampy I just skated flatground in my garage. These marks are from then #tbt . I'm excited to have a garage again and be able to skate some flatground this winter. I'm glad Rampy is in a good home @stumblin_steele too because I'm sure I'll miss it at some point.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 3, 2015 at 8:46pm PDT

After doing some cleaning in the garage I grabbed my spare 8″ board with 42mm wheels and messed around for a bit. It ruled. After about 15 minutes I did a nollie flip. It hyped me up a ton. I love having a real garage again.

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A few highlights from @gnarlycarleigh s birthday bash last night. A couple switch moves from @siouxer666, a pop shove from the birthday girl and @jackspanbauer does another late shove.

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Happy Saturday! Get out and shred! @jackspanbauer front blunt transfer and 180 switch crooks at Broomfield park.

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I thought I was feeling better, but when I arrived at Broomfield park I didn’t feel good at all. I played on the quartapotty for awhile, then filmed Riley, Jack and Nolan do some damage on the gnar hip. Then I watched Carleigh carve over the love seat for the first time in the bowl. So sick. Then I started just doing slow kickflips over and over as they didn’t hurt my strained groin. Then we played a game of skate. Darin, Scotty, Bernie and I. We had to go through all of Darin’s 180s before it got going, but it ended up being a good one. All four of us were at SKAT. I even landed a treflip first try horribly. Scotty won the game with a nollie late front foot flip. Perfect. We played another game with no repeats. Darin and I took out the young guns, but Darin took it in the end with tricks like fakie pressure flip and impossible. I had gotten letters on some tricks like pop shove revert, fakie shove, fakie bigspin that I should have landed. Then I filmed Carleigh, Jack and Riley rule the double set. So fun to watch and so stoked that Carleigh nailed the pop shove on her birthday. The last 10 minutes of light was spent trying the Fuller spin on the mellow bank with Garret and Bernie. Both of them got it pretty quick and thought it was fun. They also both did it with a judo kick. Bernie did it like 5 times with a judo kick and they all looked amazing. I think I finally landed one at this point. I was feeling pretty down about it. Bernie also did one with a crail grab. Fun night because of the occasion and crew, but I really hope my body starts feeling better, it’s getting me down.

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@fullertrron front hurricane at a fun after work session at @nolancormier and @forde_photo 's apartment.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 1, 2015 at 5:45pm PDT

@nolancormier smith at his new apartment.

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Feeling a little less arthritic, a little less pain in the groin I stopped here after work to meet Dave for a shortish session. As I was warming up with my no ollie tricks a car pulled up and it was Ladd. Turns out him and Nolan moved into the apartments in the background of Dave’s photo. So rad! So I went up and told Nolan and he came down and joined Dave and I. Dave and I stuck to the curb, aka the beginner/old fart section. Nolan did for the most part too. This spot is way harder to skate then it looks. Dave and I did boardslides. Dave did back board to fakie then back board 270 out which was so good. Nolan did a lot of tricks on the curb. Crooks, back tail, front tail, front 5-0, back blunt. I took awhile to get a halfcab boardslide, got a weak first try hurricane then at the end of the session got really close to a kick back tail. Nolan did a few tricks on the top bar. Boardslide pop in, front 50, crooks and the rad front smith above. Dave had a sick front hurricane. I tried some line of back 50 then nollie treflip. Got close. At one point I tried to ollie up the curb. Bad idea, the groin strain pain was intense. Ladd joined us after awhile and only skated the young buck section. Front 50, boardslide, front tail. Also some nice treflips on flat. I had to leave to pick Ollie up from football practice. It feels funny being the dad that was out skating too long and was late picking his son up from football.

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I had the day off work. I was up late seeing Drive Like Jehu destroy it. But since I don’t really drink at all anymore I had no hangover and was feeling pretty good and wanting to skate. I went to Lafayette park around 10:30 not really knowing if I could skate because of my groin pain. I started by doing axle stalls on a bunch of various things at the park. The first of which that was scary was the bank to bank at the end of the snake run. I hit the toilet bowl for awhile and did a basic line of kickturn on the rock, axle stall on the lowest extension, front 5-0 on the parking block. It took a bit and I slammed hard into the pump boob at one point. Having the park to myself ruled. It reminded me that my distaste for skateparks is more related to crowds then terrain. I forced myself to do a tiny scratch grind on the 8′ end of the snake run. I should have tried axle stall, but I’m scared. Then I did a bunch of little spine transfer tricks. Just the typical front 50 to fakie, fakie 50 or pivot then back to fakie. Pretty fun. I got a few noseslides down the little hubba. Somehow ollieing backside doesn’t hurt too much. I had a line of b/s ollie the manhole bump, powerslide, hurricane on the spine thing then noseslide down the hubba. That was a neat feeling. Then I battled noseslides down the 3 stair ledge for awhile. I have never landed it. It seemed like the faster I went the harder I stuck, so I had to find that perfect medium that allowed me to lock in perfect. I eventually landed one that wasn’t the whole thing, but it was fun either way. I ended my awesome day trying cab flips on the flat bank in the back corner. I had a really fun run going into it. Wallie the rock hip, front slash the tiny qp, turn to fakie on the manhole bump, 2 switch pushes then try the cab flip. It was a tough place to do them because there isn’t much room to take angle into the bank. Anyway, I kind of rode away from 2 of them. The first of which was only a halfcab flip that I turned around to forward as I was riding down. The second was closer to a real one, but still wasn’t one clean motion. Oh well, it felt great trying a flip trick and somehow it didn’t seem to strain my groin. I had a blast.

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My groin strain is still pretty bad. I wanted to skate, but didn’t want to ollie. I didn’t have much time. I thought about Boulder park and it didn’t get me excited. Then I remembered Red Curbs and got excited. Especially because it was super hot outside. I started with a slappy crook and was immediately happy I didn’t go to Boulder park. I skated for about 45 minutes, never ollie’ing and had a blast. I had lots of ride on front 50s, “nollie” front tails, one to fakie, a nollie back tail that took awhile, switch front noseslides, and ended with a really fun slappy crooks to fakie. It’s so hard for me to not do flip tricks when I’m skating, but I managed. I was happy to leave having not caused any pain to my groin.

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