A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 24, 2015 at 7:43pm PDT

Met Rob and Dave at Blue Skies on a warm afternoon right after work. My body didn’t seem to be working very well initially and I felt like it took me forever to get going. We mostly skated the bank it seemed. Rob had his groin pain going on so he wasn’t skating the same way he normally does. It was pretty cool though he was doing tricks like no comply wallies and even put one onto front 50 on the snake rail. He did b/s no comply bigspin and b/s no comply fingerflip on the bank. Dave had some pretty awesome kickflips to fakie to hands down slides that were makes. And a clean one too. We both tried switch flips too. I was nowhere near close and my switch pushes up to it were horrible. Dave got really close a few times. I was also trying noseslide front 270 shove out on the ledge and had some really close ones. I would love to learn that trick. After a good treflip night a couple nights before I was 1-20 or something like that. Ugh. Rob and Dave left and I went up to the rink to skate flat. It was sprinkling a little off and on. Almost too much to stop, but not quite. I rattled off a few basics right away and thought I was in for a good session. Alas I got to heelflip and hit a brick wall. Treflips were bad too. I hucked a lot, but rarely landed anything. I did get a line of varial flip, f/s flip, fakie treflip which sounds great on paper, but it was slow and the f/s flip was extra bad. I struggled to get a nollie tre, couldn’t do f/s halfcab heel, close to nollie f/s flip, close to nollie bigflip, not close on switch tricks. Oh well.

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Was super exhausted and sore and didn’t feel much like skating. So I just pushed over to the bike path and enjoyed the quick downhill ride. It was fun and almost got me hyped enough to keep going to Wilville and keep skating. But instead I pushed switch home and called it a night.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 22, 2015 at 9:57pm PDT

After driving down from BV and some eating and resting I headed to research ledge on a beautiful evening. The first thing I did was walk up the hill and just do fakie ollies down it. So fun. Then a couple runs with different 180s. Then noseslides, crooks and horrible back 50 on the ledge. Started with some basic lines like front shove, ollie up the curb, crooks. Then the other way front 180 or switch front 180 the manhole and front board popout or switch noseslide on the ledge. Tried crooks bigspin out for awhile. Never got too close. On the way back I would try tricks like switch heel, varial heel, fakie tre. I eventually went up the hill and tried some long runs starting at the little hip thing. Got a few flippers over it, kickflip, b/s flip, varial flip, halfcab flip and fakie bigflip. No long lines though. I would try treflips on the sidewalk when I went back to the starting point and landed quite a few. Dave showed up. Then we just skated the hill for awhile and it was awesome. We didn’t have many long runs, but we did put down a lot of tricks. First and foremost Dave landed his first couple fakie flips in forever, or maybe ever. So awesome. He did a lot of nollie shoves, shoves, 180s in all directions, 360s in most directions, lots of kickflips, no comply shove, etc. I got a line of fakie flip, halfcab flip, 360 flip. Hyped. Other tricks were heelflip, fakie bigflip. Got close to varial heel on the way up and posed more switch flips. Then I kickflipped all the way down the hill. I think I did 10 in a row with only one little speed check. It was a blast! But man it really wore me out.

Then we went to the back area. I was too tired to ollie, but we did a bunch of cali grinds. I just did back 50 and back 5-0. Dave did front 50, front 5-0, front 5-0 to fakie, switch back 50 and a front 5-0 to front tail to fakie where he rode off the bottom stair. So sick. Then we went back to the ledge. I thought we would be leaving. But nope, it’s Dave so we kept on skating. He did this front board transfer up onto the ledge to fakie then turned it into front lip to front tail. Rad. So I spent the next hour trying to do a regular footed version of that which I finally did. Boardslide transfer up to fakie, turn it to switch front board then pop out to fakie. Pretty fun. I then did boardslide transfer up to fakie and a switch front 180 off the ledge. Dave did an amazing front crooks! Seriously, perfect! He did some regular crooks too. I ended with a good feeling crooks. Really fun night.

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A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 21, 2015 at 11:21am PDT

Put the wider hangers back on my setup on the way up to Leadville. Ollie and I arrived to a mostly empty park with the exception of a group of BMXers. They were mostly in the bowl except this one lady who was just doing laps in the street section not doing a single trick, just pumping, carving, over and over and over. My initial response was that I remembered not liking this park very much. But luckily I ended up having a blast. This was mostly because I saw the tiny quarter pipe and thought it would be a good place for the switch bean plant to tail challenge. It took me like 20 minutes to work up to a switch dropin though. So scary. Once I did that I managed a few switch bean plants to tail and I was super hyped. Then I asked Ollie to film it and it ended up taking me another 10 minutes or so. Oh well, so stoked to land that and get it out of the way. Not sure I have any desire to try that one again, but it was fun. Ollie cruised around pushing mongo. He’s got a pretty creative eye and it’s cool what he chooses to try. The f/s halfcab was every try for him. He also had some cool ride on grinds and stuff. At one point I was trying to manual up the A-ledge thing and I bailed out and my board shot right into my sack. It hurt so bad I thought I was going to puke. Luckily the pain subsided and I was able to keep skating. I had that fun line above. Unfortunately Rob and I had some texting issues and he showed up right as we were leaving. Doh. Fun session though. Oh yeah, I had some new NB+ Quincy 254s. These shoes are really good.

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A photo posted by @crisis_skateboards on Jun 20, 2015 at 8:49am PDT

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 20, 2015 at 9:03am PDT

Up early on a sunny Saturday. I love it. Met Fuzz and Dave at the newly redone Wells Fargo bank spot. There was a security guard in the parking lot so we just chatted for awhile. It was rad. The dude never left, so we ended up just trying to skate and he never hassled us. Rad. We started with a game of SKATE on the qp to get warmed up. Dave won it. A lot of tricks were done. It was a good warm up. Dave killed it. Then we did our own things. It’s hard to remember everything that went down, but I know Fuzz did front noseblunt over the hip with a slide. Front lips, front tails, ollies. Dave did the switch rock transfer first try, backside ollies, switch blunts, and a thousand more tricks I’m not remembering right now. I did a silly rock to slide around the corner to fakie and front rock, front lipslides and took 1000 tries to do my first blunt to fakie ever. Yes, first one ever. Pretty rad.

After some food and chillin’ at Crisis I went over to Safeway ledge feeling pretty motivated with some new 51mm STFs. I skated hard. I got a bunch of back 50s, one back 50 front 180 out. Really wanted to do kick back 50 shove out and got oh so close. I’ve only done that on a tiny metal edged curb. I also hucked a lot of flip tricks. Seems like lately I’ve been trying tricks I can’t do more then ones I can. Got super close to nollie f/s flip, kind of close to switch heel, almost fakie tre, a couple tres. Tried to slide tailslides, but didn’t. Crook’d the fence ledge a bunch. Never got a decent front crooks to wall push off.

Then I went to Southern Hills. I need to stop going there. The concrete is getting so bad, there are rocks everywhere and the benches only grind if you are good. I struggled. And I started to resent putting the smaller trucks on my board. They just aren’t as stable and I don’t feel as confident on them. Sure they do flip a bit easier, but not much. Since I was struggling so much I started hucking. Did a switch crooks on the curb, came somewhat close to switch tre since I really focused on pretending it was a nollie tre. Tried some lines with kickflip or halfcab flip into the handicap bank. On the ledge I got noseslide, boardslide, front board pop out, the worst front noseslide ever, one slow front 50, argh.

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After a day of laying around and trying to recover from whatever illness hit me I started to finally eat and feel better. Around 6 I went to the research center on a gorgeous and warm evening. There was a cop lurking so I started skating the hill. I had a new board after cracking my other one the night before. My ollies felt beyond horrible to start. I did a lot of really bad 180s then hit the ledge. Noseslides felt good at least. Took awhile to get crooks. Didn’t really get a back 50. Had a fun line of b/s flip, fakie ollie, switch front noseslide. Came close to varial heel. As soon as I started to feel worn down I left because I didn’t want to push it.

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A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 19, 2015 at 8:02am PDT

Met Dave here on a really nice night. We were gonna skate the banks, but there was a couple cops lurking so we decided to skate the manny pad first. I managed a first try kickflip manual and I think two more after it, but couldn’t do another one again. We both couldn’t quite do front 180 nose manuals. I got a slow switch 180 nose manual. Dave almost got manual body varial out. It’s hard at this spot because of how short the manual pad is. I tried kickflip nose manual and fakie bigspin manuals for a bit too, but didn’t come too close.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 18, 2015 at 10:12pm PDT

Then we went to the main attraction and skated there forever. Omi and Rael joined us. It was rad. Omi and Dave used to skate there together 30 years ao so that’s pretty special. Everyone did a bunch of tricks. Dave learned switch blunt and I learned front blunt. Omi somehow did a kick back tail. My favorites were front tail and front d over the hip. Dave had some rad backside ollies, sweeper, switch disaster over the hip, and much more. Omi did blunts to fakie. Rael had a crazy slide out slam going over the hip trying to clear the bar.

Then we went to the alley with the little curb that has a tiny bank before it. Omi went off and did bigspin noseslides and bigspin back tail. Whoa. I got a crappy kick back tail and almost a front smith stall kickflip out. There were all these kids on scooters and boards bombing the parking garage. It was pretty weird. Then Omi and Dave did boardslides and feebles down the yellow two sided curb in the garage. I did a line with an ollie down the 3 stair across the street, horrible ollie off the curb cut then a “slappy” front tail on the yellow curb. I cracked my board on one of the 3 stair attempts. Kinda hyped because that board was dead. Fun night. But I got home and started to feel so sick. Tried to go to sleep, but I was shivering and so cold. Must have got some food poisoning somehow. Argh.

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A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 17, 2015 at 10:54am PDT

Went to Blue Skies on a sunny and warm morning during my ‘gym break’. There were these girls riding around on a scooter being oh so annoying. They just kept going around and around with no regard for skatepark etiquette. I guess it’s what I should expect when going to a neighborhood park during summer. Oh well. After a few uneventful warm up tricks I went for the fakie tre. It took me awhile. I was close often, but it took about 20 minutes to land it. The treflip was second try. The nollie tre took awhile too. Like 5 minutes, but I had to do two of them because the first one wasn’t filmed. And I only skate for footage. Ha. The cool thing was I felt like trying all 3 of my tres today and I got them.

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Had 10 minutes to get out on Rampy. Had a couple ok runs, but bailed some back 50s that got me really mad. Posed some switch tres for a second at the end. Seems easier then switch flips, but until I were to land one who knows.

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Went to Blue Skies park on a warm and humid morning during my ‘gym break’. I did my typical ollie to fakie on the bank followed by cab kickturn on the little bank warm up. Then kind of nothing for awhile then started feeling ok. I hucked a bunch of random stuff, but did a line of ollie a flat bar, hippy jump the next flat bar, front nose the taller part of the ledge (it was really bad), kickflip to fakie on the bank, then almost a halfcab noseslide. Tried more noseslide 270 shoves (not close), ollieing onto the tall ledge (somewhat close), did a bunch of noseslides on the tall ledge in the far corner, ended with a really bad 360 flip.

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