Slept really good for once and after work/dinner went out to campus to skate. My first moments on a board weren’t as disoriented feeling as they have been lately so that was nice. I ended up starting out in the area above. There is also a long hubba that I ollied to board stall then yanked up into ride down and would noseslide the end of the long curved ledge. Then I started at the top of the little hill, did a halfcab flip, ollied onto the narrow ledge (by the lit windows), ollied off and noseslid the ledge. I tried kickflip a little flat gap for awhile then crooks the ledge, never quite got that. Almost rolled my ankle on a noseslide to fakie attempt. Got a boardslide on it too. Then tried a line forever consisting of no comply 180, fakie big flip, ollie onto the narrow ledge (now dark), front shove off, .. . But I never landed the front shove. In face I could barely land a no comply 180 to save my life. Compound that with how bad I was a fakie big flips and I think I only tried two shoves. I was over it. I tried it for over an hour easy and it was very hard to not focus my board. Good thing I’m out of boards or I’m pretty sure I would have. Made myself ollie onto the curved bench (taller then it looks) and I split out.

I ended up at this area. Started with a line of switch front 180 off the top ledge, ollie onto/off the second ledge, noseslide the downhill ledge. The switch 180 took awhile as did the ollie onto the ledge. I was scared of my butt hitting the handrail and the drop on the other side. I got a couple bad ones and the line. I was remotely stoked. But I wanted a better ollie onto the ledge so I decided to try it all over again, but crooks the ledge at the end instead. To my surprise I would get better ollies up the ledge (because I was skating faster) and I managed to get one crooks. It was a very satisfying line and made the night decent.

Last thing was 10 flip tricks at the art building before I could leave. Kickflip, varial flip, fakie flip, b/s flip, halfcab flip, heelflip these went pretty quick. Went for treflip. Bad idea. At least I tried other tricks one way. Got nollie treflip, f/s halfcab flip and fakie varial flip before I would finally land a both hands on the ground treflip. I was so tired at that point I called it good. Bummed on how bad I skated at times, but stoked I did some real street skating. Man it’s so much harder then parks or just sessioning one spot.

(setup 8.38 null venture wides bones med bushings spitfire f4 99 52mm NB+ stratford 479)

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Apr 20, 2015 at 8:21pm PDT

Was super tired all day so got home from work and took a little nap. Ah. Ate dinner then had about 45 minutes before having to pick up India from ballet. I asked Ollie if he wanted to skate during that time and he said yes. Sweet! We hit campus. I had one of those very disoriented starts where it felt like I hadn’t stepped on a skateboard in years. I don’t know why that’s happening so much lately. It felt pretty cold at first, maybe that contributed. We cruised around the basketball courts, looked at some new stairs. Cruised around some more, ended up at the ledge thing above which is kinda silly. It’s just a little gap to manual. The drop off is kind of high. It took Ollie less tries to get it then me, but I think he tilted a little. We headed back to the car, but on the way hit this weird little ledge drop thing that Ollie manualled first try. I was pretty blown away so instead of getting shown up by Ollie once again I decided to ollie the it. It only took me like 10 tries, but take that Ollie! Ha. Ollie had a blast which is cool, maybe he’ll want to skate more again.

(setup 8.38 null venture wides bones med bushings spitfire f4 99 52mm NB+ stratford 479)

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Apr 19, 2015 at 3:20pm PDT

Had about an hour before India’s ballet performance to get some skating in. Went to the research center and after a few warm up nose slides I pretty much went stright to trying crooks shove. On the way back up the hill I would try nollie heels. I never got close, but I feel like the advice Riley game me is getting me closer. The crooks shove took basically the whole session. Glad I got it at least though so I didn’t have to dedicate another session to trying to film one trick.

(setup 8.38 null venture wides bones med bushings spitfire f4 99 52mm NB+ Stratford 479)

After a busy morning then doing bidness at Crisis, Rob, Carleigh and I went to this bank spot. I had new bigger wheels. Spitfire F4 99 52mms. They felt huge since my last pair of 50s had shrunken into the mid 40s. I felt sore warming up which I don’t really understand why it’s happening lately. Anyways we all did some stuff. I had a fun run of boneless, front tail (no slide), then kickflip on the low part of the bank. Carleigh did front tails, bluntslide and back tail. Rob pops a mean b/s ollie, the bean plant of course, kickflip and tailslide. Carleigh had to leave. I tried kickflips to fakie for a long time before finally getting one. I filmed Rob get a rad line of manual, bean plant, b/s ollie and then a tailslide. I did a fun run of halfcab flip on flat then roll into a bank and kickflip to fakie the other side. And then took a long time to get a sketchy fakie flip. Rolling into the bank switch was a little scary, but kind of fun. Fun session.

(setup 8.38 null venture wides bones med bushings spitfire 52mm F4 99 wheels NB+ 479s)

It was raining almost all day until I got off work and started heading to Ft Collins. I stopped at Fossil and to my surprise it was dry so I hit up Chad. My skating started off so bad. I couldn’t pop to save my life. Then I started to feel better for a bit and thought things would start working out. Wrong. Chad got there and started ripping immediately. His first trick was a long manual to 5-0. I had done a few of the basics like noseslides, boardslides and took awhile to get crooks. 50s were hard. Chad was trying lines starting at the bottom of the park and going up the 3 stair then hitting the ledge. He had switch front 180 up every try, switch heel up first try, front 180s easy. I tried to ollie up the 3 and did the funniest weirdest ollie ever. Somehow I kind of fire crackered up the stairs. It made me even more depressed about my skating. I tried to clean it up, but couldn’t. I ended up giving up and trying crooks shove for awhile. Got close. At least crooks are fun. Chad was trying a line of f/s 180 up the 3, halfcab heel up the ledge, f/s flip the Carrol gap. He never quite got it. Then I left for MRKT. I was really bummed on how my legs shut down. It was really cold. Maybe that was it, because when I got to my car my fingers could barely grasp my key to unlock the door.

Almost forgot to skate on a rainy/snowy night of doing laundry, loading footage and watching Dexter. I went to hit Rampy for a few minutes, but it has so much stuff piled on top of it that I opted to just do some manuals in the house. I tried setting up for kickflips and even hucked a few of them. My board flew into a wall once. Not so good. Luckily it somehow didn’t do any damage.

Went to Louisville for the little ledge to try and do back 5-0 back 180 out which is my latest challenge for #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge. There was one kid there with his attractive mom sitting and watching. I carved around a little and did some warming up before laying into the back 5-0 back 180 out. I got one before I setup the camera. I got a couple more, but man they are bad. I was trying it on the little ledge. That trick is so hard for me. After awhile I decided to skate more of the park. Did a couple tricks in the flow bowl like front d and called it a night. Not sure if I’ll try to do a better back 5-0 180 or not.

(setup 8.38 null venture wides bones med bushings spitfire 50mm f4 101s)

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Apr 14, 2015 at 10:27am PDT

Wasn’t planning on Blue Skies, but Dave hit me up saying he was going so I went for it. It was super nice out. I got there after Dave. I tried to warm up quickly, but it just didn’t happen. I had a lot of bails or tricks I didn’t try because I was tired. Doh. Dave was charging the main bank and the dragon bar. He got boardslide and boardslide to fakie on it. Oh yeah, I had new shoes. Another pair of the Stratford 479s in the Broncos colorway. My last pair. So that might be why I was a bit off. I don’t really remember doing much noteworthy until the end when I was trying front 50s on the taller part of the ledge and b/s flips over the low part of the dragon bar. Got a couple front 50s. Both were slow, one had a front 180 out. Never got the b/s flip. Dave was getting into front crooks which is crazy considering how slick that ledge is. Dave did a judo tailblock on the bank and I wanted to learn it. I got a couple, but I think I early grabbed. Either way it was fun. Then we did it fakie. Dave also nollied into the bank.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Apr 14, 2015 at 7:33pm PDT

After work I met Matt at Meta. We went to roll downtown and as soon as I put my feet on the board I knew I didn’t have much for the night. Ugh. Matt did the crazy ollie within minutes of starting. So sick. We goofed around for awhile nearby. Tried some tall noseslides in a nearby alley. Got kicked out of my little warm up spot.

Then ended up here where I skated like complete crap and Matt continued the game of doing any trick I suggested. Nosegrind was first try! He also got front 5-0, front 50 and did some boardslides on the metal bumpy flatbar. I did a weak ass front noseslide. That was it. Oh and posed some kickflip noseslides. Checked out some other stuff, but by then Matt was tired too and we mostly walked back.

(setup 8.38 null venture wides bones med bushings spitfire 50mm f4 101s)

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Had troubles sleeping the night before. Basically didn’t sleep. I knew I would want to be lazy later so I went to Blue Skies during my gym break. It was nice out, the park was vacant, but man I was beat. I started with a few basic tricks on the sorry excuse for a qp. Did a beanplant to tail. Then did all 4 variations shoves off the front of the board. Nollie back, nollie front, fakie back, fakie front. For the fakie ones I tried to throw down and push switch fast. I can’t believe how hard that still is. Ugh. Then I did a few f/s nollies and ollies to fakie. Struggled to do a few f/s cab kickturns. Last thing was f/s ollie on the main bank, back tail stall on the little wedge, then f/s 360 kickturn off the nose. Day 100! Back to work.

(setup 8.38 null venture wides bones med bushings 50mm spitfire f4 101s)