A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 14, 2015 at 9:12am PDT

Woke up early as I like to do on Saturdays. It was already nice out. I got ready for the day and loaded up the car with boards to bring to Sol and Crisis then went to Broomfield park. I had the whole park to myself for awhile. I mostly dorked around and was still feeling sore and uncoordinated. Not sure why I’ve been so sore lately. It took me awhile to get a back 50 on the blue ledge. So that’s how bad I started. I settled in on some black ledge action doing lines with front 50, front 50 180, front 5-0 or front 50 shove to start, then either b/s flip, fakie flip, boneless over the rail or bean plant on the mellow bank then either crooks, boardslide, noseslide or try to back 50 the black ledge. I was 1/50 on the back 50. Ugh. Without anyone else there I did some other dorking like trying to ollie the little down bar, tiny ollies on the brick qp and lastly back tail slide on the low side of the angled brown ledge. I got a couple back tail stalls, but no slides. Hardest trick ever.

I hung out at Crisis for awhile then met Dave at Rocky Mtn Elem in Longmont. I was super sore initially, but ended up skating some of the best I have for a brief period. I was doing b/s ollies over a band median, rolling off the curb then kickflipping up the curb then doing crooks. Got one back 50. Going the other way I was doing some of the best front 50 shoves I’ve ever done, then pop shove then bean plant over a median. Stoked. Dave wanted to film it, but he was doing this rad fastplant pop shove over a median so we filmed that first. When I went back to film my line I could no longer front 50 shove. It was kind of depressing that I could lose my edge that quick. Oh well, at least at one point I was skating good.

(setup 8.25 null venture wides bones med bushings no washers 52mm null wheels)

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 13, 2015 at 2:30pm PDT

Flatground Friday at Blue Skies after lunch. It started slow and didn’t get much better. I completely suck at treflips now. There was a brief good feeling line of no comply 180, fakie flip then f/s halfcab flip. Had some ok b/s halfcab flips too. Was 1/30 on treflips. Hucked a bunch of other tricks like varial heel, switch varial flip, nollie 360 flip, nollie heel, b/s halfcab heel and fakie heel. Fakie heel being the only one I landed (badly). Then I figured I’d just kickflip my water bottle real quick and head back to work. The video pretty much sums up how that went. I was happy to land it at least.

(setup 8.25 null venture wides bones med bushings no washers 52mm null wheels)

Oh so tired after work. I sat around and watched Dexter and stuff until Ollie was trying to go to sleep so I tried manuals in the hallway. I’m a great father. Ha. I mostly just tried to manual and get setup for a kickflip out.

Went to Blue Skies skatepark on my ‘gym break’ feeling very arthritic and sore. I don’t know why. After a flailing around for a bit things started coming together better then expected. Got a boneless on the bank, ollies to fakie on the big bank, cab kickturns on the little bank (yes this is a relatively new one for me and so fun). Had some lines that came out of nowhere which I can’t remember now. Front boards on the flat bar went ok, I still suck at that trick. Did a couple treflips that would only count on defense in an over 80 game of SKATE. Same with a varial heel, but I was hyped on that one because I was committing pretty quick. Tried a dream line of ollie the flat bar (in front on the photo), then a quick ollie to fakie on the little qp, curve around then f/s halfcab heel then some front 50 trick. Never got the halfcab heel. Hucked treflips to fakie on the bank. Did a sweeper on the bank! Got into back to on the escalator ledge (going slow, but I was just feeling it out). I was hyped on how easy the ollies over the flat bar went. Ah, turns out this is the fist time I’ve skated there with my bigger setup. Fun session.

So tired from being woken up the night before at work. I forced myself to go skating after making the kids dinner. I ended up at Red Curbs. I did a slappy crook which felt great then bailed trying to ollie into a front 50 on a curb. Yeah. I knew it was bad at that point. So I tried to huck back tails since I have to learn that trick now or get a letter in O-L-D-F-A-R-T. I cannot comprehend that trick. I can rarely do it when I kickflip in which seem so much easier to me. I left after awhile feeling very frustrated. Oh yeah, I had new shoes. The lovely NB+ Stratfords.

(setup 8.25 venture wides bones med bushings no washers 52mm null wheels)

Man what a night. Called for work, running India to/from ballet in north Boulder, making dinner, etc. Late night I decided I needed to skate. I went out to skate Rampy for a few minutes, but ended up skating awhile and skated pretty hard. Did a little of everything. Got a couple more Texas Plants, tried those fakie pop disasters that everyone except me can do, did fakie rock to back smith, a couple f/s ollies, an accidental fakie f/s feeble, front tail, several back smith stalls that felt cool.

(setup 8.25 venture wides bones med bushings no washers 52mm null wheels)

Dave made this edit from our trip to Portland last fall. It’s a must watch. Dave kills it at editing.

One of my favorites.

Another busy morning being Mr Mom. Went to CostCo. That is never quick. Had to pick Ollie up at a friends in Louisville so I hit the park for an hour before picking him up. The scene sucked. But that’s to be expected. It was warm out and if felt great. I did some typical warming up stuff. Tried the ol’ line of ollie onto the ledge, drop into the bank, axle stall, then b/s flip the hip. Came close, but never landed the b/s flip. I shouldn’t have bailed a couple of them. My friend Steve showed up as did Blake. So rad. I failed at bonelesses for awhile, did a couple basic flippers on the bank then failed at kickflip axle stalls on the bank to curb for awhile.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 8, 2015 at 5:51pm PDT

Then I had 45 minutes while India was in a Pilates class and this clip pretty much sums up all of it. Except that the boardslide pop out was way harder then it looks and took me most of the time. And I would have probably done a better f/s halfcab flip, but I was interrupted by a drunk dude wanting to talk about how passionate I am about skateboarding.

(setup 8.25 venture wides bones med bushings no washers 52mm null wheels)

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 7, 2015 at 12:59pm PST

Liz is gone so I’m Mr Mom for a few days. After bringing India to ballet I had an hour or so since Ollie had to do homework. There was snow everywhere. It’s amazing how much snow dumped while I was in the NW. So I busted out Ledgy. I started off struggling so bad. A reminder that I was sick. Boardslides, noseslides, back crooks and front 50s were pretty quick. Then I tried to just ollie onto the ledge and kept accidentally manualling it. I was going so slow. Ugh. There was a slight downhill slope to the spot that weirded me out. I would eventually get back 50s, back 5-0s, front 5-0, front 50 front 180 and almost front tail. I was way scared of doing the back 50 on the slight downhill. So lame. I changed the ledge around a couple times. I threw some flippers. Had a couple bad treflips and started hucking varial heels over and over. They kept getting closer and closer and I finally landed one. I was skating slow (obviously), but man it felt cool. I went home and changed the angle iron so the screws are on the wheelbase side. Not sure why I never did that before. I should bust Ledgy out more, it was fun. And now that I will hopefully not hang up on back 50s that stick to the screw it should be even more fun.

(setup 8.25 venture wides bones med bushings no washers 52mm null wheels)