@crisis_skateboards brings the heat for the holidays! #nullrestock #betterthancoal

A photo posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Nov 11, 2014 at 7:11pm PST

Went to Crisis on a cool night to hang out with friends and sell some boards. Jason, Lindy, Rob and of course Fuzz were there. We watched some morbid Christmas special youtube clips recommended by Jason/Lindy, laughed a lot, stacked Null boards absolutely perfect for the gram, talked about skateboarding, listened to more brilliant Jason ideas on tattoos. I need to see my friends more, it was awesome. After awhile Fuzz, Rob and I started riding this old 70s race board around the shop. You can really carve tight. It’s hard to ride, at least for me. But we started doing figure 8 timed trials and stuff. Fuzz had the fastest time, but Rob had two of the funniest falls ever. We laughed so hard tears were flowing. Good times dudes.

Went out to Rampy while Ollie was doing homework. I was pretty unmotivated and it showed. I didn’t land much. I had some new wheels I was checking out. Spitfire Formula 4. Fuzz wanted me to check them out. He really wants me to like them so he got me some in 50mm. He’s a smart dude. I did a few kickflips on flat that felt good. It’s funny that the only trick I remember from the night is kickflips on flat and not any of the ramp tricks.

A few weeks ago we were skating the DIY spot in Denver when asked to skate around the making of a GWAP video. Well, here it is! I’m especially proud of how real my slam looks. Well, except that they made me goofy footed, but I’ll forgive them.

Went and saw the early showing of Dumb and Dumber To with my kids, then had a lunch date at Wahoos with them. The movie was very good. I dropped them off at 2:30, grabbed my board and split to find some dry concrete. It was only about 28 degrees, but the sun was nice. I drove for a bit, but found this spot. Initially I was really bumming on it. There was a lot of water, salt, sand all over the place. But I just kept skating and told myself to enjoy the sun. It ended up being incredibly fun. It kicked in when I got a line of ollieing off the low part of the dock on the left over some snow and into a puddle, did a kickflip on flat, ollied a puddle and did a little wallride to fakie on the narrow banked beam. Cool. Then I went for it again and added a b/s flip and switch 180 to the mix. Then I skated flat for awhile. I couldn’t do a treflip to save my life. Well, I landed a lot of them, but kept putting my hand down. It was driving me nuts. There was so much sand around my foot kept slipping all over the place. I tried to ollie off the left part of the right loading dock. Man it was tall. Committed at one point and slid out. Made myself do a treflip before committing again which took a long time to do it without touching my hand, but once I did I hiked up and did the ollie. Well, it was one of those ollies that probably looks more like I just fell off the loading dock. Oh well, it was tall for me and landing even hurt a little. I had done quite a few other flat ground tricks in between treflip poses. Then I started down the long driveway with curbs on both sides. The right side has angle iron on it and was insanely slick. I did little lines of slappy front tail then boardslide the end. It was really fun. I tried to add an ollie up onto the driveway too, but didn’t have the pop. Oh well, it was fun. I love skating random street spots.

Another cold and snowy day. Carleigh, John and I decided to try Skatuary. We met Riley, Nolan and Scotty there. We arrived to a rather crowded park. There are two areas. A more beginner style room with some fun looking ledges and stuff which was pretty cold. Then another room with your typical skatepark stuff that was warmer. I played a game of SKATE with Scotty in the cold room. I was not feeling good on my skateboard. I think I landed kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip and fakie bigflip and that’s it. He got me with a bunch of his good tricks. Varial heel, nollie flip, a couple more and ended with a banger. Nollie front foot flip. How the heck do you do that one?

Then we went into the main room where Riley and Nolan were going as fast and huge as possible. Head high airs frontside and backside. It was so sick to watch. Riley’s boneless was insane. I had a backside flip on the flat bank first try. John took a few tries, but got kickflip to fakie way quicker then me. Especially because mine didn’t come until the end of the session. I got a few kickflips over the backside hip. Carleigh struggled with kickflips, but continued to have fun. We joked about how we drove and hour and paid $7 to no land kickflips. Riley did nollie heel back 50 on the pyramid ledge and about every flip trick over the hip. Nolan had a huge front 360, treflip and almost this weird nollie hardflip 180. Maybe a nollie ghetto bird? I’m not even sure. Josh Murphy was there ripping too. Super steezy kickflips over the hip and smith grinds across the pyramid ledge. Justin Greer did wallie back 5-0 on the pyramid ledge. Riley and Nolan skating the corner of the tallest qp was gnarly too. Pretty much every trick. Nolan did front 5-0 to fakie and an insane front crooks. Scotty killed the hip. 360 flip, multiple lazer flips, I forget what else. On the way out I did a front 50 and a crooks on a really good ledge and realized I haven’t ollied much in a week. Stupid weather. It’s good to know there is a snowy day option on Saturdays now though.

Had the day off work. It had warmed up slightly (low 30s), but there was snow everywhere. I sat around watching Breaking Bad and doing a little cleaning. Around 1:30 I went on a drive to try and find some dry concrete for flatground friday. I found a couple really bad option, but wasn’t that desperate and ended up just coming home then skating Rampy. It ended up being a bit more fun then I thought. Didn’t get any new tricks, but hucked some flippers. Oh yeah, I watched this to get myself hyped.

i did a couple backside kickflips really low up the transition. And really low on Rampy basically means not at all. Tried kickflip axle stalls for awhile. Got remotely close. Started trying nollie heels on flat and didn’t come close at all, but felt like I learned a thing or two that might eventually have me landing them.

Skated the Sol ramp with @nolancormier this evening. Totally embarrassing. #ripper

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Nov 11, 2014 at 7:48pm PST

Went to the Sol ramp after work to talk bidness with Nolan. I played foosball with Allan for quite awhile first. Then we hit the ramp for a really mellow session. I didn’t do much of anything other then axle stalls. Nolan being mellow is still really good (see above). Oh yeah, I had new shoes, since my experiment with some 11.5 Stratfords proved they were too big. Doh, guess I can’t stockpile all of the 11.5s too. Gotta make 3 pairs of 11s last until April now (yeah right).

The MURDER CITY DEVILS!

A photo posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Nov 11, 2014 at 10:05pm PST

I never saw Murder City Devils back in the day. I had tickets to see them open for At The Drive-In, but being the Texans that ATDI are they rolled their van in the snow and the show was cancelled (well I later found out that MCD still played, but at a different venue). So here we are several years later with a chance to see them. They just put out a new album that I think is great. So it’s kind of funny to be excited to hear the older classic songs I’ve never heard and want to hear the new songs as well.

Zach and I braved the cold and got there early enough to see the opening band Dragondeer. They play some breed of blues music. They had talent and played well, but it didn’t really hype us up or anything.

Several more friends showed shortly before 10 when MCD went on. They opened with the new tune “I Don’t Want To Work For Scum Anymore”. It was loud quickly and Spencer walked right off the stage into the crowd screaming the lyrics. It was an intense and awesome way to start the set. He stayed on the stage for the rest of the show which was a good mixture of old tunes with a few new ones sprinkled in. The setlist was pretty similar to this one I found on the web except they closed with Murder City Riot. Which is kind of funny because the lyrics repeatedly sayd “been up drinking all night” and yet the show was over at 11pm. I for one was grateful though and it seemed like a lot of the older crowd was as well. It was a great show. It was nice seeing a band still doing it. Still making great music, still touring, looking healthy (it’s funny getting older and wanting to see bands look healthy rather then wasted like when you saw them at 20 something) and doing things right. Kudos MCD, you guys rule.

Three nights in a row on Rampy. This one I actually had a little time before watching the Simpsons with the kids. It was the first night I felt burnt on Rampy. I always have problems skating the same thing over and over. I could just not skate for a day, but that would be asking too much. I tried to mix it up with some flip tricks on flat, but I also came to the realization that the 11.5 NBs I had as a test are too big. Doh. I tried a heelflip and it felt like my foot was going to come out of the shoe. On the ramp I made myself do a couple things before I could go in and eat popcorn. Oh yeah, it was freezing in the garage. I was bundled up and still felt cold. I had to do a new trick. My motivation was warm popcorn. If you don’t know that about me, popcorn is my favorite. I got lucky with a random new trick. Fakie front axle, to disaster, to back axle. I meant to go to back smith, but somehow it went to axle. So totally lucky, but I’ll take it. Then I had to do two frontside ollies in a row which was so much harder then I thought it would be. My motivation was popcorn. Rampy is so tight. I eventually did two “ollies” on back to back walls. Then I went into the heat, ate warm popcorn and laughed with the kids.

Another brief Rampy session before having to head out and drive the kids around in the cold snow. I skated really good. Lots of tricks first try. Also did a f/s halfcab rock ‘n roll. I’m not sure of the exact name, but it felt neat and just kind of happened.