It's really cold. #scenesfromwhereifalldown

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Nov 11, 2014 at 11:54am PST

So I’m supposed to be on this program where I land one new flip trick a month. I’m one month behind and since it’s the last day of November if I don’t land a new one I’ll have to land 3 new tricks in December. Yikes. It was really cold, like 23 degrees and I went to Southern Hills pretty early in the day. I started with a few basics that felt good (except for the treflip as that trick hates me now) then settled into a routine of 4 new tricks. Well mostly new. I would try nollie f/s flip, switch flip (I’ve landed this once in my life), fakie hardflip (I’ve landed this once in my life) and nollie heels. I landed on all of them except nollie heels. Seriously both feet on, but not enough foot on. The nollie f/s flip was so close. Man I would be hyped to land that one. Several switch flips were close. The fakie hardflip just didn’t get enough rotation. Argh. Nollie heels are super hard. I’ve never gotten close and I didn’t this day either, but I did seem to get it to flip more consistently. There were a couple that could have been makes if I would have hovered over my board rolling on the ground longer. Ha. Looks like I have to land 3 new flippers in December.

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Then I went home, went on a cold walk with Liz and had more time in the afternoon to do something so what better to do then go skating? I went to Louisville park and to my surprise no one was there. Ha, it had dropped to 18 degrees. As you can see I’m very bundled up. I had a blast though. An absolute blast. I started by forcing myself to do a bunch of frontside ollies on various hips, rolled into the 4 foot section, carved around, had fun. I had a great feeling front 50 shove on the ledge, kickflip to fakie on the flat bank, back 50 around a corner, front d in the snake run, almost did nollie f/s flip, did a first try nollie treflip, a few heelflips. I tried to selfie film like Neil does to send him a clip of how we still do it here in the cold. That was first try and I never got closer. I started to get pretty tired and kickflips up the little ledge weren’t working so I went home.

Went to Safeway ledge to meet Rob then go to Darin’s ramp. It was warm, but breezy. I didn’t start off to good, but it worked out. Got a couple crooks on the fence ledge before putting my foot into the fence and coming close to getting hurt. Ouch. Had some alright basics, front 50 180, back 50s, halfcab noseslide. Rob arrived after me and was quickly doing back 50s and back 180 fakie 50s (that trick is so sick!). I somehow got a first try fakie nosegrind so I left that trick alone the rest of the day. Rob got a long one with a 180 out. Neither of us seemed to pull our best tricks. I eventually got a kick back 50. Flatground didn’t go so well because it was so windy.

@fullertrron entry for #lotf2014 @whiskeytee @crisis_skateboards #skatecolorado

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Nov 11, 2014 at 3:40pm PST

Then we went to Darin’s. I started off really good for me, but then fell apart. I had front lip on like my 3rd run, then started bailing back 50 after back 50 and almost left crying (slight exaggeration). Darin has about two million tricks and did them all. The rock to willy fakie is my favorite even though he also did long feebles to fakie. Rob powered through feebles then back smiths. Fullertron can learn tricks like the one above in a few tries. He had some rad boneless tricks. Brian killed it too. Almost got back lip to sugarcane. Wrex Cook joined and his first run had a 4 foot+ back smith in it. So yeah that pretty much sums up why he is pro. Dylan showed up near the end and did about 100 tricks in his first run. See below. He kills.

@dylanbuli doing what he does best just before the sun goes down on a perfect Sat. #thankyouskateboarding @dnutz37

A video posted by brianlstrickland (@brianlstrickland) on Nov 11, 2014 at 7:25pm PST