7am flatground session. Sure why not. #ihaveaskateboardingproblem #flatgroundfriday

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Dec 12, 2014 at 6:39am PST

Woke up around 4:30 am and could not go back to sleep. So I got up and did a few things around the house. Since it was my day off and I was planning an all day date with Liz I decided to skip out and skate flatground for an hour or two. It felt really cold when I started (mid 30s), but as the sun came up it warmed up quickly. I was really sore and stiff when I started and it took me several minutes and tries to get kickflips working. But I did. I ended up rattling off quite a bit of my bag before settling in on ‘new’ tricks since I still have to land 3 new flip tricks this month. I was getting desperate and realized that varial flip rewind was a new one I did a few months ago, but I didn’t want to count it. Well, now I don’t care anymore because I need numbers! I did several of them. None perfect. Then I tried switch f/s flip and nollie bigflips. I would eventually get the nollie bigflip. I have landed that one before too, but only twice or so. So yeah, two new tricks for the numbers. Now I have over two weeks to land one more new one. I started trying other tricks like f/s halfcab heel, the incredibly elusive treflip, fakie treflip. I finally landed another treflip, but landed in the middle and made the crack in my board way worse. A few tries later I tried a fakie tre and the board cracked beyond use. Doh! Stoked I went out skating and got a couple ‘new’ tricks though. Of all the flip tricks I’ve learned this year I’d really like the nollie bigflip to become a staple.