Today was a good day.

A photo posted by carleigh samson (@gnarlycarleigh) on Jan 17, 2015 at 6:57pm PST

@brianlstrickland stoked beyond belief at @dnutz37 ramp. Ha, it was a blast Darin!

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 17, 2015 at 7:36pm PST

After a difficult family morning and then some basketball with Ollie I went to Darin’s ramp and skated with Carleigh and crew, Dave, Darin, Strickland and a few others. As always the ramp was fun. There was the added mud factor if your board went off the ramp though and Strickland may have gotten it the worst. Doh. I skated ok initially, went through my normal phase where I bailed axle stalls, then skated ok again. A fs beanplant to tail was about the only trick I was actually hyped on. Carleigh was doing front d’s all over the place. Fuller flows like water. Darin’s switch f/s disasters surprise me every time. Brian had some posted up front tailslides and bean plant to disasters.

Then I took off to meet Bernie, Garrett and Nolan at a bank spot down the road. I did b/s flip and took a long time to land a boneless. Garrett had some rad front tailslide variations. Bernie kept it mellow. Nolan did a noseblunt slide first try then we filmed a nose manual nollie flip into the bank. Gnar! We mesed around on a log for a bit.

Next we went to the Ambulance bank/hip spot that rules. Bernie did kickflip pivot, Garrett slammed really hard, I was hyped on a no comply bigspin and Nolan did a bunch of lip tricks and a couple hip tricks like f/s 360 and switch b/s flip.

Nolan and I still wanted to skate so him and I met Derek at Nutty Block aka Northglenn park. We arrived to two huge groups of scooter kids racing around the park with no clue. They left after awhile. Watching Derek and Nolan skate together was awesome. Those two skate so different, but similar somehow. As Derek would say, “we both like to jump”. Ha. They were busting ollies everwhere. Derek has so many cool lines at that park. They both did back noseblunts over the hip. So sick. I didn’t really do anything in particular to note, but had fun cruising and just tried to make it through the park with similar lines as Derek and Nolan which was fun.

(setup 8″ venture lows bones med bushing spitfire four 50mm wheels)