A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Feb 27, 2015 at 2:48pm PST

Nate and I missed the bus the early bus to Seattle which ended up working out because it was pretty darn nice in Portland. We started here and played a game of SKATE. Nate took honors with tricks like treflip and fakie treflip. He had thought he’d be feeling bad and resort to switch and nollie tricks, but he didn’t. Which is even more of an insult! Ha.

Then I ollied one of these balls and 180’d off the two stair before we went and skated one of the jankiest banks ever.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Feb 27, 2015 at 12:25pm PST

This was seriously so hard to skate. Especially the bank to curbish side. The concrete was so rough. You would take three steps, throw your board down, push as hard as you can twice and most likely not even make it up to the rock to pivot on. I managed a front tail. Nate managed a front pivot and a back pivot after slamming super hard. Then we skated the other side and did the professional level tricks you see on the gram yo.

After a bus ride to the colder and drearier city of Seattle Josh quickly brought us to his favorite “Street spot”. Green Lake Skatepark. I did not skate well. Josh murdered it. Nate struggled a bit too, but always does rad stuff. I’m trying to remember specifics which is hard since we went there twice. I was really surprised by the mandatory Chuck Taylors to look cool there. We pumped around the flow bowl for awhile. Well, Nate and I pumped around it, Josh did tricks in it. Nate and Josh did boardslides off the edge of the jersey barrier thing. And learned front boards off it too. Some dude did a Texas plant right in front of Nate which was really funny. He still had to do them for our game of OLDFART. I did a dumb early grab off a ledge to ride across the park holding on still to grind off a ledge. Nate cali grinded off the kicker. Josh ripped the spine, quarter pipes and bank to curb. So many tricks. I managed to roll in backside and do a front tail, but couldn’t get a front smith. I had to give up. Right at the end I started trying kickflip wallrides on the bank to steeper bank. Got close to a good one, then landed a sketchy one. It cheered me up a little at least.

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

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