Dave made this edit from our trip to Portland last fall. It’s a must watch. Dave kills it at editing.

One of my favorites.

Another busy morning being Mr Mom. Went to CostCo. That is never quick. Had to pick Ollie up at a friends in Louisville so I hit the park for an hour before picking him up. The scene sucked. But that’s to be expected. It was warm out and if felt great. I did some typical warming up stuff. Tried the ol’ line of ollie onto the ledge, drop into the bank, axle stall, then b/s flip the hip. Came close, but never landed the b/s flip. I shouldn’t have bailed a couple of them. My friend Steve showed up as did Blake. So rad. I failed at bonelesses for awhile, did a couple basic flippers on the bank then failed at kickflip axle stalls on the bank to curb for awhile.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 8, 2015 at 5:51pm PDT

Then I had 45 minutes while India was in a Pilates class and this clip pretty much sums up all of it. Except that the boardslide pop out was way harder then it looks and took me most of the time. And I would have probably done a better f/s halfcab flip, but I was interrupted by a drunk dude wanting to talk about how passionate I am about skateboarding.

(setup 8.25 venture wides bones med bushings no washers 52mm null wheels)

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 7, 2015 at 12:59pm PST

Liz is gone so I’m Mr Mom for a few days. After bringing India to ballet I had an hour or so since Ollie had to do homework. There was snow everywhere. It’s amazing how much snow dumped while I was in the NW. So I busted out Ledgy. I started off struggling so bad. A reminder that I was sick. Boardslides, noseslides, back crooks and front 50s were pretty quick. Then I tried to just ollie onto the ledge and kept accidentally manualling it. I was going so slow. Ugh. There was a slight downhill slope to the spot that weirded me out. I would eventually get back 50s, back 5-0s, front 5-0, front 50 front 180 and almost front tail. I was way scared of doing the back 50 on the slight downhill. So lame. I changed the ledge around a couple times. I threw some flippers. Had a couple bad treflips and started hucking varial heels over and over. They kept getting closer and closer and I finally landed one. I was skating slow (obviously), but man it felt cool. I went home and changed the angle iron so the screws are on the wheelbase side. Not sure why I never did that before. I should bust Ledgy out more, it was fun. And now that I will hopefully not hang up on back 50s that stick to the screw it should be even more fun.

(setup 8.25 venture wides bones med bushings no washers 52mm null wheels)

Was about to get ready for bed after a busy family evening when I realized I hadn’t skated yet. So I manualed my hallway a few times and balanced on my carpet. It counts.