Woke up early and since it was to be a family day I figured I’d go skate before everyone else got moving. I started at Boulder park to get warmed up pumping and whatnot. I got there around 7:30am and there was already two scooter kids. They weren’t too bad though. I had fun pumping around, did a few axle stalls, ollied the little hip, etc for awhile. Then started trying a run where I ollie into the narrow bank by the softball field, kickflip off the bump, front 50 down the ledge. I struggled with the kickflip (?) and the front 50 (??). I was doing other tricks in between. Just dropping into the bowl and doing axle stall on the little parts and stuff. Then I was going for the line again and the scooter kids dad was standing at the entrance of the park and giving me one of those “Oh look you are old and not very coordinated and still skateboarding that’s so cool looks” so I just skated by him and left.

Then I went to this spot. Since I was supposed to ollie something for my instagram game of skate I wanted to ollie the little rail. I couldn’t. I jumped over it, but I couldn’t commit. It might have to do with it being 8:30 in the morning, I’m not sure. There were rocks all over the parking lot too so it wasn’t fun to do flatground even. I just made myself manual off the two and ollieup the manny pad a few times. Could be a really fun old man spot.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on May 17, 2015 at 9:54am PDT

So I went looking for other stuff to ollie over and ended up here. I put a smaller cone after the ledge and even that took me awhile. I put the taller cone and after every bail would do flip tricks on the way back to try and motivate me to commit. When I got 360 flip first try I knew I had to commit. I know it looks like I didn’t go over it, but don’t worry I slow-mo’d it and yeah I go over it. It’s just my weird ollie barely making it.

Then I went to good ol’ Research Center. It was so nice out. A little warm, man it felt great. My body was sore from jumping off that huge ledge (ha). I did a few noseslides to get warmed up again, then crooks. Tried halfcab noseslides for awhile and failed. Doh, I want that trick! Got a couple bad back 50s, a front 50 (i hate skating the ledge uphill), posed kickflip front noseslides. Got slow nollie and fakie tres. Hucked kickflip noseslides for a bit then realized I had already been skating for like 3 hours and should probably get home to play tennis with Liz. Glad I went skating early and could hang with the family the rest of the day.

(setup 8.25 null venture wide lights bones med bushings 51mm stfs nb+ pj stratfords)

A video posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on May 17, 2015 at 7:37pm PDT

Another Saturday at Broomfield park. Awesome. I arrived first and after a few pumps around the flow bowl and quartapotty tricks I tried to skate the black ledge. Got front 50, front 50 shove, front 50 front 180 out, front 50 to brief front board, front 5-0 (intentional!), crooks, noseslide. I kept at it and would eventually get a back 50, a front tail stall, hucked front smith, a halfcab noseslide or two. Rob showed next and flowed around doing manuals super easy, front board pop outs, boardslides, noseslides, I think crooks, halfcab boardslides and switch boardslides! Riley and Scotty showed next. Riley’s ledge warmups were so good. No problem doing all the stocks and then turning around and doing them switch. Scotty was doing layback front rocks on the brick qp and other sweeper variations. He’s always smiling and laughing. It rules. There was a lot going on so remembering what others did after this is tough. Riley was doing tricks down the double set rail so I tried to ollie it. It felt remotely doable, but my window of opportunity ran out quickly as hucking down that wasn’t easy on me. There was a puddle that prevented the six stair from being a warmup. Unless I wanted to go way huge. I’m not Riley. I tried boardslide transfer to manual on the brown ledge for awhile and eventually got one. Going the other way I would huck halfcab flip noseslides on the blue ledge. Some were remotely close. I played a game of SKATE with Scotty. I got letters on him with kickflip tricks, he’d get letters on me with nollie and switch tricks. My tricks were sloppy, his were clean. He won it with nollie front heel. Dave, Simon and John showed. Simon did so many ollie variations on the steep bank. The nollie to fakie was my fav. We played on the quartapotty for awhile. Dave was trying switch blunt and couldn’t quite put it down. I took a long time to land a hurricane. Riley did a bunch of tricks down the double set (above). We went and got Chipotle. Or as everyone else says, Chipolte.

Then I met Riley, Scotty and even Nolan at this spot. When I got out of the car I was so stiff. Man it was a battle to get moving at all, but I would eventually get going. It sucked the van was there to prevent lines starting with tricks up the curb. Of course Riley did a ton of tricks. Scotty was sore too, but started hucking hurricanes both ways and locked into some incredible front hurricanes. They looked so good. I never got front 50. I would get back crooks, noseslide, boardslide popouts and a halfcab noseslide that took awhile. The cracks kind of mess that spot up pretty bad.

(setup 8.25 null venture wide lights bones med bushings 51mm stfs nb+ pj stratfords)