A photo posted by @crisis_skateboards on Jun 20, 2015 at 8:49am PDT

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 20, 2015 at 9:03am PDT

Up early on a sunny Saturday. I love it. Met Fuzz and Dave at the newly redone Wells Fargo bank spot. There was a security guard in the parking lot so we just chatted for awhile. It was rad. The dude never left, so we ended up just trying to skate and he never hassled us. Rad. We started with a game of SKATE on the qp to get warmed up. Dave won it. A lot of tricks were done. It was a good warm up. Dave killed it. Then we did our own things. It’s hard to remember everything that went down, but I know Fuzz did front noseblunt over the hip with a slide. Front lips, front tails, ollies. Dave did the switch rock transfer first try, backside ollies, switch blunts, and a thousand more tricks I’m not remembering right now. I did a silly rock to slide around the corner to fakie and front rock, front lipslides and took 1000 tries to do my first blunt to fakie ever. Yes, first one ever. Pretty rad.

After some food and chillin’ at Crisis I went over to Safeway ledge feeling pretty motivated with some new 51mm STFs. I skated hard. I got a bunch of back 50s, one back 50 front 180 out. Really wanted to do kick back 50 shove out and got oh so close. I’ve only done that on a tiny metal edged curb. I also hucked a lot of flip tricks. Seems like lately I’ve been trying tricks I can’t do more then ones I can. Got super close to nollie f/s flip, kind of close to switch heel, almost fakie tre, a couple tres. Tried to slide tailslides, but didn’t. Crook’d the fence ledge a bunch. Never got a decent front crooks to wall push off.

Then I went to Southern Hills. I need to stop going there. The concrete is getting so bad, there are rocks everywhere and the benches only grind if you are good. I struggled. And I started to resent putting the smaller trucks on my board. They just aren’t as stable and I don’t feel as confident on them. Sure they do flip a bit easier, but not much. Since I was struggling so much I started hucking. Did a switch crooks on the curb, came somewhat close to switch tre since I really focused on pretending it was a nollie tre. Tried some lines with kickflip or halfcab flip into the handicap bank. On the ledge I got noseslide, boardslide, front board pop out, the worst front noseslide ever, one slow front 50, argh.

(setup 8.25 null venture lights bones med bushing 51mm stfs quincy 254s)

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