A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 21, 2015 at 11:21am PDT

Put the wider hangers back on my setup on the way up to Leadville. Ollie and I arrived to a mostly empty park with the exception of a group of BMXers. They were mostly in the bowl except this one lady who was just doing laps in the street section not doing a single trick, just pumping, carving, over and over and over. My initial response was that I remembered not liking this park very much. But luckily I ended up having a blast. This was mostly because I saw the tiny quarter pipe and thought it would be a good place for the switch bean plant to tail challenge. It took me like 20 minutes to work up to a switch dropin though. So scary. Once I did that I managed a few switch bean plants to tail and I was super hyped. Then I asked Ollie to film it and it ended up taking me another 10 minutes or so. Oh well, so stoked to land that and get it out of the way. Not sure I have any desire to try that one again, but it was fun. Ollie cruised around pushing mongo. He’s got a pretty creative eye and it’s cool what he chooses to try. The f/s halfcab was every try for him. He also had some cool ride on grinds and stuff. At one point I was trying to manual up the A-ledge thing and I bailed out and my board shot right into my sack. It hurt so bad I thought I was going to puke. Luckily the pain subsided and I was able to keep skating. I had that fun line above. Unfortunately Rob and I had some texting issues and he showed up right as we were leaving. Doh. Fun session though. Oh yeah, I had some new NB+ Quincy 254s. These shoes are really good.

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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.

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After a day of laying around and trying to recover from whatever illness hit me I started to finally eat and feel better. Around 6 I went to the research center on a gorgeous and warm evening. There was a cop lurking so I started skating the hill. I had a new board after cracking my other one the night before. My ollies felt beyond horrible to start. I did a lot of really bad 180s then hit the ledge. Noseslides felt good at least. Took awhile to get crooks. Didn’t really get a back 50. Had a fun line of b/s flip, fakie ollie, switch front noseslide. Came close to varial heel. As soon as I started to feel worn down I left because I didn’t want to push it.

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A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 19, 2015 at 8:02am PDT

Met Dave here on a really nice night. We were gonna skate the banks, but there was a couple cops lurking so we decided to skate the manny pad first. I managed a first try kickflip manual and I think two more after it, but couldn’t do another one again. We both couldn’t quite do front 180 nose manuals. I got a slow switch 180 nose manual. Dave almost got manual body varial out. It’s hard at this spot because of how short the manual pad is. I tried kickflip nose manual and fakie bigspin manuals for a bit too, but didn’t come too close.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 18, 2015 at 10:12pm PDT

Then we went to the main attraction and skated there forever. Omi and Rael joined us. It was rad. Omi and Dave used to skate there together 30 years ao so that’s pretty special. Everyone did a bunch of tricks. Dave learned switch blunt and I learned front blunt. Omi somehow did a kick back tail. My favorites were front tail and front d over the hip. Dave had some rad backside ollies, sweeper, switch disaster over the hip, and much more. Omi did blunts to fakie. Rael had a crazy slide out slam going over the hip trying to clear the bar.

Then we went to the alley with the little curb that has a tiny bank before it. Omi went off and did bigspin noseslides and bigspin back tail. Whoa. I got a crappy kick back tail and almost a front smith stall kickflip out. There were all these kids on scooters and boards bombing the parking garage. It was pretty weird. Then Omi and Dave did boardslides and feebles down the yellow two sided curb in the garage. I did a line with an ollie down the 3 stair across the street, horrible ollie off the curb cut then a “slappy” front tail on the yellow curb. I cracked my board on one of the 3 stair attempts. Kinda hyped because that board was dead. Fun night. But I got home and started to feel so sick. Tried to go to sleep, but I was shivering and so cold. Must have got some food poisoning somehow. Argh.

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A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 17, 2015 at 10:54am PDT

Went to Blue Skies on a sunny and warm morning during my ‘gym break’. There were these girls riding around on a scooter being oh so annoying. They just kept going around and around with no regard for skatepark etiquette. I guess it’s what I should expect when going to a neighborhood park during summer. Oh well. After a few uneventful warm up tricks I went for the fakie tre. It took me awhile. I was close often, but it took about 20 minutes to land it. The treflip was second try. The nollie tre took awhile too. Like 5 minutes, but I had to do two of them because the first one wasn’t filmed. And I only skate for footage. Ha. The cool thing was I felt like trying all 3 of my tres today and I got them.

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Had 10 minutes to get out on Rampy. Had a couple ok runs, but bailed some back 50s that got me really mad. Posed some switch tres for a second at the end. Seems easier then switch flips, but until I were to land one who knows.

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Went to Blue Skies park on a warm and humid morning during my ‘gym break’. I did my typical ollie to fakie on the bank followed by cab kickturn on the little bank warm up. Then kind of nothing for awhile then started feeling ok. I hucked a bunch of random stuff, but did a line of ollie a flat bar, hippy jump the next flat bar, front nose the taller part of the ledge (it was really bad), kickflip to fakie on the bank, then almost a halfcab noseslide. Tried more noseslide 270 shoves (not close), ollieing onto the tall ledge (somewhat close), did a bunch of noseslides on the tall ledge in the far corner, ended with a really bad 360 flip.

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A photo posted by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 13, 2015 at 10:19am PDT

A nice sunny morning. The fremont heads and I went to campus first. We thought we wouldn’t last too long and would move on to another spot before others met up. Well, we know Carleigh was gonna meet up right away, but not sure about others. I gave them a little tour of campus and we hit the bank to fence. We were all stiff and tired to start. Eric had a goal of doing a footplant on the fence. It took him a bit, but he got it. Dan had some rad fakie pole jams. Joe did a front axle on the fence. Matt kind of did a casper. I did a few flippers. Carleigh showed and we moved on looking at a few more things. Dan did a rad manual to firecracker on the 1-7 stair. Carliegh ollied up the curb then rode down the 7 stair with authority. I tried to manual the downhill section and failed.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 13, 2015 at 1:24pm PDT

Then we wen to the long ledge. After a few attempts at skating it I gave up and chilled next to Eric. Carleigh was doing front 50s. Matt was filming a line of nose manual, nollie front tail, dolphin flip. Dan was filming it. Joe was working on front smiths and kickflip manuals. While sitting there I was telling Eric about my quest to film the stupid tail stall 270 shove out into the narrow path. He thought it sounded rad and we went over to try and film it. 151 tries later I came up empty handed again. I know it was 151 tries because that’s what Eric said. Ha. Eric did a cool little tail stall whip around on the rock. Then we went back to the ledge and heard the stories of the goodness that went down. I saw Neil do a couple last minute lines as Matt filmed. So yeah, Fuzz, Lazer and Neil had showed and minutes later Squeeks and Wade did too.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 13, 2015 at 3:56pm PDT

A video posted by Alex Covey (@squeeks_on_board) on Jun 15, 2015 at 8:17am PDT

A video posted by Alex Covey (@squeeks_on_board) on Jun 13, 2015 at 4:48pm PDT

Last spot was this one. I was so beat I didn’t even get my board out of the car. Joe had a bunch of rad boardslides. Richard showed and was killing back nosegrinds. He didn’t quite get one, but wow he was going fast and it looked good. He did get a sick back 5-0. His friend was there too and almost did fakie front 50 across the gap. He also pretty much did some really fast and long front 50s to bigpin out. Almost 3 shove too. Squeeks put on his show with boardslide pushups and long front boards. Pretty impressive. Matt hucked some tricks near the end just to keep Richard going, but we got cut short by rain. It’s ok though because everyone was beat the the Fremonsters wanted to hit the road.

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A photo posted by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 12, 2015 at 10:59am PDT

A photo posted by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 12, 2015 at 12:59pm PDT

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 12, 2015 at 1:04pm PDT

Totally pouring in Boulder for day 2 of the #tighbros2015 trip. Ugh. The original plan was to head to Colorado Springs, but the forecast looked really bad to the south. Luckily we have technology and were able to look at the radar and forecast and see that it looked good to the north. So we headed to Miliken where most of us hadn’t skated before and sure enough, it was dry. Even better it was basically empty. It’s a weird park, almost all trannie. Ok, all tranny except for a bench that isn’t even in the park which some people skated almost the whole time. Ha. The crew was Dan, Matt, Eric, Joe, me, Dave, Rob, Neil, Jack, Riley, Scotty, Bernie. Wow. The nice thing about trying to write a journal about a session like this several days later is that I forget almost all of it. It’s a good warm up park, but if that were the only park in town I’d be bummed. I guess at least the ledge behind the park is pretty awesome. Anyway, Riley went nuts skating so fast it was crazy. Almost got the craziest nosegrind. Got huge boneless, stalefish, transfers and like 10 first try ledge tricks. Rob flowed all over the park and told me his line was “the most old man park in the line” or something to that effect. Note, it was a rad line. Bernie did front tail f/s flip and front tail 270 out on the bank. Dan got a daNBD front willy to benett. Crazy. Matt did a bunch of ledge tricks when I wasn’t looking. Neil had some of the best carves of the day. Eric rock fakied the tallest thing in the park and the sketchy little thing in the middle of the big banked wall, but not the oververt pocket. Joe did a bunch of tricks on the ledge. Front 5-0 to front board. Front smith front 180. So good. Also cruised skated the mini section with me a bunch. Scotty had some layback front rocks, popped nollies and lots of smiles. I couldn’t skate the ledge well, had some fun kickflips over big hip, boardslide transfer into the kicker thing, and had a lot of fun on the mini ramp thing getting front smiths and a back 50 up the escalator. Jack had a rad slam trying to manual a volcano, but basically clearing all of it. Ha. Also lipslide to late shove on the bench, some pretty rad transfers and grinds in the park. Dave skated the ledge a lot longer then I would have thought, I only saw front board 270 out and it was amazing. He had some good stuff in the park too. Sorry for forgetting everything.

A photo posted by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 12, 2015 at 3:19pm PDT

A photo posted by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 12, 2015 at 5:38pm PDT

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 12, 2015 at 6:48pm PDT

Then after food and a stop at MRKT we went to Spring Canyon for a pretty awesome session. Dave and I started with switch flip fails. John joined us and did one. The curb/ledge/manny pad/rail obstacle was the main attraction and it was heated with all of us skating it. I can’t even begin to remember what all happened. I saw John get close to his ollie up , front 50 the back of the bench, noseslide off. Fuller and Rob did 50s to body varial. A bunch of us boardslid up the rail, I was last of course. Joe had front 50 shove and front smith on the ledge off the manny pad. Dan was getting wild with multiple body varials while grinding. Also some jump offs/on to heelflip out. I did a couple ollies onto the bench then drop down to grind, but couldn’t land it when Neil was filming. Jack wallied over the rail to 50 the curb. Mike joined us and did every variation of no comply and some sick boardslide transfers on the spine. Dave had feeble transfers I think. Eric manned up to the carve over the door and Riley got his back by doing it frontside. Riley did a bunch of tricks over the door, it was nuts. Back lip, back tail, fakie ollie, and more I can’t remember. This got Scotty hyped up enough to land a Good Buddy (fakie eggplant). Trick of the day. So sick. Neil was cruising as he does ripping his tricks. Dave, Jack and Riley did a bunch of crazy tricks on the ribbon qp. I managed front rock and axle stall, couldn’t get back smith stall. I was also struggling to ollie up the curb first. I tried a few more switch flips at the end of the session and failed. Other flippers when pretty good throughout the session. Bernie and Scotty were killing some games of SKATE. There was so much going on. Then we went to OCB to eat. It’s gross, but it’s a tradition.

A photo posted by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 12, 2015 at 10:09pm PDT

Then get this, we skated more. What the heck. Went to Longmont park. Neil, Rob and Dave had gone home. Richard joined us. I mostly just carved the bowl then dorked around on the mellow bank. Got kind of close to switch flip. Riley, Jack and Scotty went off up the step up and bump to ledge. Jack did gap to front tail front shove out. So crazy. Joe bonelessed the hip. I really didn’t see much as I was kind of in my own zone in the corner. I love skating with all these people.

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After a stressful morning working from home and trying to get things ready for the #tightbros2015 awesomeness. After doing bidness at Crisis, Neil and I left to meet the Fremonsters at the Thornton park. It was immediately awesome. It’s going to be beyond impossible for me to remember who all did what. My highlight happened pretty early nosesliding the big hubba while Eric did a blunt revert on the top of it. I only did one clean noseslide, but it felt really awesome. Neil had reserved his knee for this day and started letting loose. It ruled seeing him fly around again. I saw Joe do front 50 270 out on the bank to curb. Eric did some funny spin transfers on the volcano. Matt could do whatever on the ledge. Dan was doing cool manual grind variations. Rob, Fuzz and Lazer showed up. Lazer ripped the tranny. Fuzz had back 180 switch 50. Rob is always with the smoothness. It started to rain while Joe and I were trying to boardslide across and down the rail.

A photo posted by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 11, 2015 at 2:20pm PDT

So we went to the nearby ambulance ditch which dried up super quick, but not before Matt could do a nollie bigspin and Eric did a sal flip to fakie and f/s. Then the session went off. Fuzz had a sick fakie flip on the bank and a fakie ollie over the hip to super bad slam. He brushed it off though and kept skating. Joe had kickflip rock, front shove rock and cab bigspin. Dan did two heelflip rocks in a row. Neil, Lazer and Rob did triple wallrides. Rob was doing them alley oop and I think even grabbing crail. I took a long time to get a kickflip on the bank then back tail over the hip. Bailed a bigflip I shouldn’t have and ended with a line of no comply bigspin on the hip then no comply shove over the hip. Will had joined us and worked on b/s nollie flip for a long time before getting a perfect one.

A photo posted by Eric J Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jun 11, 2015 at 7:07pm PDT

Then we drove to Denver to skate this spot before heading to the Mott’s. Neil and I apparently took the slowest route and were the last ones there. Dave met us. I saw Fuzz ollie over the ledge then boardslide down. Matt get into nollie shove crooks. Dave was trying long boardslides. Joe did front 50 shove. I really don’t remember much else. I was starting to feel warmed up and had a couple alright flippers when the rain kicked in then security gave us the boot. The rain settled in good and the Mott’s didn’t happen. Doh. Fun first day though and we got in lots of skating considering how bleak the forecast looked.

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