Nice morning. I work the late shift this week and I’m working from home since Liz and India are in NYC. Shortly before dropping Ollie off for work at 7:30am I realized it would be a great time to get out and skate. Naturally I went to campus instead of the park because I’ve been missing street skating more then anything lately. And well, Boulder park sucks. I ended up at this spot for my warm up. Did some side rocks and took awhile to land a fakie front rock on the side. It felt neat when I finally got it and it was a good warm up. I had done a few kickflips and manuals down the bank so I was ready to line something out.

So I started trying to ollie onto this ledge and ride off. There is about 8 feet of runway. Barely enough to get a decent push and setup for an ollie. I eventually managed. Then down the little hill I did a back 180 then switch front 180 then tried to boardslide the bench. I messed up the boardslide a few times and decided to move on anyway.

Went to this awesome ledge. Unfortunately there were cars. I still managed a few things before more cars made it less fun. Had noseslide and noseslide to fakie, crooks and almost back 50. Couldn’t get close to a fs noseslide.

Then I hit this for awhile. Got my first noseslide attempt and it felt good. Someone has recently skated and waxed it. I think at some point in my 20s I was able to front 50 this, but wow it seemed tall. I managed a few noseslides, one barely crook and slammed hard a few times trying front board pop out. The approach backside is very rough. I want to front 50 this again. I was beat after that. Looked at a few things, but ended up walking back to my car. I was surprised how many people were on campus that early. Lots of maintenance people driving carts around scaring me. Ha. Super stoked I went though and surprisingly enjoying my bigger wheels.

Alright @boredzinejp here's my @43shifty that you challenged me to. I really suck at this trick, but it was fun at least. About time for your challenge @the_neviathan! Ha. #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #andnate #over40

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 14, 2015 at 7:33pm PDT

Then after work and dinner I went out and skated flat in front of the house while Ollie had friends over. It was sprinkling the whole time, but never enough to consider stopping. I haven’t skate flat like this in awhile and it showed. Especially with having a bigger setup now and newish shoes. But I still managed to land a few things and I seemed to skate a little faster so that’s cool. Got a few horrible 360 flips and my typical fakie flip tricks. After awhile I decided I wouldn’t try any more kickflip variation and went only heelflip, switch or nollie. I must look really dumb to my neighbors, because I didn’t land hardly anything. I got one unpopped b/s halfcab heel, but it felt really cool. Came close to varial heel and heel, nollie tre, nollie varial flip. Didn’t come close to switch flips or switch b/s flips (one can dream right?). I got pretty tired and was about to go in before I remembered to film a 43 shifty. The above clip explains it all. It took me 10 minutes to land that bad one.

(setup 8.5 null venture wide lights thunder bushings 54mm nulls es accel slims black/white)

Went out to Rampy on a rainy night after having a blast playing nerf guns with Ollie. My side was feeling much better and I was finally able to really skate. It took a bit to get the hang of it again, but I had fun. I didn’t do anything great on the ramp. In fact I actually kind of struggled with all the basics. Oh well. Once again I had more fun skating the flat even though I struggled with that too. Got one 3 flip, got close to switch and nollie flips, switch varial flip. Did some flatground ollies and had one of the best feeling ones I’ve done in awhile.

(setup 8.5 null venture wide lights thunder bushings 54mm nulls es accel slim black/white)