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Still got a ton of pain in my lower left side and still too stubborn to not skate at all. This time I pushed (mostly switch) up the bike path by my house then flew down it. It was a blast.

In a lot of side pain, but not willing to lose a day toward 300 I went out to Rampy thinking I could skate a little. Nope. So I just kind of pumped around on my filming board and tried to do cab kickturns. Didn’t get too close. Did a few flatground ollies. I probably wont be able to really skate for several days. Ugh.

@matthouse hauling ass ollie

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 7, 2015 at 9:57pm PDT

Old dudes, new tricks. @matthouse (not so old) fast plant, me kickflip slow plant, @_f_u_z_z heelflip fast plant. Hurt my back learning this one, but it's been on my list forever.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 8, 2015 at 6:03am PDT

Matt and I rolled to Crisis in time to do bidness before 7 and not keep Fuzz there late. Shortly after 7 the concrete looked kind of dry and we pushed across the street to Safeway. The ledge was dry so we went out front. I was not feeling comfy on my board. We started doing these really long manuals. When I say “we” I mean everyone else. I couldn’t even hardly ollie up the curb and a sharp pain started forming in my left knee. Argh. Fuzz and Matt both did some really long manuals and I think Matt made the goal originally set by Fuzz. Then some other messing around occurred with some curb cuts. Matt and Chase ollied the long gap out of it. So gnar. Fuzz and I tried some little manuals around it. I managed a manual to little slash grind on the next one. It wasn’t much, but it did cheer me up. Then it dried up a little and we went to the ledge behind Safeway. Matt did a bunch of tricks right away. 5-0s, tails, fakie nosegrind 180. Fuzz and I struggled with back 50 then started trying switch front noses the Brandow way. We slid some, it was fun. We did some backside ones too. I hucked sw front nose bigspins out. Seemed possible, but not with how crappy I was feeling. Matt did like 3 switch treflips so we challenged him to do all 4 treflips. He took a bit with nollie tre, but he did them all. So sick. Then we started messing around with fastplants and stuff. Both Fuzz and I did the kickflip variation. I might have done the heelflip variation too, but it wasn’t as good as Fuzz’s. Matt did his first fastplant. Cool. We had fun.

(setup 8.5 null venture wide lights thunder bushings 51mm stfs lakai fura white)

Cold and rainy night and I was tired anyway. I went out to Rampy to break in some new shoes and hopefully have some fun. But I struggled pretty hard initially. I ended up just trying front sugarcanes for awhile. I never got close, but it seems doable. I did a few kickflips on flat too. The new shoes seem alright.

(setup 8.5 null venture light wides thunder bushings 51mm stfs lakai fura white)

@gnarlycarleigh at Evergreen park. Such an awesome park. Brings me back to the Indecisive Tour 1997 @boredzinejp @rabethica

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 5, 2015 at 11:51am PDT

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 5, 2015 at 1:14pm PDT

A lot of fun clips today with @corpoglenny and @fullertrron – too many to fit together in one post, so here's the one I thought was the funniest…

A video posted by carleigh samson (@gnarlycarleigh) on Jul 5, 2015 at 9:25pm PDT

One more clip @corpoglenny @fullertrron

A video posted by carleigh samson (@gnarlycarleigh) on Jul 5, 2015 at 9:56pm PDT

Early mission. Dave and Carleigh were at my house around 7 and we got to the Evergreen park at 8am. Wowsers. Obviously we had the park to ourselves at that point and with the exception of a few kids that mostly skated in the corner it was like that all day. And I say ‘all day’ because we skated for 5 hours straight. I don’t know if Dave and Carleigh liked the park as much as me, but I think it’s one of my favorite parks ever. The warm up process didn’t seem too bad for anyone. Carleigh was the first to get her trucks on the weird vert qp. She also put a first try noseslide down the ‘hubba’. Dave was doing 50s on the metal curb. I was posing f/s halfcab flips over the hip. It’s hard to remember the order of what all went down. Carleigh ended up doing like 500 kicfklips over the b/s hip and was trying kickflips over the f/s flip. Some really nice b/s ollies too. I don’t remember if she got a back disaster on the qp or not. The doubles action was later in the session. Over the course of the session I ended up landing a lot of tricks over the hip. Kickflip, f/s halfcab flip, halfcab flip, fakie bigflip, b/s flip followed by f/s flip and a f/s nollie 270 which I’ve never done before. Simon joined us and ripped the park a new one in no time. Front tail on the vert wall as well as like 10 other tricks, fakie ollie the hip, front 50 up the ‘hubba’, ollies from the kicker into the hip, etc, etc. Dave had some long lines. Out of the kicker to nose manual the top of the hip, ollie the euro to manual. Nollies over the hip then manual the the little qp then cali grind the entire backside of the hip. I had 180 nose manual and kickflip manual from the kicker to the top of the hip. Also a front shove up onto it. I couldn’t get myself to front 50 down the hubba. I should have done it when I had more energy earlier in the session and was able to front 50 shove the ledge on top of the manny pad. Dave did a bunch of nollie 360s over the hip. Carleigh got a super clean b/s flip. Dave not so clean. I couldn’t nosegrind the ledge Dave couldn’t lipslide. And I couldn’t kickflip the euro. Oh well. It was an awesome session. I’m sure so much more went down that I can’t remember. Luckily there are some clips and photos to help. This park rules.

(setup 8.5 null venture light wides thunder bushings 51mm stfs nb+ quincy 254s)

Soon Ollie will have better ollies then me. Actually maybe he already does. His sock game is definitely better too. 4th of July fun in the heat.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 4, 2015 at 12:46pm PDT

On a hot late morning Ollie and I went to Louisville park. There were a couple scooters there, but they didn’t last long. And then a couple older dudes who were having a good time which was fun to see. Ollie and I mostly skated the hips. He was doing such good halfcabs. He also had a long line that ended in a pop shove to fakie. The frontside ollies were good too. I had a bunch of lines that started with the f/s ollie on the hip. I would do a b/s flip on the bank, or a boneless or beanplant over the hip, kickflip over the hip, got one b/s flip over the hip. Then Ollie was over it so I skated the ledge slowly as I was really beat and it was pretty darn hot. I had some good crooks, one weak back 50, bad halfcab noseslide, horribly slow front tailslide, technically a front smith and one front 5-0 on the taller part of the ledge.

(setup 8.5 null venture light wides thunder bushings 51mm stfs nb+ quincy 254s)

A video posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Jul 4, 2015 at 9:14am PDT

Went to Broomfield park with Carleigh on a sunny and warm day. There were some scooter kids, soccer kids and other activities that would briefly mess up the flow, but for the most part the park was pretty dead and we got to do whatever we felt like. After some pumping around and stuff I started trying a line with manual the blue box, ollie up onto the downhill ledge, front tail the qp and back 5-0 the blue ledge. I ended up getting it and it felt cool, but it took me like 20 tries to get a clean manual. Unlike Carleigh who did it 2nd try. She was hyped! She tried back disasters on the brick qp for awhile before we settled in on the black ledge for awhile. Carleigh was trying noseslide back 270 shoves out. She got pretty close near the end. I got front 50 shove, front 50 180, slow back 50s, crooks and halfcab noseslide.

A video posted by carleigh samson (@gnarlycarleigh) on Jul 4, 2015 at 9:35am PDT

After a little break we skated the brick qp and the top of the park. Carleigh was doing ollies into the bank then back d’s on the brick qp. She would also do bluntslides on the little hump up top. I had a line with front 360 on the hump, switch 180 into the bank then front smith on the qp. Then the little line above. I have never grinded that bank before and it was quite scary. I wanted to 50 it too, but I chickened out.

Then we went in to Boulder and met Jack at the dentist 5 stair. Well, after he did the ride on 50 pressure flip out thing. Jack boardslide the kink, back 180’d the stairs, nollied them. Carleigh ollied them. We got the boot. Then I finally ollied them. Then we ended up at the bank spot over the holes above. It was really hot at this point. Carleigh did some Glen ollies over the holes. Jack did some really popped kickflips. I did a not popped kickflip. Then started trying bigflip which I ended up getting and Carleigh was kind enough to film it. I’m stoked! We ended with a game of SKATE that ended early after Jack slammed really hard on a fakie tre and we all knew we should just stop. Luckily Jack redeemed himself with a super good fakie tre and we left on a good note.

(setup 8.5 null venture wide lights, thunder bushings, 51mm stfs, nb+ quincy 254s)

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 1, 2015 at 9:48pm PDT

After the noseslide marathon I needed new bushings. Rather then buy some I put some old stock Thunder ones. And while I was at it I setup a new 8.5″ null deck and even put some tiny risers on there. It’s kind of an experiment to see if it helps me ollie. I went to Blue Skies for my ‘gym break’ at work. Rather then skate the park I decided what better way to get used to the bigger setup then skate flat? So I skated flat for about 45 minutes. Not too well either. I don’t think I would have skated well regardless, but I did end up landing a large collection of my basics. Couldn’t do halfcab flip though. Got a bad 360 flip. Everything required more effort. Front shoves felt great. I did an absolutely horrible heelflip. Fakie flips were sketch as they board barely got around. Got insanely close to switch flips again. Couldn’t do a b/s flip. Not quite a nollie tre either. With all that said the board felt great.

(setup 8.5 null venture wide lights thunder bushings 51mm stfs nb+ quincy 254s)

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 1, 2015 at 10:31pm PDT

Well the clip above pretty accurately documents my 3 hour session. Got out of the car, waxed the ledge and started trying noseslide 270 shoves. Bernie and Riley joined. Bernie went right to trying front tail 270 shoves. Riley tried front noseslide 270 shoves, but kind of tweaked his shoulder and took off. Dave showed up for a few minutes before he had a chiropractor appt. I landed a good noseslide 270 shove! I was super hyped to finally land that trick. I have kind of landed it once, but not really. So I setup the camera. Good thing I charged it because it did not come easy to do it again. I had a couple makes that were beyond horrible and barely usable for defense. Riley would get close and then not be close for awhile. Dave showed back up and it seemed like Bernie and I started getting closer again. Then I got the one above! Not super pretty, but it was all I could muster. After that my legs were shot and I mostly just watched Dave and Bernie skate. I was beyond hyped to finally land that trick though. Bernie ended up putting down his trick perfect. Typical Bernie, when he lands something it’s perfect. Dave had his patented boardslide to fakie and some other hot moves. My back bushings had basically completely separated and so loose I didn’t even want to skate my board anymore.

(setup 8.25 null venture wide lights bones med bushings 51mm stfs nb+ quincy 254s)