Feeling a little better finally. I met Dave at Valmont to skate the little manny pads as that building is vacant. Neither of us could ollie at first. We both just ran into the curb and lifted up. I was skating horribly slow. I tried an ollie and it kind of hurt so I just stuck to kickflips for the most part. I know it’s bizarre that kickflips don’t hurt, but ollies do, but I’m not going to complain. I did a bunch of kickflips up the curbs in hopes of a kickflip manual, but it didn’t happen. Dave was struggling with the basics and took awhile to get manual then nose manual. But when he did it was really good. I did a couple regular manuals after awhile and they felt fine. Yeah! Then out of nowhere I did a front 180 nose manual. Easily the longest and best one I’ve ever done even though I was going really slow. Oh well. I tried a few fakie bigflip manuals or kickflip nose manuals. Dave was trying back 180 nose manual. Then the rain came.

I had to pick up Ollie from football shortly so driving home was pointless. So I just skated this curb protected from the rain by a tree. It ruled. I did a slappy crook stall shove out. Kickflip axle stall varial flip out. I was really hyped, I don’t think I’ve done that before. Got super close to kick back tail shove out. Did a kickflip out of a tail stall which might be a first ever, then almost did it out of a front tail, but I had to leave.

7 years ago before Rampy I just skated flatground in my garage. These marks are from then #tbt . I'm excited to have a garage again and be able to skate some flatground this winter. I'm glad Rampy is in a good home @stumblin_steele too because I'm sure I'll miss it at some point.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 3, 2015 at 8:46pm PDT

After doing some cleaning in the garage I grabbed my spare 8″ board with 42mm wheels and messed around for a bit. It ruled. After about 15 minutes I did a nollie flip. It hyped me up a ton. I love having a real garage again.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 52mm stf v3 nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum)

A few highlights from @gnarlycarleigh s birthday bash last night. A couple switch moves from @siouxer666, a pop shove from the birthday girl and @jackspanbauer does another late shove.

A video posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Sep 3, 2015 at 7:52pm PDT

Happy Saturday! Get out and shred! @jackspanbauer front blunt transfer and 180 switch crooks at Broomfield park.

A video posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Sep 5, 2015 at 7:50am PDT

I thought I was feeling better, but when I arrived at Broomfield park I didn’t feel good at all. I played on the quartapotty for awhile, then filmed Riley, Jack and Nolan do some damage on the gnar hip. Then I watched Carleigh carve over the love seat for the first time in the bowl. So sick. Then I started just doing slow kickflips over and over as they didn’t hurt my strained groin. Then we played a game of skate. Darin, Scotty, Bernie and I. We had to go through all of Darin’s 180s before it got going, but it ended up being a good one. All four of us were at SKAT. I even landed a treflip first try horribly. Scotty won the game with a nollie late front foot flip. Perfect. We played another game with no repeats. Darin and I took out the young guns, but Darin took it in the end with tricks like fakie pressure flip and impossible. I had gotten letters on some tricks like pop shove revert, fakie shove, fakie bigspin that I should have landed. Then I filmed Carleigh, Jack and Riley rule the double set. So fun to watch and so stoked that Carleigh nailed the pop shove on her birthday. The last 10 minutes of light was spent trying the Fuller spin on the mellow bank with Garret and Bernie. Both of them got it pretty quick and thought it was fun. They also both did it with a judo kick. Bernie did it like 5 times with a judo kick and they all looked amazing. I think I finally landed one at this point. I was feeling pretty down about it. Bernie also did one with a crail grab. Fun night because of the occasion and crew, but I really hope my body starts feeling better, it’s getting me down.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 52mm stf v3 nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum)