After sparring with Liz a bit I drove off to take some steam off on the concrete. I went to Stonehenge to warm up which was fun. I went through the basics doing both fs and bs. Rock, axle, pivot, smith, disaster (back disaster took me a long time) and tail.

Then I went to Valmont yet again. I wanted to hit a ledge and flatground and didn’t have much time so why bother driving to a crowded skatepark. I started at the ledge and went through some basics and did some flippers in between. It was fun. Crooks, back 50, front 50, front tail, halfcab noseslide. Close to front nose. I did several flippers, came super close to nollie inward heel. Had a fun ollie or two of the loading dock and a front 180 then went and skated flatground with my new 10×10 list:
fakie bigflip
360 flip
fakie 360 flip
nollie 360 flip
bs halfcab heel
nollie flip
nollie varial flip
fs bigspin
varial heelflip
rick flip
I landed fakie bigflip, 360 flip, nollie 360 flip and nollie varial flip. My phone ran out of space halfway through though so looks like I have time to redo it before Friday. I’d like to get rid of fs bigspin as I don’t really care to learn that one.

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

Tonight part 1.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 8, 2015 at 8:36pm PDT

Part 2. Young 30 somethings Jake and Matt tired and bored, Dave the Energizer Bunny learning new tricks at 47.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 8, 2015 at 8:49pm PDT

Had an exhausting day at work. After a nap, a little soccer with Ollie and then a brief flatground dorkery with Matt and Jake out front of my house we met Dave at Valmont. It seemed like we took awhile to get going. Manuals were hard. At least I didn’t have leg pain though. I think everyone got manuals. Nose manuals went down. Lots of close to front 180 nose manuals. Matt added kickflip manual, nollie manual and a really good 360 flip up the curb. Jake and Dave started a varial flip duel. Matt and I joined, but tried them switch. In one almost completely magical sequence Dave landed his, I landed mine, Matt landed his and Jake landed on his. So close to perfection. Jake’s knee was hurting so he mostly sat out. Dave went on to land his first ever switch varial flip! Matt and I tried switch tres for awhile, he would eventually land his all good. He also did switch heel which might be the first trick I’ve seen him not look totally natural on. He is human! I added nollie varial flip and nollie treflip to my flippers for the night. Dave and Jake switch ollied a board. I kickflipped it. Then Jake and Matt chilled as Dave came super close to f/s halfcab manual in hopes of eventually doing it to nose manual. He was also flying around doing manuals and nose manuals all good. I was trying a line of kickflip back tail stall on a curb then front 180 nose manual. Got super close. Had some fun flippers too. We ended when Dave did a front 180 nose manual. Fun times.

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