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Old guy morning fun. @iamnotacreepyjake front blunt @fullertrron nosegrind

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 20, 2015 at 2:01pm PDT

Had some time while the in laws were out doing their sunday morning routine so Jake came over and we headed out to Broomfield and met Dave at Safeway ledge. Everyone was a bit skeptical about starting there, but we managed. Dave and I stayed on the ‘slappy’ noseslide routine longer then Jake. He was already doing 50s and 180 50s. Who brought the young guy? Ha. Everyone ended up landing some good stuff. Jake had front tail, front tail fakie, fakie front tail, fakie front 50 f/s halfcab out, front lip, almost back 50 back 180 out. Dave had some really solid front 50s, layback front 5-0!!!, crooks and really solid front crooks. I did 50s, was 1/20 on sliding front tails, front 50 shove, front 50 front 180, kick back 50, nowhere close on front crooks and somewhat close on kick back tail. Flip tricks were feeling good.

Then we went to this little park and continued the fun. Well, when we first started it was kind of overrun with little kids using the skatepark as a playground. Luckily the mom realized they were annoying us and cleared them out after awhile. Not before Dave shot his board into one of them though. Ha, it barely hit the kid though. We went on to have a really fun session. We all skated the park pretty different, it was cool. Jake and Dave had lots of transition tricks, I did lots of axle stalls. Ha. Jake did a pivot to fakie on the steep bank first try. Dave did a sweeper over the hip first try. I took awhile to get a line of crooks the pier 7 ledge, axle stall the qp (or front d depending on how I was feeling), front tail on the steep bank, almost noseslide 270 the top part of the pier 7 ledge. Jake was trying front noseblunt on the steep bank for awhile. Dave was filming it. I took forever to get a back 50 on the pier 7 ledge. Dave was cruising the park in between filming Jake. tranny tricks, almost boardslide transfers on the aframe. I started racing Jake with a front 50 kickflip out while he tried the noseblunt. He won with a sick noseblunt. I would eventually get the front 50 kickflip out and it felt pretty awesome. I filmed Dave for awhile do tricks like nosegrind transfer the lower part of the spine (ridiculous!). I thought we were leaving, but then Jake reminded me of our physical challenge of ollie up, kickflip off the ledge. It took a bit, but we got them back to back all tight like. Then Dave did a totally ridiculous line. Front nosegrind the mini bump to ledge, back tail the qp then boardslide the wide rail. I think the run was even longer then that actually, but either way it was so good. I took awhile to get the boardslide too as Dave did more nosegrind and then we left, both of us late. Ha.

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

Brief early am ledge fix before the in laws arrive.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 19, 2015 at 7:49am PDT

Running later then I wanted I had about an hour to skate and went to the research ledge. Warming up wasn’t easy and took longer then normal. I started with a few powerslides down the hill, then noseslides and boardslide pop out on the ledge. Got a warm up line of pop shove, ollie up the curb, crooks and then manual the long pad. I was surprised by the manual. Also did halfcab flip, front 180 up the curb, switch front 180 on flat then back 50. Went for it all with a line of 360 flip, kickflip up the curb, back 50 shove. Got really close, but never got a locked in back 50 where I could shove out. I was going a little faster then normal so the back 50s felt scary. Got front 50, halfcab noseslide. Ended on a crooks that took longer then I wanted it to. This ledge isn’t as good as it used to be.

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

Went to rainbow ledge right after work on another gorgeous September Colorado day. I felt pretty stiff and sore, typical after a full work week. I warmed up with some slappys which were more fun then I remember. I thought of this spot because Jack and I were recently talking about ledges in Boulder and he reminded me this one is really good. I get freaked out by the narrowness on frontside grinds, but I should get over that. Anyway, Dave showed up shortly after and we were both mostly doing slappys for awhile and it was fun. I had a crook and then took a long time to get slow back and front 50s. Dave was going mach 2 to try and slappy the whole thing. He got somewhat close. He had some nice slappy 50 to back tail. I managed an incredibly slow front 50 front shove out and a great feeling crooks on the downhill part. Then I had to leave.

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

Another poor performance this week. 4/10. I blame @mattrief since he wrote most of my list this week 😉. #tentricktentryflatgroundfridayfabulousfearsomefunfight #postingreallyearlyhopingnottoomanypeopleseethis

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 18, 2015 at 5:25am PDT

Went to Valmont on a beautiful evening. There was a couple older guys skating the manny pad area. They seemed to want their session to be theirs so I just went to the ledge to warm up for 10×10. The warm up went better then I expected. Both ledge and flat. Got pretty far into my flatground and ledge list before doing the 10×10. Noseslide, noseslide to fakie, crooks, front 50, back 50, switch front noseslide, a really fun feeling noseslide 270 out, the worst front tail ever. Then I did the 10×10. It went alright. I have missed b/s halfcab heel and fakie treflip two weeks in a row now. Ugh. I was really close on the nollie bigflip. I went home after that and had a blast with Ollie watching the Broncos. Oh, and I had new PJs. Steezy white/gum.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 52mm stf v3s nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)

My legs felt good, but my head wasn’t in the game. This is probably because I took an unnecessary nap after work. I went to campus to meet Matt and Carleigh. I arrived first and was feeling out a line that should be first try no warm up for most people. Like Matt, he did it first try out of the car. Ollie onto a little ledge, kickflip on flat (he added treflip on flat) then front 180 this stupid tiny little curb into the “bank”. I never got the line and it took me a long time before I got a halfway decent ollie up the ledge. The front 180 took way too many tries.

Then we met up with Carleigh at the manny pad parking lot. She wasn’t feeling the crowds. Matt and I weren’t really either. We did some ollies up on to the red pad and tricks off. I had a nice primo landing on a kickflip. Ouch. Almost ollied over the manhole finally. Front 180 up back 180 off. Matt manualed all of it and did a bunch more I can’t remember right now. Carleigh was mostly doing flippers in the parking lot.

#day251. @matthouse pole ride fakie.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 16, 2015 at 7:34pm PDT

Then we went to the bank to fence area where it took about 15 tries between the 3 of us before a clean kickflip to fakie was landed. Wowsers. We would all get good ones. Matt got treflip next. Carleigh did b/s kickflips, but don’t give her props on them. I took a long time to get a 360 flip to fakie, but I was hyped as that is a hard one for me. Carleigh got pop shove to fakie and then needed to take off. I tried some wallies and fence rides, but nothing really worked out. Matt did some rad pole rides to fakie.

Then Matt and I played a game of SKATE. Not a good game, as evidenced by the fact that Matt won. Ha ha. But really, it wasn’t a good game. I started by missing a kickflip and missing the double for nothing. But we still both ended up at SKAT and Matt ended up winning on fakie treflip. After that we sat and chatted for awhile. Pretty cool, Matt is awesome. The most amazing thing for me was being able to get up after sitting post skating without much pain. I’m seriously hyped on that.

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

Ollie learned nose manuals on our sick new manual pad tonight. #🔨🔨🔨

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 15, 2015 at 8:25pm PDT

After a fun night of replacing our garbage disposal I went out to the garage to put some tools away. I did a couple manuals on flat then saw this sheet of wood sitting there and decided to get buck on it. I told Ollie to come check out the huge new manual pad and he was super into it. So we skated it for like 20 minutes and it was a blast. I only did a couple ollies into manual, normally I would just lift up to nose manual or whatever. I ended up getting a slew of tricks. Sure they don’t really count, but yes they do. Nose manual front 180, nose manual back 180, manual front 180, manual back 180, front 180 nose manual, front 180 nose manual 180 out, front 180 nose manual rewind (so fun), back 180 nose manual, back 180 nose manual 180, switch front 180 manual, switch front 180 manual back 180. It was really fun. I was riding my garage board. Ollie had never done a nose manual before. It took him a bit to get the hang of it, but he did. And then he landed a bunch more like nose manual front 180, front 180 nose manual 180 out, front 180 nose manual rewind, manual front 180. Most importantly though he thought it was really fun.

(setup 8″ null thunders 42mm ojs! nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum)

We have a game again! Tried a couple new ledge tricks, but ended up having to go with old reliable. Sorry @boredzinejp , but you knew it was coming sooner or later. @the_neviathan #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #andnate

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 14, 2015 at 9:35pm PDT

Went to Safeway ledge right after work while India was in ballet class nearby. I was gonna try and film a ledge trick for out instagram game of skate. It wasn’t looking good at all for awhile as 50-50s weren’t even really working either way. After quite some time I settled in on the two tricks above that I never landed. Well, I guess I kind of landed one kick back 50 grind shove out, but I wasn’t locked in to 50-50 and I was going to slow to set with it. The front crooks felt amazing though. I had a couple good slams in there, but quite a few that grinded and I had a chance of getting out of. A lot of them went up into nosegrind and I would fall into 50. I didn’t do too many flip tricks. It was mostly just try these two tricks over and over. Then it was almost time to pick up India so I went to settle for nollie 360 flip. I landed one, but I had to slam a few times first. Ouch.

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

Went to Valmont without much time and I was feeling really tired. I had wanted to go to Safeway ledge, but ended up not having enough time. I waxed up the ledge real good to start and it made my normal slappy noseslide routine more fun then normal. But then I went on to not land much and just get wax all over my board. I got most of my basics, but couldn’t do front tailslide. Had trouble getting up on the middle part for frontside grinds. Hucked kickflip noseslides for a bit, halfcab flips noseslides then hucked kickflip crooks for most of the session. I landed came super close to a switch flip at one point. I got into a couple kickflip crooks, but never locked in and grinded. It’s definitely way harder on a ledge then a curb. Duh.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 52mm stf v3s nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum)

Went to Broomfield park on a sunny and hot day. I was there first. Carleigh, Riley, Bernie, Scotty and Garrett would join later. I started on the quartapotty for awhile then went into the flow bowl. I actually had fun there. Made myself do axle stalls on the pool coping which I haven’t in awhile. Also got some little fs slashes on the mellow part. Everyone else showed up. There was a lot going on obviously so it’s hard to remember what everyone else did. I was unable to nose manual the blue box. Got into several back 5-0s right away, then couldn’t for awhile. Ugh. Bernie was doing his manual thing. Riley was all over the black ledge. Scotty was killing the handplant combos on the brick qp. Carleigh does front disasters really easy on the brick qp, ollies into the bank all steezy and would get a back disaster or two. Garrett skates the whole park really good. Riley, Scotty, Bernie, Garret and I played a game of SKATE. I did alright in it. I think Scotty would go on to win, Riley had to sit out because of hot pocket pain. I did a few tricks on the black ledge. It was so slick. Took a long time to get back 50, well, I didn’t even do 50, I did 5-0. Typical me. I ended by trying to ollie the six stair. It was cool there was this young kid trying it too. Normally that would annoy me, but he was funner then most kids and really positive. I told him if I landed it he had to get my back. I landed it. He took more tries to get it, but man he was hyped! Ha, it was cool. I haven’t ollied a six in awhile so that felt pretty rad. I would love to some day eventually ollie the double set, but it seems so far away.

count it @corpoglenny

A video posted by Matt House (@matthouse) on Sep 12, 2015 at 5:35pm PDT

Then I drove up to Loveland park to meet Matt. Riley and crew were supposed to follow, but they didn’t. When I first showed up the park was overrun by clueless scooter kids. It was insane. I almost called Matt from the parking lot to suggest we go somewhere else. Matt was killing some big ollies, front lip the bump to granite flat bar, back 50s down the smaller hubba. I started out alright with some boardslides and noseslides, but mostly wasn’t feeling the crowds. It would clear out though. We had fun. We hit the smaller lane in the street section for awhile. I had a couple of pathetic front 50 attempts down the tiny hubba before getting a few. Matt crooked the long hubba. So gnar. Then we mostly hucked over the A frame. I tried b/s flips for awhile and never landed one. Matt may have taken a whole 10 tries before getting a treflip. He had new trucks and wheels so I guess that explains it. He would get a nollie flip as well before I landed a really bad halfcab flip. I was doing some fun early grabs over the small part of a sideways cone. Dorky, but fun. Then I eventually barely landed the fakie bigflip above. It still felt neat. Kind of weird spending so much time at skateparks on a Saturday, but whatever, I had fun.

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