Fun times doing dawn patrol with @fullertrron downtown this morning. #grindsbeforenine #stackingclips #glenanddaveswonderfulhorriblelife

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 4, 2015 at 2:11pm PDT

Met Dave at Denver park around 7:30am on a cool cloudy fall morning. I started out feeling insanely rusty and kept on struggling. I like that park when it’s not crowded, but I really struggled. Dave says he was too, but he had some moves I thought. He did some slappy crooks on the bank to escalator ledge thing. I had some no-ollie front tails on it. We had some lines going into the park. Dave showed me a fun flyout which I didn’t really ‘fly’ out of. We did some boardslides on the bank to curb. I filmed Dave do backside then frontside. Then somehow things came together for slappy crooks. I was really hyped on that one. Then I did some flatground for awhile. I was SUPER rusty at first and almost slammed multiple times on varial flip. I was pretty bummed on it, but then other tricks started flowing and I would go on to 360 flip and heelflip before filming Dave do a sick front lip and we left for downtown.

I wanted to hit an alley spot with a drop then double sided curb, but there was a car. We ended up at the Skyline Park granite ledge. It was under construction so we had to move a couple barriers a little and wax it up. I was supposed to crooks the whole thing. I started by not even being able to get into a crooked grind. Ugh. I would start to get into some little ones, but it wasn’t magic like the last time. Maybe the fact that I no longer have wide tricks played a part, maybe it wasn’t waxed anymore, maybe it was just a bad day. Dave had some rad front 50s then started getting nosegrind so I filmed him. Unfortunately that seemed to have the opposite effect and he didn’t get too close again and had a bad slam. Doh. Then I tried to film a line for awhile. Kickflip up the curb, crooks the ledge, then boardslide the ledge after. I didn’t really care about the boardslide, but I never got the crooks really good so I wasn’t all that hyped on the line. Next we hit Tabor and Dave put down a few rad tricks real quick. That was it. I went to Emage to sell boards, hit Costco and was home in time to watch the Broncos game with Ollie.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 51mm spitfire f4 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)

Been out for a few days due to back pains. Took some ibuprofen and went for @the_neviathan 's challenge of dump truck. Man it hurt to yank in! Guest dumpers are @halfdeadanimal and judge @fullertrron. Next trick had to be front nosegrind after seeing this amazing one from @pjladd this week. I know it's easy for you guys @the_neviathan and @boredzinejp, but you don't have to do it on as huge of ledge as me. Ha. #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #andnate

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 3, 2015 at 12:53pm PDT

Went to Broomfield park on a beautiful cool cloudy fall day. It’s literally the first weekend without the sun blazing hot in weeks. I haven’t ollied in a few days. I felt rusty as all get out, but I was able to ollie without much pain. After pumping around for awhile I started trying Nates dumptruck challenge. It hurt my back to yank in so after I got the feel for it I set up the phone and stopped at the first possible one that could count. Then I skated the blue ledge for awhile. Did some back 50s, back 5-0 shove, front 50s and laid into front nosegrind for a long time before getting the sketchy one above. Dave showed up around then. Meta Sean was there too totally ripping nosegrinds both ways on the black ledge. I skated around a little bit more doing some basics and then had to leave. Bummed I didn’t get to skate with Darin or Dave.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 51mm spitfire f4 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)