Got to Denver park at 8:30 feeling exhausted, unmotivated and cold. I also quickly realized how stupid I am to think that an 8″ works for me again after a week of skating in my garage. I slammed rolling off a ledge and one point after my back foot slid off the back off the little nose. I did not skate well at all. I got an axle stall on the double up bank thing, a halfcab flip that took a lot of tries, a couple slow front 50s on the little ledge in the corner and not much else. Dave had some moves. Wallrides, ollies in the dishes, etc that were cool. Yesterday he wasn’t feeling very well, today I wasn’t. Simon joined and we went to this famous spot.

Simon early morning boardslide to fakie

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 25, 2015 at 9:09pm PDT

Simon and Dave went for it. Dave got remotely close to boardsliding all of it, but he is goofy footed so has a disadvantage in speed. Simon noseslid and boardslid to fakie it. So sick!

I on the other hand was SUCKING. After filming those guys for awhile I tried to front 50 the concrete ledge above. It took me forever. It was ridiculous. It also took me too many tries to boardslide the metal one. I did get a noseslide first try at least.

A couple @jackspanbauer highlights from today's amazing #slappyslalom. Thank you so much for hosting such a fun event @badeggskatezine! Guest appearance from @charleydavidson

A video posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Oct 25, 2015 at 7:03pm PDT

And of course some @nolancormier clips from #slappyslalom. How the heck did he grind through that wiper? #contestmakenosepick Thanks again @badeggskatezine!

A video posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Oct 25, 2015 at 7:48pm PDT

Then it was off to Slappy Slalom 5! Aka Slappy Ending. Where I didn’t hardly skate at all. I mostly just watched everyone rip. There was so many obstacles and people it was insane. Nolan and Jack killed it. Everyone did. It was a blast to watch. Near the end of the day I finally did a few lines. Did the little rainbow rail. Did the same line as last year. Slappy crooks, manual the crisis box, boardslide the long pvc slider.

@matthouse back nosegrind

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 26, 2015 at 5:59am PDT

Then it was off to here where everyone was tired. Matt killed the ledges though. Nosegrind, back tail, front tails, etc. Bernie had some moves too. First try front smith front 180 out. Nolan proved he isn’t just a tranny skater. Scotty had some crazy good treflips, nosegrinds and almost front hurricane on the elevated curb. I got one crooks, small boardslides and felt tired. Tried noseslide 270 shove for awhile and failed. Bernie did a fakie manual fakie flip out on the long low manny pad. Nolan did kickflip nose manual. Bernie and I tried fakie bigflip manuals for awhile, he got one. I never even flipped the board up there. Argh. I was really hating my small setup by the end of the day and my wheels had a huge flat spot from the two powerslides I did at Slappy Slalom.

(setup 8″ null venture lows 50mm ojs westgate emericas grey)

Met Dave at the normal campus meet up spot. Basically a slight downhill median. We got there at the same time. Warm ups for both of us were various nose stall 270s. We would get a bit more courageous with each warming minute (it was cold when we started!). I slammed trying to ollie onto the median, but it woke me up. It was the first time this season slapping that cold of ground. Ouch. We both did some manuals. I did a dumb switch board stall turned around to manual. I think Dave got it too. I did a line of ollie onto the median, kickflip on it, back 180 off. Dave got a clean back 180 nose manual. I managed a front 180 nose manual 180 out which felt really cool.

In the morning. #strugglefest

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 24, 2015 at 9:18am PDT

Then we moved into campus for the new spot Dave found. Quick up a curb to another curb. It’s fun. I struggled with back 50s for a bit. Dave started doing front crooks and did a perfect one to fakie before the camera was on. I filmed him for quite awhile and it didn’t happen again. But he did get on to forward that was tight and one with a 270 out. Ha. After that I skated for awhile and Dave chilled. Then Dave filmed me try a chinese nollie followed by a slappy crooks to fakie. Got it real quick so I tried to add a trick to the beginning and somehow did the line with a no comply 360 right away. I was hyped!

Last one from the weekend to make writing my skate journal easier. @fullertrron breaking in a new ledge at 'The best stadium in all of college sports'. Bump to 50.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 26, 2015 at 7:02am PDT

Then we went to this new spot. Dave did gap to 50 easy. It’s harder then the photo looks. We skated for awhile. It’s a cool alley that had a manhole we were messing around with tricks over. Spoiler alert. Dave did a steezy pop shove followed by a bump to 50 and an over 40 nollie big. So good. I tried to do back 180 the manhole then fakie flip, but I struggled with the fakie flip. Instead I went with kickflip then no comply 180 to set me up for a switch front nose. I would eventually get it in on film thanks to Dave being such a wonderful guy. Then Dave went and shut down the ledge with a front tail. Okay, maybe he didn’t ‘shut’ it down, but the spot probably will be shut down soon when they finish construction. That was it. Fun day. We skated hard.

(setup: 8″ null venture lows 50mm ojs emerica westgates grey)

Friday night! Whew! Raining again. I went out to the garage as it was too early to hit up a parking garage. I skated for quite awhile and I didn’t land much of anything. It was kind of depressing. I did huck a lot of different tricks so that’s cool at least.

(setup 8″ null venture lows 50mm ojs emerica westgates grey)