Not feeling very well after a late nap I headed to research center feeling tired and out of it. I started off pushing up the hill, rolled down the long stairs a couple of times and then pushed down the hill going fast and doing powerslides. I had a new deck since I had cracked mine so bad the day before. The funny thing is I kind of cracked the tail on my first ollie up the curb. Ha. Not enough to even show, but it made me laugh. I don’t really like brand new decks. I like brand new grip though. I laid into some noseslides for awhile, took a long time to get crooks (mostly because I was scared of how fast I was going), couldn’t get a front noseslide, got one really bad back 50, hucked flippers that I couldn’t land, couldn’t front 50, got a halfcab noseslide quicker then normal, posed halfcab crooks and front crooks. Left tired. Bummed on how little I landed, but happy I went a little faster then normal. I had put some venom bushings in since the bones bushings had blown out a little and were kind of bumming me out.

(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 venom 91a bushings nb# pj stratford 533 burgundy)

These lunch breaks rule. Aki brought the heat with the kickflip into the bank. I've been trying to kickflip that bar for a couple of years now. @fullertrron with the nollie and switch attack #40goingon20 #hyped #lateforwork

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 27, 2016 at 5:53pm PST

Went to Blue Skies for lunch. Dave and I were there first. We both struggled for awhile awhile. Me especially. I couldn’t land anything. I got the camera out so Dave could do the switch front shove above. He did that and the nollie and Aki turned things up with the kickflip into the bank. It’s steeper then it looks. I’m impressed. I did have some ok faster ollies over the flat bar. Got a heelflip after one that cracked my tail really bad. After that we all kind of did our own thing. Dave was working on feebles off the end of the dragon rail. I did front shove off the drop. Aki did nollie back lip the flat bar then tried front 50s on the dragon rail. I have wanted to kickflip the dragon rail for a long time and it turned out that today was the day. I know it’s not big, but man it felt wonderful. So wonderful in fact that I was even happy most of the rest of the day at work. Ha.

(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 bones med bushings nb# pj stratford 533 burgundy)

Skipped out for lunch at Blue Skies on a sunny January day in the mid 30s. Warm up was trying nollie wallies. Dave and I got a few and Aki actually learned one right then. I tried the fakie version and landed something. Not really sure what it was, but it felt cool. Everyone went boardslide on the flat bar next before kind of doing different things. Aki hit the flat bar and got front lip, crooks and almost nollie back lip. Dave doing really good feebles on a flat bar and lining it out to front 50 on the other one. He had a few great front 50s. Then he started lining out front 50s to over the top 50 attempts. He never quite got that, but he did hop on the dragon rail. Dave had ollied onto the tall middle ledge easy so I tried to as well. I got up it second try! So I tried to get up it again and failed for a good hour even trying wallies sometimes. When I didn’t get the ollie/wallie up I would try front shoves off which was my real goal. I would get one, but it took a solid hour. I committed way more times, but the slow speed with such little setup makes it hard. And once again the make felt really awesome. Dave was doing kickflips, faster front 50s on the flat bar and almost the over the top 50s on the flatbar. That would be crazy. I finished trying a line of boardslide, 360 flip on flat, kickflip to fakie, halfcab noseslide. Never got the 360 flip, but it was fun because I was going fast (for me) on the boardslide which setup a decent speed 360 flip. I need to skate faster. I had a faster feeling fakie bigflip too. Really fun session even though I really didn’t land much. I guess it was just that I was actually pushing myself.

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Went out to the garage feeling sore and tired. I put Aural Burrows on the tape player and began the hucking. I did a couple 180s or whatever then started hucking switch heels. Then after a few kickflips and a heelflip that took too long I went into huck mode of switch flips up the garage and nollie back heels down. I came very close to switch flip and somehow nollie back heel felt doable. I never got close, but I did commit. The board just never flipped all the way around. I finished with b/s and f/s flips and called it a night.

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Ok @boredzinejp here's my varial flip fakie and the next challenge for you. Rick flip!!! I've only landed a few of these so it felt awesome to land one again. I accidentally deleted a better varial flip at Broomfield park. Oh well. Good luck! #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #slowmotionontopofslowskating #stoked

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 24, 2016 at 2:54pm PST

Went out to Valmont area feeling pretty lazy, but wanting to get the varial flip challenge out of the way. I warmed up on the bank then went over to the main area. The ledge is almost skateable finally, it was wet, but no ice. I did a line of kickflip up the curb, ollie the wood pallet then ollie off the dock over the ice. It felt really cool. I had tried the line with a heelflip instead of the ollie over the pallet, but I couldn’t land the heelflip. It felt cool to ollie the pallet anyway as it forced me to go faster. Then I spent some time trying to manual across and down a sidewalk pad off the street. Next up was the varial flip which didn’t take long. I tried to do a fakie varial flip too and landed a few, but so horribly that I didn’t want to use it. It was funny because I landed one of them as this dude randomly cruised by on a longboard with his dog. It startled me then made me laugh. Lastly I went and tried Rick Flips for about 30 minutes and got so stoked when I actually landed one! It’s been a long time since I’ve landed one of those.

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Happy Birthday @iamnotacreepyjake!

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 23, 2016 at 12:57pm PST

Feeling lazy on a Saturday morning (Liz’s fault) I eventually headed to Broomfield park with birthday boy Jake to meet Riley, Carlie, Ladd and Nolan. We started on the quarterpotty where Jake quickly did 31 tricks. I did quite a few too, but not that many. Nolan would come later and warm up with 25 tricks in 10 minutes on the quarterpotty. Ha. It ruled seeing Riley skate again. Jake and I played a game of SKATE while Ladd and Riley played two games. Ours was way better though. Ha. Actually though we both landed a lot of tricks that we both don’t normally land. 360 flip, heelflip, f/s flip. I struggled with a bunch of tricks, but ended up winning with double flip. Our game took a really long time. After that I did a varial flip on the blue bank. I figured since there were no steeper banks I would at least do it on the one that you had to ollie onto. But it turns out I never hit record. Doh.

Those t-shirt weather days in January. ❤️☀️ #thankyoucolorado

A photo posted by carleigh samson (@gnarlycarleigh) on Jan 23, 2016 at 5:09pm PST

Then we went to Darin’s ramp for what would be a totally awesome session. Darin, Dave and Adam were already skating. Everyone seemed to skate really good. I took a long time to land a front d revert and also got a bean plant to tail and my second every creeper which was really fun. Watching Nolan and Riley shred was so awesome. Everyone got along and seemed hyped on the great weather. It ruled. Carliegh did like 100 back disasters and may have landed a backside blunt after Jake and I left. Dave was floating backside and frontside ollies, doing a bunch of plants again, everything. Darin got mad tricks. Ladd almost got blunt kickflip to fakie. Adam pops out of his blunts so high. Riley did a front nosegrind across the whole ramp. Nolan did everything including a blunt treflip to fakie.

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A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 22, 2016 at 3:24pm PST

Dave and I met Simon at the DIY slab spot in Denver on a gorgeous day. Dave and I were obviously pretty sore and tired. But it seemed like things were gonna go pretty good as we warmed up. Somebody had thrown a monster size candle onto the concrete so I joke waxed the curb. Well, I did actually wax it, just not as bad as it looks in the photo. 50s on the curb were super fun. Simon was ripping the parking block and ledge area. Good combos like halfcab boardslide then front noseslide, nollie front tail the ledge front baord the parking blocks. Etc. I joined him and was feeling good enough that I actually tried to 50 the ledge (it’s tall!). Ha. I’ve been there a few times before and have never even tried the 50. I got no pop. So yeah, things were going good it seemed until Simon slammed hard and ripped his palm open. So we all just chilled for awhile. Simon tried to get it going, but it just wasn’t happening. Understandable. Dave and I skated the ledge/blocks area awhile longer. Dave tried boardslide to feeble on the parking blocks. I posed kickflip boardslides which felt remotely doable. Then we went back to the manny pad area (above). Dave kind of tried to hippy jump a tire out of a really janky setup. I did a few tricks over a little gravel gap then back 50s on the curb. Also kickflip up the curb and 360 flip off (first try!). Then we setup hosercam and recorded us try manuals for an hour. Dave got a couple manual body varials out that were pretty sick. I tried kickflip manuals forever. I didn’t think I landed any, but going back through the footage I actually did do one. Ha. Rad. Dave and I left very exhausted.

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A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 21, 2016 at 4:08pm PST

Got out of work early on a cool day and drove to some crappy parking lot to skate flatground while I wait for Dave to get off work. The parking lot was rough and I started off very poorly. It took awhile to land a kickflip. But the tricks did come. I skated slower then normal probably. It felt cold. I got kickflips, heelflip, halfcab flip, fakie bigflip, treflip and somehow nollie treflip.

So great to see #nullumni member @sweetmalarkey ripping at Northside last night!

A video posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Jan 22, 2016 at 10:32am PST

Then after the drive to Fort Collins and some grub at Chipotle we went to Northside in the cold. Chris Jones was there! Man it ruled seeing him. My warm up was too film him do the line above. It was funny because he slammed hard a few times and said “It’s just like old times right Glen?” Ha. I saw Dave rolling around the park doing some quarterpipe tricks and cruising the ramp area. Chris and Pat left and then I cruised around for awhile and was hyped to roll in a couple times into the ramp area and wanted to do it a bunch more, but out of nowhere a bunch of people came and kind of killed that. I ended up mostly just slowly skating the ledge under the china bank. Front 50s, crooks, switch noseslide shove out and one horribly slow back 50. Dave got the back 50 sooner then me, front 50, noseslide. I saw him to a couple pivot to rock ‘n roll on the quarterpipe.

@nolancormier sandwiched by stubborn. @fullertrron @launchskate (Sorry the hurricane is so slow I couldn't change it after it was transferred)

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 23, 2016 at 8:42am PST

@nolancormier playing on the extension at the @launchskate #miniramp

A video posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Jan 24, 2016 at 8:14am PST

More skating! Ladd and Nolan were at Launch as well as a few older guys. It was fun. Ladd had a bunch of huge frontside ollies, front tails, back ds, front smiths, he can shred. I skated it alright for me, did the same ol’ stuff until the end when I took a long time to get a hurricane. Dave skated the ramp super good, maybe the best I’ve seen him skate it. The mute and backside airs were the highlights of course, but he had so many tricks. A lot of different sweeper / bean plant combos. I don’t know what most of them are, but he did a lot. Speaking of a lot of tricks Nolan did more unique tricks in every run then I did all night. I wouldn’t know even where to begin to document it. Just imagine every trick. Super fun night of skating.

(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 bones med bushings nb# pj stratford 533 burgundy)

Went to Blue Skies Skatepark for an early lunch break. It was so nice when I got there. That doesn’t mean the warm up process was easy unfortunately. My warm up line ended up being a boardlide on the flat bar, no comply 180 then switch noseslide on the little ledge and I managed a little crooks after that too. That run took me a long time the last time I was there. Next run was noseslide the flat bar and try front 50 shove. I never got the shove out though. Partly because someone waxed the crap out of the ledge and it was terrifying. Partly because I was trying to skate it faster then normal. I had done a few flip tricks. But then the wind kicked up fierce and kind of ruined everything. I tried to skate through it for awhile. Did my first “switch front nose” on a flat bar. Pretty fun. Tried boardslide shove out on the flat bar, got kind of close. Tried to ollie up the tall main ledge for awhile and got close, but no cigar. Stupid wind.

After work I went out in the garage for a bit to skate flatground. After the warm up period I basically tried switch flips “up” the garage and rattled off other tricks “down”. I never got a switch flip, but I did get very close. I got kickflip, b/s flip, varial flip, fakie flip, f/s flip, heelflip, 360 flip and got stuck on varial heelflip.

(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 bones med bushings nb# pj stratford 533 burgundy)

Not even that cold of a night, but I just don’t like much cold anymore so I went out into the garage. I had a new cassette tape by Aural Burrows to listen to so that was cool. That’s one of my favorite parts of skating flatground in the garage, being able to listen to music without it being headphones. I started slow though. 180s, shoves and eventually kickflips. I basically stuck with nollie heel/ switch flip attempts going towards the laundry room and other tricks towards the garage door. I never came remotely close to the nollie heel, but I came super close to multiple switch flips. Going the other way I had varial flip, b/s flip, f/s flip, heelflip, 360 flip, nollie varial flip, fakie bigflip, an over 80 varial heel. Close to rick flip and super close to hard flip.

(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 bones med bushings nb# pj stratford 533 burgundy)