Water bottle froze up while skating little Arvada. Brr. ⛄️

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 10, 2016 at 4:26pm PST

Went out around 1pm to skate flat in front of the house while I wait for Jack and Carleigh to show up. It was colder then I thought. Ugh. I got through a few of the basics and felt alright. I got to 360 flip and hit a wall though. I could not land it to save my life. I was about 0-50 when Jack and Carleigh arrived. Argh. I had tried nollie big flips in between most treflip attempts and got close to a few.

Then we went to the very crowded Little Arvada park aka Triple Nipple. Jake was there, Nolan, Ladd and like 25 other people. That’s crazy for such a little park. I guess it was one of the few dry spots. A big thank you to whoever shoveled. I lose motivation when I skate around a crowd. Anyways, a few of us skated the little quarterpipe near the top as a warm up. Carleigh did back d and back blunt. Jake did back blunt, blunt to fakie band and front blunt. I got front feeble and back hurricane. Jack did bigspin pivot, pivot to rock ‘n roll, and several more unique looking tricks. Then it was kind of a free for all for awhile. The park cleared out a little so the main area wasn’t so bad. I saw some ripping going on. Ladd had a bunch of sick ollies over a boob. Nolan was trying to break in new tricks and doing longer basic grinds (for him). Carleigh was doing like 20 back d’s on the taller quarterpipe. Jack and Nolan messed around on Jack’s “hoverboard”. Jack can actually ollie up ledges on it. So crazy. Then it was back to the qp up top. I messed around with some tricks while Jack and Nolan tried dark stalls. So nuts. Jack would eventually get one. Nolan got really close. I took awhile to get a fakie hurricane and my first front tail in a long time. Then a few more people left and the park was basically just Jack, Carliegh and I and two other dudes. It was fun. Well, kind of. I finally landed a 360 flip, but struggled hard to get a front 50 on the ledge. I guess the snow/ice made it harder then normal so I shouldn’t be too upset. I managed a one clean front 50, a couple with tic tacs and a bunch of bails that bummed me out. Argh. Carleigh had done a front disaster over the hip was was pretty gnar. Jack did a late shove off the ledge on his hoverboard. It was nuts. It was getting pretty dark out so we took off. The lid on my water bottle had frozen shut. Brr.

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

@fullertrron and I playing in the cold. Sorry for yet another slappy crook. Dave has them switch now! #slappyseason

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 9, 2016 at 6:00pm PST

Had a lovely case of food poisoning or something overnight. It’s not exactly food poisoning, it’s like a combination of spicy food and a couple drinks that seems to cause it. Anyway, it sucks. I was up most of the night shivering violently so I had slept in real late and taken a nap before I even considered going skating. So late in the afternoon Dave got me to this Valmont garage for what turned into a surprisingly awesome session. A lot went down. We both skated pretty well and we didn’t start documenting clips until near the end. On the yellow parking block I had slappy crooks and regular slappy. Dave had front blunt, slappy crooks, slappy feeble, back 5-0 and of course the switch slappy crooks above. Flatground went really well for me. I had kickflip, fakie flip, heelflip, treflip, halfcab flip, fakie bigflip, b/s flip, f/s flip, nollie treflip and kinda close to fakie hardflip. The kinked red curb was fun. Dave had an amazing long back 50 through the rough part. I did a bunch of slappy crooks because it was so fun. I got a few back 50s and close to a back 50 shove. Dave also had some noseslides through the kink and some front tails. I was trying front tails on the median red curb. Got a couple ok ones, baby steps towards the front tail shove. I had a few switch noseslides on the downhill part of the red curb, some with shove out. We ended by trying to do the long 50s (backside for him, frontside for me) on the kinked curb. It was fun. Dave had a few good ones, I had one long one. Really fun session.

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

On another snowy cold winter evening I went into the garage for some flatground before dinner. In typical fashion I thought I would be out there for just a few minutes, but it was more like an hour. Tricks went alright. 3 flip and heelflip came faster then they have lately. Still no nollie or switch flips or switch heels. Tried nollie inward heels for awhile too and didn’t get close. I’ve been telling myself I need to do at least one rare trick a garage session and front heel was the one for this session. I love some flatground.

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