Cold Skies was a struggle earlier , but @fullertrron got a new combo at least. #40degreesmyass #itwascold

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 18, 2016 at 1:40pm PST

It was supposed to be a warm day. It was not. It was overcast, breezy and cold. I got there first and the warm up process seemed impossible. It literally took me 5 tries to land a kickflip. That is the worst in a long, long time for me. Dave started slow too and I mentioned we should both focus our boards and leave them in the snow. Ha. It would get better though. I had a line of boardslide, no comply 180 then switch noseslide followed by a crooks on the little ledge. Dave got the combo above. So rad. I got a front shove off the main middle ledge. No ollie up and it took a long time, but I must say it felt really awesome to land it.

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Hope you are having fun in Malaysia @boredzinejp! Here's a little something to keep you busy .. Wallride nollie / wallie nollie / slappy crooks on a wall / whatever it's called. I just learned it this week. Sorry I couldn't do a better front tail shove. I blame the weather limiting spots (instead of my inability to do front tails). #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #baggyisback #wallienolie

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 18, 2016 at 7:59am PST

Feeling pretty tired after celebrating Fuzz’s 40th birthday I went out for a lazy session. I wanted to do a better nollie wallride for the game. I was hoping Valmont would be dry enough to try a better tailslide too, but it wasn’t. So I ended up nearby trying the wallie nollies on a regular wall. I didn’t have it on lock, but man it’s fun when you land it. I also tried a bunch of switch f/s flips and got pretty darn close. Man that would be cool.

I eventually moved on to research ledge to get a little grind on. Noseslides and crooks went ok. But then I got stuck on back 50 and exhaustion had settled in. I would eventually get a couple really bad back 50s. A really back halfcab noseslide. Posed halfcab crooks. Posed a bunch of switch flip and switch frontside flip attempts going back up the hill. Got close. All in all I skated better then I thought I would, but it was still a pretty lazy session.

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Up early on a Saturday morning. Well, early for this time of year. It’s hard to get up real early with the sun rising so late. I went to Southern Hills as I thought it would be a decent place to try the front tail shove since it’s in the sun. Obviously I wasn’t up for the benches, but the step seemed good and in the sun. But the wind came and man did it suck. The wind was so intense at times and made it so cold that I wanted to leave. Instead I stubbornly kept trying front tails on the curb. I would get a couple decent tailslides for me and one tail”slide” shove that meets the minimum requirements. I got a few flippers too, but it was hard with the wind.

We out here being stubborn.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 16, 2016 at 3:38pm PST

After some lunch I met Dave and Jake at India Peaks. The sun wasn’t out anymore, but at least it wasn’t windy anymore. We had to shovel a little, but for the most part it was perfect. Dave did a perfect wallie/nollie real quick. We setup GP (hosercam) to capture it, but somehow Dave was unable to do it again. It was weird. He would actually struggle with most tricks he tried after that too. Pop shoves, switch shoves, kickflips. Tough day. Nothing came easy for me either, but I did come away with some tricks I was happy with. Wallie/nollie (kind of anyway), halfcab flip and sex change. Jake almost came down with frontside wallride and fakie flip. Aki joined us for awhile and had kickflip to fakie and f/s flip. It was cool seeing him outside of the park.

@iamnotacreepyjake tailblock. Brr

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 16, 2016 at 4:31pm PST

Lastly we went to Dave’s ramp as the sun was setting and brr it was cold. There were a couple ice patches we had to watch out for. I guess i continually rode through them without knowing it. That’s how skilled I am on ramps, I don’t even know where I’m going. Ha. I had fun though, got a few of my tricks. Dave was trying Bag Ladies. I think he got one. Lots of other cool tricks. Jake had the rad tailblock above, pivot fakie and a bunch more. Fun ender for a fun day.

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Early lunch solo on a cool day (low 30s). Warming up was a battle as usual. Something about that place makes warming up hard. I did a couple more of those wallie/nollie things while holding on then tried it without holding on and landed one! Then I landed every one after that. I was hyped! So I solo filmed one. I’ve wanted to learn that trick for a long time. It feels just like slappy crooks. Then I tried a line for awhile. Halfcab flip on flat, crooks up an escalator ledge, turn around on the bank and back 50 up an escalator ledge. After a couple good feeling halfcab flips I tried with heelflip. Never got the line. Close though. The main bank wasn’t really skateable due to yesterdays wind causing snow to drift in. Other stuff, front 50 shove on the regular ledge, halfcab noseslide on it, almost noseslide shove on the tall middle ledge, 0-10 on treflips, couldn’t ollie onto the tall middle ledge. Learning the wallride nollie made up for the rest of the sucking.

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I really wanted to skate a parking garage or something, but the wind was howling and it was cold so I opted for another garage session. I had just played indoor hoops with Ollie so my legs were pretty warmed up. I rattled off quite a few of the basics quickly. Kickflip, shoves, fakie flip, varial flip, heelflip, halfcab flip, b/s flip, f/s flip and even 360 flip. I started trying switch flips again, but wasn’t feeling it so tried 360 and fakie 360 shoves. I landed on a bunch of both, but never rode out. That’s what I like about the garage sessions at least, just trying random tricks.

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Lunch time at Blue Snows with Dave and extra obstacles ❄️. Can't believe how warm 40 feels! @fullertrron #day13

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 13, 2016 at 12:25pm PST

Feeling more sore then normal I went to Blue Skies to meet Dave. It felt cool when we first started skating, but a few minutes in it felt quite nice. Warm ups were a pain especially with most of the bank covered. We got at it though. Dave brought the heat and it got me hyped. The ollie/180 quick feet is way harder then it looks. The ollie into the bank is sick. He also had fast front 50s on the ledge and made it up onto the next level (didn’t fit in 15second clip). Kickflips, almost feebles on the flat bar, noseslides. He was ripping. We both did the kickflip to fakie in the narrow with the snow. I got fakie flip at the end too. I was trying a line of ollie the first flat bar then heelflip on flat (never got it) or hippy jump (only got it once) and then a slow front tail on the ledge as a baby step toward not getting a letter. My flip trick game was ok. I got a bad treflip or two, came close to nollie inward heel, nowhere close to rick flip or fakie varial heel. At the very end we did these little front truck wallrides only holding on to the tallest ledge. It was rad. New trick! Gotta keep at that one. These sessions go by way too quick.

In trying to maintain “30 minutes of flatground a day” I went out to the garage on a decently warm night. It’s just so convenient to not have to drive and all that. I was so incredibly sore. I thought it was a stupid idea, but I tried anyway. Kickflips came. Treflips didn’t. Then I tried switch kickflips for like 30 minutes straight. I wasn’t close at all initially, but after a few tries I was committing. However the board normally only flipped half way. I kept at it, got insanely close to one. THEN LANDED ONE! That is my second switch flip ever and my first in over 10 years. I would go on to kind of land another one, but it had landed primo for a second then fell into the make. Ha. Either way I was hyped. When I landed the switch flip I ran into the house and gave Ollie a bunch of high fives as he was trying to get his homework done. I went on to also land a frontside flip, heelflip and eventually a nollie varial flip. Maybe the first time ever that I’ve landed at least one nollie, switch, heel and regular flip trick. Hyped! The flip tricking seemed to make the pain go away. It makes no sense to me, but it’s normally the case that this happens. Maybe all the movement breaks up my arthritis. I don’t know. But I’m glad it didn’t make me even more sore.

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After work I picked up Dave and we rolled to Fort Colllins. We stopped at MRKT so I could sell boards. We ate and went to Launch around 6. Luckily there was only a few people there. We started on the main ramp. I like it, it’s fun to carve around on. But man, I have not been skating ramp lately and it showed. I was bailing axle stalls and kickturns. Dave said he was struggling too, but his tricks are way beyond my pay grade. John joined after awhile and you can tell he skates there a lot. He was ripping! Fakie ollies above coping, front slash 360, fakie front smith fakie, backside ollies, blunt to back d, so many tricks. There were a couple other kids skating and ripping. They were fun to skate with. One young kid that needed a lot of attention, but other then that the scene was rad. I would get a few of my basic tricks. Front d, fakie back smith to fakie, front rock, front smith jib, that’s about it. Dave had some lofty f/s ollies, fakie ollies, the chillest rock fakies around, lots of tricks I don’t know the name of, front smiths, a bunch more I’m forgetting.

The younger dudes had setup a ledge off the smaller ramp and it looked fun. So we waited for some of them to leave then skate it. It was so fun. At first it was flat off the ramp. Crooksing it was oh so fun. Dave had front 50 back 180 off all good, back 50s, almost back and front nosegrinds, crooks. John had front 50, almost back 180 out, switch front nose, front shove off the ramp. I had a back 50 or two, a bad slam on a back 50, front 50, almost front 50 shove, then tried a million crooks to bigspin out. Landed on it, kind of landed one with a lot of the spin being on the ground. Was still hyped though and it was really fun to try. John left. Then we put the ledge off the ramp so it was slightly downhill. I was hyped to crooks down it as I haven’t really crook’d down much of anything. I struggled with front 50, but got a couple, one with front 180 out. Dave back 50’d it easy and crook’d it too. Crooking downhill is fun! I hope some day to do it at Lafayette park.

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Went out to the garage feeling sore and not motivated. Did some “manuals” to begin, then kickflips. Then a fakie flip or two before trying switch heels. I wasn’t really committing. Went for a nollie flip and the pain crouching was too much so I went inside.

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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.

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@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.

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