@matthouse and @fullertrron (learning switch crooks at 47 hell yes!) ripping at Blue Skies today. I sucked. #arthritissucks #itevenhurtstowalk

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Feb 12, 2016 at 12:30pm PST

Feeling arthritic again I went to Blue Skies on a nice Feb day. Dave was there. Matt joined shortly. When I first started it felt like I might not actually be able to skate at all. Ugh. I would struggle through and do some very horrible skating. At least watching Matt and Dave was cool. We all tried switch crooks for awhile. Dave got one (above). So sick. We mostly skated the ledge. I mostly tried halfcab noseslides and had two horrible ones to show for it. Matt had never skated there before. He was able to 50 the tall ledge. No back tail like Dave and I were hoping though. Ha. The back 50 back 180 out was hot. So was Daves front 50 180. Dave also had some back 50s that surprised me. And a feeble on the flatbar all easy. We left after Matt front 50’d the whole narrow ledge. Wowsers.

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

Research ledge is dry! I’ve been waiting for this day for awhile now. If only the ledge missed me as much as I missed it. I had felt fine all day and for some reason right before skating I started to feel weird and nauseous. It made for a horrible session. I only skated it backside as the gravel in the frontside run up was too much. Plus I didn’t have a lot of energy. I started with boardslide, noseslide, noseslide to fakie. Then took awhile for crooks which isn’t all that bad, but it felt like a trick I’ve never done before. I don’t know what was going on with my body, but I don’t like it. Going up the hill I would try switch flips over and over, getting close a couple of times. I also tried about a million 360 flips to start my downhill descent towards the ledge, but never landed one. I was bumming so hard, but stubborn me just kept trying to land tricks. I got a very tic tac’y back 50, bad switch front nose and halfcab noseslide. Tried fakie front 50 for awhile never getting close, did another crooks that finally felt ok. Ended posing a couple halfcab crooks and realizing there is no way I could land it feeling the way I did. Went home.

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