So happy Safeway ledge is mostly skateable again. ❤️❤️❤️

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Feb 14, 2016 at 3:22pm PST

Feeling a little tired and the wind had kind of killed me motivation I went to Safeway for the first time all winter just hoping it was dry. It wasn’t completely dry, but the main ledge was skateable. I started with the standard no ollie noseslides which seemed pretty good. Then my first couple of ollies had a weird pain in my left knee. Ugh. It ended up being alright though. Front 50s were fun. I tried a bunch of back 50s, never getting a totally clean one. I kept tic tac’ing in the grind or something. I did a front tailslide! A real one. Ha, it still only slid a few inches, but that is progress. Got a sloppy kick back 50. Hucked a bunch of tricks without getting close. Front crooks, switch crooks, halfcab crooks, kickflip crooks, front smiths. I basically just tried 3 flip tricks the whole time going back. 360 flip (got 4 of them), switch heel (got close once) and nollie inward heel (got really close a few times). It was pretty fun, would have been more fun had more icy melted so the fence ledge was skateable too.

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

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