#stubbornsaturdays

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 12, 2016 at 1:15pm PST

Jake and I met up with Dave at the 287 ditch on a super beautiful day. My skate madness was immediately gone as I knew that spot would suck with low trucks. Whew! That ditch is harder to skate then it looks. I had some front tails stalls. The one on the parking block took a long time. There was a couple parking blocks on the flat of the ditch. Dave was doing feebles across both parking blocks. I think he 50’d them too. Jake did front tailslide to fakie right away on the waxed part. He came close to nosebunts and back blunts. Got a line of him doing an ollie into the bank then a no comply tailslide. Dave was ripping as hard as ever. He was doing all kinds of lines with stalls on parking blocks, slides, everything. Front tailside, front pivot, ollie nose bash, fs halfcab. So good. Jake slammed so hard catching on a crack on a roll in. Can’t believe he survived. I tried a line of back 50 on a parking block then no comply to tail on the next parking block. Never got it. I just couldn’t get it right. So annoying, that trick is supposed to be easy. It wasn’t a line I was that excited about anyway. Dave ended with a crazy line jumping over the parking blocks in the middle of the ditch. Total Stubborns opening line material. Get hyped.

Then after a stop at Emage and Vitamin Cottage we went to this ledge school. After a fun chat wit a couple of homeless dudes we tried to warm up again. It was extremely hard for Dave and I. Jake was doing 50s before I could even ollie. But about the time I got warmed up he had moved on to sitting. Ha ha. Not quite, he got close to a few other tricks. Fakie nosegrind, fakie back tail. Dave got going with some good front 50s. Then one of the best tricks ever. Front 50 to eggplant out. You’ll have to wait to see it. It might be my favorite trick we’ve filmed of Dave. He had some good back 50s too. I didn’t land anything for a really long time. My board felt squirly, my legs felt weird, etc. I had a couple awkward falls trying to ollie off this little kicker over a gap. It was annoying. I finally started having fun when we settled in on this ledge area along the building. I tried a bunch of front nosegrinds off the end, never got close. Dave was doing the same on the opposite and got closer. I had some great feeling crooks, some slow back 50s, chinese nollie front tails. Got somewhat close to kick back tail. Dave got a really good nollie back tail to fakie. We ended with me trying switch crooks for awhile until I eventually kind of landed one. It stoked me out. Even though I didn’t land much all day it was one of those really fun days.

(setup: 8.25 null control room deck, venture v-hollows 5.2 hi with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 black/gum)

Had a really long day of work. A lot of my time at work was spent obsessing about low trucks again. So when I finally got home I took my old setup and put low hangers on it. Then I skated both boards in my garage. Back to back comparing tricks and how they feel. The lows sure to flip fast and feel better in a lot of ways. But I know that judging this on a 15 minute session in the garage is not good.