Easter Day fly out fun. A couple basics before the hardest trick ever. #hownottoollie #atleastoneframelookslikeadecentollie #kickflipsareeasier

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 27, 2016 at 6:49pm PDT

Drove out to Case Logic on a decent Easter Sunday to try and get a Casper stall for the game. I got closer sooner so that was somewhat comforting. But it was still a long and frustrating battle. At least at this spot there was plenty of flatground to entertain me on the way back to the starting point. I tried to clean up my b/s flips. My left knee was kind of hurting in a way it hasn’t in awhile. Argh. After about an hour and a half I landed the casper stall! Well, my weak defensive version of it. After that I started doing various fly out stuff. All of the tricks took way longer then they should have. I got some treflips and tried more halfcab heels in between tries. I was super hyped to ollie that trash can .. until I saw how it looked. Yuck! Man I suck at ollies! Then it was back to family time.

(setup: 8.1 null control room, venture 5.25 lows with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

A couple oldies then a couple new tricks from @fullertrron and I. #stubbornsaturday

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 26, 2016 at 7:45pm PDT

Drove around looking for a dry bank to try casper stalls and ended up at the spot Dave does the fakie pogo above. I pretty much only tried them for two hours straight. The first hour I was solo. I would do some kickflips and switch back 180’s on flat and stuff, but for the most part I just failed casper stalls for what felt like forever. Dave used to have a freestyle board and had that trick so he gave me some pointers. As did Jack. Basically my biggest problem was trying not to do a kickflip. I think it took 45 minutes before I even got into one stall. Near the end I had a couple of close ones, but that was it. Dave got a couple without the casper, a fakie pogo (first try), kickflip and fakie flip.

#stubbornsaturday

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 26, 2016 at 6:19pm PDT

Then we went to this parking garage. I was hoping the entrance to it would be dry, but it wasn’t at all. So we skated this curb for another couple hours or so. We did a lot, tried a lot. Dave did a much better noseslide 270. That was a new one for him. We both did some regular front tails we were hyped on. Dave had switch noseslides, slappy feeble 270 out, back 50, front 50, front 50 180 out, legit front hurricanes, lots of front shoves and the sickest switch crooks! A bunch of switch crooks! They were so incredible. I wasn’t feeling all that great, took a few tries to get a slow back 50, had some fun front 50s, “slappy” front and back tails, slappy crooks, posed kick back tails and fakie flip front tails, got close to nollie inward heels, struggled to ollie the tiny median at the top of the garage, learned slappy hurricanes! Skated way longer then my body wanted to and could not get a switch flip to save my life at the end of the session.

(setup: 8.1 null control room, venture 5.25 lows with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

Fun little flatground session on a freshie before date night Liz. For those who are counting, I did not make my New Years resolution of not changing my setup. Back to lows and 8.1. #ohwell

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 25, 2016 at 6:09pm PDT

After some more skate madness I decided to go with a Null 8.125 as my setup. The 8″ are too narrow and the 8.25″ just seems to big. Normally it would be an easy call to go to 8.1, but the 8 and 8.25 boards have 14.25″ wheelbases. The 8.1 has a 14″ wheelbase. I like 14.25. Oh well. So far I seem to like it. I didn’t have much time so I just went in front of the house for awhile. It was not warm and there was snow/water lining the edges of the street. The warm up process didn’t seem too bad and I ended up rattling off a lot of tricks. I got most my kickflip variations and a few treflips that felt good for the first time in awhile. Stayed away from straight heelflips as that can be a board breaker for me on a fresh deck. Tried nollie tres for awhile and never landed one. Tried halfcab heel for awhile too and got a good feeling one. Hucked other tricks too, close to front heel. I actually had fun skateboarding.

(setup: 8.1 null control room, venture 5.25 lows with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)