Went to the research ledge not feeling all that motivated and pretty sore. I rolled down the hill a few times, started with 180s, eventually got to kickflips. Got a boardslide first try so that kind of cheered me up. I was skating slow, had some long lines though with basic flippers. Something like b/s flip, halfcab flip, heelflip, crooks. I got crooks the first try and it felt really good. I was kind of nervous about how the Thunder trucks would crooks, but they were good. I tried back 50s for awhile, got a bad one. Never got front 50. I was feeling really sore. I wanted to stop skating, but then decided to just do the things that make me feel happy for awhile. So coming downhill I just did Cali grind, crooks, cali grind, pose a nollie back heel. Coming uphill I tried front crooks then nollie flip. I have never front crooked that ledge. I was not quite getting into them, but managed a few quick little jibs. I guess it’s progress though. I got quite a few crooks and they did cheer me up as I thought they would.

Then I went to the training wheels bank to try for nollie flips. Never got too close. Never landed a 360 flip on the way back. It didn’t bum me out too much since I had fun earlier.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, thunder 147 lights stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)

Skateboarding sucks the big one sometimes

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on May 20, 2016 at 9:35pm PDT

Went right to ‘work’ after a long day of work on nollie flips. Straight to this bank again. Warming up sucked, but not as bad as trying nollie flips over and over. Dave had some fakie flips that I thought were nollie flips at first and his pop shove body varial. I went home feeling pretty depressed and bummed on this game of OLDFART I’m signed up for.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, thunder 147 lights stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)