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)

Went out in the garage for a few 180 and 360 slide arounds. That was it. Needed a break.

After work I went home and changed my setup. I put some old Thunder trucks on. I’ve been stubborn for awhile about Ventures. I like how they look, I like how they feel on some tricks, but the lows are limiting and since I haven’t been landing much anyway, I decided to try a change. I was running late to meet Rob and Dave at 6 and then there was a graduation ceremony on campus which made me park like a mile away from the meet up spot. When I finally arrived Dave and Rob were trying to ollie the flat gap between the manual pads. I wasn’t up for that so I just played warm up on the banked ledge. My first kickflip felt extra good. Guess those Thunders are light! I had just watched Busenitz’ part in Away Days so I was pretty hyped. I had a fun line of front 180 off the little ledge, switch front 180 over the manhole and then noseslide the ledge. Then we were captured by the man and asked to chill while they confirmed we weren’t some hostile youth. It was chill. Rob took it the hardest. Then we started up again in the parking lot. Dave ollied the gap again. I dorkingly ollied to axle stall. Rob almost did manual to manual to boardslide so I started filming. He never quite got it, but got a rad line. Dave was getting served trying to do switch nose manuals.

Eventually we left for the bank spot by the stadium. I had to warm up again. Rob slayed it quick with kickflips, wallie nollies on the wall, one foots, more, then bolted. Dave slammed hard a few times. It was his theme of the day. Then we just tried nollie flips to fakie over and over since it was my new challenge. Both of us got close on a few, but were very inconsistent.

(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)

I knew it was going to be a tough day when I went to warm up doing jump rope at home and could barely jump. Still I went skating though. I was gonna try the research ledge, but it was sprinkling so I went back to the Engineering area. I tried a “warm up” line of kickflip, boardslide the bench, back 50 the 3 stair ledge. The back 50 took a long time and everything was hard. Then I tried a harder line of pop shove the little crack gap, noseslide to fakie the bench, halfcab flip on flat, front 50 the narrow ledge by the rail, kickflip into the next bank, and then a dream of doing b/s flip up the sideways curb. It took me for ever. I mean like over an hour. I would try nollie flips or 360 flips on flat. Landed a couple 360 flips very poorly. Got the line eventually without the b/s flip. It felt kinda neat. THen I tried to ollie up the 3 stair a few times and almost died so I left for home feeling very depressed about skateboarding.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, venture lows, venom 91a bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)

Rainy evening garage session before dinner. Starting out was hard, I was sore. Eventually got a couple kickflips then settled in to posing. Nollie heel one way, switch f/s flip the other. Not close to either, but sw fs flip felt doable. Then I posed nollie flips and was surprised I could not get close. Got a heelflip, b/s flip or two, then a few badly landed 360 flips. Somehow this occupied an hour.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, venture lows, venom 91a bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)

Went under the Engineering Bld on a cool and wet night. I arrived before Dave and Rob and warmed up pretty good and was actually feeling motivated and skating ok. I had sone a few slappy tailslides in the narrow area by the rail, back 50s off the 3 stair curb, kickflip variations were working well, etc. Rob and Dave showed up as I was trying to get the courage to slappy crook the 3 stair curb. But it was too straight and I couldn’t. I was bummed to hear that Rob and Dave didn’t like the spot. It’s got good flatground, curbs, ledges, 3 stairs, benches, etc. Oh well. We still skated it for awhile while it dried up outside. Dave had a banger line of slappy noseslide the narrow curb, front 180 into a bank, turn around, ollie up a 3 stair then front 180 the next. Hammers! I had a great line for me of front 50 the narrow curb, kickflip into the bank and then ollie up the 3 stair. The front 50s felt so cool there as the ledge is chunky.

Then we went to this bank to curb. Rob had a front tail right away. The worst part about this spot is you can’t really see what your friends are doing. I think Dave got a back tail, Rob a back 180 fakie 50. I took awhile to get a front 180 fakie 50 to cab out. The one I rode away from had a nice lunchbreak in the middle.

@fullertrron wallie nollie on a rainy night.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on May 15, 2016 at 10:29pm PDT

Art director @43shifty wallie nollie. #skaterownedandoperated #gate8

A photo posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on May 15, 2016 at 10:31pm PDT

It started raining. We were walking back and saw this hallway. Wallie nollies were done by all. Then we all learned wallie nollies to fakie. Well, I say we “all”, but I’m not sure what mine technically was. Then we hit the ‘kicker’ for awhile. Dave had some good ollies and back 180s over it. Rob had no comply shoves, bean plants, front shoves. Dave took awhile to get a kickflip. I took awhile to do backside flip and then even longer to do 360 flip. Dave was close to 360 flip. I offered him a free board if he beat me. He was close. This was the most fun I’ve had skating in awhile. 🙂

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, venture lows, venom 91a bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)

Quick stop on the way to my moms. #minutesbeforethreecarloadsofscooterkidsarrived

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on May 14, 2016 at 12:33pm PDT

Ollie and I stopped at the Leadville park on the way up to my mom’s house. The park was empty when we arrived. I took a less then thrilling run or two in the bowl before having some fun lines in the ‘street’ section. First run was a back axle on a bank, cali grind a wedge, ollie up the euro, roll in, manual up the little A ledge. Ollie kind of just cruised around lazily for a bit. Tried some tricks he used to be able to do, but since he doesn’t skate much anymore he doesn’t seem to care and he stopped. Doh. I started trying noseslide 270 shoves on the bump to ledge. It took awhile, but I did get one and I was quite happy about it.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, venture lows, venom 91a bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum

Woke up at 5am feeling way too much pressure to do Josh’s challenge (fakie front pivot to back pivot to tail). So got up on my Friday off and went to Arvada park determined to do the dumb trick. Ha. Well, the qp I had in mind to do it had a really bad approach for fakie and I couldn’t do it on the other one I imagined. I tried for about 30-45 minutes before giving up and trying to have fun at an almost empty park. Had some fun carving the snakerun. Skated the little qp up top for a bit. Had a fun line of rock ‘n roll, front 50 the granite low to high ledge, ollie into the mini euro, manual the bump to manual pad, bailed a 3 flip to fakie on the blue chip. Skated the miniramp for awhile. Did a few basics. Skated the pier 7 ledge for awhile. Got some front 50s and “nollie” front tails and a scary switch front noseslide. Got a bigflip on the blue chip. Posed b/s flips over the hip. Tried switch flips on the blue chip for awhile. Left feeling depressed that I was getting another letter.

Later in the afternoon I met Dave and Rob at the “Dawg Park”. I was pretty sore, but kickflips came easy. I hucked and landed on a lot of tricks. I landed very few tricks. Tricks I landed on, but didn’t ride away from: 360 flip, nollie varial flip, nollie flip, nollie 360 flip, halfcab heels, varial heel, switch f/s flip. Doh. We ended with a game of SKATE. I was the first one out. So then I posed switch flips and cab flips. Then I went home and had some GF beer.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, venture lows, venom 91a bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)

Had to come in early for work and had to stay late so I had a long lunch break. I went to Longmont park as I am so sick of Blue Skies. When I got there there was one other skater. A mongo pushing basketball shorts without a shirt wearing dude. He was pretty good and he made sure I knew it. We had a funny ledge session. I would do a trick, he would do it better. This would have been annoying, but he was somehow pretty cool about it. I got a few of my basics. Then kinda moved on trying a flatground trick and then noseslide the ledge on the pyramid. That other dude left, Aki showed. We mostly skated flatground, he did back 50 back 180 out on the bump to ledge. I took a long time to land a treflip and could not get the speed to do a bad flyout over cones. Doh.

(setup 8.25 null awkward vector, venture lows, venom 91a bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 51mm stf v2, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)

Ok @corpoglenny, another fun tranny challenge (at your favorite skatepark!). This one is inspired by @samsawyer who was inspired by Drehobl. I challenge you to the "Sam Sawyer Stall and Spin-to tail". Enjoy! #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #unwarrantedslomo #trannydancing #jpskatecrap

A video posted by Joshua Pluger (@boredzinejp) on May 1, 2016 at 1:06pm PDT

Went to Lafayette park before work not feeling very energetic. I was taking a ‘day off’ which meant no ollies. I cruised the park a bit, tried Josh’s trick on the tiny qp for awhile. Gave up, cruised around, tried it in the toilet bowl for awhile, gave up, tried it on the tiny noping, gave up, cruised around a little then went back to trying it on the tiny qp. Didn’t get it. Left for work feeling quite bummed out.

(setup 8.25 null awkward vector, venture lows, bones medium bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 51mm stf v2, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)