@fullertrron early morning nosegrind

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 10, 2016 at 7:27am PDT

Met Dave at 7am at our parking lot. Dave was already ripping. Warming up at 7am is even harder then later in the day. I just did some spin around tail stalls and stuff. Dave was doing shoves, manuals and switch ollies. We rolled into campus with no plans. Ended up first doing some cali grinds off this little 4 stair thing. Then went to the flagstone manny pad. Dave did boardslides and switch boardslides in. I did a little front board transfer in and a couple basic tricks like it was a qp. We moved on and randomly found the little angle iron curb above. It was fun. Dave did good front 50s, front 5-0s, front 50 back 180 into the “bank”, fakie b/s nosegrind, back 50, and b/s nosegrind! I did back 50, back 5-0 where I did a crappy front 180 into the ramp, front nosegrind. Then I tried a line for forever. Front 5-0, kickflip, b/s flip the 3 stair. Man I got close. It was the hardest I’ve skated in forever. I was totally covered in sweat, sore, almost passing out from heat exhaustion, etc. It was awesome. Except I didn’t ever really land the b/s flip. Argh. I haven’t tried to flip down stairs in a long time. Doh, we looked for water. I may have looked composed, but I really did think I was going to pass out or puke. After that I just kind of filmed Dave rip as he always does. Bluntslides, bluntslide combos, solid ollies, eggplants off drops. You guys are going to love his Stubborns part.

(setup 8.12 Habitat Suciu deck, venture low lights, standard thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm STF V1, Es Sal black/gum)

Fun with the boy and the heat today. He got them halfcabs and mongo pushes on lock. #teamsweatstain

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 9, 2016 at 9:02pm PDT

Went to Louisville skatepark with Ollie in the early afternoon. It was hot, but the scattered clouds really helped out. I warmed up by trying Josh’s trick on the little ledge. I kind of got it. But more fun was the tricks I did going the other way. Back 5-0 and a rare back 50 front 180 out. I couldn’t quite commit to backside nosegrind though. Even with some decent lines to the ledge. Ollie was cruising like he does there. Halfcabs, 180s, mongo pushes. He flows pretty well, seems natural. We left. After lunch with a surprise visit from Rob we went to Kings Mill park. It was really hot then and a crew of lurking teenagers killed Ollie’s motivation to skate. I tried, but I really didn’t skate well. I started by bailing like 3 axle stalls in a row and it didn’t get much better then that. I was trying lines where I drop in on the bank, carve up the stair, do a front disaster on the qp, do another trick on the other qp, then come back and crooks the ledge. Couldn’t do the whole line. I was often unable to do the line because of one of the kids biking, standing or maybe skating. Not the most fun session. That park is rad though. Later on I tried Josh’s trick at the school for awhile. I didn’t get close. It sucked. But at least I was having fun getting close to hardflips and nollie flips.

(setup 8.12 Habitat Suciu deck, venture low lights, standard thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm STF V1, Es Sal black/gum)