Feeling decent I left for work an hour early so I could stop at the Dog Park on the way and skate some flatground. I went by the Boulder park and it was empty. I was almost tempted, but not enough. It was not too hot when I started. Warming up went ok and I was digging into the rotation and having fun. Tricks I landed. Kickflip, fakie flip, shoves, fakie bigspin, halfcab flips, fakie bigflip, b/s flips, varial flip, heelflip, treflip, nollie treflip, halfcab heel. Came incredibly close to switch flip. Remotely close to nollie flip, fakie varial flip, fakie treflip, fakie heelflip. Not very close to nollie heel, switch tre, cab flip. It was a good time.

After work and dinner I didn’t have anything going on. Everyone was busy so I went to skate some more. I thought it would be real brief before I pick up Ollie, but Liz ended up picking him up. I felt great at first. There were some people sitting by the ledge so I kind of just did some mellow lines starting at the kicker up top. It was pretty fun just doing 180s and stuff all the way down. Then they left and I mostly just hit the ledge. I am trying to implement a new rule for the research center. Gotta do 50s both ways and a flatground treflip before I lay into the crooks. I got the back 50 quick, a bad treflip not as quick, but never got a stupid front 50. Man it sucked. It made me so angry. I tried and tried and just kept coming up short. This might have to do with the fact that I skated hard earlier in the day, but man it bummed me out. I still did crooks, but even they were sketchy. Got close to switch flips on flat, that was about it. When I got into the front 50s and it stuck I was reminded of how much easier park ledges are and how I kind of want to skate them. Anyways, the night started fun, but didn’t end that way.

(setup 8.12 Habitat Suciu deck, venture low lights, standard thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm STF V1, NB# PJ Stratford 533 navy/red)

The challenge from @boredzinejp was a switch noseslide to front nose. This trick is way harder then it sounds. I could barely do the absolute minimum for #over40defense. Thank you Josh for being a good sport and in return here is an easy one for you. Early grab Cali grind. #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #soexcitedtonevertrythattrickagain #sorryifyouwatchedthis

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 11, 2016 at 8:43pm PDT

I was quite sore and tired and just went to the rainbow ledge hoping to do Josh’s trick decent enough to do a real challenge. I hadn’t been there in awhile and was bummed on how low the branches hung and made it hard to try the trick on a taller part of the ledge. I was thrown off a little too by the shoes I was wearing. I’m trying to clean my closet of old shoes so I was wearing some Navy/red PJs that hadn’t officially died yet. They are a lot stiffer then the crappy Es Sals. I never got Josh’s trick any better then before, but I did slam a couple of times and look like an idiot. I did a few flippers in between, but they were horrible and slow. In the clip above the purple shirted bits are from this session.

(setup 8.12 Habitat Suciu deck, venture low lights, standard thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm STF V1, NB# PJ Stratford 533 navy/red)