Woke up early and have the late shift so I got ready for work then hit the Boulder park. I parked next to someone gearing up for the park too. As I warmed up he kept gearing up. 30 minutes later he was skating the park too! Ha. My warm up was ok. I like cruising that park when it isn’t crowded. I felt like I was skating slower then normal, but not because of lack of effort, my board just felt slow. Weird. I did lots of tiny ollies over little hips, did some axle stalls. Got a kickflip over the backside hip easy, but took forever to get a b/s flip the other way. It was annoying. I also struggled to front 50 down the tiny hubba. I would get it, but it took awhile. My last few minutes were spent trying boneless combos on the little qp and 360 flips going slow on flat. I got two terribly slow boneless to tails. That is a new one for me so I’ll enjoy the baby step. The 360 flip took awhile and when I landed it I put both hands down. But it’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve tried one as they seemed to hurt my heels the most. Also the first one in vulcs. Fun morning.

(setup 8.1 Null Riley deck, venture low v-hollows, stock thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 52mm Reed wheels, New Balance Numeric Quincy denim/gum spenco thinsole orthotics)

Went up to Fort Collins to sell boards and film with Hayden. It started raining when I got there. It didn’t really stop. We tried to warm up at Northside. Hayden did a bunch of tricks on the small part of the jersey barrier. I did an axle stall! Hooray. Then it started raining. We went to Aggies. I dorked around with some slappy crooks, slappies, manuals and falling down before filming Hayden do like 20 tricks. Back to Northside where I just filmed in between showers.

(setup 8.1 Null Riley deck, venture low v-hollows, stock thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 52mm Reed wheels, New Balance Numeric Quincy denim/gum spenco thinsole orthotics)

This morning's crew was old and awesome.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 30, 2016 at 11:23am PDT

Met at Crisis at 9:30. Did bidness, then off to Broomfield park. I felt pretty good pushing right away and felt motivated. Things would be hit or miss for me and I fell a lot, but I blame the stiff insoles allowing me to skate again without creating more pain, but having less boardfeel then the gamechangers. I saw Rob manual the banked pad real quick, boardslides on the ledges, crooks the black ledge. Dave did boardslide to fakie on the flatbar, front 50 the black box, way better stuff then I’ve listed that I can’t remember right now. Another dude was there skating hard and manualling the whole park. Fuzz showed, disappeared, showed back up and we did a little 10 flatground trick to get things going. Both of us had some struggles on ones we normally land, but ultimately got to 10 in a pretty decent time frame. I had a first try nollie tre to cancel out the 20 missed b/s flips and heelflips. Fuzz had a sick fakie heel. In the main stunt area various things were going on. I remember Dave getting obsessed with feebles on the flat bar which he did really good. I was trying a new one for me on the little blue box, switch front noseslide back 270 shove out. I got close a couple of times, but for the most part was not ever close.

Cruisin the streets. #thestubborns

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 30, 2016 at 2:22pm PDT

Then we hit this alley. The cruise down was fun. We skated a somewhat mellow bank that has a little curved curb at the bottom making it look interesting and a little harder then a normal bank. It’s a little harder to skate then it looks, dogs were barking at us constantly, but somehow no one told us to leave. Dave rattled off basics the fastest. Pop shoves, fakie bigspin, nab, cab, kickflip, no comply 270. Geez. Rob and I have the same bank go-tos. Kickflip and no comply shove. Unfortunately for Rob the bank was out to get him and he never quite got the no comply shove. But he did have some steezy bonelesses, ollies and one foots before that. Fuzz did really good b/s flip and halfcab flip. I did a couple kickflip variations, posed hardflips, nutted myself trying to be dave (fakie bigspin). Dave also did a super crazy switch back 360 and an old school kickflip.

Last we hit this school for a brief one. We were all pretty sore and beat, but I had fun trying lines. Noseslide the low bar down, slappy crook a curb, ride off the three stair. Tried it with a longer line adding a back 50 on a curb then front 180 a two stair then turn around to mini hill bomb. Got it, went back for back 5-0 and slammed super hard. Ugh. Then witnessed Fuzz do a ride line and we filmed it.

(setup 8.1 Null Riley deck, venture low v-hollows, stock thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 52mm Reed wheels, New Balance Numeric Quincy denim/gum spenco thinsole orthotics)

On with the game of #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge ! @boredzinejp challenged me to a mute grab and it was hard as hell! Here's a new one for you Josh, no comply frontside 360 shove. #teamsweatstain #unwarrantedslomo #threefingergrab

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 29, 2016 at 7:43pm PDT

Got out of work kind of early on a warm afternoon. I had been given a 10×10 list by Nate, but it became clear quickly that my body was not up for skating. Of course I just kept skating though. I did a few basics, but even struggled with regular kickflips. I started hucking some no comply tricks. I tried no comply front 360 bigspin for awhile, but never got to close. Rob arrived. We both tried no comply front 360 shove for awhile. I managed to get one. We did some other skating too. I still feel like switch flips are obtainable. Rob was cruising his shifty ollies, back 180s, cabs and getting back into his groove. It was a mellow session. I skated a long time, but didn’t land much. Then Dave showed as I was hoping to leave and Rob bounced. I decided to film a no comply 3 shove which didn’t take all that long and I landed it way better then the one before. Dave was warmed up so we played a game of SKATE. I got a letter on front shove. Ugh. And something else, but I ended up beating Dave with a combination of flippers, no complys and one foots (he can’t do them!) and ended it with heelflip. I felt bad at first, but he was hyped on getting close to the heelfip and kept trying it. Even on another board that some kid left. Oh yeah, I had started wearing my old spenco orthotics again and it really seemed to help with my heel pain/plantar fasciitis. Although it also took away quite a bit of board feel. I guess I’ll live with that since it was the first time in awhile I felt like I was actually not making my pain worse by skating.

(setup 8.1 Null Riley deck, venture low v-hollows, stock thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 52mm Reed wheels, New Balance Numeric Quincy denim/gum spenco thinsole orthotics)