Up kind of early on a warm Sunday. I headed to Denver with the desire to skate some ledges. I went to the 38th Ave spot, but felt bad waking people up in the morning so I headed to the far away Dayton park. I arrived having to piss badly to a crowded park with people fully padded. Whoa. They referred me to a needle riddled disgusting porta potty that I barely survived. Then it was skate time. The little qp is so fun. I was getting going, trying to ollie onto the ledges, grinds etc. Had some fun going. I wore thin socks in hopes that my shoes wouldn’t feel too small. It almost worked, but by the end I was as sore as the day before. Doh. I had fun though. Another older dude named Chad showed up and we had fun chatting and skating. He had taller front 50s even on the up – up ledge and nosegrinded the bench. So sick. He got me to try front 50s on the qp over the ledge and I got a few. So fun! My ledge game wasn’t great. I got a really bad back 50, a few crooks, front 50 shove, close to switch noseslide shove, a few other basics. Flatground went alright. Did one of the most casual heelflips I’ve done which was surprising considering I’m still on 8.5. Also had a 360 flip pretty quick. I wish that park was closer.

(setup: 8.5 null message deck, venture 5.8s, thunder bushings, 52mm reed wheels, old black/white NB# PJ NM533s)

@fullertrron #thestubborns Got his trick in less tries then his age.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Aug 20, 2016 at 12:23pm PDT

On a beautiful day Jake and I rolled to Longmont and met Dave at Twin Peaks. I had new shoes. Well, some super old PJs that are too small and the heels are all tore up inside. They felt pretty good. My first care over the bank resulted in a stop rock that sent me scrambling. Awesome. It got way better though. We all kind of did our own tricks. Dave and Jake worked on Creepy Spins. Jake got one. Dave couldn’t get it. I got a new trick right away. some nollie shove around thing. Pretty dumb, but kind of fun to start with something new. Dave also did a bunch of shove variations. Jake hates the crack in the middle. I got kickflip, kickflip fakie, varial flip to fakie and an over 40 treflip to fakie, a bunch of kickflips on flat over the crack. Jake and I tried to ollie the hip. Well, Jake didn’t have to try because he popped is good. Mine were bad. And I barely got the ollie over the median down the way. Dave did a bunch of graceful ollies over the hip before putting down a couple of wallies. So sick.

Old people doing old tricks. Except for Jake, he's always doing new tricks. Like fakie front crooks. What a jerk. #akineedstogetoninstagram

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Aug 20, 2016 at 3:19pm PDT

Then we went to RME where we met up with Aki too. We were all rudely reminded of how hard that place is to skate. It was pretty warm out so the wax was melted off the ledge and we all struggled to land tricks on it. It was mostly a ledge session except for Dave who was all over the place ollieing the little medians, manualling them, etc. Jake had some good front tails on the ledge pretty quickly. Aki probably struggled the most as he has never really skated many street spots, just parks. But he got a nice back 50 to end the session. I had crooks, a weak back 50, front 50s but no shove out, switch noseslides. I started to get really sore though as size 11 is just too small for me now and had to sit the rest out. Dave did boardslides to fakie, back 50 180 out (off the front truck), front 50s. Jake was trying fakie back tails and ended up getting into fakie front crooks. So he stuck with it and got one! Hammer. Fun day, I need bigger shoes, or at least thinner socks.

(setup: 8.5 null message deck, venture 5.8s, thunder bushings, 52mm reed wheels, old black/white NB# PJ NM533s)

Not having much energy I went home after work on a rainy day and slept for awhile. I awoke and it was still wet and I was still tired. I just kind of rolled around the house for awhile as the garage was a mess before I moved a couple things in the garage and did a few nollie shoves, fakie manuals and stuff.