Went to the research ledge not feeling very motivated on a Sunday afternoon. I felt less motivated when I saw that they sandblasted it, so I went to Valmont. I skated the low part of the ledge slowly, feeling very tired. I did a few switch front noseslides and landed on the back wheels and almost accidentally turned forward (making it a 270 out) so I started trying that. I got really close. Did a couple front 50s on the low part, tried front crooks for awhile, couldn’t do a regular crooks, got one back 50, did the worst switch back 3 slide ever, came close to 360 flips on flat. I was beat.

(setup: 8.5 null message deck, venture 5.8s, thunder bushings, 52mm reed wheels, steele/gum new balance numeric pj 533)

Met Dave at Broomfield park kind of early, around 9am. He was already warmed up and shredding. I was feeling alright and tried to catch up quick. I ended up skating the best I have in awhile, even being somewhat happy about my skating. Dave was doing lines of nollie into the bank, front 50 the ledge, turn around and trying to feeble or 50 the bump to bar. He also had some really good back 50s, slappy feebles, I forget what else. I had some lines with front 50 variations, bonelesses over the down rail, and horrible attempts at back 50. I got a lot of crooks though, a halfcab noseslide. Had better luck on the blue box with back 50s, one little slow scratch fakie nosegrind, did ok with flippers, got closer to learning slappy feeble grinds on the parking block, couldn’t get a front nosegrind on the blue ledge. I still had fun though.

Then we went to this bank to curb. I did some basics, filmed Dave get a few non-basics (feeble transfer, lipslide 270 transfer, front board transfer). I started trying front pivot kickflip out on a smaller section of the small bank to curb. I probably tried 100 of them. Technically landed it twice, but neither were usable.

One awesome day. #thestubborns

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Then we went to this spot. I was so drained. Dave straight killed it and was the least one skating. I don’t know how he can go so long. He got back pivot, front boardslide, front lipslide. This spot is gnar. Rob had some rad boneless variations and was kind enough to film for awhile. Fuzz got a cool line and a fakie flip. My feet were sore so I mostly just dorked around and learned an alley oop fakie 50. It felt really cool.

Spot tourists at a spot that @_f_u_z_z destroyed years ago. #respect #legend

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Aug 27, 2016 at 6:39pm PDT

Then we ate, laughed and played skate tourist for awhile.

(setup: 8.5 null message deck, venture 5.8s, thunder bushings, 52mm reed wheels, steele/gum new balance numeric pj 533)

Feeling slightly better I went to the dog park right after work. I drove through a rain storm, but somehow it was dry. I had started the warm up process when Rob joined. We played a couple games of SKATE that he won. I felt like I should be skating pretty good, but I didn’t land much. And when I did Rob normally did too. He won the 2nd game on fakie 360 shove. It’s hard to remember now what all Rob got me with. I know there were some 360 variations, but he didn’t get too dirty with cab or back 180 one foot. Oh yeah, I had landed all 3 halfcab flips I tried before playing Rob and got double or nothin’d on that trick. Doh. Dave joined as we finished up. We tried a few switch back 360s. Now that I thought I could do them I didn’t get close at all. Dave did a bunch. I did ok on flippers, got a halfcab heel that felt good, some hands down 3 flips. We went over to the manual pads. Rob did the long manual easy. Dave almost died trying switch nose manual. I tried switch 360s and didn’t get close.

(setup: 8.5 null message deck, venture 5.8s, thunder bushings, 52mm reed wheels, steele/gum new balance numeric pj 533)