Feeling very lazy on a warm Sunday I drove to a few spots before settling on this bank. I started slow and worked my way through the trick list. Started with all 4 variations of cab without ollieing, Then all 8 shoves, kickflip to fakie, f/s and b/s kickflips, halfcab flips. Took awhile to get a heelflip to fakie. Wanted to do a new trick so tried front heel for a long time, didn’t get it. Ended up going for fakie heel instead and would eventually get a bad one. It felt cool though, I’ve never done that on a bank before. Then I tried 360 flip to fakie and got one with one hand down (hand down!). Tried nollie varial flip for awhile, didn’t get too close then switch flip for awhile and got close. On the way back to the runway I tried a lot of nollie heels. Got kind of close. I would commit, but the board just didn’t flip enough. For how lazy and sore I was feeling this was a decent session.

(setup null message 8.125 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)

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A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 1, 2016 at 12:50pm PDT

Rob said we were gonna skate Safeway around noon. I was running early so I went to Broomfield park around 11. There was only one other person (Taylor) there when I got there. The warm up process didn’t feel all that bad. Nothing really stands out though. Carleigh and Rob arrived awhile later and it got more fun. Actually, Crisis kids Matt and James showed up too. It was fun watching Matt warm up on the ledges just going slow and messing around. Then him and James played a game of SKATE that had a lot of crazy tricks in it. Carleigh was mostly skating the pool with Marg. Rob was on the back 50s on the blue ledge quick, boardslides, crooks on the black ledge. I had a good feeling 360 flip on flat and tried to finish off the session with a manual on the blue ledge then ollie onto the downhill ledge after it. It wasn’t easy. Ugh.

Then Rob and I went to Safeway to meet Fuzz which meant warming up over again. Noseslides without ollies and 50s for everyone. Rob did a rare front 5-0 and a sick nollie front lip to fakie, Fuzz was getting into fakie nosegrind 180 out. I tic tac’d kickflip back 50’s. Fuzz suggested we try some lines with flipper then ledge or ledge trick then flipper. It started pretty slow for everyone, but we did some stuff. Fuzz’s fakie flip was so good. Rob almost had a 3 trick line with back 180 then cab and I forget the ledge trick. I took awhile to land heelflip, but managed to do better after that. Got halfcab heel then front 5-0. Got a great feeling treflip then went for kick front 50. Got really close, but bailed out at the last second. I really should have stuck with it. Fun day, love these dudes.

(setup null message 8.125 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)

#SimonLoveless is crazy good

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 1, 2016 at 9:12am PDT

Went to Lafayette somewhat early in the day. It had been sprinkling off and on and when I arrived it got bad enough to sit in the car for a bit. There was a dude visiting from Ohio named Luke that was one of the nicest dudes I’ve ever met. He came up right away and introduced himself. He was having a blast cruising around on a big board slashing grinds and popping airs. It cheered me up and made my slow start not feel so bad. I did a couple of ok things for me. Had a line of back 180 into the first mellow bank then switch front 180 into the next and kickflip to fakie on the bigger bank. I didn’t have a lot of charge on other stuff. Front 50s on the little ledge are fun. Granite is the best. Then Dave showed. We tried slappy crooks on the shark fin for awhile. Dave did some good ones. Then we kind of did our own thing for awhile. I was pretty sore for some reason. Simon showed up. He said he was sore too, then went on to rip Lafayette a new one. Lines for days, so many tricks first try. I was trying kickflip to bank ride on the snakerun to steep bank. Simon did a back blunt on it, took a bit, but he did it so good. He also front tailed it. Dave was doing boardslides to fakie down the scary round rail. After awhile I just filmed Simon then headed home to hang out with Liz.

(setup null message 8.125 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)

I went out to Valmont feeling sore and unmotivated. Half of the lights weren’t on at the ledge and after running into it I moved across the street. I ended up starting out at this mellow bank spot. I would roll off the sidewalk doing a brief grind then try wallride to fakie. I got a couple. It was kind of fun and got me somewhat warmed up. I also did a couple nollie back 360s. I thought I was feeling better and moved up the lot. I was trying a line of pop shove off the the curb up top then manual around a couple of medians. I was hating my 8.25 and wishing I didn’t try the bigger board. I bailed a manual and my temper got the best of me and I shot my board forward as hard as I could .. right into a loading dock and the nose shattered. Ugh. Stupid temper, stupid big board too. I put the board out of it’s misery and went home.

(setup null abstract 11 8.25 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)