After driving down from the mountains and chilling awhile I went to good ol’ Valmont to try my luck with the lipslide shove again. I quickly felt like crap. Total crap. It was like I was learning to skate all over again. I had done a couple of bad 50s and taken awhile to land a kickflip (but got a heelflip first try) before forcing myself to lay into more lipslides. My already cracked deck did not like that. I ended up basically just trying it over and over. It was kind of funny watching the crack spread across the deck a little further with each failed attempt. It became too soggy to even try flip tricks. After awhile I focused it and setup an old Krooked Manderson board that was in my trunk. I went back into lipslides with it, but was so tired at that point that I basically gave up and went home.

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Doubles with the boy. @alacknork.cheese

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 8, 2016 at 3:07pm PDT

On the way to my mom’s in BV we stopped at the Fairplay park. No one was there. It was cool out, but not cold and no breeze whatsover. Ollie was cruising around the park quickly. I was hyped to skate, but quickly proved I had no energy once again. I bailed a lot. Ollie doesn’t skate much, but it’s fun when he does. He was doing manuals around the hip, carves over the rock love seat, pushing mongo everywhere, front 180s off the little wedge and halfcabs over the hip. I had done a couple of back 180’s over it and decided I wanted to backside flip it. 30 tries later I got one. Ollie with the hype. Then we left. I was hyped to get that trick.

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Had to force myself off the couch after a long day of work and a long week of staying up late (Dinosaur Jr twice!!!). I got to Valmont shortly before 9pm and my energy level was seriously low. I skated absolutely horrible. I felt like I had never skated before. Even kickflips felt weird. I took awhile to do front 50s on the low part, noseslides even felt weird. Flip tricks were impossible. I was wearing the size 12 PJs. They felt huge. I tried to do a few front lips after the grate, but I kept cracking my board a tiny bit worse with each attempt. So I moved down to the curb area and managed to slide a few lipslides and contemplate shoving out. But I ran out of energy and decided to leave. Ugh.

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Super exhausted from two nights of @dinosaurjr brief garage dork session. #laundrynight #day280

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 6, 2016 at 6:45pm PDT

I was so completely exhausted from two nights of Dinosaur Jr. I started my laundry, opened the door to the garage for a minimum manual dork trick and ended up just trying this one for about 10 minutes. After getting one I asked Ollie to film it so I could share it with my fans (ha ha ha). I got another one in a few more minutes.

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Sunset time lapse with some dork trying to relearn lipslides. 0-1 @boredzinejp

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 5, 2016 at 5:43pm PDT

Went out to do the minimum powerslide session, but ended up pushing over to the school and hitting the curb. I did a couple of slappy crooks. Then I did a nollie disaster shove out like I had shoved out of disaster several times. Josh has challenged me to front lip shove out so I tried to actually do it. I got surprisingly close. It put me in a good mood to go see Dinosaur Jr again!!!!

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Went out in front of the house and did a few powerslides. It was pretty fun.

After a tough dinner discussing how sick our little cat Nugget is I lounged around for awhile then went to the garage for a minimum. It was so windy outside there was no skating outdoors. I setup the ol’ winter manny pad and my smallest setup and did some of the basic 180 and 360 jib spin manuals. Then I tried a few nollie heels on the smaller board. My legs didn’t have much so I called it a night.

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.

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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.

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#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.

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