I guess it’s been long enough since that terrible Afghan Whigs concert that I am hyped to hear their old songs again.

After an ice cold ride from the Boulder Manor to Jason’s house on his electric chair I went into the garage for a quick minimum. I put a little more effort into the session then the day before. More 360 type manuals and tried a few front shoves out of regular manuals.

Went out to the garage for about 3 minutes before work to get my minimum handled. Just did a few of the basic manuals on the sheet of wood.

@fullertrron crook. 😀

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Nov 27, 2016 at 4:41pm PST

Went to Red Hawk to meet Dave at 11:30 on a cool day that would be quite cold when the wind kicked in. I got there first and thought I would be feeling pretty good, but my first couple of pushes told me otherwise. I decided to walk and run up/down the stairs a few times to try and get warmed up. Then I slowly started trying little no ollie noseslides. Then tried to ollie up the huge curb. Ha. Around the time Dave showed I was finally to a point where I was able to try grinds and stuff. Dave was able to warm up a little quicker since he hadn’t skated in a couple of days (I’m jealous .. 34 more days and I get a break). We ended up having a pretty fun session with no filming even though we probably could have filmed some stuff. Dave had some nice lines. No comply up the curb, manual or nose manual a rock, no ollie noseslide, back 50. I had back 180 up the curb, halfcab flip on flat, front 50. Then I randomly started trying front smiths and would get one. It felt awesome. I also had some crooks, back 50s, even a really slow back 50 shove. Dave did a crazy quick feet line of manual then quick nose manual followed by back 50. I joined the fun and went way slower to ollie on one rock then front 180 onto the next. Dave did a back 50 nollie shove and a then a back 5-0 which I guess has been awhile for him. Sick! After a stretch i tried a bunch of switch noseslides and posed a few switch crooks. Dave ended trying a crazy front 50 back bigspin out. Definitely got kind of close, but then we were both beat and called it a day.

(setup 8.38 Null Riley deck, Venture 5.8s, Thunder bushings, 52mm Spitfire F4 101a wheels, washers on the outside, swiss bearings, NB# PJ 533 maple/black)

@gnarlycarleigh boneless. Fun times! @_f_u_z_z @cookiegrinder13 @wadeofdeath

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Nov 27, 2016 at 8:02am PST

🇨🇳 @_f_u_z_z

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Nov 26, 2016 at 3:57pm PST

On a nice Saturday after some bidness and hanging at Crisis Carleigh, Fuzz, Wade and another older guy Jason went to the bank spot in Broomfield. As typical with my friends it was just me skating and my friends sitting around. Ha. Not really, that only happened for a bit and they joked about it. Not shown above is a waxed section which slides well. Careligh did several bluntslides, front tails, no comply front tail and bonelesses. After a random struggle with manuals Fuzz popped some steezy ollies, fakie flip, kickflip to fakie and some poppy chinese ollies. I had some struggles with kickflips on the bigger setup. Had some front tails on the waxed section that actually slid, kickflips out of the curb, couldn’t get a bigflip on the bank. Struggled with kickflip to fakie and boneless, but got them and they felt good. Wade is fun to skate with. Lots of powerslide variations and bonlesses. Big Mike joined us after awhile and added some backside ollies on the bank, no comply tricks. Jason killed some front tailslides and bluntslides. Front shove to fakie, switch front shove. He rips.

Then we ended with a “game of SKATE” that started with a boneless to back boneless that took everyone out. Even a few tries later a kickflip was troublesome. It was mostly a rad fun dorky game of SKATE that just kind of fell apart, but was still a rad way to end the day.

(setup 8.38 Null Riley deck, Venture 5.8s, Thunder bushings, 52mm Spitfire F4 101a wheels, washers on the outside, swiss bearings, NB# PJ 533 maple/black)

Feeling very sore I just did a minimum session in front of my house. Mostly just pushed switch and did a few little switch ollies and a fakie shove.

(setup 8.38 Null Riley deck, Venture 5.8s, Thunder bushings, 52mm Spitfire F4 101a wheels, washers on the outside, swiss bearings, NB# PJ 533 maple/black)

Happy Thanksgiving…. it was fun skating with y'all. @skateboard_chicken @satelliteboardshop @satellation @corpoglenny @fullertrron

A video posted by Color my friends in (@color_my_friends_in) on Nov 24, 2016 at 6:08pm PST

On a nice Thanksgiving day where the wind died down I got the invite to Saul’s and was hyped. The crew this day was Raul, Dave, Saul, Eric and a couple of others who’s names I am forgetting right now. Maybe Bryn or something? I was hyped to see Dave there. Anyways, I skated much better. Had quite a few back 50s in the “deep” end, a little slash or two in the deep end, some front disasters on the brick coping, some fun frontside grinds, flowed a little better. Saul continued his lines for days theme, added some stand up grinds, flowed real good. Raul has really good style and did lots of carve grinds, back d in the shallow, etc. Eric got more frontside grinds, was more consistent on the fast back 50s. I knew watching Dave would be fun, and he didn’t disappoint. So any frontside grinds, cab rocks, tailblocks, boardslides to fakie around the corner and backside boneless. Man this bowl is fun!

(setup 8.38 Null Riley deck, Venture 5.8s, Thunder bushings, 52mm Spitfire F4 101a wheels, washers on the outside, swiss bearings, No Play hardware, NB# PJ 533 maple/black)

After a chill day of working at home I went to Southern Hills with a bigger setup. It was an 8.38 that was basically brand new in my garage with Venture wides and some old Bones wheels that were lying around. It felt very weird. I was pretty sore and the warm up was not easy. I did a few noseslides and boardslides. Then I got a text from Saul to come skate his new bowl! I was hyped and tried to get a few more tricks before leaving. I got into a few front 50s, struggled with kickflips, crooks, got into back 50.

Happy Thanksgiving @corpoglenny @skateboard_chicken. lets do it again soon #skateboard_chickencoop

A video posted by Color my friends in (@color_my_friends_in) on Nov 23, 2016 at 10:23pm PST

Thank you @skateboard_chicken for letting me skate your bowl! So much fun! Here's @color_my_friends_in and Saul himself shredding the gnar.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Nov 23, 2016 at 5:18pm PST

Kind of ironic that the day I setup a bigger board I got invited to skate a bowl. I was stoked to see Eric getting out of his car when I pulled in. It was Eric, Saul, Nick and I. My first few runs were not hot. Ha. The bowl is amazing though. 3 foot shallow, 4 foot deep end. Eric was going hard for the long back 50s. Saul has lines for days and carves it well. Nick got some good grinds in too. Eric managed to get a frontside grind in the deep end which he’s been working on awhile. I got some back 50s in the deep end that felt amazing. The little brick section is awesome too. Saul can grind through them. I used them for stalls normally or just a little scratch. What a fun session. Fun bowl, fun vibes.

(setup 8.38 Null Riley deck, Venture 5.8s, Thunder bushings, 51mm Bones STFs, washers on the outside, swiss bearings, No Play hardware, NB# PJ 533 maple/black)

Tried to take the night off of skating but @fullertrron made me hit all the campus curbs with him.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Nov 22, 2016 at 8:21pm PST

Went to campus with Dave on a cool evening right after work. We started off on the warm up curb. Dave was doing ‘slappy’ front tails when I got there, but then my presence prevented him from landing them for awhile. Ha. I did a bunch of slappy crooks and they all felt incredible. Man that trick is so fun. Dave went on to land a bunch of tails both frontside and backside. I got a couple fakie ollie front tail stalls, but then lost them, got slappy crooks to fakie, almost slappy crooks 270 out. Dave did some slappy crooks too, back 50 nollie shove out. Then we moved about 20 feet where Dave worked on no comply to manual while I posed no complies. Then we moved into campus a little and ended up at the mellow manual pad. Dave did a manual back 180. I came close to manual front shove out. We skated it for quite awhile. I filmed Dave. Then took a million tries to land a manual again. I had done a nose manual earlier. We messed around with tricks up/off for awhile. We both did switch ollies up with frontside halfcab down then with switch back 180s down. Although I’m not sure I even popped at all. I got kickflip up / down first t. But the banger was Dave doing it shortly after me. I’ve never seen him do a kickflip down anything. It was sick! I also got fakie bigspin up and front shove down. Dave came close to switch front 180 to manual. I tried a couple of lines. One was fakie flip on flat, switch front 180 off the curb then nose manual. Felt good. Tried another one of frontside halfcab flip, back 180 off the curb (it was too dark for kickflip off), turn around then kickflip manual. But Dave and I crashed at the same time feeling exhausted.

We went to the slappy ledge where we lasted a couple of minutes before Dave slammed really hard again. We were too tired to skate any further. Most of the session I had obsessed over how I wanted a bigger setup again. Ugh.

(setup 8.125 null message deck, venture 5.2 low custom hollow trucks with 3 washers inside each axle, stock thunder bushings, 50mm bones stf v1 wheels, swiss bearings, new balance numeric pj stratford 533 maple/black shoes 12)

Did a complete minimum session in the garage. A few manuals on the sheet of wood.