Been on a big Mudhoney kick the last couple of days. This band rules.

"Why wouldn't you be out skating?" – @fullertrron 🌨 #flatgroundfriday

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Dec 2, 2016 at 12:42pm PST

Didn’t think I would, but I met up with Dave during a flurry at the hockey rink at Blue Skies on my lunch break. It was 30 degrees. When I got there the concrete was dry, but it quickly turned wet as the snow came down harder. Warming up felt next to impossible. My board felt huge and my legs were frozen. Dave struggled initially too. Oh yeah, I had put some old Bones bushings in to see if they don’t freeze up. They didn’t, but man I hated them. Gonna have to find another option. We eventually started trying tricks. Dave was kind of doing cab bigspins. It wont be long before he has it smooth. He had some really good lines with front shove, nollie 180, switch front shove. Tried some switch 360 flips. Tried sex changes for awhile and got one. He started trying heelflips too. He almost got one of the first ones he tried. I really struggled. Lots of slams on tricks like kickflip, fakie flip and halfcab flip. I am going to blame the bushings. Ha. I tried the Ironman line for awhile, only got one heelflip though. 0-3 on treflips. Got a bad nollie tre, a few halfcab flips, one fakie bigflip. Posed some switch flips, still think I am getting closer to it. I left and went back to work then got a text from Dave an hour later saying he landed the heelflip finally. Ha ha. Dave you rule.

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

Coldest night of the season so far and I went skating. I just couldn’t handle another garage minimum. I bundled up and went to the research ledge. Immediately it felt colder then I thought it was. It was 30, but with a cold breeze. I started with a cruise down the hill where I tried to do a bunch of tiny little ollies. On one of them I remember seeing a little rock when I took off and of course I landed right on it and slammed onto my knee/hip. It hurt a lot in the cold. Then I mostly just stuck to the ledge as it is somewhat protected from the wind. I did boardslide then noseslide. Then started trying noseslide bigspin out for awhile (shoving backside). Got close, then not so close so went with my favorite. Crooks. Got a couple of bad back 50s. Went to try more, but my bushings had frozen and made skating not so fun. So I went and hung out at Jason’s and it was rad. So glad he’s home!

(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)

Too uninspired to leave and skate in the cold I went out into the garage again. I was a little more motivated at least though and tried some tricks after the basic manual warm up. I tried four tricks. Nollie heel, nollie inward heel, switch flip and hardflip. I got close to all but nollie heel. Maybe some day I will actually land some of them.

(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)