Feeling incredibly sore Jake came over later in the afternoon and we played a game of SKATE in front of my house. I had put some thinner insoles in because the Nike ones were just too much. I ended up skating terribly though, not committing to much of anything. Jake had a nice 3 flip early in the game that got me a letter. As well as basically any trick he landed. I ended up losing on a varial flip. A varial flip! Argh. Then I went to Red Hawk to meet Dave. I was so sore. I stretched for awhile and it seemed to help. Both Dave and I really struggled to warm up. It’s nice skating with other “older” people sometimes. We ollied up the stairs sideways as a warm up. That was a really good way to get things flowing. I rolled off the stage a few times too to try and jolt the legs into warming up. Tried a line for awhile of ollie onto the downhill rock then back 180 off, switch noseslide, switch boardslide. The switch noseslide only made me feel dumb. Going the other way I wanted to do a line of crooks, then ollie onto a rock then a nollie tre. Never got the ollie onto the rock. Doing crooks felt good and there was a period where I felt decent physically. I failed at front and back 50s though. Ridiculous. Had some good feeling switch front noseslides and some embarrassing slams. Dave ended up skating pretty well. Nothing new there. Front 50, front 50 back 180, almost front 50 back big out, back 50, noseslide and his new back 180 fakie feeble 180 out. He does it so good.

(setup 8.25 null logo board, venture 5.8 wides, 3 washers outside each axle, Venom 88a bushings, 50mm spitfire F4 99a classic wheels, bronson bearings, Emerica Reynolds Vulcs b/w 10.5)

Father and son. @corpoglenny & Ollie

A post shared by dave fuller (@fullertrron) on Feb 12, 2017 at 6:03pm PST

I guess Ollie was kind of hyped on skating after we went over to Saul’s and did a little help get the decks framed. It was cool to see it come together. I had told Ollie we would get to see concrete being poured, but that didn’t end up happening yet. I guess it seemed more appealing to push concrete around than pull up little twigs. Ha. But either way after lunch I asked if by chance he would want to skate and he surprisingly said yes. I was hyped. We met at Indian Peaks in Longmont around 3. I was back on vulcs. Some comfier Reynolds with a big Nike insole in them. This hurt my fasciitis less, but this spot is all pushing so it still hurt. Carleigh did a first ever nollie shove on a bank before I could do either of my normal bank warm up tricks (no comply bigspin and kickflip). I was struggling. Dave had tried a frontside halfcab, but did some weird revert that was so sick. Then Ollie did a f/s halfcab first try to show him up. Ha. Ollie would go on to do quite a few tricks. Halfcabs both ways, fakie shoves, cannonball to fakie, some little ollies, He played some hoops at times, sat in the playground, did some stuff, but he skated quite a bit too and said he had a really good time. Carleigh basically learned and did bean plants every try. The first one had a few hesitations and was hilarious. That trick is seriously hard to jump back into. Fuzz had did his gonz cab to warm up, did the fakie shove revert (again ha), fakie wallride and put down a few fakie varial heels! So sick. I did no comply front shove to fakie and no comply fingerflip to fakie, but couldn’t get no comply 360 shove to fakie. Tried cab flips for a bit, but didn’t get close. Dave landed like 100 tricks. Wallie, wallride, front shove, switch front shove, kickflips, bean plants, 360s, and a million more I can’t remember. We ended it as Carleigh tried fakie flips and I tried treflips to fakie. I never got too close. Carleigh though, she stomped it and we called it a day.

(setup 8.25 null logo board, venture 5.8 wides, 3 washers outside each axle, Venom 88a bushings, 50mm spitfire F4 99a classic wheels, bronson bearings, Emerica Reynolds Vulcs b/w 10.5 nike lunarlon insoles)

When Liz is gone I tell the kids to clean the house while I go skate. But they didn't. Oh well, got a GleNBD. @matthouse @fullertrron

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Feb 10, 2017 at 7:03pm PST

Had the day off work. Made sure the kids were occupied and met Dave and Matt at the bikepath ledge/hip spot. Because of knee pain I tried wearing some cupsoles (NB 598), but that ended up just making me worse. Way more sore. Dave and I were there before Matt. I had hoped to at least do a back 50 before Matt, but I didn’t. I was going soooo slow. It was quite depressing. I did manage a tiny backside flip over the “hip” second try at least. Dave was doing good switch noseslides, front shoves over the hip, back 50s or 5-0s up the ledge and solid front 50s. Matt showed up. Dave and I had joked how he had once chance to do a ten foot long back 50. Well it didn’t happen. He would get some, but it took a few tries. Regardless of how rusty Matt is on a board it still indicates the ledge must be hard to skate. Matt taking a few tries was still not enough for me to get a terribly slow back 50. At least I had slappy crooks. Sometimes. Matt would go on to get some good back 50s, a few back tails, and some casual frontside tricks like 5-0 180, front tail fakie. Dave started hucking treflips over the hip. He was committing. Some were close. It was rad. I was trying rock ‘n roll 360s out, but never got it. Then rolled in fakie and did it first try. I filmed the one above a little later after Matt left. Dave unfortunately never landed a treflip. He had some rad lines of back 180 fakie feeble 180 (is this what it’s called dave?), front shove over the hip, back 5-0 or back tail or a combo of both. I hucked double backside flips over the hip (never got close) and 270 kickflips (somewhat close). Then we left to check out the weird ledge off the bank on Pearl. It was super windy at that time. I stood on my board and was quickly going fast enough to be scared. I basically decided not to skate. Dave did some cool fakie ollies and got into slappy 50s easy. That could be a cool spot if the wind wasn’t so bad.

(setup 8.25 null logo board, venture 5.8 wides, 3 washers outside each axle, Venom 88a bushings, 50mm spitfire F4 99a classic wheels, bronson bearings, NB# 598 black/white 12)