Landed a trick for every person at the park today. #none can't breath up there either and I got sunburnt

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on May 15, 2017 at 4:56pm PDT

Hit the Leadville park on the way back from my moms on a beautiful day. Sunny and 60 degrees. Although a little windy at times. There was one other dude there for awhile. Aldyr? He was really nice. He thought I was 25 or 26. Ha ha. Man I wish. He was only off by basically 20 years. I felt okay to start, but was really hating my setup for some stuff. Lesson learned. 8″ highs are not good. I bailed a lot of stuff I shouldn’t. Tricks like slow front 50s on the curb, ollies up the wedge, axle stalls. Ugh. Depression set in pretty quick even though Aldyr was rad and ripping. I did get a little line of basics that was okay. Axle stall a bank, noseslide the bump to ledge, axle stall the bank to curb, roll into the little qp, the worst boneless over a rail ever, slappy tailslide, boardslide the round bar. Aldyr left and I had the park to myself. I lost most of my motivation and tried tiny ollies to fakie on the banks and switch flips on the mellower bank. The switch flips felt doable, but I never got one. I also rolled my ankle at some point. Not bad, but it’s worse now. I will be trying wider trucks or something else for now.

(setup 8.1 null rabethica deck, venture 5.2 high trucks, venom 88a bushings, 51mm spitfire classic f4 99a wheels, new balance numeric pj 533 black/white 12, stock nb insoles)

Left a little early to pick up my mom at the airport so hit D park for about 30 minutes. I had gone for a longer run than I have in years (2 miles) so I was sore and not very motivated. I just kind of pushed around and tried tiny ollies and manuals for awhile. I settled into a run that should have been very easy, but ended up proving to be more then I wanted. Kickflip to fakie on the little bank by the entrance, switch 180 on flat, noseslide the little ledge, axle stall on the washboard qp. The only trick I got was the noseslide, and it was a struggle. I was reminded how much I dislike 8″ high trucks. I like 8″ lows or bigger high trucks. Ugh. I also posed some kickflips to fakie out of the snake run into a little bank. It seemed doable. But then I needed to leave. I really didn’t do anything while I was there. Why did I even go skate? Ha.

(setup 8.1 null rabethica deck, venture 5.2 high trucks, venom 88a bushings, 51mm spitfire classic f4 99a wheels, new balance numeric pj 533 black/white 12, stock nb insoles)