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A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jul 15, 2017 at 8:13pm PDT

Late start for the Stubborns. We met around 1pm at this spot in Longmont. Jake, Dave and I showed first. Then Jack and Carleigh and then Fuzz and Kevin. Early on I thought I was going to have a great day. I was feeling good. Started off with some fun noseslides to fakie, boardslides, switch noseslides and my flip tricks were feeling good. It didn’t really get past that though other than I landed on a couple of treflips making for several days in a row which felt neat. Jake struggled too. This spot is infinitely harder than it looks. Ride through a big crack and then pop immediately. Dave will say he struggled, but man he put down so many tricks. boardslide 270 on the curb. On the stairs front 50, back 50, front 50, front 50 back 180, front 50 to front board pop out, boneless over it, front nosegrind. Good stuff. Jack didn’t land every trick so it was a good indication it was a hard spot. He would get front noseblunt, front noseblunt to front lipslide pop out (wow!), b/s flip over the stairs, and a bunch of other “basics” I couldn’t get close to doing. Kevin kills ledges. He did a lot too. Front/back 5-0s, tails, almost kick back tail and switch nosegrind. Fuzz got front 50 pretty quick then struggled with some other moves. He did get a noseslide though which was way sick. Carleigh and I struggled with back 50s the whole time. Except she actually figured it out and landed a bunch of them all steezy and even went on to then manual down the bank. So good. We went to another spot where Kevin, Jack and Dave skated. The rest of us shot photos or filmed. It was cool. Jack and Dave got some bangers.

I had a fun day with the crew. Having Hosercam be the filmer is awesome. My setup didn’t bother me at all, but man, my feet had started hurting. Ugh. Plantar Fasciitis sucks.

(setup 8.25″ null rabethica deck, venture 5.2 AWAKE lows, venom 90a bushings, 1/16″ riser, old spitfire 101a 50mm F4 wheels, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, nbnumeric 254 cream/gum size 12 with spenco 3/4 thinsoles and thin adidas insoles)

Met Dave at the Dog Park after work. He was already ripping when I got there. Shoves, kickflips, fakie bigs, etc. I felt better than yesterday and the warm up process wasn’t too bad. We tried a couple of three trick lines for awhile. The first was nollie back 180, fakie shove then switch front shove. We both started pretty bad bailing multiple fakie shoves. Dave came through first and got a good switch front shove. I eventually got it, but the switch front shove was terrible. I would like to work on that trick. Next three trick line was kickflip, nollie front big then fakie flip. Dave picked a bad time to struggle with kickflips. I came close, but kept messing up the fakie flip. My nollie bigs were basically just nollie shoves with a very late 180. I eventually started beginning of the line with heelflips and Dave did too. I got a few. Then we played with 360 flips for awhile and other tricks. I got a really sketchy hand down 3 flip and then a less sketchy hand down version. Dave was pretty close for awhile. Then he started doing backside bigspins. He struggled a bit, but ended up getting some good ones. Dave had to leave. I tried nollie flips for awhile which felt doable, but I ended up feeling tired and wanting to head home. I had changed insoles a couple of times. I started with the spenco/fp 5mm, but that is so thick. Then some Remind which felt really good, but maybe a little too small. Then Spenco/thin Adidas. It doesn’t seem like any of them are perfect. All help my knees, but I don’t think I will ever get rid of my Plantar Fasciitis. Argh.

(setup 8.25″ null rabethica deck, venture 5.2 AWAKE lows, venom 90a bushings, 1/16″ riser, old spitfire 101a 50mm F4 wheels, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, nbnumeric 254 cream/gum size 12 with various insoles)