Jake came over and we skated in front of the house and at the school briefly before Saul came. We did a few basic no pop shoves in the street before hitting the oval at the school across the street. We were trying some little lines with 180s over puddles and up/down the curb. Saul showed up and we headed off to Little Arvada. We arrived to a park full of scooter kids at a birthday party. Jake and I started on the little qp at the top of the park. I took a few tries to get an axle stall to fakie while Jake rattled off like 10 tricks. Front blunt, back blunt, pivot to fakie, front feeble. A bunch. The scooter kids would come and go in packs. At times we had the park to mostly skaters. There was a couple other dudes there that were fun to skate with. My motivation was lacking from a night of tossing and turning. Saul cruises that park rad. Carve grinds, 50s. That park has a lot to offer really. Jake beat me to crooks, front 50 and halfcab noseslide. I struggled super hard with front 50s. It was frustrating. I stayed positive though. Jake was battling front nosesblunt on the bank. I was kind of all over the place not landing much. Front slash on the bank was fun. Kickflip to fakie on the mellow narrow part of the bank was the best feeling trick I had of the day even though it took awhile to land it. I also got b/s flip on it and a not-proper-at-all layback front rock on the pool wall. Jake did rock ‘n roll on it. Saul did a layback front rock on the top qp and got a deck check ollie up the ledge. We headed back to rainy Boulder.

(setup null monico 8.38″ deck, venture 5.8, bones medium bushings no washers, 3 speed washers on the outside of each axle, 52mm spitfire f4 radial slim green/black, new balance numeric 212 burgundy size 11, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)

Flatground Friday at the dawg park with @corpoglenny #thestubborns

A post shared by dave fuller (@fullertrron) on Sep 29, 2017 at 8:44pm PDT

After a chill day at work I went to Dog Park to meet Dave and maybe Jake. The spot had a lot of puddles. Man that place never dries. Warming up gets tougher the further into a work week. Something about being so stagnant. So warming up was tough to say the least. Dave tried to get all 8 shoves in one line, an old person modification of the straight 8 maybe? After awhile we got into the zone and were trying tricks. Dave was doing better with front shoves and kickflips. I was having troubles committing to tricks. Even halfcab flips. It was weird. Dave hucked treflips and a few tries in he landed on one. Both feet. He came off right away, but it was definitely his closest yet. So sick! He setup his phone to maybe capture a make, but never put one down. He was close though. I struggled with heelflip, 360 flip, b/s flip, fakie flip, fakie varial flip. All tricks I should be able to land. It was frustrating. I did get a first try fakie bigflip that felt good. We tried the backside flip/spin combo for awhile. I was fully committing, but not landing on the board. Dave landed a bunch of bigspins. I tried treflips for awhile and landed on a few, but never rode away. Frustrating day for me. Stoked Dave got closer to the 360 flip.

(setup null monico 8.38″ deck, venture 5.8, bones medium bushings no washers, 3 speed washers on the outside of each axle, 52mm spitfire f4 radial slim green/black, new balance numeric 344 white size 11.5, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)

This older Abstract deck was the one missing piece to the Null Archives. Thank you @mackenziecamp_ for hooking it up!

A post shared by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Sep 28, 2017 at 8:57pm PDT

I was feeling warn down and tired, but the opportunity to meet up with Mackenzie and get the missing Null board had me driving to Golden. I was solo. I arrived to a crowded parking lot and was bummed at how crowded the park was too. I started by mostly just cruising and doing tiny ollies off little bumps and stuff. I went to the little manny pad and got a manual real quick. I thought for a second I would be skating good and then I couldn’t get a nose manual to save my life. Argh. I hit the ‘driveway’ area with Mackenzie and his crew for a bit. Just riding into front 50 on the downhill part is so fun. I carved the bowl for a bit, didn’t touch coping. Tried to skate the ledge are for a bit, but got embarrassed after a failed noseslide. I had gotten a crooks, wanted to try noseslide 270 shove but I didn’t even get into the noseslide. I went and hit back in the manny pad area. Joe had told me to get a smith grind so I tried a few front smiths on the low part, might have kind of done one. Got a couple slow 50s on the bench. Ended with a good feeling kickflip up the manny pad (it felt good even though it took way too long) and back 180 off. Can’t believe how crowded that park was. Skating around crowds is so hard for me.

(setup null monico 8.38″ deck, venture 5.8, venom 88a bushings, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, 52mm spitfire f4 radial slim green/black, new balance numeric 344 white 11.5, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)

After work, dinner, swimming with Ollie I put some old Venom bushings back in my board (to hopefully avoid wheelbite since Bones don’t) and decided to do a quick no pop manual session. It’s been awhile. All the little 360 bonk manuals are so fun. I wish I could do them for real.

(setup null monico 8.38″ deck, venture 5.8, venom 88a bushings, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, 52mm spitfire f4 radial slim green/black, new balance numeric 344 white 11.5, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)

Gray hairs playing freestyle. @fullertrron @43shifty. #oldmanskateboarding (my first nollie tre in months and I can’t land regular tres clean anymore). Phone angle missed a lot of tricks.

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 26, 2017 at 7:16pm PDT

After work on a cool, but perfect day I met Rob and then Dave at Dog Park. Rob and I basically arrived at the same time. I’m always amazed at how quickly he can start rattling off real tricks. Pretty much out of the gate he had a 4-5 trick line with 180s, no comply 180, front shove, kickflip. I took at least a half hour to start trying tricks, but ended up feeling pretty good. Dave showed around the time I was trying backside flips. I got one and then technically another which was funny with one foot up in the air trying to balance. Dave did his fakie/nollie shove routine to get warmed up. Rob settled in to a battle with varial heels. He would try them on the gray painted side or in a run consisting normally of back 180, halfcab flip then var heel. I’m not sure I’ve seen him do so many halfcab flips so that was cool. Dave was rattling off long solid runs with shoves, cabs, bigspins. His tricks are so solid. After awhile I set the phone down to film because it seemed like Dave was on the verge of landing a treflip. Rob got the varial heel shortly after that. I had struggled with heelflip, but was happy to get a few in a row. I couldn’t get nollie tre in the line after though. I started in on nollie tres for awhile and got one. Felt so great, it’s been months and months since I’ve landed one. Rob and Dave were working on frontside bigspins. Rob got the butter one above directly after a gnarly slam. Dave got some too, but I’m not sure why I couldn’t find one in the clip. Dave had a gnarly slam on a switch front big attempt then put it down. I was trying treflips and fakie treflips over and over. I would get a few trefilips with a hand down which doesn’t really count, but I think I figured out what was happening (even though I never would get a clean one). Dave had a bunch of good back bigspins, but they were not where the camera was looking. Rob and Dave left and I tried fakie tres for awhile getting super close. I had wanted to do regular, nollie and fakie tre in one day, but couldn’t quite get it. Wheel bite was getting me. Fun day, we all skated hard.

(setup null monico 8.38″ deck, venture 5.8, bones medium bushings, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, 52mm spitfire f4 radial slim green/black, new balance numeric 344 white 11.5, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)

I haven’t done a “Last weeks best video part” in awhile, but this one is so darn good I had to bring it back. Such a great remix of NB footage that hits harder than his regular Tricolor part in my opinion. PJ rules.

Went out to the garage after getting a bunch of things done after work. I just posed tricks I’ve never landed on the putter for awhile. Came the closest to switch front heel, but it wasn’t close at all really. Fakie hardflips felt doable, but skating in such a little space makes committing to those tricks scary.

(setup 7.5″ 303 deck with little Thunder trucks and 42mm wheels. Bring back the New Balance Numeric 344 white 11.5)

Great times in the garages tonight with an awesome crew. @cookiegrinder13 @fullertrron @skellyfortcollins

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 24, 2017 at 7:42pm PDT

On a rainy day I had bailed on meeting Fuzz at Yellow curbs because I was being so lazy. Dave had wanted to do Redder curbs later in the day and that seemed to work better. Then as I was about to leave Mike hit me up and said Skelly was in town and wanted to skate. Sick! We met up at Redder curbs. Skelly is working on a new park in Fort Morgan and had a buddy named Ali with him. He’s younger and wasted no time in doing super long frontside slappys on even the square curbs. Dang! It was cool seeing people skate the spot differently. After awhile the main session was on the double parking blocks. I saw Dave wallie to manual to 4 wheel drive the next one. He was also trying to no comply over both of them. Whoa! Skelly did a quick bluntslide transfer to no comply the next. Mike was doing slappys towards the median and trying to ride over it. I kind of got in my own world trying a super long line which I came super close to. Well, at first I was doing back 180 then trying halfcab flip, but I never got the halfcab flip. So the line became front shove out of the little bump then sometimes a flatground trick. The line I came closest to was front shove, no compmly finger flip, slappy crook then landed on b/s flip over the doorway “hip”. Dave did some rad shoves off the doorway kicker. But we got the boot as I kind of landed a couple b/s flips over it.

A one minute and one angle chronological summary of the fun had last night. @skellyfortcollins @fullertrron @cookiegrinder13

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 25, 2017 at 5:36am PDT

So we got the boot, walked to the next garage, but the same security guard kicked us out of that one too. Then we drove to to the next building. Ha ha. Basically all that’s there is this parking block and an IT dude that runs his remote control car when he isn’t busy. He’s cool though. This session went off. We mostly did grinds initially. Slappys, crooks, feebles, etc. I was kind of in my own world again trying flip tricks in the corner. Got a couple terrible hands down 360 flips and kind of a f/s halfcab heel. Then I set my phone down to film and 50 some minutes later we had landed a bunch of tricks to go through! Skelly’s first try fakie ollie was tight, the no comply shifty, 180. Mike has such a good slappy and the back 180 out was great. Dave couldn’t get the no comply flip which was a bit frustrating, but he killed it with switch no comply, slappy feeble 270 out. I had a blast. Got the no comply flip in a few tries, tried to clean it up, but never got a cleaner one. The kickflip took a long time, I couldn’t get a slappy feeble, the b/s flip is sketchy, but maybe a first for me. Ali’s noseslide transfer was so good as all of his slappys were. Super fun night.

(setup null monico 8.38″ deck, venture 5.8, bones medium bushings, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, 52mm spitfire f4 radial slim green/black, new balance numeric 212 sand 11, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)

Woke up later than I wanted to, but was hyped on finally sleeping a solid 8 hours more than one night in a row. It was cloudy, but dry when I left home. I arrived to Broomfield and it had started sprinkling. I thought Rob was on a walk or something as I didn’t see him in his van. Ha. Guess I’m blind. Anyway I started on the top area that stays drier. Just doing bank rides and little ollies to fakie or something on the hump. Then Rob joined as it dried up a little. I was motivated and feeling okay, but physically tired from a lot of skating and swimming the day before. Tried to start a line with manual the blue box then quick ollie up the slanted ledge. Never combined them, but did get the ollie onto the ledge for the first time in months. Had some fun front 50s, but never really got past that. The puddles messed with the feng shui of the place. Rob was still ripping it though. He did an ollie over the parking block to quick back 50, crooks the black ledge. We did noseslides on the tall part of the brown ledge. Mine was a not posted up backside version, Rob’s was a steezy frontside noseslide. Jason would be proud. I tried a few other tricks, but didn’t get much even though I was having fun and trying hard. Some of the Crisis dudes started showing up which was fun to watch.

So close but no 🚬 #cigarnotcigarette #tryingthetrifecta 📹: @its_margarita_time_

A post shared by carleigh samson (@gnarlycarleigh) on Sep 23, 2017 at 4:04pm PDT

Carleigh and Margeret showed and skated the bowl. Carleigh destroys that thing. I sat for awhile. Dave showed up. I went down and joined him after awhile. I was pretty sore, but was able to do some things. Dave and I did some switch front noseslides on the blue ledge. Man they are fun. I started trying switch front boards and would eventually get one. It felt so rad. I lined it out after with a fakie back smith to fakie on the quartapotty then a halfcab noseside on the blue ledge. Hyped on that run which pretty much finished me off for the day. Dave said we needed to do frontside nosegrinds, but did his that try. I didn’t want to battle it. Then we went to Darin’s. The ramp was pretty full so I just chatted for a bit then bailed. Hope everyone had fun.

(setup null monico 8.38″ deck, venture 5.8, bones medium bushings, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, 52mm spitfire f4 radial slim green/black, new balance numeric 212 sand 11, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)

Had the day off work and got to enjoy the perfect weather with @fullertrron. Here’s your clip request @iamnotacreepyjake including Dave doing a ‘creepy spin’. Music by @stove_is_stupider (Check them out!)

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 22, 2017 at 4:01pm PDT

Had the day off work and it was gorgeous out. Randomly chose to meet Dave at the Louisville park. A couple other people were there at times, but for the most part we had it all to ourselves. Both of us were kind of bummed on the park when we first got there, but we ended up having a good time. So I’ll kind of skip the warming up part since neither of us enjoyed it. Dave did that first run with the roll in, front shove, cab, fakie ollie pretty quickly. The roll in looked so scary. I was trying a line with the front 50 shove, but never got it. The front 50 shove, then some form of shove it and then back 50 the tiny ledge. But I couldn’t pull the trigger on the back 50. Kind of bummed on that, but I was hyped to do so many front 50 shoves. Some of them felt so good. I had gotten a few front 180s out and a front 5-0s too. The rainbow dork tricks were fun. I know it’s just a little noseslide to fakie after mine, but I really did like how it felt. Skating the hip was what made the day for both of us. Dave hadn’t done the Creepy Spin over a hip before. He did it twice since my phone overheated. True to fashion for me I took way too long to get the b/s flip, but when I did man it felt amazing. We did a lot more tricks just randomly throughout the session.

Then we did a brief stop here at Honey’s Hole. I haven’t been there since the Off The Couch days. Someone had done a little DIY to it. The parking block being my favorite. I was super stiff at that point though so I basically just did a couple carves, stalls, a nosespick and took too long do do a very easy dropin. Dave worked on back smiths (above) and did some sick wallies. We should go back.

(setup null monico 8.38″ deck, venture 5.8, bones medium bushings, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, 52mm spitfire f4 radial slim green/black, new balance numeric 212 sand 11, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)