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)