My knee felt even better so I hit the garage on a cold night to pose some switch heels. I started on the putter and didn’t really get very close. There was a couple that felt like I was positioned correctly, but it didn’t flip. So I hucked on my regular 8.5″ and they flipped better and I got closer. I tried a few cabs too, but it’s scary in such a tiny space with death traps if I spin out and fall.

Good work Es Footwear!

👑 @fullertrron #thestubborns

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 29, 2017 at 6:30pm PDT

Woke up and my knee was feeling good so I knew I would try to skate. I brought boards to 303 and Emage then met Dave at this schoolyard in Denver which is kind of known as the TF. Dave was doing crazy boardslides when I got there dropping down a parking block. Shortly after he wanted to do it with a bench in front as well. As he worked up to that I tried to skate. It felt good. I was pretty timid at first for sure and didn’t do much, mostly just wallrides on the sheet of wood against the wall and some parking block slappy crooks or boardslides. Then I filmed Dave for awhile and some Emage heads showed up. Tino, Brendan and Owen. It was rad seeing them. They mostly skated flat and wow Tino was popping some good ones. Dave got his trick, a car moved away from the bench and everyone skated lines. Brendan was doing lines with front 50, nollie flips and front tail to fakie. So good. Tino got some nosegrinds, fakie ollie over the bench. Owen had back tail over the bench. I got a weak sauce line of switch nosejib, no comply finger flip, slappy crooks. Felt cool. Then I filmed Dave do this crazy front 5-0 for awhile. The Emage dudes left and Dave’s friend “Deep Rock” Dave showed up. Dave got the 5-0 and it was so sick. After that I tried to get a line to get myself going. Bean plant off the narrow ledge, bankride hand touch, boardslide the parking blocks, noseslide the bench. Pretty fun. After that we all skated the wood for awhile. DR Dave was doing wallrides and had some rad frontside ollies. We moved the trash can into the middle of the wood and did some fun carves over it while putting your hand on the trash can. It felt really cool. Then DR Dave started doing frontside ollies, I was trying bonelesses with my hand on the trash can and Dave was doing wallrides with his hand on the trash can. Dave got a couple easy ones of his. DR Dave and I struggled, but ended up getting some. That was one of the most fun tricks I’ve done in awhile. It felt so cool to put weight on the hand and kind of float a little. I got a few of them, but it took awhile to get all 4 down. What a fun trick.

Then we went to this little ditch. I got there first and kind of posed noseslide attempts, but never came close. DR Dave and Dave showed up. We ollied some hips, carved around and things were flowing. Both Daves tried some crazy roll ins. Dave’s was extra crazy and I thought he was gonna get wrecked Luckily he gave up and instead started doing this crazy halfcab grass ride carve into a wallie/nollie that would sometimes get some grind. DR Dave had some rad hip ollies, tailblocks in the grass and bank ollies. I had a fun little line of kickflip on the bank then front 180 over the hip. Then I took way too long to do a no comply finger flip over the frontside hip and even way longer to do a backside flip over it. But man it felt good. I followed that with a kickflip over the frontside hip in a few tries. I may have struggled to get the first couple tricks, but man they felt great when I got them. The metal grate really messed with the angle and flow of things along with not much of a runway. Man it felt good to skate, I had almost no knee pain. I was wearing some old cupsoles that didn’t skate great, but maybe helped my knee.

(setup null machine 8.5″ deck, venture 5.8, venom 88a bushings, 52mm bones stf v5, new balance numeric 598 black/white size 12, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, lakai insole)

Can’t skate because of knee pain so here’s an out of focus #mattmillerchallenge #stilltrickchallenge

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 28, 2017 at 3:32pm PDT

I had gone to a Dr for my knee pain a couple days ago. They couldn’t find anything actually wrong, but said to take a week off work. My knee was feeling better, but still not great. But the weather was great and I was going crazy so I decided to do the whole stationary trick. I did a first try no comply flip and figured it would be easy standing still. Nope, not moving on a no comply is super hard. It took 11 minutes for me to land this. I felt so silly walking back and forth between each attempt. Oh well, got a #mattmillerchallenge!

(setup null machine 8.5″ deck, venture 5.8, venom 88a bushings, 52mm bones stf v5, new balance numeric 212 navy/grey size 11, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)

Joslin is becoming one of my favorite skaters because he is such a skate rat. It rules seeing someone so motivated to skate.

#stilltrickchallenge #mattmillerchallenge @corpoglenny 🎥

A post shared by dave fuller (@fullertrron) on Oct 24, 2017 at 8:20pm PDT

Still feeling motivated I met Dave at the dog park for a short one. I quickly realized I should not be skating. My knee was done, I couldn’t ollie or kickflip (although I still beat Dave to a kickflip! ha ha). So I just skated switch a little and somehow trying switch heels didn’t hurt so I just did that for 30 minutes. It was pretty cool actually and a few were the closest I’ve ever gotten. Dave had some nice bigspins, cabs, shoves and tried heelflip for awhile. He couldn’t quite get one. Then we filmed each other doing stand still tricks for all the rage. Well, Dave actually did a trick. I just walked up and flipped the board with my toe. Maybe I’ll post it, but I hate how I walk in it. Ha ha.

(setup null machine 8.5″ deck, venture 5.8, venom 88a bushings, 52mm bones stf v5, new balance numeric 212 navy/grey size 11, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)

Went to Louisville park feeling very motivated even though my left knee had started hurting more. My chiropractor said it didn’t look like anything serious so I went skating. Initially I thought I would not be able to skate at all, any attempt to ollie was met with knee pain and resistance. I should have left, but I’m stubborn. Took a couple runs in the snake run, tried some no ollie tricks on the little ledge, then eventually kind of skated normal. There was a crew of teenagers when I first got there mostly just lurking which was annoying. At least a couple actually skated. I tried a couple lines. Switch noseslide 270 the little ledge, fakie flip on flat, halfcab noseslide the main ledge. Never got a halfcab noseslide even though I got into so many of them. It was weird. Going the other way I tried front 50 shove the main ledge for awhile then gave up to just switch noseslide (going back to fakie was fun and I was getting better at them), switch front 180 on flat then back 50 the tiny ledge going over the corner. It took me forever. I did a few other tricks in between. Nothing special, some ollies over the hip, bean plant on the flat bank, crooks the ledge. But once I finally got the line I left. Oh and of course I accidentally did a 5-0 instead of 50. Oh well.

(setup null machine 8.5″ deck, venture 5.8, venom 88a bushings, 52mm bones stf v5, new balance numeric 212 navy/grey size 11, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)

We have fun. #thestubborns @edhatesfun @iamnotacreepyjake @gnarlycarleigh @fullertrron @jackspanbauer @_f_u_z_z #videocomingsoon #orlater #skateboardingisfun

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 22, 2017 at 7:29pm PDT

#saturdays #thestubborns

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Oct 21, 2017 at 4:14pm PDT

I’m writing this way after it happened so bear with me. A crew of us assembled at Valmont area. I was first and started on the bank. Jack and Carleigh were next, Fuzz, Dave, Ed, Damian, Jake followed shortly. We were kind of all over the place initially. It was cool seeing everyone skate it some silly street spot differently. Lines there are fun. It’s impossible to remember what everyone was trying. I saw Fuzz and Dave trying manuals. Carleigh no complying the tall curb. Ed with the curb stalls. I don’t know. After awhile I saw Dave doing a beanplant off the little drop and joined him. Then Jack, Fuzz, Dave and I were trying lines in around there. Ollies up the little gap unless you were Jack and then it was heelflips and bigspins trying to end in wallride. I had a fun line of ollie the little gap, bean plant the drop then varial flip to fakie on the bank (although I think I bailed out in the run out). After awhile everyone skated the bank. Jack had a gnarly frontside wallride and a crazy front nose jib (stubborns/null alert). Carleigh with the boardslide down, then adding a kickflip then adding a no comply before it too. Putting the ‘gnar’ in Gnarly Carleigh. Jake got 360 flip to fakie. Dave went over to the manual pads. Ed tail bock and steezy slides. Damian kickflip to fakie. Fuzz did a crazy powerslide to kickflip (stubborns alert). My knee had started hurting in a weird way. It sucked. I kept skating though. Well, I attempted to. I couldn’t get 360 flips to fakie, fakie 360 flips, fakie flip or varial flip. Luckily I was 2-2 on halfcab flips. Rad crew. I had to leave first to go see Bob Dylan.

(setup null machine 8.5″ deck, venture 5.8 v-light, 1/16″ riser, venom 88a bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 radial slim green/black, new balance numeric 212 navy/grey size 11, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)

Had the day off work and went to Berthoud park on an absolutely gorgeous day. And I mean like as perfect of a day as they come. Sunny, warm, tiny breeze. It was amazing. I got to the park first. Initially I wasn’t too hyped on the park, but it changed quickly. I had an idea of doing all 8 180s over the hip as a warm up. It didn’t really go like that though, I started with lines that involved other stuff. Ride off a curb, wallie a parking block, boardslide. I had gotten a few of the easy 180s when Dave showed up and I told him the drill. Ha. We both went after the 180s, but definitely skated other stuff too. I spent awhile on a line of front board a flat bar (the first few seemed okay, then they got worse and worse and shorter and shorter), ollie to fakie on the bank then f/s halfcab over the hip. I got a terrible one. I might have lined that out with a nollie back 180 over the hip that felt really good though. Another line was kickflip over the b/s hip, crooks the ledge, ollie to fakie on the bank then switch back 180 over the hip. I never really got it, but I think I met the minimum requirement of a ‘switch back turn’. Dave had switch back 180s pretty consistently though and was trying lines that started with the two regular 180s and worked his way up. The nollies to fakie on the qp were rad. Then became battle time. Dave’s battle was front lip on the little round bar. His hype line to it was amazing. Front 180 a parking block then fakie tail stall with a shove out. See that’s why I love skating with Dave. We’re at a skatepark with all these features and he’s trying a line over and over that has a fakie tail stall shove out in it. So awesome. He would get it of course and it was sick. My battle was front 50 the ledge then b/s flip over the hip. I’ve been struggling with front 50s for quite some time now so this was way more of a battle then it needed to be. I do feel like doing so many front 50 attempts helped me with some confidence, but we’ll see. Anyway, around an hour later I would eventually line up the 50 with the b/s flip and it felt oh so good. Dave had gotten another line by then which was pretty amazing. Nose manual the main ledge, pivot the qp, front axle the bank to ledge. Unreal. I posed a few 360 flips over the hip, never committed. Came close to halfcab crook the tiny ledge, remotely close to b/s axle on the bank to ledge. I hit a point where I was so tired and sore. I tried some cabs over the hip, but never got one. The energizer bunny known as Dave kept going and going though. He was still trying lines with hippy jumps over the A rail when I said I needed to get going. Fun session, things didn’t come easy, but they did come so that’s cool at least.

(setup null machine 8.5″ deck, venture 5.8 v-light, 1/16″ riser, venom 88a bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 radial slim green/black, new balance numeric 212 navy/grey size 11, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)

@siouxer666 and @garrettswheelers playing at Lafayette. Guest trick by @lastfallensoul

A post shared by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Oct 22, 2017 at 7:55pm PDT

I guess I was coming down with something as I got to Lafayette park after work and decided to start with a nap in the car. Turns out I crashed for a solid 30 minutes. Riley, Sean, Brian and Donnie were there when I arrived. Garrett would show up shortly after. I felt quite sore. Warming up was not easy, especially around people that totally rip. I hit the tiny parking block quarterpipe for awhile with Brian, Donnie, Sean. They were all doing good tricks. Donnie tried powerslide to fakie 5-0 and slammed so hard. It was hilarious. Brian was doing long bluntslides and almost popping in backside. Sean with boardslides 270. Oh yeah, I had a couple really embarrassing slams (yes, the guy who intentionally likes to run into trash cans can get embarrassed) right away. One on a kickturn, the other while trying to early grab over a cone. It put me in a bad mood. On the manny pad Riley was doing really hard stuff. Sean did a sick kickflip nose manual before I could manual it. After awhile we skated the rock ride/hip. Wallies over it or so fun, had a couple kickflips on the bank after. Brian, Garrett, Donnie, Sean did a bunch of tricks on the rock. Garrett beat Donnie in a game of SKATE on it. Meanwhile I was filming Riley try that spin around manual forever. Like forever ever. Ha. He would eventually get it and by then I was ice cold and stiff, but still tried to skate with them. It didn’t work. The rock bank looks fun to do tricks on, but I wasn’t warmed up enough to even do a kickflip on it. Garrett rattled off tricks left and right. Sean has such good style. Donnie is a beast and I wish I had some of his always commit mentality. Riley did so much so easily. Fun seeing those dudes.

(setup null machine 8.5″ deck, venture 5.8 v-light, 1/16″ riser, venom 88a bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 radial slim green/black, new balance numeric 212 navy/grey size 11, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)