Lunch hour flatground on a beautiful day. We got @matthouse to skate! Continuing with @fullertrron slow motion posts. #teamsweatstain

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jan 4, 2018 at 1:15pm PST

Feeling down after skating bad the night before and having to be at work I went to meet Dave and Matt at the dog park. I initially thought I wouldn’t be able to skate I was so sore. Not in a painful way, just sore like my legs were stiff. Luckily Matt and Dave started slow too so I didn’t feel so bad. Matt hadn’t really skated in a couple months. But whatever, he still has it. The treflip wasn’t first try though. He did some nollie back 180s as a setup for a switch flip which he did eventually get. Kickflips, halfcabs, 180s, and a few treflips. I was struggling with my basics, but got a first try treflip so that always cheers me up (even when I miss the next two). Other tricks I did poorly were halfcab flips both ways, fakie flip, heelflip and eventually the frontside halfcab heelflip. I ended hucking a frontside cab heelflip. Note the lack of “half”. I wold be hyped beyond belief to get that one, it felt quite doable even though I was not actually very close. Dave had a sketchy slam on a pop shove, some good front shoves, a couple fakie varial flips, varial flip, nollie bigspin, remotely close to cab bigspin. When I left to go back to work he was trying treflips. Hope he got one.

(setup 8″ null Monico deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, 50mm bones stf v1, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, venom 91a bushings, new balance numeric arto 358 black/white size 11, custom orthotic insole)

Went to Broomfield park on a night where I mentally felt motivated to skate. After a quick stop at Crisis I arrived at the park and it was empty. I was pretty excited to skate it in ways that I would normally be too embarrassed to skate. But it became apparently quickly that my legs were toast. I had several squaty landings where my legs refused to stand back up and I fell over. Argh. I had some pop initially. Oh yeah, everything felt weird because I had new wheels. My previous wheels had worn down to mid 40mms so the new 50mms felt pretty large. I really tried to skate through it, but man I struggled. I was all over the place, trying tiny ollies 1/3 of the way up the brick qp, ollies on ledges instead of grinds, etc. I was hyped on an early line of front 50, boardslide the flat bar, turn around, 180 into the bank, switch front nose the ledge. Got a super slow fakie 50 f/s halfcab out. Wanted to do b/s halfcab out, but didn’t get close. Carleigh showed up after I had been skating for an hour or so. She had to setup a board. I was trying slow kickflips to fakie on the euro kicker and failing and noseslide 270 shoves where I didn’t get close either. I tried at least, it’s been awhile. Carleigh didn’t have much time to skate. But she got some. Kickflip, close to no comply flip, boardslide the black ledge, a good fall on a boardslide on the parking block. We ended on a couple basic tricks on the dark brick qp. Axle stalls. I took 3 tries to get a front slash.

(setup 8″ null Monico deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, 50mm bones stf v1, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, venom 91a bushings, new balance numeric arto 358 black/white size 11, custom orthotic insole)