A couple leftovers from another gnarly stair session for #thestubborns @43shifty

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Jun 5, 2018 at 10:49am PDT

Struggling for motivation I drove around in the afternoon looking for something new/different to skate. I ended up here. I skated this spot once a long time ago, but there was a company filling all the parking for awhile making the bank to curb not approachable. I got there first. Took me a bit to get some front pivots, front tail, etc. Then I started hucking front pivot/half smith kickflip out. I got kinda close so I setup Hosercam to film which normally would help me try harder, but I didn’t get close again. Rob came and did back axle stall first try. I kept hucking my trick while Rob was knocking off tricks. Back pivot shove, front tail shove, no comply to tail, shove nose stall. Ripping. Dave showed after awhile. He too got the shove nose stall, and one with a 180 out. Also front axle shove to pivot. I had moved on to nosepicks, but still couldn’t get that either. I ended up just doing a front tail to fakie and then a dorky axle stall ollie down to rock ‘n roll.

We moved on to a nearby area where Josh and Jack did some crazy stuff. Dave and I messed around with it. Dave tried the hippy jump pretty quick. I just rode down a level and that was scary enough for me. Dave went on to get the hippy jump. So crazy. While filming it I stared at some stairs thinking I could back 50 them. I mean I should have been able to, but I couldn’t commit even after rub bricking it and waxing it. It bummed me out a lot. Dave front 50’d it.

(setup 8.38 null perception deck, indy 149 ray barbee trucks, oj 52mm ez edge insane-a-thane wheels, bones medium bushings, es accel slim all black size 11.5, footprint gamechanger low profile insole)

On a sunny and warm day I went to meet Rob and some others at Douglas.  I arrived first.  The ledges out front seemed intimidating so I went to the back looking for some warm up material.  At first I wanted to ollie down the big two, but I gave up on that quick.  Then I started messing around with the area above.  I did a little front board transfer up onto the ledge then ollied the little gap right as Rob was walking up.  He took off to the front and I kept messing around for a bit.  I did a couple front tail stall from low to high in the same area that was fun, then the line above which took me awhile to commit to the back 180.  You can’t see the gap in the video, it’s not big, just kind of weird.  Then I went out front with Rob.  My legs were feeling pretty good I thought.  I was wearing shorts so it was a little weird, but for the most part I thought I was going to skate really well.  But them ledges are hard and quickly took their toll.  Rob was mostly going for lines to a boardslide to fakie on the longer ledge.  Back 180 or no comply up the curb, fakie bigspin or kickflip on flat, or no comply shove.  He would get the line, but did keep trying to clean it up.  I didn’t really focus much and was kind of all over.  I had one tiny crook, some noseslides, but could not front 50 the ledge to save my life.  I got on it a few times, but never got it.  I had some fun slappys up the angled curb, some kickflips and that was about it.  Sean showed up and quickly front 50’d like it was nothing.  Both the benches and the ledges.  He had a cool line of front 50 the long ledge then nose bonk a bench.  

Then we bounced to Safeway which is a little more ideal for the older folks.  Riley, Garret, Carleigh and Fuzz joined.  Warming up again was not fun even though it was quite warm out.  I think the only tricks I got were 50s, front 5-0, slappy noseslides and couldn’t get the kick back 50.  I was beat, after awhile I just sat and got sunburnt and filmed people.  Carleigh went for noseslides and front tails.  Rob rattled off a lot of tricks.  Back 50s, front tails, nollie front lip and close to nollie front lip shove and front tail shove.  Fuzz did the ‘slappy’ noseslides to get going, tried to put them up into crooks, did some front tails (I think.  I mean, it’s Fuzz right, he had to have done some front tails ha ha) and learned fakie front tail 270 out with Sean. Sean added a kickflip out. Riley, Garrett and Sean rattled off some bangers. They can all do 5-0s so good. Add some shoves, 180s, etc. They were ripping.

Saturday sunset at #highfivehideout with @siouxer666 and @garrettswheelers. Thanks @dnutz37 !

A post shared by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Jun 3, 2018 at 6:46pm PDT

Then we went to Darin’s ramp. Fuzz went off right away doing most of his tricks in a few runs. Back blunt was tight, the disasters to sugarcane, all of it. I only did some back 50s and a front disaster and mostly just felt too tired to do anything. My board felt really weird too. High off the ground, but small. Hopefully the truck OCD doesn’t get too much worse. Rob had some stylee frontside grinds and back smiths. Carleigh was getting chased by crazed dog. Ha, okay, Ella is sweetheart, but definitely messed with Carleigh jumping on to the ramp when she would skate. She got some back 50s, front disasters/smiths. Brillo was there destroying. Dude kills Darin’s ramp. One footed pivots to fakie, lazy stand up grinds and a bunch more weird ones. Garrett made his tricks look good, took awhile to get the kickflip to fakie. Riley can do anything and pretty much did everything. Man he rips mini ramps.

(setup 8.38 null perception deck, indy 149 ray barbee trucks, oj 52mm ez edge insane-a-thane wheels, bones medium bushings, es accel slim all black size 11.5, footprint gamechanger low profile insole)

Close your eyes! Ha. Sorry, it was a warm morning and I was in the mood to skate in shorts and then I took off the shirt. I skated for about 15 minutes before starting the 10×10. I had done a few kickflips, halfcab flip, b/s flip then decided to come up with a list to motivate a little. Here’s the list.

Halfcab flip
Heelflip
Fs halfcab heel
Varial heelflip
Nollie varial flip
Fakie bigflip
360 shove
360 flip
Nollie 360 flip
Fakie 360 flip

The halfcab flip was first try. The heelfip was 6th try, but I tried to get a better one and couldn’t. Bummed I didn’t get the close f/s halfcab heelflip because even after the 10×10 I couldn’t get it. I didn’t feel close to varial heel at all. Nollie varial flip came in a few tries and felt good. I tried 360 shove next and was bummed at how the board kept flipping a little. The fakie bigflip didn’t feel good, not sure why because they have been working lately. 360 flip was 7th try and felt great. Nollie tre was 10th try I think? Maybe it was earlier and I tried to get a better one. I was hyped to get close to fakie tre. It took about 15 tries total. Then I went for the 3 shove and it was another 20 or so tries before I landed that terrible one. Argh. Then I made myself ollie the cone and go to work. Ollieing the cone felt good, got it 3rd try.

(setup 8.38 null perception deck, indy 149 ray barbee trucks, oj 52mm ez edge insane-a-thane wheels, bones medium bushings, es accel slim all black size 11.5, footprint gamechanger low profile insole)

Feeling a little better I went across the street in the evening. I wanted to start at the curb, but due to recent rain it was littered with pebbles everywhere. It was so annoying. I quickly ended up behind the school which had fewer pebbles and more rocks to skate. Ha. I only had about 30 minutes to skate. I spend most of it trying a line of front axle stall on the tallest rock, crooks a little bench on a nearby table, heelflip on flat, ollie onto the tallish quick rock. I realize these descriptions are terrible and have included a couple screen shots for reference. Sometimes I tried smith stall instead at the start. My new setup was popping good. I was also surprised heelflips were working. I never committed on top of the rock though. After awhile I gave up on the line and would just try the rock by itself. On the way back I would try flip tricks and to my surprise I was rattling them off. 360 flip, halfcab flip, fakie bigflip, b/s flip. It hyped me up enough to finally commit to getting on that rock a few times. I never rode out though.. I’ve been wanting to try that for a few months now so that felt good at least. I had put some Bones medium bushing in, they felt much better than the hard Venoms.
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(setup 8.38 null perception deck, indy 149 ray barbee trucks, oj 52mm ez edge insane-a-thane wheels, bones medium bushings, es accel slim all black size 11.5, footprint gamechanger low profile insole)

And might win part of the year too. Incredible. Such a great mix of style, spots, trick selection.

Joe, Chad, Ollie and I met Kevin after a nice drive at the Evergreen park. It was looking like rain, but it had held off for now. As if being sore from several days of skating wasn’t enough of an excuse I added a new complete to the mix. Indys again. Yup. The reasoning. First, the Ray Barbee graphic seriously spoke to me. Second, I’ve been enjoying the bigger boards lately, but wanted to try Indys because of the smaller wheelbase than Ventures. This comes the day after I called Indy’s useless. Ha ha I suck. It felt stiff and made for some awkwardness throughout the day, but it wasn’t too bad and I liked it. As soon as we got to the park Chad threw some lofty cabs that looked so darn good. Kevin had beaten us there, but was still battling the warm up kickflip which he got. He might have even gone on to do it switch. We skated for quite awhile with just one other dude. My highlight was a kickflip onto the hip from the red kicker, front disaster on the qp, kickflip over the hip. Also a b/s flip that took way too many tries. Ollie was having fun and staying in the mix. Fakie shoves, regular shoves, f/s halfcab the hard way over the hip. Kevin killed the little ledge too. Switch nosegrind front 180, kick back tail. Him, Joe and Chad were getting at the taller ledges off the stair. Joe with the front 50 to front board, Kevin crooks, Chad feeble. Some other dudes showed up right before Fuzz, Rob, Neil. They weren’t shrimpin’ like the rest of us. Fuzz did a few ollies then fully committed to shrimpin. Rob went for it though. Starting with the bean plants, kickflips, manuals on the curb, boardslides, back smith the curb. Neils of Fire had them one foots, nose manuals, front 50s, lots of tricks going. Joe and I battled halfcab flips and both got them eventually. I saw Joe do back 50 front 180 out on the sharp ledge. I had some crooks on it, switch front noses.

I wrote the section above a few days ago and didn’t finish. Now I have no recollection of how it ended. I know I was sitting for awhile. I guess most of us where and Bobby was going for the fence ollie. Joe was still going. Front 50 to manual. Chad was trying bigspin tailgrabs over the hip. Chad had also nosegrinded up the ledge. Kevin nosegrinded down it at some point. I know I am missing a whole lot. It was a fun session. I was still feeling pretty sick and after the drive home went to sleep for a couple hours. It was tough being sick and skate guide at the same time.

(setup 8.38 null perception deck, indy 149 ray barbee trucks, oj 52mm ez edge insane-a-thane wheels, venom 94a bushings, es accel slim all black size 11.5, footprint gamechanger low profile insole)