Slept in til 9. Sleeping in that late really throws me off. After a day of not landing much I needed a setup change! Ha ha, I debated Thunder 148s and Venture 5.2 lo/hi for quite some time before settling on 5.2 hi. I went over to the school to play around and see how it felt. I did a few really slow flippers. Nothing special, one hands down treflip. Kickflips and heelflips felt better, treflips felt worse. I got close to a nollie flip or two, the smaller board felt way better for that. Then I went home to eat and was totally gonna take a nap when Jack called and suggested the Mikes Camera manny pad. It didn’t take much to get me there. There was a bunch of cars parked in the lot, but at least one spot was open. When I arrived Jack was doing back 180 fakie manuals. He mostly tried that the whole time. I couldn’t do a basic manual and I took like 10 tries to nose manual it. Argh. Rob joined us. He got in some no comply manuals right away and nose manual right after that. Jack would end up doing some epic manuals. Back 180 fakie manual to forward to fakie to forward. Ha, I can’t really describe it in words, but it was hilarious. He also did fakie bigspin out which was so sick. He got some fakie tres up the curb and a bunch of flippers on the rough ground. Nollie heel, nollie flip, switch heel, switch varial flip, impossible, etc. I had a couple flippers, heelflip felt good, close to nollie flip. I got a nose manual shove that felt really good even if it took a long time. Rob did nose manual 180 to switch manual then topped himself with a 180 out as well. So sick.

Great seeing you on your board again @jackspanbauer !

A post shared by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Aug 5, 2018 at 6:51pm PDT

Then we went to nearby rainbow ledge. Rob did boardslide pop out right away, I took like 10 tries. Rob also played with with boardslides to feeble, but didn’t lock into the grind. I did noseslide to fakie and a tiny front 50 on the curb high part and tried to line out to 180 the gap, but I bailed the gap. It was bigger than I remembered. I filmed Jack try bigspin hurricane for awhile, but he didn’t get it. Big Mike showed up. Jack got back nosegrind shove out a few times just messing around going slow. So we filmed a faster one, slams included. Mike got a front noseslide and an elderly lady passing by said “You’ll get it”. Ha ha.

@cookiegrinder13 🔥

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Aug 5, 2018 at 6:25pm PDT

Today, Glen found the optimal weight distribution for nollie flips.

A post shared by Jack Spanbauer (@jackspanbauer) on Aug 5, 2018 at 11:50pm PDT

Then we went to this wallride spot. I wasn’t into it at first and I don’t think Jack was either, but Mike was super into it and we found some wood and signs and made it more fun. Or at least I thought until I slammed on the sign twice and messed up my wrist pretty good. Jack did the backside wallride first try. Mike got it next. I was close and after the two slams in a row had a setback. But I got it and it was pretty fun. Jack came close to touching a grind on it. Then Mike and I went for frontside. It took me about 20 tries longer. Then I slammed super hard and broke a phone trying to film Mike (ha). Then Mike and Jack skated the longer wallride. Jack tried it without a landing and slammed so hard. It was brutal. Mike put some wood for a landing and did while holding onto the tree and then without holding onto the tree. It was rad.

(setup 8.25 null spanbauer deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow, 3 washers inside each axle, bones medium bushings, bones 51mm v1 stf, new balance numeric 212 sea foam/salmon size 11, custom orthotic insole)
(knee pain 3/10 )

On a hot lazy Saturday I went to Safeway to meet Kevin, Sean and Fuzz. Kevin was there when I got there doing my kind of warm ups – noseslides without ollieing. Except he moved on to flips tricks and grinds way quicker than me. I took a few tries to get into grind, but had a fun feeling back 50 and some front 5-0s that may or may not have been intentional. Sean showed up and I stopped landing tricks. Ha ha. Seriously though, I didn’t land anything for awhile. Sean rattled off steezy basics along with some great looking flippers. Kevin got a nollie front nosegrind pop out which was probably trick of the day. I attempted some front tails, but they were just little tail stall jibs. I couldn’t get kick back 50. Kevin got back tail and then kick back tail. My flip tricks were not working. Fuzz showed up and I chilled with him. Then it started raining so we went and got tacos.

(setup 8.38 null atomic cowboy deck, venture 5.8 black icon trucks, bones medium bushings, bones 51mm v1 stf, new balance numeric 212 sea foam/salmon size 11, custom orthotic insole)
(knee pain 2/10 )