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Thanksgiving warm up with @corpoglenny and the best back drop ever

A post shared by Sean Flaherty (@slaherty) on Nov 22, 2018 at 1:26pm PST

On a nice morning I met Sean at the Dog Park. He had signed up to film me try the front shove down the dentist 5. Poor guy, but man, what an awfully nice guy. We got there about the same time. He went right in on kickflips and heelflips while I slowly worked on no pop shove its. I had gotten my slow kickflip, no comply 180, fakie flip line when I noticed Eric’s ledge sitting in the distance. Rad, we brought it out. Dang that thing is tall. Well, as you can see, not for Sean. He destroyed that thing so casually. I was hyped to get a line of halfcab flip, crooks, backside flip (although the bs flip was terrible). I tried another line of heelflip, front board, 360 flip, but never got the 360 flip. Sean was mostly just skating the ledge. He had a couple more at the end like fakie nosegrind or fakie 5-0. I also tried a bunch of front shoves and they were kinda working. Sean said we each had to do a good backside flip before leaving. Oh man how little does he know me? Ha ha. But he suggested a tip which is to stare at your back foot and it worked pretty well for me actually. As in I landed one backside flip without a huge tic tac. He got a few, but it had to be totally perfect.

Then we were at Dentist 5 with a truck right in front of the sidewalk. Argh. I figured I’d have to find a different way to line it out, but wanted to ollie the stairs a few times before trying the shove anyway. Sean ollied it first try. I tried to get his back, but bailed. he front 180’d first try, I still bailed. Even after he back 180’d it I bailed. But I did get it. Then he kickflipped it a couple times and I got his back before feeling out how to get up the curb. The no comply shove wasn’t an option as I couldn’t do it at the 45 degree angle to get around the truck. I settled on kickflip up which wasn’t easy. I hucked a couple front shoves that felt more doable then last time then Sean started filming. What a nice dude. The kickflip was hard, that angle was killing me. I went through a few waves of close to getting the line and not close at all. Then I was in the zone and SNAP, broke my nose real bad. Noooooo! I looked at Sean’s board and told him I’d give him another one if I broke it. Ha ha. But only a few tries later I rode away and it felt incredible. Like up there with the top best feeling tricks I’ve landed. I’ve never done a front shove down more than 4, so this is pretty cool at 45 to get it down 5. We called it a day after that. I was very happy.

setup null 8.38 dream machine deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers outside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, new balance numeric 212 cream size 11.5, vans ultracush insoles)
(pain level 2/10 felt great before the jumping started, but I would expect to hurt after as I have no tolerance for drops anymore)

Went to Safeway on a warm Saturday to meet Rob, Fuzz, Kevin and Sean. Kevin and Rob were there when I arrived. Kevin was already doing nollie flips and tailslides or something. I was feeling pretty good as I warmed up with the ol’ no-pop noseslides and went into some of my basics. Fuzz and Sean showed around the same time. Sean went on to totally destroy. He landed pretty much everything first try for awhile. Rob was in the zone for awhile. Cab front nose fakie, bigspint front nose to forward (Rob NBD), back smiths, nollie lips. Totally shredding. Fuzz came life and threw down a sick little line for the Stubborns. I couldn’t do kick back 50, but I did get a first try front 50 front shove out that felt really good. Kevin did a back tail shove. Sean learned fakie flip front tail and did it buttery ( that might be the first time I’ve used buttery on this blog). Oh yeah my 255s tore on the sole so I changed over to some old 212s.

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@baffoos fighting the good fight. Good times at La Raza yesterday

A post shared by Rob Helmstetter (@43shifty) on Sep 23, 2018 at 9:47am PDT

Then we went to La Raza. I was starting slow and Rob was feeling a trick so I filmed him get a line for the Stubborns. Back 180, halfcab board shove, no comply shove. The tricks alone sound great, but then remember that style king Rob did them and you can get even more excited for the video. Rob was also kind enough to film Fuzz after this go for a tech hammer while I warmed back up. Less than 20 tries later Fuzz put down a banger. Switch board to front board. Powerful as all get out. Dang, we stacking clips! Kevin and I skated for awhile. Kevin was trying a line of fakie bigspin over the weird crack then nollie nosegrind shove. He was getting close. I took a long time to get a regular shove over the crack then tried to follow it with front 50 or 5-0 shove out. I didn’t get it and started filming Kevin who eventually had to call it.

All day I had been thinking of a trick I wanted to try into this bank. Sean had said he thought it was possible. Having never been to this spot it was hard to say, but I wanted to no comply finger flip into it. When we got there the bank looked intense. I couldn’t even drop in from the top initially. But I stayed calm and played with it for awhile. Dropping in a couple feet further each time until I felt comfortable with the roll in. Kevin rolled in a couple times too. I started playing with the trick just to feel it out. It kinda seemed doable. The runway is absolutely terrible. It was super hot. There were ants everywhere. There was gum right where I wanted to push. But I kept at it inching closer and closer before getting a lame one. Thankfully Fuzz knew I could do better and told me to give it another try. I went for it that try, but the board didn’t flip right. Did I mention my fingers were bloody from flipping the board? A good slam and a dozen more bails then I rode away from a better one. It felt pretty amazing. What’s also amazing is the camera died on the roll away. Luckily there is enough roll away that it looks fine. But man I was happy as it comes. Everyone was. We stacked some good clips and had fun. On the way to the car Kevin did nolle flip and nollie treflip while holding onto a bottle. Ha. We went out to dinner and had some margs and it was a blast.

(setup 8.25 null lazer deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, bones medium bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm v1 bones stf wheels, new balance numeric 255 cream/gum size 12 then brown 212s size 11.5, footprint flat 5mm insoles)
(pain level 3/10 general soreness)

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Impromptu park session with @fullertrron after a long day of work. #accidentalwallie

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Sep 17, 2018 at 9:07pm PDT

After a long day of work and impromptu session at this little Longmont park went down. We were alone when we got there, but we had to deal with waves of scooter kids, one young one in particular that would not ever shut up. I went in pretty quick on the flippers. Had a fun line of front tail over the hip, b/s flip on a bank, kickflip fakie on a bank then fakie shove on a bank. Dave was doing long tailslides over the hip, bluntslides. Then we worked into the lines above which were fun for both of us. We took turns filming each other. It’s a lot easier to film when there’s just two people. Dave’s back 180s were gnar. Loved the switch hippy jump. I didn’t land many of the fs flips clean, but they were fun. I was also hyped to get the ollie up the taller ledge. After we got our lines first try (ha) we kept at it. I had a fun line of frontside tiny ollie the hip, front 180 off the curved ledge then a little switch nose jib. Dave was doing solid front 50s on all of the bump to ledges. We did some kickflip flyouts. I tried treflip flyout, didn’t get so close. I did a few front 50s around the C ledge that were super fun. Then we messed around with the silly ollie to fakie 50 well past the sunset and when we were supposed to be home. This park is really fun.

(setup 8.25 null perception deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, stock white bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm v1 bones stf wheels, new balance numeric 255 cream/gum size 12, footprint flat 5mm insoles)
(pain level 2/10 a little knee pain built up over the session)

Got to Broomfield park around 8pm. Garrett, Rob and Carleigh showed up around the same time. Things started slow. Well, maybe not for Garrett, he was ripping out of the gates. Such good style. I had started with the PJ shoes, but they hurt so I put an old pair of Es Switfts on and they felt great. I was swearing off the big board too. I’m not sure how it happened, but all of a sudden it seemed like everyone was in the zone trying hard stuff for them. We were mostly skating the blue ledge. For me it was a fakie 50 switch 180 out first try and I’ve only done that trick once before. I followed it with a first try Joe Hamilton. Rob did a few kickflip front boards and then him and Carleigh were trying front 50 shove out. Carleigh cracked her board really bad, but was still able to skate. She would get a solid one shortly before the lights shut off. Rob did it as well and then got nollie 50 front shove out. I also saw front 50 back 180. Garrett was trying lots of front 180 fakie manuals. He got one with a little love tap at the end. His front blunts on the quartapotty were sick looking. I ended up stacking quite a few tricks for me. Front 5-0 front 180 out, front 50 back 180 out, fakie nosegrind (I’m not actually sure the truck really grinded), a front nosegrind with a love tap, back 50 shove (so slow). I remembered to try and ollie the 6 stair. I committed the first two tries, but splatted for reasons I don’t understand. I bailed the third try and then the lights shut off. Such a fun night.

(setup null perception 8.5 deck, venture 5.8 black icon trucks, venom 88a bushings bones v1 stf 51mm wheels, es swift 1.5 grey size 11.5, footprint gamechanger low profile insole)
(knee pain 2/10)

Dave, Rob, Kevin and I met up with Sean at Spring Canyon on a warm and sunny day. I was hyped to see Skelly there when we arrived, fixing the pool coping. That dude is a workaholic. He did manage to skate with us a little, but he was pretty beat from working so hard. It was good seeing him. I find this park to be hard to warm up at normally, but it seemed easier than normal today. Maybe it was Sean grinding the tallest ledge within minutes. I mean I hope there are some kind of benefits of skating with him. Rob was manualling at speed right away, Kevin was doing tech tricks, Dave was boardsliding the spine. I got a first try (really slow) back 50 on the lurb which put me in a good mood. I would soon after get a line of nose manual, front slash the mound, back 50 shove. I slash the mound as a means of speed control to slow me down for the lurb. Smart huh? Or maybe I’m just a wuss. I tried front nosegrinds for awhile and got really close, but then the potato chip session started. I tried to play with Sean and Kevin with the ollie up then kickflip on the hump, then trick on the tight qp. Rob was in on it too, he got the ollie and kickflip, but avoided the qp. I had a better line than the one showed with a front rock instead of back rock. I mean, in my head it was better, but who knows, I probably scraped my heel on the kickflip. Kevin’s lines were crazy. Doing it switch too is bonkers. Sean’s made the line look effortless, but took awhile to get the sweeper. And oh man, that slam on the nollie nosegrind (which he had never done before) was crazy. Everyone was skating, it’s hard to remember everything. Rob got a few boardslides up that ledge which is gnarly to me, but never combined it with the downhill part. Things I was happy with were finally nose manualling the main manny pad, crooks the bench, ollieing the little rail, maintaining my 100% streak of boardslides down the little rail. My flatground wasn’t that great. Dave’s line with the switch wallie was nuts. We all skated the pole jam for a bit. Kevin switch no comply pole jam was nuts. I got one sketchy no comply pole jam. Sean thinks regular pole jams are easier than no comply ones. Dave was trying them switch too. After that we tried the downhill ride on grind. Kevin, Dave and Sean did it easy. 20 minutes later I did it and it was quite fun. Then we bounced.

(setup null rabethica 8.5 deck, venture 5.8 black icon trucks, venom 88a bushings bones v1 stf 51mm wheels, new balance numeric 255 cream/gum size 12, footprint gamechanger insoles)
(knee pain 2/10)

Happy 💥! It was so great seeing #nullumni member #hulslegend a few days ago. Nollie hard filmed by @idrawmazes

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We didn't film much in Leadville because we were having too much fun – A couple clips with Jeff @baffoos @joerhamilton and @corpoglenny

A post shared by Eric J. Eckert (@ericjeckert) on Jul 1, 2018 at 6:57pm PDT

We were up pretty early at a cold campsite and headed into town to get some grub and use toilets. It was a bit of a rough go for awhile, but before long we ended up at the Leadville park. Joel met up with us and cruised around. A few of us played SKATE to get warmed up and although Kevin got everyone with the nollie/switch flips it was still a good warm up. It’s hard to remember the difference between the morning and evening session, but I’ll try. It was cool that Chris Albright showed up and ripped. There was another mountain dude ripping so hard. He did a fakie flip up the euro! I managed a 3rd try kickflip up the euro which really surprised me. Chris got my back with heelflip I think. Then we both did early grabs up which was kinda scary. Rob had back 180 up. Joe was scared of it, but when he finally ollied it he did it super easy. I tried a few noseslide 270 shoves on the bump to ledge, but never got me feet on it. Rob did some cool front board pop outs. I got a treflip out of the bank opposite of the euro which felt great. Jeff and a few of his friends showed up. I was pretty beat at this point. Eric was sitting it out as his knee was too sore. Rob was chilling. Joe was still going of course. Front pivot on the bank to curb then front 50 down the hubba. Kevin was doing tricks up the euro too. Nollie flip and nollie b/s flip! Jeff went buck with the switch tre up and nollie hardflip up.

PMG wins the rock throwing championship! @43shifty @baffoos @corpoglenny

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@corpoglenny @baffoos and I taking a dip in what was probably snow not too long before we shot this

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Then we took a much needed break in the frigid Turquoise. Kevin, Eric, Jeff and I were the only ones that went all the way in. It was cold. We thought we were so cool and then we look out and there were people water skiing without wetsuits. Ha. The cold water really seemed to reduce soreness for us though.

So then we were back at the skatepark. Eric was finally able to skate and it was great to see. Again it’s going to be tough to remember what went down as it’s been a few days. Rob and I were skating the round manny pad area. I struggled to get a manual. Rob however did manual drop down to manual into the curb cut. And then he does back 50 to manual. So crazy. I struggled with nose manuals for awhile then out of nowhere locked in and lined it out with a kickflip up the curb then a b/s flip on the humpy hip. That line made my day. Kevin was shredding the bump to bar. Front board super easy, a few more tricks and I’m not sure if he got the front feeble. Joe was lining out the hubba. Jeff was doing back tails on one gnar bank and back heels on the other. He also did a crazy front big heel. Joe, Kevin and I had a race to b/s flip on the bank that Jeff did the back heel. Kevin got it first. I got a sketchy one second. Joe got a super solid one third. I figured the only trick left for me to get was the noseslide 270 shove so I battled that for quite a while. I would try to ride down the ledge then ollie back up on the way back and it hurt so bad. Argh. But as you can see above I kind of got the ns 270 shove. It felt awesome. I chilled after that. Keggen1 showed up and wrecked it. That was fun to watch. Eric and Kevin skated the elevated pool corner for awhile. The session ended with Joe doing front 5-0 down the hubba and Kevin not quite front nosegrinding down it. He was locked in so good though. Then we went back to the camp site and drank way too much whiskey. What a fun day.

(setup 8.25 null dream machine deck, venture 5.2 awake lows, 1/16 riser, old 51mm bones stf v1, 3 washers inside each axle, white venture bushings, vans kyle walker black/gold size 11.5, gamechanger low profile insoles)

On a beautiful evening Carleigh and I met up then went to campus to meet Rob and Jake. We met at the slappy ledge and as I was waxing it a CU cop rolled up hot. But it turned out it was for someone else who actually needed help. We didn’t feel like pushing it and went around the corner to India’s dorm and skated the manual pad. It was quite fun. Carleigh was doing lots of kickflips and getting close to manualling the longer pad. Jake was breaking the tilt record on his manual attempts. Rob went in on nose manual to front tail on the ledge right away. He got one. So sick. He also did a no comply to manual around the sidewalk. I got a manual pretty quick, took awhile to get a nose manual then got a 3rd try kickflip manual. The kickflip manual felt beyond amazing and sold me on the smaller/lower setup again. I’ll use those Indys for my Saulside board. I tried kickflip nose manuals too, but never got close. Some younger kids showed up. Good to see young ones getting out and skating street. We went around the corner to the slappy ledge and the cops were gone so it was good to go. Jake and I went in on lines. Rob and Carleigh were hitting the tall manual pad. Rob got close to manual. Carleigh got close to no comply wallie up. Jake’s line was f/s halfcab, slappy crooks to fakie, front 180 up the manny pad, halfcab off. We tried treflips for awhile, but neither of us got one. My lines got gradually harder. First one was halfcab flip, slappy axle stall, wallie up the manny pad, ollie off. Then started with heelflip and ended with front 180 off the pad. I was skating pretty hard for awhile, trying to ollie the ledge, noseslide the tall flagstone ledge, etc. Last line was heelflip to tail crack, slappy pivot, wallie up, kickflip off the pad but I landed terribly and came to a halt with my hand down. Everyone was done at that point.

(setup 8.25 null monico deck, venture 5.2 awake lows, 1/16 riser, old 51mm bones stf v1, 3 washers inside each axle, white venture bushings, es accel slims navy/white asta size 12, gamechanger insoles)

I went a little later than normal, got there around 7:30 on a gorgeous night. Will and Rob showed up at the same time. Eric and Jake were already there. Jake landed the first several tricks I saw him do. Like front blunt on the qp, noseblunt the parking block, front 5-0 the black box. After that though I saw him fall a lot. Ha ha. I saw Eric get a back 50 and front tail on the blue ledge then I started my warm up process. It went alright. I was just starting to feel warmed up when Jake and Eric were eying up the 6 stair. I wanted to ollie it too, but Jake went and did it right then. I wasn’t motivated and the opportunity seemed gone. Eric was doing heelflips and sizing up the rail. Will was getting on the grinds. Rob had a couple odd falls early on. We played a game of SKATE. Rob came out swinging. No comply 360, back 360, backside flip. I was at SKA just like that. I had a good string when I had another turn though. Kickflip, heelflip, treflip, halfcab flip in a row. That made me really happy. Especially the treflip. It was kind of a dick move, but I really wanted to try one and I got lucky. Oh yeah, ha ha, Jake went out on kickflip. He missed the first, went for double or nothing, missed again, then went for triple or nothing and slammed on that one. That was insult to injury and he was out. Will and I were the last two and I bailed a couple fakie bigflips and he took me out with switch shove. I did some frontside flips on the hump which I haven’t done in awhile which were fun. Eric and I battled the little boardslide, then got them back to back. He tried the 6 stair one too, but never got it. I saw Rob almost nose manual around the mountain bank, but it was hard seeing what others were doing until I mostly skated the black ledge. Will was skating it too. He was trying back tail then switch back tail, the switch one eluded him. Jake had left. Rob and Eric were chilling. I tried to get a new trick on the black ledge for me, fakie nosegrind. It took like 100 line attempts to get there, but I did get a fakie nosegrind and it did feel rad. Will was trying switch nose manual. This dude Max was there with a total 90s setup and it was awesome. He was fun to skate with. Will started trying to back nosegrind the sad ledge. It made me want to back 50 it, which meant a line to it to try and get hyped. I started with kickflip the parking block, frontside tricks on the qp (got a front tail for the first time in awhile). But I was having trouble committing. Got a line to it eventually and back 50’d about a third of it. It felt cool. The line was back 180 the parking block, fakie axle stall, back 50. I probably did 15 kickflips over the parking block which felt great. Will never got the back nosegrind, but he was close. I ended trying some slow kick back 50s on the blue ledge. The first set of lights shut off, but left enough light to keep trying. A few tries later I got one. It was slow, but it felt great. This was some of the hardest I’ve skated in awhile. It felt great. I love summer.

(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 navy/white asta size 12, footprint gamechanger low profile insole)

Joe, Chad and I started off heading to campus. We went right to the best spot on campus, this rock to narrow pathway. Well, we had to move it as it has been pushed down the hill for some reason. Ollieing was not happening for me. Chad started with front nose jib to fakie, then 270 out. Joe did front pivot to fakie. I did nose jibs to forward and fakie and a front tail to fakie. Kevin joined and was into our “spot” so we kept skating it. He went for front blunt and got close, but I don’t think actually rode away. I added a bean plant to tail. Other tricks were done, we were having fun.

Been slacking on the social media. So here’s a clip from campus a couple days ago. @baffoos @joerhamilton @elcachado @_f_u_z_z @neilsoffire #joeistoonice

A post shared by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on May 28, 2018 at 8:57am PDT

Then we went to the 4 stair ride off grind which made for more fun too. Me and Joe took awhile to commit, but got our grinds. Kevin made it look easy. Chad played around with the combo.

We were waiting for others to show and we had totally shut down the 4 stair so we skated this ledge to grass. Kevin and I kickflipped while Joe front shoved.

Fuzz, Rob, Neil showed and we moved on to the nearby old manual pad/bank spot. That spot has seen better days. Not an easy warm up for those that showed up either. But we ended up being there awhile and it was pretty fun. I got a no comply bigspin, no comply shove to fakie and a beanplant. Kevin did a kickflip rock transfer, but couldnt’ get the fast feet hard kickflip to fakie. Rob was going for b/s flip for awhile too and couldn’t quite get it. That spot is so hard to do kickflips on. Joe almost got front shove to rock ‘n roll. Rob did bean plant out of it. Neil might have shoved out of it as well as doing the front shove, no comply to tail and a bunch of bailed drop ins. Chad chilled. Fuzz chilled for awhile then got up and threw down the spinner and maybe a Sal flip.

Next we ended up at this tiny ledge which entertained us for quite a while. Basics were done right away and everyone kind of tried something new. For me that would be a nosegrind which seems to always elude me there. I would eventually get one (Kevin said I didn’t bonk, but I think the tail hit) and line it out with a kickflip and a little ollie down the 3 stair. Rob went in on back 50 body varial out. He was charging for awhile and got a sketchy one then a few tries later totally bolts. Fuzz had some creative lines like back 50 transfer up to push off the fence to front tail, back 180 fakie 50s then was trying them with switch front 180 out, but got spooked. Joe did a bunch of Joe tricks including the new one which was nollie front 50 to front board. Neil was struggling after a failed bike rack pole jam. I don’t think it helped that you couldn’t really line out to the ledge without messing with everyone waiting to hit the ledge. I’m not remembering what Chad did. Doh. Kevin was going for the Asta vibe and nearly put down first try switch flip switch front 5-0. So crazy. He never went on to ride away, but he sure got close. After this we went to the stadium bank to fence, but there was a moving truck parked in front of it. Doh.

Skateboarding is fun, skateboarding with friends is also fun…. #superfriends #skateboardingisfun #neilsdailyvid

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Skateboarding is fun, skateboarding with friends is also RAD! . . . . #superfriends #skateboardingisfun #neilsdailyvid

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After food, drinks we ended up at Red Hawk adding Saul and Damon to the mix. At first I sat thinking there is no way my legs would work. Fuzz was chilling too. I went around to the back of the school to look at the tiny little hubbas and there was another skate crew just chilling. It was kind of funny, just being some random dude skating by saying hi. After a nice slam on a stop rock I was back out front and the body started working. Saul was killing the slappys. The ledges were getting skated like crazy. Chad did a line pretty early on with a ledge trick I’m not remembering then ollie on the stage and ollie over the rock. Damon was rolling through his unique tricks. Joe filmed for awhile then working on a line of front 5-0, no comply 180, switch boardslide up to front 50. I had some fun crooks then tried back 180 up, halfcab flip, something on the ledge for a long time, but kept not landing halfcab flips. It was frustrating and started to remind me how I don’t like the 8″ Venture highs. Neil got it going. Shoves up the curb, cabs on flat, manuals on the rock, lipslides, 50s. Rob did like a million no comply shoves up the curb perfectly and lined out with manual on the rock, wallie, crooks, boardslide. Fuzz had some liquid courage going and went in to full destruction mode. He had fakie flips up the curb going super fast, halfcab flips up, his front 180s off the rock were so good, 100mph switch noseslide or boardslides, front tails. It was great seeing it. The session lasted a couple hours. We were all in disbelief we hadn’t gotten the boot yet. Near the end I was trying to lean no comply shove up the curb like Rob and got a couple sloppy ones.

Then we skated Brian’s next. Yes. More skating. Well, not all of us. Saul, me, Chad, Damon, Joe. It was really fun. I haven’t skated a miniramp in so long and I really like that one. I got a lot of the tricks in my bag and it was fun. Saul was the only one to get the parking blocks to grind. Damon has crazy fakie f/s bigspins to pivot and should have died multiple times, but somehow gets out of it. Chad ripped. Joe did the Joe Hamilton. Then Brian joined for one run and a friend of his learned to drop in. It was scary to watch, but he survived and can say he dropped in on a ramp. After this we hung out for quite awhile and it was really fun.

(setup 8.25 null monico deck, venture v-hollow 5.25 high trucks, bones medium bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf v1 wheels, es accel slim shoes all black size 11.5, footprint gamechanger low profile orthotic insoles)

Joe and Chad arrived from Nebraska on a Friday afternoon. Damon arrived shortly after at my house and then we were off for the Flatground Friday tradition. There were 8 of us. Joe, Dave, Rob, Eric, Damon, Chad, Neil, me. It was cool seeing so many people skating flat, but also kind of hectic. Damon and Chad were the young ones and it showed as they quickly jumped on some flip tricks. Dave beat me to a kickflip. Eric was on them heelflips. Neil was lining out his tricks. A PVC pipe was added to the mix for tricks over. Damon took MVP honors with several tricks like fakie flip, b/s flip and a perfect fakie treflip. Dave, Joe and I got kickflips over it. Rob bean planted it. I think Eric heelflipped it. Neil pop shoved it. At one point I had a good line of halfcab flip, heelflip, b/s flip. Shortly after I managed a nollie tre which I haven’t done in a long time and it felt great. I couldn’t do a regular treflip though. Also had a fakie bigflip that felt good. I’m sure a bunch of tricks went down, but I’m writing this several days/sessions/sickness later it’s hard to remember.

Ah yes just some good ol fashion fun with friends! coloRADo has been a blast! @fullertrron an @joerhamilton cruising the spots. #neilsdailyvid #coloRADo #skateboardingisfun #superfriends

A post shared by Neil Thurman (@neilsoffire) on May 26, 2018 at 9:13am PDT

The last part of the session was for sliding the pvc coping. Dave feebled it. I fell into it. Joe halfcab boardslid it. Damon did all kinds of stuff on it.

We moved on to this new spot. What a beaut, but the ledges aren’t too forgiving for the older folk. Unless of course you are the oldest one at the session and immediately front 50 around the corner like Dave did. So crazy. It was a fun session. Rob impressed me by getting up front 50s out of the gate too and kept at a sick line which he did get, even if he tried for awhile to clean it up and make it perfect. Noseslide to fakie, fakie 360 shove, halfcab boardslide. Neilsoffire was in effect with the long lines to get his hype up. Lots of front shoves, noseslides to fakie, front 50s and almost front 50 through the corner. Joe had front 50 and front 50 shove and front 50 through the corner all while maintaining the function of pillar in the middle of the spot. Ha. He went on to film Chad get a line of front tail, nollie flip, back 180 nosegrind. He also filmed Damon go for front nosegrind to fakie then fakie front nose through the corner. Damon also did front 50 bigspin out, fakie back 50 halfcab out (magical), fakie front tail and probably like 20 more tricks. Dave was killing it. Slappy crooks! So many front 50s through the corner, boardslide through the corner, front noseslides. I took awhile to get a basic line of switch front nose, switch front 180 (couldn’t land a halfcab flip), crooks. I got one or two front axle stalls which were really scary to me. That’s the end of the skating for day 1. So fun. Such radical people.

(setup 8.25 null monico deck, venture v-hollow 5.25 high trucks, bones medium bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf v1 wheels, es accel slim shoes all black size 11.5, footprint gamechanger low profile orthotic insoles)