At skating today we were talking about the other trick McCrank did on this thing and my buddy was so sure he was my age-ish (early 40s) but no, Rick McCrank is 47.
Tripping on how Gustav does a nollie hardflip fakie but turns his entire body/stance immediately after popping and suddenly it’s like he’d done a fakie hard.
POST YA FAVORITE CLIP OF YOURSELF; was headed back to the car after getting one thing on the U of M campus and decided to try this thing; 2003. B. Heck cameo.
You wake up from a deep slumber, and notice this spot sitting across you, waiting for you to do something.
How do you open?
RULES:
1. No warmups.
2. ABDs don’t matter.
3. Koston is sitting on the ledge behind you.
The last time a video called “Baker Has a Deathwish” came out I got an advance copy and was paid to write about it for one of the many printed skateboard magazines that existed back then.
Cried a bunch today over lost youth, other young people hurt, parents devastated. Had been around Henry Gartland a bunch since he was a kid and his death by suicide is terrible.
Can't say it better than AVE on QS: "I just want to go skate for two hours, land on my board a lot and worry about being strong in the things I can do."
I become 38 tomorrow and this is a clip I filmed a month and a day ago in Milwaukee. It was a good year of skating with my friends, the best this decade.
Bunch of skaters feeling safe leaving their boards at the indoor is proof of how much nicer skating is nowadays (90s pro once told me how he and others’d focus roommates’s newly set up boards as a prank). The least I should do is cover them in wack stickers but I too am tamed.