After watching Lenz III in one sitting last night I went down memory lane and watched these two classics. Thankfully I have the DVD set that dwindle put out a fair few years back so don’t have to suffer the music copyright issues that the YouTube versions seem to have.
Not quite of the same calibre as the 3 decades of Girl edit. Finally, now that nobody really gives a hoot about Magenta, they have posted this up. A Magenta/ Tightbooth/ FESN/ Fat Bros collab vid.
I bought the DVD at the time and rinsed it - somehow it seems way longer than just ten years ago.
First part is banging iirc

(Found the GIF making machine again)
Put this in publications ![]()
Amazing nollie flips
And backtails. Maybe top 5 back tailer
Who else would be in your top 5 then?
Thought about posting last night as a follow up.
I think I’d go with (in no order):
Jason Lee,
Gideon Choi,
Nate jones,
Shawn mandoli
For combos, in and out- ronnie creager
I’m struggling to think of some modern day greats, but I know there are loads
Edit- not modern but Stefan janoski always had a great one. Quite similar to Jason Lee’s
Edit edit: Paul shier and Mike Carroll honourable mentions
Interesting. Not sure about my top 5, it’s damn hard.
Jason Lee and Carroll for sure. Tyler Bledsoe has a really, really solid one. Tom Asta can sit on them too. BA deserves a honorable mention. So does A-Lo I suppose. Remember Crockett flipping into and out of backtails up 3 stairs (in Alright, OK maybe)? That was so sick. Reemo of course. Gino in The Chocolate Tour. JB once did a long one on a ledge going over a manny pad at my local skatepark, it was pretty special for sure.