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.