If it was '91 it could have been Earl Grinhaff.
Nah it was 96ish
Seeing Steve King skate the Cardiff plaza when he was still knocking about a lot was always sick, everything popped really high and consistently, whilst going mach 10 around the gaff.
Niels Bennett doing some tekkers at Exist park was mad, everything super clean and dialed in. Same day watching Jamal Smith doing loose tricks in the mini was pretty dope, even just simple tricks were good 'cause of his style.
Heitor blast about in this mini ramp and then blast about doing some lines at this street spot when we were in Malmö was mad as well, just super loose and fast.
Being with the DC shoes lot last September in London was dope, John Shanahan and Kevin Bilyeu have both got mad pop. Shanahan did a line over these posts going downhill was pretty crazy, especially as he started a line doing a frontside nollie over one which was mad high and yet they only filmed that little line on Insta and not properly, which seemed weird to me.
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GT and Phil Parker at the Deaner
Korahn, Karta and Barney at any spot ever
Stu Graham at Livi
Mike Wright at Hyde
Westgate at Southbank
Watching Arto shoot photos was pretty surreal, too
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Was gonna say Steve King, it was comical how good he was at his local spots.
Wainwright is a good one too. Always really good to see in person. I didn’t say Steve King because even though he’s amazing he mostly stayed local and I think being local to a spot you get an advantage. The people who just turn up and figure stuff out right away are the most impressive. Grant Taylor at Dean Lane looked unreal for example…but I wasn’t there 
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Grant Taylor. Seeing him skate in person was mind blowing.
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saw Gershon during practice at Radlands 99.
he had a bag of switch ledge tricks that never seemed to fail - especially rare considering regular krooks and tailslides were becoming contest filler
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Whenever I’ve been anywhere where the American big dogs show up it’s always been raining.
Stu Graham tearing up a pool, and Raemers fucking about at Saffron Walden was always fun.
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+1 on Shipman & Wainwright as standouts at Rehab at various times but for all-out speed / style Howard Cooke was something else - drop in on the vert wall to mach 10 heelflip over the driveway etc
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Yeah H was a fucking lunatic
All in, all the time
That mad transfer he did at Radlands, the backside ollie.
And that bench to bench transfer. Mad
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When I was in New York last month I ended up at a ledge spot near the Courthouse with a couple friends alongside Cyrus Bennett.
Cyrus was super nice and looked way different in person to what I thought he would. I always figured he was a sort of tall-ish and skinny guy with springy pop but he’s above 6 feet tall, built like a quarterback and skates so fast. It wasn’t like he was trying to skate fast either, more that his “natural” speed is just flooring it.
He was charging these two knee height ledges (that he skates in his opening line in the first Limosine video) and rifling off kickflips into what seemed like every ledge trick he could do, then backside tailsliding the next one and occasionally doing a trick out of that as well.
It was like watching someone get a flawless victory in Street Fighter over and over again.
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Lucky enough to skate with H quite a bit. Surprisingly smooth when he wasn’t trying something massive.
Also skating the last hour at Bolton and seeing the. Andy Scott show was something special. Out of the street course into padless vert runs
+1 for Shipman , he was light years ahead when we saw him at Barrow bitd
Saw that shiner tour at Barrow in the same era. Gonz smoked cigars for an hour then blew minds for 5 mins on a borrowed board.
Same day was the first time I saw Cardiel. Still untouchable in terms of shock value. So much energy , right on the edge of slamming constantly. As he was leaving he gave my mate his complete (back label candy slick) as his board was fucked
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With you on this one.
I’ve spent a fair bit of time with Andy over years at contests and just generally out and about and he is more than worthy of the ‘Bolton Jedi’ nickname.
Oozes style, insane lip tech, all the flips and spins you could want and all done without seeming to even raise a sweat.
Half of his Baghead Flats part was filmed in an hour one day at a Blackpool comp.
The trick with getting footage of Andy was to not let him know that you were filming.
Truly Penny levels of transcendent nonchalance.
All the footage on the indoor vert with the Snickers banner happened in probably less than an hour.
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+1 for Andy Scott at Bolton.
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Whats he up to? Havent seen anything of him in years
Has any one got the clip of him doing a Scrambled Egg? Is it in In Progress?
Nope it’s in the link @anonymity posted above. Such a dope video.
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Not Bolton but Manchester’s short lived vert ramp Beast Ramps.
Another example of ‘the best way to film Andy Scott is to hide’.
This shit took about 20 minutes and he wasn’t even trying.
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Blink and you’ll miss it with that place! Can’t remember what happened though, it was closed before I had a chance to get there.
Bolton Jedi at the height of his powers.
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I think he does one at the end of his section in Better Than Life as well.
