Gustav skating the Sour mini is something magical in the flesh.
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I bet it is!
I want to be invisible and watch Worrest at Pulaski.
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RIP Sam Banham. Used to skate and booze with him all the time when I used to live in Brighton late 90s.
Savage FS 360s and superb transition style. Really good all rounder. Had his knee blown out by a collision with a bmxer iirc. And then the neck cancer.
And yeah Tom ripped as well.
RIP Sam 
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One random dude that always stuck out - I was at simi valley park in 98 I think it was, roughly the time element filmed world tour stuff there (saw Kenny Hughes film some stuff there for it, also wildly good on mini, he’s a fucking big guy and the ramp shook when he landed stuff but he was so light on his feet). And some dude was there, I think his name was Christian brox. He used to ride for clockwork. He was Norwegian and honestly, when he skated mini…just massive massive floaty straight up straight down frontside ollies.
Weird that just one dude I assume no one here has heard of made such an impression on me, just that one trick. He was so good. Best ollies I’ve ever seen (along with rushbrook and Wilkins).
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Burnquist was amazing as well. Was watching him skate at Northampton comp. Most people’s attention was on the street and I saw him do the fakie 5-0 flip in on vert. There was barely a murmur from the crowd as so few people were watching him but I saw it and it was insane.
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I saw Christian Brox ripping the fuck out of the concrete park in Munster a couple of times.
Can confirm - he was freight train standard.
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And he’s a top bloke.
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@anonymity will confirm this but Scott Alexander, Justin Parker and Tom Kilpatrick skating mini ramp is something else. (They all grew up with Penny)
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Love it when a scene like that develops with a few influential skaters.
Not like a transient scene with lots of visiting skaters, a localised heavy scene that reaches unlikely heights. Doesn’t usually last long but sick to see when it happens.
Bridgend rec with Dylan, Chris Jones, Caradog, Gibbsy, Tommy, Sac, Taylor Oakley was pretty wild in the mid 00s. As was the Bath scene with Jasper King-harman and Nordberg and co.
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Gotta be a toss up between Harrison and Griff
They’re both notorious for whipping their kit off
Oh, wait….
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Brox works for Sole Tech. He looks after Norway.
He’s rad. We exchange music. He listens to good, heavy shit.
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#claimit - he rides off the side of the ramp after the fakie five o flip in, into a guy in a yellow shirt in 411 Europe.
That’s me.
I was filming hi8. Sent all those tapes to Glass for viewfinder. I wish I still had them. I had no idea how to make copies back then. So much lost good footage.
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Oh man amazing
Tell him, when appropriate, I saw him at simi like quarter of a century ago and he had the best FS ollie I’ve ever seen
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Yep 100 percent
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Best is a really tough call. But massive respect to McCrank who I saw about 20 years apart and was still killing it at the Deaner last summer.
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Best would be GT for sure.
There are a bunch of folk who I’ve seen who have the ability to make the board do whatever they want at will, but GT has not just that but also the ability to looks as smooth as you like no matter how hectic the terrain is, or whether he has even one clue as to the direction he is going in. And adapt as it is happening. And he does’t it faster than most.
But then, late 90s, I remember being so blown away by Ed T.
Watching him lock into grinds and just hold it the way he did was really powerful. And he skated so fast, too.
I think those are my two from a big list.
Gonna give Joslin a guest mention. He does so much mad shit in a couple of tries, it seems.
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Got to watch him for a few minutes today at a jam at a DIY in town. He was phenomenal.
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Was he skating? Sick!
Jon Hayward. Used to ride for Panic. Still kills it on mini. Somewhere I have footage of him doing a blunt bs biggerspin in on mini. To fucking fakie. So hard.
Greg Nowik. Another super consistent ramp ruler. Mind blowing bag of tricks and insane consistency.
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