ABP at some point, right? Anyways, watched this on Saturday night as I missed a gig I wanted to go to and was ill as fook. Fairplay, this was pretty well put together in my opinion.
Just a warning for anyone watching it with missus or weans around, it has a few bits of absolute carnage with crackheads (heads being kicked on floor and general fight malarkey, bumholes and fannies hanging out, peeing, pooping, needles in arms and all that shit). I enjoyed how much they went into the history of not only the spot, but around the surrounding area. Lots of interviews with different people that aren’t skaters, too.
I got to skate it last year and the ledges are high and pretty rough these days. It was pretty quiet and fairly early in the morning, so no chaos to be had (pretty sure it’s calmed down in recent years AND with it being made skate-friendly, too). However had two bag 'eds come out of the blue as I got the camera out to film and both tried to speak to me in French, which I know fuck all haha.
@MaxFacePalmer -You’ll find a podcast episode and an Iain Borden and Patrick Sean Quinn interview that covers this spot in the Concrete Reality thread. (The interview covers Rom, Livi, The Turf and a load of others too).
Watched this last night - the interesting aspect is definitely the amount of archival footage from the 70s / 80s, pretty unique for the majority of activities in Czechoslovakia at that time I would think?
The skating is a mix of slalom, freestyle & high jump mainly with a bit of ramp & street - features some footage from Euro Skate 1988 too.
Just watching this… perfick lazy Sunday morning viewing.
The Retired Mayor of Balboa Park bit is nuts - smacks into the back of and flips over a Prius that pulls out in front of him (then, later, bum-boards down the hill for redemption).
I’ve got nothing to show yet, and this could sit in the stoked/pointless topic thread too.
I’ve started production on a documentary about Jamie Clapp, my friend who died when I was 17.
You can take a deep dive on the internet and research his story, but long story short, he died in a plane crash due to the pilot being under the influence of ecstasy. Following his death we managed to build Emersons Green Skatepark, which now has official memorial status as the Jamie Lee Clapp Memorial Park.
It’s taken me a long time to figure out how to tell this story and tell it right, but I think I can do it now.
It’ll be premiered at a film festival next year, and online shortly after that.
