Gabriel Summers ‘Gabbers’ part / Gabbers appreciation thread

Everyone’s favourite mid 30s handrail lunatic and Zero refugee on fucking fire.

This crazy bastard makes me love skateboarding so much.

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Sick to see him skate some British rails that rarely get skated.

Blondey posted his guest trick to social media weeks ago because he’s an attention-seeking turnip.

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It didn’t even register.

Cyrus’s did though

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Really great. Watched it 3 times, which I never do these days.

Guess next year’s board is going to have to be a Thames

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Cyrus with best trick.

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Loved it. Hanging on for dear life.

His Out There was a bit too gnarly for me. Didn’t want to see the head bonk again tbh, but yeah, dude is nuts/gnarly/unhinged in a way that if he was my mate I’d probably want to discourage him and then watch like this when he inevitably tells me to go fuck myself :face_with_peeking_eye:

So good. So glad he got the ender!

What happened with him and Zero?

Pretty sure he claimed Chris Cole not getting a public sacking

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Loved that! What a diamond.

That slam on the kick flip 5050 was sickening.

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Various things I think but he’s on record as attributing it to being unhappy with the way Zero dealt with the Chris Cole thing.

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Lifted from Slap:

Gabbers from new Thrasher:

Q: I know before you officially left Zero, it seemed like you might’ve been hoping for other offers to hop to. Why did you leave before you had a solid backup plan?

A: It sounds fucking lame, but I wanted to do it for so long. And then when all that Chris Cole shit happened, and the way they dealt with that, I don’t know—so many people die from domestic abuse in Australia—I just thought that whole shit was such a dumpster fire. I just felt like, the way they dealt with it was like, Oh, he doesn’t get to complain. He’s lucky he has a career. That’s how it felt to me, how they talked about it. I remember one time I pressed Jamie about doing a statement about the whole thing. Just because I didn’t feel right riding for a company that wasn’t at least saying like, Hey, this is not good. Because it’s like you’re putting it out there that that’s shit you can get away with, and it shouldn’t be put out that you can get away with that. You know, people do that shit because they’re not educated in knowing that shit is wrong. I didn’t think it was right how they dealt with it, even if they were trying to save their ass. And I think in the long run, it kind of goes to show that it was the wrong decision.

Q: I mean, they did fire him.

A: But they did it, like, under the table, you know what I mean?

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Thanks @sk8arrog8 Just another reason to rate him. Please feel free to post other Gabriel Summers content in this thread too everybody - he deserves it.

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So glad this part got its own thread. Had just watched his Out There last night and was really hyped on him. This part was the icing on the cake. Also, having to balls to fuck Zero off because of the Chris Cole shit clearly demonstrates that he has some integrity, which is quite lacking across the industry these days. Then he goes on to ride for Thames. What a ledge. I can almost forgive him skating to Dido in his last part now.

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The Out There and this back to back was a rollercoaster! Hyped for him - never a dull a moment watching him.

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Guys fucking nuts!

Skateboardings Martin Riggs.

He hasn’t been on my radar really (thats Zero for you) so thought I’d go back a bit…Quite enjoyed this whilst eating my tea.

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Martha Wainwright for a skate video worked amazingly well.

Rad, rad part. Nose to tailslide was sick.

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I was dreading a slip up to crooked grind.

Luckily Gabbers has a good bs tailslide.

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ABD anyway haha

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