Some cool footage of Phelps in this.
and thisâŚ
That BTO piece is perfect
Cant say I was a fan especially after heâs trip to London and the spitting on kids incident,bloody good skateboarder in his day though.
Great Phelps obituary for the NYT. Written by Willy Staley, the same writer of the Phelps profile for California Sunday three years ago.
That NYT piece was really good.
My brother converted some old VHS tapes of Board Stupid, the snowboarding programme presented by Normski. This features Jake Phelps snowboarding.
The opening few seconds of Jake explaining to a room full of snowboarders that the terms âfrontside airâ and âIndyâ are not interchangeable made me smile.
âWhat do you think about Switzerland?â
âIt smells like dung around hereâ
Just sent this to Phil (Young) lolz at the amount of hair he has in this.
Additional tale via above communication.
âWe skated full pipes together that day then Phelps got drunk and pissed himself on the couch. The producer kicked him out at that pointâ
âYou can go much faster on a snowboardâ
âOh yeah? Tried luging? Youâre talking outta your ass buddyâ
I always feel like there are a lot of parallels between Phelps and Bukowski.
Theyre both figureheads of movements (Beat poets/Hellride), were undeniably good at what they did, people that never met them put them on a pedestal and they look like theyd be absolutely horrendous to hang out with for anything more than 2 minutes
Bukowski was way better at poetry though, letâs face it
Phelps lost a bet with @Brewer that he couldnât do a nollie flip in the pub whilst holding a full pint. To be fair to Brewer, he nailed it and didnât spill a drop. Phelps never paid up.
This may or may not have happened - my memory of that evening is very hazy!
What a bastard
He got fully bollocked by a female local for smashing a beer bottle at stockwell, I wasnât there unfortunately
Edit - WKD blue bottle, ha
Close. It was with Ben Blake who bet I couldnât do it, Phelps backed me to do it. Ben never paid up to me or Phelps. Iâll have to remind him at next weeks five a side.
I donât even remember Ben being there haha! Like I said - very hazy!
Add his debt onto his subs for Goals next week!