This is what I’m struggling with. I just don’t believe there are enough flips/spins/rotations that your board can do to realistically reach 1,000 flatground tricks. Maybe I just lack the galaxy-brain of Jamie, but I am a naysayer: he’s created a rod for his own back here and isn’t making 1,000.
Over the course of the next year, he will begin to go insane in his shed as he forlornly tries to wrap his increasingly tattered legs around his slowly disintegrating skateboard during the harsh Irish winter. Driven to madness, he will eventually eat his own cat.
He regularly does things that I wouldn’t have considered possible - a couple of weeks ago he did a sw big spin to late impossible - so I wouldn’t bet against him getting to the target.
He has his list I reckon, just whether he’s landed them all previously or not. Proabably loads of (his) wishlist tricks that are just ‘In theory’ possible.
He’s a chap from rural (?) Ireland that gained a big instagram following for doing incredibly technical stalls on a coffee table and sofa in the shed of his parents house. He moved to London and got sponsored by hopking (a stinking braille/revive type skatepark/skate company) and boohoo men. He went increasingly viral and went to the battle of the berrics and won. They never gave him the money.
Everyone made fun of him because of his outlandish stationery tech and lack of understanding of traditional skate norms.
He put out ‘street’ parts, perhaps because he just had the oppurtunity to skate real spots, or perhaps in an attempt to prove his legitimacy as a conventional skater.
His lack of nuance and street skating acumen led to them being mocked heavily online by gifted hater and the general public.
He took acid and quit his sponsors and moved home and went pretty quiet.
He has just re-emerged
Yeah really crap of them.
As much as I find the sort of skating he does laughable (which I accept is mean spirited and reveals my fickle nature) I do think he got a harsh deal. He’s a kid that grew up skating a shed and moved to one of the most cool guy skate scenes in the world, with the added pressure of being a massive viral hit with pre teens and casual skate fans.
The hate he gets is completely expected but I do also wonder what sort of hammering his sense of self worth and happiness took over the last few years.
I’m personally genuinely happy that he is back home in a comfortable environment doing the skating that he spent so long producing and I assume enjoying.
Thanks for sharing the back-story - had no idea about this guy. Was there any explanation as to why the Berrics didn’t pay him his prize money?
For what it’s worth, I wouldn’t normally watch someone skate flat in their garden, unless they were Gino or Busenitz or something, but those 100 tricks were sick, and done on what looks like shit ground.
Think they’re just broke and Berra is a knob, little more to it than that.
Essentially he’s just a weird, super good nerd that got kind of co-opted by skate-YouTube and moved to the big city and it guess it didn’t work for him.
I would really love to see a full in-depth interview with him for a legit source like, say … I dunno… ANON FOR FREE?
No idea if he has much to say for himself but I bet it would be fascinating if he was self aware and would probably have some insightful moments
