making pissing about on a skateboard look the best thing
Him again.
Wearing Neds shoes.
Sometimes it’s not about the destination…
Mad that he still goes for it at his age
That big heavy board can’t be the easiest for manuals either
I almost posted this!
My favourite of all the 40/50 year old men falling over in a car park.
I would have gone home after two (maybe three) smaller tumbles. 
Any one of those slams on that trick and I would give up for ever.
I’m actually flabbergasted that he got up so many times - they were all proper slams. Maybe him filling out a bit over the years makes taking the hits a bit easier? I’m a skinny streak of piss and one of those would be enough to end the session (yes, I’m a soft lad).
*edit - I recall that his first nickname was “slam man”, so he clearly has some innate ability for it!
Yeah, you gotta respect the persistence, eh.
A couple of weeks back I found an unskated crusty looking ledge, went down and gave it the rub brick and wax treatment. I did mean to lacquer it but I gave it a few 50s and it started to go, so session on. I kept crooking it and wanted to get a back nosegrind instead. I couldn’t land a decent one. I didn’t want to go home empty handed so thought I’d settle for a snowploughed effort. I covered the top in wax, plus my nose and front truck.
First go I unexpectedly sort of landed in a back noseblunt and slid out and BAM! It was so quick. Like fired out of a cannon straight at the floor quick. Somehow I got my hands down before I smashed face first into the ground. I took a minute to compose myself and tried again.
It stuck dead despite how icy I had made it with the wax overkill and I supermanned, arms out, to the flat again. I thought fuck it and I gave it one last shot and It slipped out on top just like the first attempt and I had to stick my hands out again. I had to call it a day.
After decades of slamming there’re a few bits of my body that, if I slam on them just once in the right/wrong place they end up fucked. I went home with tweaked wrists, smashed palms and two of my fingers on my right hand were numb for 24 hours.
It’s now just over two weeks later and my wrists still feel a little jacked and I’ve still got speckly palms. I’m a couple of years younger than him and I’m in better shape but those slams knocked the shit out of me. There’s probably a lot to be said for being a bit of a chunky monkey.
Because he’s a New Yorker - “Hey, I’m skating here!”
wtf
that’s so good
54 as well!
Saw your post while on holiday last week and made the best of my lunch brek today. Thanks mate.
My second* = franc!
(*age related disclaimer here)
I’ve been seeing these clothes on and off for a while now. I always thought they were unauthorised knockoffs like those Far East Bobby Puleo Traffic decks… Clearly not.
Brooklyn Banks handrail, 1987.
holy shit! both the trick, and that it was even filmed (at nighttime too)
There’re infrequent occasions when I would like to have an Insta account, this being one of them.
I had a dig to see if I could find the photo/ footy of the aforementioned elsewhere but no dice.
I did find this memory jogger though.
I don’t know who shot it but I had the colour version pride of place over my desk bitd. It (the full colour shot) was published in Edge magazine, (UK surf / skate mag), in ‘87. I think it may have been the April issue and was probably part of a short Gonz interview. It also may have been a slightly different angle and I’m pretty sure it was less blurred. But who knows as a lot of time has passed and the ol’ memory’s not quite what it used to be.
That is the colour one - wherever you’ve got that from has changed it. It’s from Transworld, June 1987 (the Swank-push cover) and O shot it.
Cheers @buildafire .Pretty sure I’ve got the Swank cover TWS stashed away, (copy acquired way after it came out), and with a bit of luck it’s still intact and that photo’s still in there.
I’m almost certain that the Gonz photo that I pulled out was from a copy of Edge that I had. I binned or lost all of my copies of those mags so long ago now. From memory Edge wasn’t super heavy with skate related content but I’d take whatever I could get at the time.
I think that Gonz interview was in this one.
(I found the cover pic on VintageSkateboardMagazines.com)
Slap head scanned 60/40 print ads over here:
https://skateoutlaw.medium.com/60-40-66beb1335336
where i took this from
