Oh wow! September will come around quicker than you know it!
Thank you, it’s shaping up nicely so far, we just need to keep the momentum going with the filming missions.
Our aim is to premiere it in January.
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Oh yeah. That’s amazing. Of course! Stoked now.
When eBay was new a customer at my old work sold a copy of the Ghostbusters theme to Ray Parker Jr.
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Nice one J.R. Hartley.
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I know we’re all woke as fuck now and we left that thread behind, but fuck me Rachel Khoo is an absolute worldie.
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Just googled her. Her style is interesting - sort of conservative 50s housewife attire exterior but for some reason she gives me rockabilly vibes too.
Probably the headscarves
Clip for clip, is Frank stephens the uk’s most prolific skater?
Part for part even.
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I think in that recent Baines interview, Anon said he’d worked out it was a tie between Frank, Joe Gavin and Baines.
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Aye, that was a few years ago mind but I think it’s probably still true.
Joe G probably slightly in the lead
It probably changes day to day now. : (
It doesn’t count if no one cares. (Hop King edits)
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How many parts was Frank worked out to have?
I want to say 27 but seeing that in writing sounds ridiculous
yeah i think that was last count but it’s gone up since mondon and co have re-upped forgotten ipswich videos
I believe Duane Peters invented it and named it after Independent trucks. He only did them backside in a very particular way so the trick was a backside back hand grab rather than the grab itself. Kinda like how Tony Hawk invented the Madonna, and the trick has to have the tail smack to be called that, as that’s the trick he did and called it as such, not the grab itself
Also similar to the Cab, it’s named after what Steve Cab did as a signature thing, not the name of a fakie 360 spin which is why people argue nollie cab or frontside cab is the wrong name for it
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…or like how a method is backside and the same trick done frontside is a lien - both done first by Blender.
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Yeah an Indy air is so much harder than a frontside air too! And feels completely different as a body movement. Same with a Lien air and a backside air, totally different feeling tricks.
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The sad thing was already running before the melancholy/ollie was named - from sadplant, (which incidentally was named after Sadlands), it’s all in the straight front leg. Without straightening your front leg you’re just doing a backside grab. Before we said ‘meloncollie’ , which was quickly shortened to just ‘melon’,we’d say ‘sad grab’ . So the melon grab (backside sad grab) was already kind of a play on words from the start. I haven’t heard anyone say sad grab for a long time now though - it’s good that the term’s hung on somewhere.
Neil Blender did the method air in order to win a high air contest where the height was measured from where the skater’s board was…that was his ‘method’ to go the highest. He later did the opposite, in that he grabbed in the same way but turned frontside, hence the name - Neil reversed became Lien. They, (lien airs) can be grabbed both ways. Properly backside for a methoded out lien air or, as is more commonplace, like you said, nearer to the nose, especially when going to tail. Frontside melons are grabbed backside with the front hand but have to have the sad/boned out front leg in order for them to be considered melons…but you all knew that 
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Isn’t there a Partridge thread? The third one’s up and it’s not as unfunny. Some really terrible stuff (interview with the Guardian guy) but there’s a few funny lines.
“Have you ever seen Spaghetti Junction? I had a helicopter ride over it for my 40th. Best birthday present I ever bought myself.”
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Never doing one again 
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“Oh no, Duane Peters is offended!”
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