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i think its the North American version of Magee’s ‘claims direct’.
the only example i can think of is:
apparently Wenning claimed switch ollie El Toro the day after a drunken night out; day followed, Wenning was unavailable :rofl:

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  • Favourite skater: Pre-bellend MJ
  • Favourite video: Hokus Pokus
  • Favourite video part: PJ: PJLWHL
  • Favourite style: Jimmy Wilkins
  • Which skater had the biggest influence on the way you skate?: Koston
  • Most talented skater on planet earth: Gustav
  • Favourite trick: Backtails
  • Hardest trick for you: Hardflips
  • Most illegal trick: Benihana
  • Favourite clip you’ve ever gotten: 3 trick line at docklands
  • Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: H at Northampton doing some mad bs ollie across half the park
  • What’s the one trick that got away?: Backside ollies on transition
  • What’s the biggest bunt you’ve ever witnessed?: no idea what that is
  • What’s the last new trick you learned?: Switch backtails on transition/banks
  • Dream job after skating: fixing computers. Or maybe trading
  • Favourite local brand: Yes Fam
  • Favourite local skater: Kyle
  • What’s the one sponsor you regret riding for?: Reaction, obvs
  • Favourite teammate ever: Rodney Clarke
  • Worst teammate ever: can’t think of any
  • Worst company: Cariuma. Or Braille.
  • Worst trend: Flame hats/beanies
  • Worst style: Pudwill
  • Last person you want on the sess: Anyone that just moans
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This was really hard! I have a lot more respect for people being interviewed when they have to answer these questions!

  • Favourite skater: Andrew Allen

  • Favourite video: Of all time - Jim’s Ramp Jam. Currently - Anything from GX1000

  • Favourite video part: Geoff Rowley - Sorry

  • Favourite style: Brent Atchley

  • Which skater had the biggest influence on the way you skate?: Jason Adams

  • Most talented skater on planet earth: Ishod / Yuto

  • Favourite trick: FS Grinds on tranny

  • Hardest trick for you: Anything switch that involves the board flipping over

  • Most illegal trick: I once Switch Cannonball early-grabbed down Pitchcroft (inspired by Darrel Stanton) so I can’t really comment!

  • Favourite clip you’ve ever gotten: Wallride Nollie down a set of stairs in Kidderminster many many years ago

  • Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: Grant Taylor shredding the Ideal Mini Ramp (RIP)

  • What’s the one trick that got away?: Legit BS Airs on transition

  • What’s the biggest bunt you’ve ever witnessed?: I claimed a boardslide on this bump to long flat rail in Birmingham and dragged Rob Whiston there on 3 separate occasions to film it. Never even popped onto it once! :joy:

  • What’s the last new trick you learned?: Switch K’s on tranny

  • Dream job after skating: Manager of Aston Villa FC

  • Favourite local brand: Sabbath Wheels, Wolf Town or Jewsons Builders Merchants for donating free building materials to Bournbrook DIY!

  • Favourite local skater: Dan “Brute” Brueton

  • What’s the one sponsor you regret riding for?: I wish I was ever good enough to be sponsored!

  • Favourite teammate ever: All the Gnargore homies and Vaughan Baker

  • Worst teammate ever: Jamie Brewer

  • Worst company: Energy Drinks

  • Worst trend: Some of the baggy trousers are getting out of hand

  • Worst style: Emile from Polar

  • Last person you want on the sesh: Birmingham City Council

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  • Favourite skater: Mike Carroll.

  • Favourite video: FTC 2 : Penal Code 100a.

  • Favourite video part: Mike Daher - A Visual Sound.

  • Favourite style: Chris Miller.

  • Which skater had the biggest influence on the way you skate?: Mark Gonzales.

  • Most talented skater on planet earth: Ishod.

  • Favourite trick: 360 flip.

  • Hardest trick for you: any heelflip variation.

  • Most illegal trick: anything late.

  • Favourite clip you’ve ever gotten: Bluntslide to backtail on a bankle than was more like a wall than a bank.

  • Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: Jaya Bonderov SF hillbomb.

  • What’s the one trick that got away?: Back smiths on street.

  • What’s the biggest bunt you’ve ever witnessed?: Back in the late 80’s my crew were all guilty of this, me included. You’d just claim shit, like I landed a five-O on blah blah rail or whatever simply as a means of pushing yourself. Of course you’d have to go there with everyone and at least give it your best shot to put it down. Better to slam like a sack of potatoes than to get called out for bullshitting your mates… To this day no one’s admitted doing it but we all know :wink:.

  • What’s the last new trick you learned?: slappy overcrook.

  • Dream job after skating: Sorry, ‘dream job’ sounds to me like an oxymoron. Having no job is the dream job.

  • Favourite local brand: Cats and Triangles.

  • Favourite local skater: Tom Penny.

  • What’s the one sponsor you regret riding for?: Dole Office.

  • Favourite teammate ever: My wife.

  • Worst teammate ever: Ethan Fowler.

  • Worst company: Disorder.

  • Worst trend: Skinny jeans.

  • Worst style: Felix Arguelles.

  • Last person you want on the sess: Duane Peters.

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  • Favourite skater: Paul Shier
  • Favourite video: Mind Field/Lost and Found
  • Favourite video part: Nate Broussard - Static 3
  • Favourite style: Tom Knox
  • Which skater had the biggest influence on the way you skate?: Every filmer
  • Most talented skater on planet earth: Tom Knox
  • Favourite trick: Nosegrinds
  • Hardest trick for you: Everything
  • Most illegal trick: Dolphin flip
  • Favourite clip you’ve ever gotten: Noseslide in a drained concrete paddling pool
  • Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: Grant Taylor skate the Deaner/Stu Graham walking on a broken foot/Dan Wileman bigflip front board at GWR
  • What’s the one trick that got away?: Front 360
  • What’s the biggest bunt you’ve ever witnessed?: No idea!?
  • What’s the last new trick you learned?: Barley grind, which was about a decade ago
  • Dream job after skating: My current job
  • Favourite local brand: Decimal/Skate Cafe
  • Favourite local skater: Scott Whittaker/Josh Arnott
  • What’s the one sponsor you regret riding for?: I had a lot of Osiris shoes after filming the Big Push, awful quality. BUT big up Matt and Simon Law for all of the support, legends.
  • Favourite teammate ever: Dan Cates/The whole Decimal team
  • Worst teammate ever: Dave Wallace
  • Worst company: Cariuma
  • Worst trend: Wide and long “shorts”
  • Worst style: De Tuna
  • Last person you want on the sess: He knows who he is
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  • Favourite skater: Ryan Gallant
  • Favourite video: Mixtape, WFTW or Photosynthesis - shit hard to pick, yo.
  • Favourite video part: Ryan Gallant - First Love
  • Favourite style: Mike Maldanado
  • Which skater had the biggest influence on the way you skate?: Brian Wenning - despite still not knowing how to nosegrind
  • Most talented skater on planet earth: Gustav
  • Favourite trick: Cab flip - cause PJ can do them and I can do them (sometimes)
  • Hardest trick for you: Half cab nosegrind revert
  • Most illegal trick: Any of those egregious flip tricks with silly names and often flip in an obtuse manner.
  • Favourite clip you’ve ever gotten: backside alley oop flip on crazy brick bank, with a lickle fakie ollie off the curb in Swansea. Actually it was probably just the last part.
  • Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: Alec Marjus just destroying the Exist comp a few years back, everything first go.
  • What’s the one trick that got away?: Half cab crook 270 thingy-mah-bob, I will get you at some point now in a min…Just need to lay off the burgers.
  • What’s the biggest bunt you’ve ever witnessed?: Too many to list as a filmer. I’d have to make my own thread if I did.
  • What’s the last new trick you learned?: 5050 back 180 out.
  • Dream job after skating: Doing what I do now or maybe a half-n-half role cooking dope ass meals for someone cool and looking after their pets whilst I play Playstation
  • Favourite local brand: Furr (R.I.P) and Forecast.
  • Favourite local skater: Matt Davies
  • What’s the one sponsor you regret riding for?: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, cause they didn’t sponsor me
  • Favourite teammate ever: Welsh Tommy - cause he knows what to film and how to film lines or Sam Austin 'cause he’s safe as fook and can cook real good, aye.
  • Worst teammate ever: Billy Trick for stealing my sweets and usually farting in unison with me - only one of us gets to claim the title of bad farter on the trips.
  • Worst company: Energy drink sponsors or Rip’n’Dip
  • Worst trend: Not having titles in videos
  • Worst style: That Youtube skater who only wears red t shirts
  • Last person you want on the sess: Any of those kids who swap between skating and scootering, that kind of indecisiveness can affect your mentality, too.
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  • Favourite skater: Louie Barletta the best mix of everything.
  • Favourite video: Lost & Found
  • Favourite video part: Antwuan Dixon Baker has a Deathwish
  • Favourite style: Stefan Janoski
  • Which skater had the biggest influence on the way you skate?: Tom Kilpatrick and all old Oxford heads.
  • Most talented skater on planet earth: Gustav
  • Favourite trick: BS Half Cabs on transition. Feel amazing.
  • Hardest trick for you: 360 Flips
  • Most illegal trick: Double Flips
  • Favourite clip you’ve ever gotten: Fakie Bigspin Revert over the old Oxford Spine Ramp
  • Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: Tom Watts Kickflip a honking 12 stair with like less than a push run up and it was massive. Also lost the footage, and it was just him and I.
  • What’s the one trick that got away?: Fakie 540’s over hipss/pyramids.
  • What’s the biggest bunt you’ve ever witnessed?: Too savage can’t post it on here.
  • What’s the last new trick you learned?: Fakie Lipslides, fakie shuv out.
  • Dream job after skating: Anything that isn’t giving me crippling anxiety like my current job is.
  • Favourite local brand: SS20
  • Favourite local skater: Justin Parker
  • What’s the one sponsor you regret riding for?: I mildly regret taking money from Extreme so we could go to Belgium on the piss for 4 days and film an edit.
  • Favourite teammate ever: Jason Cloete
  • Worst teammate ever: Jason Cloete
  • Worst company: Usually a board company Grove rides for, lol.
  • Worst trend: Youtube Skaters
  • Worst style: Smedley
  • Last person you want on the sesh: A fart. Anyone lingering around everywhere getting in the way.
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Im really intrigued as to who you are after that haha. @Scurbrampwoody

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It was indeed! Quite surprised so many of my favourite skaters (Gonz! Carroll! Worst! Puleo! Cromer! Drehobl! And so many others) didn’t end in my list but I suppose I’m happy with what I typed.

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  • Favourite skater: Mark Suciu

  • Favourite video: Fully Flared or Andy Evans’ This ‘N’ That

  • Favourite video part: Gravis Dylan

  • Favourite style: Tom Knox

  • Which skater had the biggest influence on the way you skate?: My mate Jamie Marchant or Dennis Busenitz (lol)

  • Most talented skater on planet earth: Tom Penny

  • Favourite trick: Nollie Heel

  • Hardest trick for you: straight nollies, my brain just doesn’t understand the mechanics.

  • Most illegal trick: Hospital Flip, Casper Flip, Dolphin Flip, all that weird YouTuber bollocks.

  • Favourite clip you’ve ever gotten: What felt like a big gap-over-bollard-to-road ollie when I was about 15. Look at it now and it’s barely more than popping off a kerb.

  • Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: Amir Williams hardflipping everything at the old Level, a tiny child doing McTwists on the X-Site mini ramp at Skeg.

  • What’s the one trick that got away?: BS360s.

  • What’s the biggest bunt you’ve ever witnessed?: Dave Wallace took me and a mate to Crawley skatepark when we were staying down there with my mate’s dad when we were 16 or something. We were a bit star struck but it was cool. He claimed he was going to do loads of shit; trashed us both in minutes in a game of S.K.A.T.E then sat in the corner chain smoking for an hour and a half then claimed he was over it and took us back to Burgess Hill. Someone else claimed they saw him ollie a stair set near Brighton Station which honestly must be 30 steps.

  • What’s the last new trick you learned?: Proper slappy grinds

  • Dream job after skating: Car journalist or YouTube golf professional. Seriously.

  • Favourite local brand: Does Sneintonlife or SkateNottingham count?

  • Favourite local skater: Carl Shipman was from Boston iirc, so I’m claiming him.

  • What’s the one sponsor you regret riding for?: The hypothetical skating/parkour/jackass-ripoff hybrid brand we tried to get going in the village I grew up in.

  • Favourite teammate ever: Jamie Marchant (brand as above)

  • Worst teammate ever: This guy who used to hang around with us. Proper ASBO magnet. Used to have massive obnoxious roller skates and spray some cheap WD40-esque stuff on the road and pull big skids through it. Sometimes he’d set it on fire.

  • Worst company: Monarch Project Skateboards, who say they have “the decks to please the Olympian in you”

  • Worst trend: Big hightops with patent leather (Supra and Osiris being the worst offenders)

  • Worst style: Burberry Erry

  • Last person you want on the sess: Knox Godoy

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I always thought Worksop? Baines as well?

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You’re correct. Fuck.

I’m sure I read an interview of someone in Sidewalk that was from Boston. If it’s not him I’ve no fucking clue.

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  • Favourite skater: AVE

  • Favourite video: Mind Field

  • Favourite video part: Jake Johnson – Mind Field

  • Favourite style: Cyrus Bennett

  • Which skater had the biggest influence on the way you skate?: Dylan Rieder

  • Most talented skater on planet earth: Mason Silva

  • Favourite trick: Kickflip or front tail (bigspin out).

  • Hardest trick for you: Fakie heelflip

  • Most illegal trick: dumb drop-ins

  • Favourite clip you’ve ever gotten: This wallride: video part make / iPhone second angle

  • Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: Blinky trying his ender for WELCOME 2: HELL

  • What’s the one trick that got away?: At least one thing I try to film every other week.

  • What’s the biggest bunt you’ve ever witnessed?: See above.

  • What’s the last new trick you learned?: Front tail flip out.

  • Dream job after skating: Some form of employment still involving writing.

  • Favourite local brand: Friends who make physical copies of skate videos. Shout out to Joe Allen, Will Smith and @sk8arrog8.

  • Favourite local skater: Richard ‘Arms’ Amitage and Tom Brown

  • What’s the one sponsor you regret riding for?: –

  • Favourite teammate ever: Paul ‘Wapo’ Watson

  • Worst teammate ever: @anonymity*

  • Worst company: RIPNDIP

  • Worst trend: badly fitting overly baggy pants

  • Worst style: Blondey

  • Last person you want on the sesh: Anyone littering or being disrespectful at spots.

*joking, of course

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Great thread - want to respond but 3 beers deep at someone’s house in London so will do when I’m not pissed.
Love the Bunt.
Will post a [/cmoac] related photo to go with re Bunt innit.
One love to all you Michael Fabricants.

Don’t post enough any more because the forum only works on my work pc these days.

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P.S. I think corpsehands and I are doing another boozy video pod soon. Any suggestions on vids to talk drunk shite about much appreciated

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Harder that I thought and can’t just pick one at all, no chance.

Favourite skater: Sheesh. Can’t pick one but lets go with young Tom Knox at the moment, hes rad.
Favourite video: Hard. Hokus Pokus was the first, so special mention to that. 21 Shot hit heavy back in the day for sure, first vid I saw post-BPSW and that got me well stoked.
Favourite video part: Couldn’t tell you, so much good stuff out there…Static 4 Jahmal Williams was shit hot though and St Tom Knox probably my recent new fave.
Favourite style(s): Carroll, JLee, Gino and Chico - Loved seeing Chico and Gino on the Poets x CS insta recently!
Which skater had the biggest influence on the way you skate? No matter who or what I say, it wont show in my skating haha
Most talented skater on planet earth: Pfff. Shrugging.
Favourite trick: Varial flips - half joking here
Hardest trick for you: I keep promising to force myself to back tail as its incredibly difficult due to being blind in left eye whilst skating goofy
Most illegal trick: Benihana. A bit too Kasper.
Favourite clip you’ve ever gotten: 3 set kickflip was as good as it got.
Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: H in the Rampworx bowl but I can’t remember anything as it was like 22 years ago.
What’s the one trick that got away?: Most get away.
What’s the biggest bunt you’ve ever witnessed?: I know nothing of this
What’s the last new trick you learned?: I spend my skating life in pursuit of tricks I learnt 30 years ago and lost since
Dream job after skating: Not done skating yet, but I’m doing what I’m happy doing in IT. Hoping to stretch out skating for another 5 years, see what happens at 50.
Favourite local brand: Cafe - they’re not local, but I like what they do.
Favourite local skater: I skate alone for respite from life and I don’t know any locals
What’s the one sponsor you regret riding for?: lol
Favourite teammate ever: rofl
Worst teammate ever: lmao
Worst company: Cariuma are pretty nasty
Worst trend: Too baggy or too slim jeans.
Worst style: pfff…that Pudwill kid is a bit too animated for me lol
Last person you want on the sesh: Shrugging, I skate solo these days - maybe I’m the one you dont want on the sesh? :sweat_smile:

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  • Favourite skater: John Lucero

  • Favourite video: Sour Solution III

  • Favourite video part: John Lucero Label Kills

  • Favourite style: Antwuan Dixon

  • Which skater had the biggest influence on the way you skate?: Hard to say as my skating is so low level ha but maybe Danny Sargent as can at least do some of the tricks in his parts

  • Most talented skater on planet earth: Mark Suciu

  • Favourite trick: Backside slappy 5050

  • Hardest trick for you: Backside 180, inconsistent with them but feel good when I get them

  • Most illegal trick: the no complys that are like two motions, step off the board with both feet then snap the tail

  • Favourite clip you’ve ever gotten: low level three trick line at a local carpark

  • Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: A mate skating local gaps

  • What’s the one trick that got away?: backside 180 on a pyramid

  • What’s the biggest bunt you’ve ever witnessed?: Can’t remember any

  • What’s the last new trick you learned?: backside 360 no comply but need to get them properly

  • Dream job after skating: Freelance translator

  • Favourite local brand: Ideal

  • Favourite local skater: Woodley

  • What’s the one sponsor you regret riding for?: N/A

  • Favourite teammate ever: N/A

  • Worst teammate ever: N/A

  • Worst company: Cariuma

  • Worst trend: in your face youtubers

  • Worst style: fake steez

  • Last person you want on the sess: Security guard

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I never skated solo that much until the first lockdown as it used to scare me. Then I started skating on my own, experimenting different ways to skate, which was and is pretty interesting when you’ve been skating for a long time. I also do social work with seniors with various physical and cognitive impairments 3 to 4 days a week which takes a lot of energy, and I therefore need a fair amount of me time, even on my board.
I’m 40 and still want to learn tricks. Sometimes I’ll go to a spot hoping I’ll be on my own so I can be in my zone and focus on a trick I’ve had in mind for days, and if there’s people there it kinda bugs me, which is silly as I always end having good fun skating with my mates or even people I’ve never met before. I need to do that more. You should too, probably. Give it a go, it’s good for the soul.

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Does it have to be a video you guys made? If not, WFTW seems mandatory. Pretty sure you’d have good stories about the Big Push too. Or get really pissed, watch The Storm and record everything you say.

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post pls