I like the OTT Fort Knox security for the bowls club
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First one I did. Chester Registry office - the rail is gone now, there used to be steps where the pebble bank is. Also no blind bumps. This was > 30 years ago though :zany_face.
Edit: Just noticed that not only did the remove the straight run up rail, but they’ve also skate stopped the remaining 3 rails, as if the blind bumps weren’t enough.
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Alex on Gonz and those Harrow rails, (Sidewalk interview by Jono Coote, 2015).
‘’ We all skate together for a bit and at some point I mention the handrails round the back of the park and ask if he fancies a session on them. Much to my delight, he immediately answers in his crazy high-pitched voice, “yeah, I’ll go check em out”. We go round there and little do I know the annihilation that’s about to be unleashed.
At this point I could maybe do 4 tricks on rails, in fact it was the day I learned smith grinds, so that ought to give you some idea of where the level of rail skating was at this point. The Gonz gets up and the first thing he does on the rail, first try, is a fs salad grind. I’m thinking ‘okay, that was mental, I’ve never even seen that trick on anything other than a mini ramp’. He comes back up to the top and immediately does a bs salad grind, I’m starting to trip out – two new tricks in two minutes. Third trick, frontside 180 fakie nosegrind, gets on right at the top, cruises the whole thing, boom. So amazing.
I’m like, ‘ok he’s probably pretty much done now’: nope. His crazy creative brain kicks in, here we go: he starts trying noseblunt slides. This is before the Blind video and at this point Curtis and me were throwing nosebluntslides around on kerbs but we hadn’t really seen anyone do them properly yet. He’s throwing them around, we’re freaking out and he pretty much lands one sketchily but the fact that he’s even trying something like that is insane. This is how his brain works, it goes into overload so he starts trying 270 ollie boardslides, tries them for a bit, gets into a bunch of them but half way through switches to trying half flip darkslides down it. We’re going nuts by this point. So then he gives up on that, drops a switch boardslide like it’s nothing; bearing in mind that switch didn’t even exist yet. By now, we’re really beginning to lose it at what we’re seeing. And then just when we thought it couldn’t get any more insane, he finished the day of annihilation off with a switch 180 to 5050 down the rail.
That just blew me away, I’d just had the best session of my life right there and I knew it. Genius…’’
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