Meanwhile Gap was bigger than I was expecting, but Parliament Square Road gap was smaller.
My biggest shock was seeing a vert ramp for the first time as a little grom. Just pumping it, and only getting halfway up it. Standing at the top and looking over the coping was like looking over the edge of a cliff 
Stockwell - I’d seen footage but didn’t realise just how gnarly it was, how deep and high things are there. It’s not the kind of place you can just have a mellow cruise around, you have to go fast and commit, but all the locals made it look mellow. And those steps! How can anyone do anything over those?
Same with Rom. Rom is mental.
Agree on Stockwell. I had visions of popping floaty ollies over the bumps and I was a bit overwhelmed as I was already too old and injured for gnarly stuff. That’s one place I wish I got to skate when I was younger and had no fear about just popping off anything you feel.
I’ve not seen a vert ramp in person for over a decade. Was in awe of the vert at Mount Hawke when I went last month 
Of all the types of skating I’ve never been able to do (hucking, ledge tech, rails, nearly everything else) vert looks the most fun. Just doing massive floaty airs or really long basic grinds must feel mint.
I used to skate that ramp a little, about 25 years ago (fuck me, that’s depressing) but was never very good at vert. It never used to have that roll in.
I’d love to get into vert though. It’s pretty ‘oldie’ friendly once you get the hang of sliding on your knees lol
Has anyone else got skate spot bucket lists?
Mine were to skate a vert ramp (only managed to pump from the flat bottom 
but I did drop in on a stinking 12 ft quarterpipe with fat bmx coping a few times), skate an empty pool (ticked off somewhere on the south coast near hove iirc) and skate a full pipe (shocked to find a skateable full pipe a few hundred meters from wife’s country home).
5050 slappy 5050, even if it looks like a nosegrind. Look at how he gets out of it. Daclin talked about it.
This section is so ill. Switch lip on a rail, that Gonz flip through the rail, tons of wallies, fuck, it even has the Gonz in Accels… The guy was pretty low-key in the late 90s but he was still as avant-garde as he was in the Video days era. Legend.
I used to love the old Bay66 vert ramp with the half height roll in on the side. Could get the feeling of skating vert without dropping in, or starting from the bottom.
Half a second but to get up there’s that moment where is weight is further forward than centered. Sort of like when you’re a grom tic taccong up curbs.
I remember being at Wallenberg and not understanding how anyone even ollied it; it was so big! Also the run up was mad, downhill, bumpy and having to go through a gate from what I remember!
However I was hocked how low the Pier 7 ledges and manny pads were, I always thought they were gonna be fairly large for some reason and then you get there and they’re like a curb high!
Another one that was smaller than I thought were the hubba hideout ledges, after watching the ON video doc I thought they were gonna be practically unskateable for a no pro but when I got there, they kinda just felt like the size of most UK hubbas at the time. Don’t get me wrong it was high but not as high as made out in the doc!
The China banks were super steep though and the hills in general were crazy steep!
When we were young we used to say we weren’t bothered about going pro, we just wanted a photo printed in a magazine.
I remember right when we’d just started skating, year 8, my friend sending in some photos to Sidewalk of him ollieing over a coke can thinking they’d get printed.
They weren’t.
Vert ramp at Creation in Brum is huge. Would be epic to drop in on that. Dropping in to the bowl is scary enough. Fuck, I want to skate. Weather is drier it seems.
I remember a friend telling me that Wallenberg is wide enough to park a car on.
NY spots that stood out were the courthouse ledge and Roosevelt island, I think I saw that before anything was done and was mindblown.
I’m scared of heights and standing at the top of those scared the shit out of me.
I went to the Sunset Car Wash and it was so steep and tall that I literally couldn’t run up it to the top. Granted I was wearing slippery Nikes but still, it’s a behemoth. I had a few tries and gave up, I just wanted to look down from the top of it!
Would be epic - I see what you did there 
I was in Hastings yesterday and saw this rail next to the station. Thought, I’d like to see someone skate that, but a quick search didn’t reveal anything.
Paging Joe Hinson… 
Very scabby bank to wall
