Not gonna lie, I thought Becker was just a Berrics/skatepark Instagram guy. He’s actually fucking amazing. Sick style, asleep at the wheel. Even makes the Carumbas look ok!
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…and so it begins.
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Even Wade couldn’t make Cariumas look good. It’s not possible.
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I really like the Nigel shoe, but I can’t because Nigel
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Tim dowling pioneered this in the early girl and chocolate days- he said he wanted the trick to be a surprise to some degree, so you weren’t seeing the obstacle far before the trick.
One of the only interesting 9 clubs.
Was anyone doing it before dowling? Wonder how far it can be traced back
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Sounds like the beginnings of an Andy Evans video sketch.
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It’s a possibility. I haven’t had a look though. I have a feeling that Sheffey’s ‘A Soldier’s Story’ part had a few tricks filmed front on. Again, I haven’t been bothered to look, so I could be talking bollocks.
Those Jante videos have tons of ‘from the front’ lines too
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Ha ha. That’s the subject at hand and where this line of convo originated from.
We’ve gone full circle.
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Ah right - didn’t bother reading
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There are quite a lot of examples of filming in front, pre-Pontus. Pontus just took the idea and pushed it.
Dan Wolfe shot quite a bit up front. Jamie Thomas did, too. Adrian Lopez in Thrill of it All has a few examples and I think Misled Youth gets fairly heavy with it.
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Is there a Carroll line that starts with a front on trick (Or maybe it’s BA), doing a tre?
I think that Disorder edit may have caused some sort of ‘Disruption’ to the time/space continuum as I watched it. That 11 minutes felt like 11 hours. I looked up at one point and actually said out loud, ‘Jesus, is this still going?’
Some pretty top notch shit went down but the whole thing was dull as dishwater. Thanks Nigel for yet another superfluous skateboard company.
On the plus side though, it did remind me of a long forgotten but great night out I spent at Andy Weatherall’s club night, Sabresonic (early nineties) with Chemical Glen , who had been the drummer for a bit in Disorder (UK punk band), back in the mid eighties. Funny fella.
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Nigel’s fit always makes him look like he’s running late for a tennis lesson.
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Wow.
Yeah, I know, Mike Mo 2.0. (Fake flip heads up at 1.23).
The line that starts at 4:21 he’s riding a Cheech and Chong Penny board. After the impossible he floaty kickflips out of a driveway bump - a nod to Penny?
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Scott Dittrich in Rob Roskopp section Wheels of Fire 
Been waiting for this…gonna watch it later.
Hate to be that guy but that Dylan Jaeb is so utterly uninteresting and dull. He’s evidently incredible but nothing about his skating interests me at all.
Courthouse line was nuts though.
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I like him. Feels nostalgic.
I really hope he develops some ‘flavour’ for lack of a better word
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