I’m fairly sure he’s already filmed the Pier 7 one too
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Yeah for sure.
I don’t know who any of these girls are but they are sick
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He is fucking sick
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Pretty sick slice of Hong Kong skating.
You don’t see nollie heel front nose much these days, especially not in a line. Top marks
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Great tour vid of Girl in Oz.
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Maybe holding most of it back for a future full length? As he’s not allowed in the states at the moment. Over stayed visa or something (might be wrong on that).
God aye I saw that too on slap I think. Was absolutely brutal, same event I’m sure!
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I had never seen footage of BA’s hurricane before, stoked on that (and on the whole thing of course).
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Carl Shipman rode away from a front blunt before BA, and he got the cover for it. Weird they didn’t show that.
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Just saw that Thrasher posted on Insta about the episode and included a bunch of famous photos inc the Shipman front blunt cover.
Did he not roll away or something?
Before you mentioned it I had no idea it was ABD.
What’s the back story?
@anon28148673 : from the Rowley Staples Centre
vid - i had no idea this bit from NWO was there, ha
also, its shoulder high when Rowley stands next to it.
fuck.
that.
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"I like the Thrasher cover but it just reminds me of a headache because I hated skating that spot. I fucking hated that spot because it was like a proving ground. ‘This got done down Hubba, that got done down Hubba’, and so on. I did a few tricks down it, I did a backside nosegrind, backside lipslide, stuff like that but never got pictures took. I was more stoked backside lipsliding it than I ever would be frontside bluntsliding it because it was a nightmare.
As much as memorable tricks went down there, I fucking hated that spot. I don’t know if you’ve been but it’s just horrible. It’s high to get on, and it doesn’t slant with the stairs so it’s pretty mellow too. When you see stuff that went down there, like Koston’s backside nosebluntslide, you just don’t realise how fucking hard—and high—that thing is. At the time we were skating that with 45mm wheels, you know? Haha! So any trick at that time was pretty amazing.
This comes up sometimes, so to be clear—you landed it right? Just a bit sketchy?
Course I did. People always doubt it but the thing is that Thrasher always had the policy that if you don’t make it, they won’t run it as a cover. So I made it sketchy, not really happy about it, and they wanted me to go back and film it for the Stereo video, but I wasn’t going back. At the time I just felt like I wasn’t a fucking performing monkey so I wasn’t going back there. I’d only just come back from Northampton, so it came from doing that trick on the flat rail at the Northampton contest, flying out with Stereo and then being taken straight there by the photographer to frontside bluntslide Hubba Hideout because no-one had done it.
I was just like, “Are you fucking kidding me?”, but I tried it a few times and I was getting into it each time until I slipped out and nearly smashed my head on it. Landed on a few, rolled out on a few and fell down, then landed on one sketchy and rolled away, and I just said, “Right, that’s it”. They all said I had to film it for the video, but nah. I wasn’t interested in that spot because it wasn’t fun. It was fucking shit. Because people don’t see it, they doubt it. The same with any trick. I always remember kickflipping the Meanwhile gap in ’91 or ’92, and I don’t think anyone had flipped it at the time. Gonz ollied it, then you had Curtis who did a one-foot over it, and I flipped it but no-one filmed it."
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I’ve gotta disagree, I went to along to hubba to have a look when I was in SF and I thought it didn’t seem so big. I wasn’t getting on it obviously but it didn’t seem as big as had been made out in ON video etc. I’d seen bigger UK hubbas!
In contrast I went to the OG Wallenberg and it’s absolutely HUGE. I don’t understand how anyone has even ollied it with the non ramp run up. You’ve gotta go down a hill and then carve through a gate before you even hit the main run up!
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Completely agree.
I went there right before Hubba got skate stopped and there was a little session. For certain tricks, it seemed tall but not insane. Noseslide a K stuff was perfect.
I also went to Wallenburg a bunch, just to skate the ledges and each time we would take that run up through the gate just to get a feel for it.
You’d roll towards the top step and it just seemed so, so far. One or two people with us ollied from the 2nd. The 3rd seemed heavy. The fourth was unimaginable. I think at that point the flip melon had just gone down in the most recent TWS video…that seemed out of this world.
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Ever get anything on it?
