Welcome to termsports radio. I'm Ryan along with me. We've got Mr. Buckmill.
Hello. And today we're going to be talking about a lovely little video that you may have thought we missed. You may have thought we missed it. It's been a couple of weeks, three weeks ago.
It was released actually. Nice. So it's still, you know, it's too far away from it. But we haven't missed it.
We just had to get some scheduling sorted and everything like that. That's it. We already spoke about ourselves. So, you know, we didn't totally miss it.
We spoke about it when it was relevant. But we've had a few things to do, haven't we? Yeah, exactly. We've got content to put out there.
And this one just, it's coming. It's here now. Anyway, it's here. You click the button.
You've got what you've asked for. It's here now. DC shoes, Kevin, Bill, you links part, which I was super excited about when it came up. So if I'm excited about it, DC love what I am.
I think that Will is 10 times as excited as me, especially what, you know, Mr. Kevin, Bill, you were in there. Definitely, definitely excited for that, mate. It doesn't feel like too long ago.
I was talking about him just turning pro. So, definitely excited to see what he was going to be putting out. Obviously, we saw a couple clips here and there kind of hyping us up for it. The billboard advertisement for him and the new links collab sort of thing.
So, yeah, definitely exciting. Before we actually dive into the video, we're going to kind of do it like a skate companion. So we'll press play at the same time. You can listen along to us kind of commentating them.
We'll do a little breakdown. Yeah. But before we get into that, I just wanted to say that he, this Mr. Kevin, Bill, you, mate, is without him.
Where would you see this? Direct question. Yeah. All right.
Where would be where would be CB if you didn't have a skater like him right now in a relevancy of skateboarding? I think they'd be missing out on a huge opportunity there, pushing at the moment, you know, early 2000s, 90s style, everything is kind of creeping its way back. You know, it's creeped back into skateboarding. It's staying relevant again.
And it's being strung out and pushed onto the new people. Obviously, people like John Shanahan kind of really paving the ways and keeping the momentum going. And, you know, he's been doing that really well. He's been doing more of his own side benches as well, which you can't knock anyone for.
But, you know, Mr. Kevin, he's been staying there obviously. Love Park isn't really there anymore, obviously it is, but it's not the skater-able pliers or anymore. These boys have just been absolutely running the whole municipal area, Muni, and they've been literally keeping DC as relevant for the love style, Philadelphia, gritty, raw streetsgating.
They have kept that image as clean as possible. And, you know, these boys will skate ledges, they'll skate street. If they're going to get fined on art, middle of the night, they're going to be attacking the spot, making it work, maybe even doing a little bit of a, you know, taking off some things here. And, you know, filling in some skatestoppers and everything.
But, yeah, I just think they wouldn't be keeping, DC wouldn't have that, like, you know, it's just keeping that route visually alive for everyone else. Yeah, and it's funny where DC have come from. From the DC video that we always bring up, what kind of made us fall in love with the first place in the skater is that kind of held it down, likes to Davis, Stevie Williams, you know, even Robbie Dee, you know, like that. Then kind of hitting that point where DC became fucking huge, and you had the likes of Chris Cole, Mikey Taylor, Nigel Houston, you know, that was a big super team at the time, you know, you still had Kramer on there as well, you probably had Evan Smith, so it's a big Danny Way, you know, you had the whole super roster.
Something happened there, we don't know really what happened there, you know, we need the inside scoop to really know why everyone was going to drop off, maybe it was just money, and maybe too big. But you know, when you're losing Nigel's Coles, everyone's going to just fall in the way. It seemed like the brand just was being propped up by a couple of geezers, you know, like Evan Smith, for example, and he isn't really, you know, I know he holds down as DC's mate, but he isn't, he isn't your archetypal DC skater. So when the likes of Kim Billy were coming through, obviously John Shanahan was a big one, the big time player, but when these authentically, you know, 775 skaters are coming in, lead skaters coming in, it really just pulled, it just grabbed DC from where it was back in there.
It's the reason why we loved it and why we followed the brand into that new era, but it may just fall, well, me especially maybe fall in love again properly when they're wearing the old school caluses, you know, given Stevie Williams a reissue, you had a really kind of just getting these flavours back out there. And it's just, it's interesting, you know, it's the whole equally, a pretty, pretty, new equilibrium sort of deal of a film. It was a perfect story. And now we've got these new set of characters that we're all loving, you know what I mean?
Like all of those guys that skate the Muni in Philly, which is their new new love park with a big domino, as iconic as it is. It's like, these are our new boys that we get to follow and see what their career's going to go with and what they're going to put out and how authentic they're going to keep it, handed out by the sabotage kind of career as well, you know, it's the same sort of deal. It's just, it's an awesome place. It's a great place for DC to be where they are right now.
I'm super happy for the company. Yeah, definitely really kind of stripping everything back to simple, elegant streets, skating, you know, they're wearing the right things. Kevin Bowes, the right, you know, he's got that face, he is from that area, you know, if you'd have to look at someone like that and guess where they're from without seeing their clothes or anything. You know, you kind of thinking that's where he's from.
And yeah, just the right everything, the right music, the right tricks, the right vibes, you know, yeah, just really honing it in. And you know, the right push, sorry, the right pushing as well. The great pushing. Keep in switch, switch, Mongo, alive, mate.
I fucking love it. I mean, it's a declaration. We say it every time, but it's a declaration. It's like check this.
This is in Switch, motherfucker. And this is an SSB STS with a flip out or something. You know, it's just a declaration. This is what I'm going to do.
It's more comfortable this way. You want to see that switch power push. You want to see it. I mean, I can't replicate that.
You know, I think you need to be needs to be in there from the young age. You're not not having someone go, oh, go do that. You know, it needs to be era globally specific, you know, this trick. Yeah.
Yeah, I can agree more. But it's a yeah. So we'll dive right in, I suppose, mate. DC shoes.
I've got up on YouTube. Yep. So if you go DC shoes on YouTube, DC shoes, Kevin, Bill, you links part. It's five minutes and 47 seconds long.
So you've got time for this. Oh, yeah. You've got time for this. Everyone's got time for this.
And I'll watch it twice or flick through a couple of times to enjoy the seeds of Mr. Bill you. So, um, suppose not for every do mate. We might as well just do the classic, which is a three to one.
If you want to watch along with us, you can probably sync up. You're going to be somewhere close. So it doesn't mean we'll aren't probably exactly in sync when we do this. Yeah.
We're kind of close. Yeah, we're close enough. So we go three to one, press play and then we'll run in commentary of the, of the part. So we go three, two, one, play.
We start off with a lovely clean DC logo, mate. And then you straight away, you've got the classic identify of the kind of as a VX footage or what? Yeah, kind of the old tape film. But it's, if you put this section, mate, if you put a section into the DC video, it would feel like the classic little voiceover, which we always used to get in 411, you know, back in the day, you know, so shame it doesn't sound like it's on a phone.
Yeah. Even better. The old snow blower out. Yeah.
It's showing up, you know, holding it down and putting it down, you know, even in the winter months when they're properly wrapped up balaclab. Obviously we'll see that gloves on. Beautiful board, mate. Lovely board.
It's a good old school hip hop music there. Oh, yeah. The tune is so good. I think the tune is from, I think it might be misqueathed as well, which is the guy who does all the sabotage as well.
So switch, switch, mongrel straight away, mate. Yeah, best. Pass the dominoes and the SSPS, TSUS with a. And started it with a back nose reverts.
All three of the notes here. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The front biggie between two raised tiles like a hip. And I do like him wearing that kangle backwards kangle cap as well.
Yeah, I think it's just what he was in there in France there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, hitting some super tech in Macba.
Lovely. We'll break some of these down a little bit more beautiful crook to fakey. Then an old lab pack. Old clip.
It's a nice. Oh. Beautiful spots. Yeah, perfect switch flip.
Oh, look, little shifty gnolly over that. Is that Leon? Yeah, the Leon spot. Lovely pop.
Camoed out to the gills, mate, the D G K. Switch front blank. The cutaways are awesome. Really puts it with a gather, keeps it flowing.
Yep. And it's just a flow and it's nice seeing the sweat on these old boys as well. You know, really kind of showing it there. Really grinding out there for those tricks.
Yeah. What spot that would be, mate, to skate those little green rails. Beautiful switch veil. Yeah.
Here was that switch veil. Yeah. A nice crispy bank. Big switch one, Manny.
Nice. Got a bit of brown in there. Yeah. Chris Vaylow.
Chris Vaylow with a lovely little kick. Um, crook up a rail. Old money. Oh, beautiful backside.
Lovely crusty spot. Back to Kev with the, ah, switch nose grind. Flip out. Nice.
Lovely gap. Yeah. It's such a great part. Go front heels.
Right here on switch front heel. See all the slabs popped up as well, mate. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah.
Make really kind of, ah, upgrading the streets of you know, you know. Yeah, definitely. Not very often you see a so many different kick or tile styles there. Yeah.
Bless with a switch crook off of that onto a red barrier. Nice, nice flip over a ledge drop. Such a hard trick, right, mate. Yeah.
And this guy is the big switch heel, double, double cans. And a switch veil over the can gap. Absolute classic. What an ender.
Yeah. And so, um, Kayless. Kayless himself. And to love Park.
Just generally, you know. But such, such a well put together part. I mean, that's pretty much it. We're into the credits now.
So really it's only like a four minute park, which is cool. You know? We're perfect. Yeah.
So the music was from, ah, Misku. Yep. Getting a little show rundown of the shoes and some B roll. Yeah.
And the shoes, well, let's dive into the shoes before we start talking about the park. The shoes themselves are really cool, kind of like the, when we spoke about the skate calf, Colab with DC. They've got really authentic touches like the little domino heel. Yeah.
They're really cool. And I think they're like a little bit, they look, they are a little bit exaggerated in length to give that big, big fuck off domino size, you know? Yeah. And even having his whole name, you know, down the tongue on a, on a strip like that is so decent.
Yeah. It's so, it's, it's perfect. I don't think they've done that before though. So they did one and I, I'll do a quick search one.
I'm just chatting about it. Obviously we had the Jameer Brown. He had a links colorway and he also had a links zero. Um, I can't remember if it was both of them that had it on the, had his name on the, or just the, you know, so he has, he did have his name on the, on the middle of the tongue as well.
Yeah. And I'm just getting this up in the images now to see if it was on, on an actual links or if it was just on zero. So it looks like it was, uh, just on the, on the zero. So probably not on the main pair of links.
It's probably one of the first time just been done unless it was done back in the day, which I don't think it was done because it wasn't a big, you know, it wasn't a pro shoe. Obviously there were pro colorways like the when in ones, but they didn't have anything like that on the tongue. So that's pretty sweet. Yeah.
It's a nice touch regardless, you know, it's just, it fits the bill. It isn't super kind of like distracting. If you were to look at someone's feet with them on, you wouldn't be kind of trying to read, you might be trying to read it a little bit, but you wouldn't really care. You wouldn't be trying to grab your attention because it's a nice poppy, you know, got orange in there, orange or blacks, perfect, you know, lovely little combos or things.
That's, it's a great colorway. Yeah. I haven't actually managed to order a pair of these yet, but I get a chance to get them. I definitely would.
I'd say what I really want to order and I looked straight away, mate, and they don't do it in the UK is the cap. Ah. So it's like Philly style DC cap. Yeah.
And when he's wearing the, um, the balaclava in front of the domino, right at the end in the credits, he's wearing a DC, like it's got an orange DC logo on it, Philadelphia, and it's such a sick logo. So good. So it's like a perfect, that sort of cap I'd be in. I have to see, mate.
See if it's available in the old Canada. Well, yeah, that'd be, that'd be nice if you could, if you could, if you find it, mate, definitely grey. Yeah, I know which one you're on about because it pops up in the email is there. It's just a cheeky hat.
You know, you're not going to see, if you're going to buy that cap, it's a good cap to buy because you're not going to, obviously, keep it for your one of your best caps because you don't get to see it a lot. You know, once that's gone, that probably isn't going to come around again, especially in that colourway. Yeah, they've only made a quick run of these for the, you know, for the, for the, for the fans. Yeah.
Well, should we, should we give a little turbo rating first off, mate? Just if you want to, yeah, I'll try not to be too biased with this rating here, but, um, as notes here, you know, you're wanting more, which sometimes that happens. If you're left wanting more, that's a sign of a good skate part there. I'm going to give it, I'm going to, I'm going to be a little bit biased here, but I'm going to give it a four out of five because we had the talking from Jamere at the start and the other people, you know, if you other people really honing it in and making it for me, a complete skate video start to finish a little bit of B roll, a little bit of end and B roll at the end, like based around the shots, they got a little bit of fun there, a couple of, uh, couple of mate tricks in there.
That's what you kind of, you know, everyone likes that as well. I'm going to give it a solid four mate. Yeah, I would, I'd concur mate. I think it's definitely, definitely a solid four.
The only way you make that five is if you have a certain calibre, like a, like a, a super fucking turbo caliber of trick in there. Yeah. And then the, there's only certain skaters actually pull that off. Do you want me to do my jumps in or someone to fucking really get yourself to that sort of level?
And that's just, that's just how it is. Yeah. That's just how it is. And also, you know, you might need, you might need a couple of years filming apart, you know, to be able to give everyone a wow factor of what we see.
Yeah. You know, you need time or next level tricks and not saying he hasn't gotten, you know, we're giving it a good four, but yeah, I agree with that mate to bring that to the next level. Maybe a bit longer, more spots, bigger tricks and, uh, do you think it would need to be in, like to make it five as well, it needs to be four, to be four and a lone gun part mate. You mean that's a solid, it's a solid rating.
Yeah. If it's part of a video as well, always, I always think it helps it as long as a video is got a good vibe itself. Do you know what I mean? Yeah.
I would say that a lot of kind of the parts in, let's say fully flared, for example, we have the whole gimmick of the video was, you know, slick, you know, great choice in audio, great graphics, great skating, don't be wrong, but the whole vibe kind of glued everything together. So you might even bump someone up higher. Yeah. Higher than what you actually deserved, you know, like Alex Olson, for example.
And just the suspense of waiting for something obviously it was a long time in the coming time, we were all on edge when it's coming out. And then when it did, we were all really ready to soak in these pretty fucking sick parts, mostly. Yeah. So I think if you were to put that in, like I said, if you buried that in the DC video, if they did a new DC video, got the sabotage, you know, Brian Pambienko got all of those boys to create that hour long video or 45 minute or even half an hour.
But that sort of length, feature length, I think it would, it could be a fight because he would have thrown out if it was a part of the super DC video. Yeah, a bit more time. I mean, his end is sick mate, don't you? Oh yeah.
It was awesome. That's just showing, that's just showing what you can do. That's homage. That's a bit of everything.
We'll have a couple more angles on some shit like that as well. Yeah. Bit more, bit more money in the production, you know, maybe pitch back in the middle of the night with everything lit up or you get there super early when no one's there. You can kind of get away with a bit more, bit more creative freedom as well.
Yeah. But yeah, definitely I think you're right. You know, you have a couple of new guys before or a couple of, you know, just things like that, it definitely elevates and it just keeps on stacking up and it goes into a super part real quick if they stack them up right. But what I really love about this part, mate, is that obviously he's got so many cheeky little tricks left, right and center, but his vibe the whole time is just his skating.
It's not like you can see him like, you get worn out on some bits or kind of like throw in something a bit sketchy over here. It's always that same beat, that same rhythm of his, of his tricks, which I always like to see, you know, to have that refineness in all your skating across the board, you know, your tricks have got the same flavor because, you know, I wouldn't say mind you, it's hard, you know, you know, some might have a similar flavor, but somebody's fucking completely different. Whereas if you can just keep all that shit just tied in together and he doesn't have a mix of tricks, he does. It helps the whole thing flow.
So it doesn't matter what trick you do, the whole thing just flows better because you're the consistency of your skating, like, for example, John Chanahan, same deal. Yeah, no, I couldn't agree more. It's not like he's doing kickflips or whatever, but he's not doing three different kickflips. You know, he's doing three Kevin Bay kick switch flips and just keeping that whole thing going.
You know, there's no, you know, you obviously get different landing styles of tricks, maybe some that aren't as clean as whatever, but if you're keeping that style throughout, it only complements the way you're operating. Yeah. So let's dive back into the video, mate. Let's have a break down some of the tricks and what we get to see.
So let's just get to his first line here. Starts with a nose grind reverb or whatever, doesn't he? Where does he hit it? I think it's like 42 or three.
Oh, yeah. No, just have to pull like 50 seconds in. Yeah. Well, I suppose he tries, he has a little shot of him going up that bank.
That bank. So you're closer to... Oh, one minute, one second. Yeah, one minute, just after that, he starts the line.
Yeah. So nose grind pivoted, one eight to fakie, whatever you want to call it, reverb. Lovely little couple of cheeky mongo pushes and then hits SSBS TS with a... Two seventies.
Yeah, switch. Yeah, switch 270 all the way around. Beautiful. I mean, the style of that, mate.
So even like, just imagine being in, I ain't been in the SSBS TS's, but I can imagine, you know, throwing, I can throw like a switch 360 shove, have hit a switch tray in my time mate, just one. Nice. I know the fling of how that... You know, we've all played about in switch SSBS TS, you know, statically on a ledge and you might throw out, you know, non-moving shove or two seventies or two, just to get that feel.
You know, we can all make the shoves happen out of the stalls so you can kind of get that little recreation in there. Yeah, yeah, you got it. But you know, like, if you're on that mate, that ice, you know, it's probably going to be icy at the most ledges because it needs to be... Yep.
It's a flicker. You can lose so much traction by just putting your weight in the wrong place. Do you know what I mean? Oh, yeah.
I mean, I'm a fucking standard tail slide point of view, but like, you can lose... If you don't have your weight in the right area, and he's obviously... This is a switch and he's got to prepare for a fucking two seventies switch shove out. Yep.
To get to find where that pocket needs to be made, to actually grip rather than slip away, because it can slip in front or behind you if you get it wrong. Oh, I've had that much control. You have that much control and land it at the bolts that he does. You know, he lands it pretty fucking clean.
How'd you do that? Yeah. Natural scale. Yeah, definitely epic opening line right there.
And for the second trick, I don't think I've seen the old... Pop-tup, pop-tup, tile hip. I thought that was pretty cool. Couple of seconds.
It's super cool. And a perfect trick to compliment what they've created there. So obviously, yeah, you've got to see in a part, but popping up two slabs, but one kind of going in one direction. So basically, yeah, like we were saying, it creates a hit with a gap between it.
And the hit is a switch biggie on that mate. So it just works with the flow of the spot. Yep. You've got it there in the darkness with all the city lights and the background.
Classic. Yeah, it's a great shot. That would have been a lovely photo as well, mate. If you've got some fish in there, I mean, I'll pause at 1.15, but yeah, 1.15 is a nice catch.
If you'd have had someone with a nice play back there or something like that, just to get a nice photo of that in black and white DC ad. Or DJK ad maybe, just to show you the colourboard. Yeah, right. Lovely, well.
Get with it. Beautiful. Just hitting an ollie mate as well. We always talk about it, but hitting an ollie when you need a hot hit, an ollie is nice.
You have to do too much. The ollie's tower's behind you. He doesn't need to be throwing down there. It's just a long gap that would be quite impressive to see someone ollie, I'd imagine, in real life.
But he knows you can ollie it, so... Yeah, why not? Why not? Don't you throw on your switch tray there, mate, does he?
Yeah, sometimes we're still early into the part. We'll just sort of say a blessed of a nice ollie. Yeah, now he's at Mackerel and the ledge is here. And finishes it with a super tech.
Oh, yeah. Almost flipping flip out, mate. You can call it what you will. I know it's not flipped.
Yeah, tricking trick out. Tricking trick out. And to pull that around on the nose grind, whoopsied front, gnollish over how everyone would call it. And it's just as soon as he lands he hits that.
Soon as he lands, that's ready to just pull around. And you know, it's not really often we're getting blessed with a gnollish-flipped back-nosed grind off of many people. This is probably a trick we would have been blessed with more, you know, 15 years ago in that sort of round where people were just really pushing tricks that hadn't been done. Obviously now, not some people can't do that, but it's just not really a trick.
You're probably more likely to see it fakey. Fakey flip, fakey-five over something, right? And I'm going to say that's a little bit easier, but just the gnollish-flipped back-nosed, you're just not seeing it. And you're not going to be there with the whoopsie-nolly-franch out.
You've got to be landing right on that nose and getting it right. You're not just gnolly-flipping and praying here. You're not winging this, mate. You're end-winging this.
I'm sure you'll wait for that contact point and that millisecond of grind or whatever, that's when you've got to engage. You've got to know when that grip's there. Because if you can't feel the grip, you're going to slip. Exactly.
There's no grab. You've got a pivot point. It's just going to fling. It's a flinger, isn't it?
You're not going to flapping with any sort of trick, any flat ground trick. You can fling it. Nothing pops. Nothing happens.
The same thing on that. Yeah, definitely. And then hit the cheeky. That's just a little warm-up, I suppose, the next trick with the switch of arrow heel, 5-0.
Yeah. And that's just a decker. A slip in there, mate, but that's just insane. Quick trick.
That's just pay attention. Yeah, check this out. Yeah, because there's going to be some more of that later on, but it's a little sprinkling for you early doors. Yeah.
Yeah, we're next got that lovely crook 180 out. For those who didn't know, that's a stash of the older love park stuff. I don't know where it is, but yeah, they are pretty sure the sabotage. Boys, I've ever found where it was dumped or quickly took advantage and taken some of it too fucking right.
Yeah, too right. You had a chance to do it, mate. You could. I mean, it's even got one of the bins in the background.
If you pause at 139, you can even see a classic bin. You know, a crook 180 is a crook 180. But if you're part of that era, you've got to put a note to the love. And if you know where that is, and you can get a trick on it, you know, a little touch of happiness for everyone there.
And a crook's a beautiful trick, mate. It's the best sounding trick ever. There wasn't a better sounding trick than a crook. Yeah, you're never unhappy with a crook.
You know, the science of a crook. Yeah, it's almost like a solid rigid sort of thing, but it's just everything just seems to hit. Like the landing always hits, right? You don't see a fucking dirty crook's do you?
I know. I've ever said good crook or a bat, you know, you don't see a crook. Yeah. Let's keep this playing.
And then just a little old school clipper then when he's a youngster, I think that might have been. Or just a B roll. I love that little nolly front hill, Manny or Fakie Manny, just a really cool spot. And riding it down back into it.
It's only a little mellow bank, mate. But they're the sort of, you can have hours of fun at it. Hours, yeah. How you land into that bank?
You know, even just trying to do like a, maybe I was, but for me it'd be a flip, Manny, mate. And if I get a backside one down into that, that'd be my manual. Oh, that feels so good. Complete.
Yeah. And just that sort of spot, you know, you've got the graffiti, it's well lit up, it's nighttime. Yeah, fucking absolute hours of fun to be had. The yellow as well, mate.
It's always nice to see the yellow. I mean, contrast in the city in the States and maybe in Canada, you have the coloured curbs, you have the red and the yellow curbs and shit. Yeah. And I think that's a really good thing.
You know, a UK perspective, when you do get to skate like a red American curb, which I've been blessed a couple of times about it. They're bigger fucking curbs, mate. Oh, yeah, they're different curbs. They're nicer curbs.
And it's just nice to reenact what you've seen, you know, where you're here, always fuck about with. Yeah, definitely. And a beautiful switch flip. And like I said, a cheeky little tweech, almost like a shifty gnolly.
I'll have the freeze frame that I'm going to give it a shifty, but the idea was there for the shifty. Yeah, that's it. Just kind of an open, it was, yeah, I'd say it's pretty much a big, big back, like a, like, yeah, your knees tucked right out, which gives it that, you know, almost sideways tweak. But I suppose in a way you kind of need to as well, you know, if you've ever knollied over something big, mate, and all that stuff, that big, but even if you go over a board on the ground, you do kind of, you do kind of drag it to the side like, but just to get a bit more grip on your foot, you know, on your sliding foot, if you will, when it slides at the board, if you just keep that straight, that's, you don't get as much traction, but if you let it kind of come, you can kind of almost like, it's almost like a wave kind of, like, like if you're going to teach them out of a knollie when they first do it.
That's how you can kind of not guarantee you're getting over, but you can visually see where you're going and kind of control on that motion. When you're just going for a straight gnollie, it's just up and down, you know, you don't really know how far your backtrack's making it over if it's caught. Hang on there. Hang on the ledge.
You don't want to do that. Switch 180. Yep. Beautiful.
I absolutely loved the knollie frontside flip. It's just that when it's hit, when it's hit right is, and especially looking, there's janks, if he doesn't, it's clip mate, you look so good. Yeah, the full camo works so well with the camo. Big more shoes.
I'm going to say that again, for me, Ken, by the king of flat ground gnollie flips and with this gnollie frontside flip, it just absolutely shows how well he's got it. Yeah, it's such a, the height and the, like the bolt landing mate on that is such a good combo. It's so, he powers that motherfucker down. It's not just a little fling to wrap around the foot, gnollie frontside flip, which you can do, you know, you can do, you can fling them just like we were talking about on the previous episode when we're sitting down like the, the fakey backside flip, if you want to have a hard clip.
Yes. It's a beautiful trick to go, but you can fling it round. You can do the same thing with the gnollie one. Oh, yeah.
You can glide along the floor, but he does get up and, and stomps it. You know, you can't stomp something that glides along the fucking ground. Yep, absolutely not. Yeah, bless us with a couple of switch mongos in mate.
And then just to show, just to show a bit of skill and a bit of pro ship, if you will, hitting a, hitting a switch front blunt on a ledge that size is no mean feat. Yeah, you are putting your whole self out there. You could committed to the danger that is a, and you know, if you've been skating for a couple of years, or if you're skating to the point where you could attempt a front blunt, you would understand the dangers of it, but being in your regular stance, you've got that, that little bit more skill of being able to bail in switch. It is so much harder to have that split second, you bail without realizing you're bailing, you know, you can't always do that.
And a trick like this as well, mate, especially a blunt slide, is that you'll only know if you fucked up once you've engaged in the trick, but because there was no kind of pinch point or no actual precise moment of when the trick starts and you need to get the fuck out of there, you could be down before you know it. You know, it's not like being in like a crook where you're in something, and you know, it's not, you know, it's not happening. You can kick your feet away and land on your feet. You know, obviously he knows that he's got his exit strategy lined up, I'm sorry he does.
But as soon as he puts his, that left, that left back foot, the one that doesn't normally like to be in that position, on a slippy position, on a ledge, to then, to know when that's going to, it's not happening, unless it sticks, you might be able to get out of it mate. But if it's sliding in a uncontrollable manner, to then just be able to pick your feet apart and put them on the ground again, it's not how it goes. It doesn't normally go like that. You just normally go horizontal in those situations.
And yeah, if your foot rides, if your board rides up on the ledge and your foot goes with it, which it will, because that's where all of your weight is, you can't have it anywhere else. You can't stand up off of that. You know, you just, your legs are already sideways. And, you know, some people might not understand the difficulty of doing some tricks on a ledge versus, if this is on a, on a, on a round rail, which may appear harder, and sometimes maybe in certain tricks, when you're putting blunts, tails, nose blunts, nose slides and stuff, on a rail, you can have that lock in ability, or you could, you know, when you're on there, if it's not working, you can, you can just kind of, you just have a different angle on that trick.
When you're on that, that doesn't happen. You know, you can have a real big consequences. So yeah, great show of ability here. Yeah.
And if you're a pro, you're going to do a legit blunt as well. You know, you're not going to do a half-ass kind of cheeky. Oh, yeah. Well, if I wanted to, if I wanted to try and blunge it back, I'd blunts like that fucking ledge, mate, which, you know, isn't, isn't in my game.
I reckon, give me an hour. I'll probably have to get something. It won't look pretty, but I'll be hugging the fucking edge of that a lot more than the edge. I'll be, I won't be on top of that ledge.
Yeah. Yeah. I will not, I'll be just trying to, just, just keep that angle there. Just, just keep that angle there.
Just, I can feel something and get the fuck out of there. You know, I'm talking, you're talking literally sliding half a foot or something. Yeah, getting out. When you're a pro, you're going to have to get, stand on top of something.
You know, you can't half-ass that. You know, the body shape doesn't look right. You're putting this video out to the masses. You need to be standing up there.
So it's awesome clip, really, really cool clip. Yeah, definitely. And bless us with that lovely bit of that cutaway to that switch heel, mate. Yeah.
It's in a black and white. Next, yeah, next line, Nolly Knows Rind beautifully, Nolly, Nolly control out with that as well, mate. Yeah. You see that the ride out a bit, that's, that isn't just going through the ledge.
He's really kind of hugging onto that. Can you cut the straight off? Yeah. Nice little switch version.
Switch, Red Crag. Yeah. And you know, to me as well, like, obviously, we can see the links. You know, we can see the sweat.
And just to me as well, like, I'm seeing little nodes of wen in, I'm seeing little nodes of Kayla's, you know, and just, I'm seeing fucking Kevin Bayou as well. You know, it's not sometimes with John Shanahan when he was, you know, some of it was almost, you just seeing like a reincarnation of Kayla. So that's not a bad thing. And now I think Shanahan's kind of doing more of his own thing.
Kevin really has, you know, everyone's so unique here. And he has his own style here, but just refined out of obviously who he's inspired by. Yeah. I mean, Shanahan, I think has been, you're right, mate, it almost seemed like everything was a bit too kind of DC.
Everything he does needs to look like Kayla's. It's, but I think that comes with time as well. You know, when you first see someone, you're just saying, yeah, they're a second rate fucking Kayla's. No one's saying that about John Shanahan.
They do. They don't know what the fucking talking about. He is a better skate than fucking Kayla's. Yeah.
And he is a better skating. Has a wide variety of stuff. Yeah. And you just need to see someone do it for a certain period of time.
Oh, no, that is John Shanahan. That is John Shanahan. You know, like I said, I'll say it. He is definitely technically, technically, he is twice as good as fucking Kayla's.
Kayla's is a great skate. Yeah. He's done great shit. And for his era, next level and we're in a different era now.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. We are in a different era now. Yeah.
So let's move on to the next clip here, mate. So just boots, just boots to the front side, uh, no lio, but a rail. Just a cheeky one that when I think they saw an interesting spot and on tour. Just got a clip.
Yeah, nothing special, but nicely done. You've got a quick feet just after that. The green rail. And that's a nice little combo.
That's a really, like the quick food. You'd like to see that spot in real life because I think that that rail was higher than you think it is. I'm sure it definitely is. And it's probably a bit quicker as well than you think.
Yeah, it's definitely, it's definitely short on anything that is as well. Yeah. Even I'd love to just, you know, just to see how hard the Oli and Oli out, Oli and whatever and see why it's possible there. If you haven't got time for the Oli, mate, in the way, maybe you have to hippie it.
Yeah, that might be all you got. Or maybe don't. Just carve out. Just don't worry about the hippie.
No, yeah, the flat bank spot from the start of the video and just hits the switch, very real heel on that mate. I mean, you could attest to it. How could you do? You know, you're a fucking very heel man.
How hard would that be to on that? Yeah, it looks like a pretty steep bank and it's probably a little bit steeper than it looks. You know, we see in the first one, kind of looks like trips off on a chair or something. But, you know, you probably got a good, depends on how consistent you switch V's are or whatever trick you're trying on there.
You know, you've probably got a good quick little session on there. Unless you're able to skate some steep banks all the time, I'm saying. So you've got, you've got to adjust, just to the angle on the speed you need. And when you're hitting something like that in switch, depending on how smooth the flat, you know, hitting the ramp is, you might need to have your weight spread differently and then adjust when you're up there.
Yeah. Yeah, probably good. I'm guessing it probably, it probably wouldn't be there more than five to 15 minutes. Yeah.
So I think the thing for me on a flat bank, like that sort of on that gradient, I always struggle to get my pot right. Do you want me because your box is going to take so long as if I can get down there. It always seems like you're, you know, when you kind of missed your missed timer, missed time trick on flat, but that's what it's like on a flat bank for me. I mean, yeah, I kick the bank and worry me.
But even though they're trying to boost a nice ollie, would be, you know, it's always just a fuck to your head a little bit. You don't kind of get a connection that you need. I mean, when you skate a bank like that, are you kind of telling yourself, you know, skip a beat or hit a beat earlier? You've really got a play with it, I think.
I do occasionally skate a little bank that's quite steep. It's not a flat bank. It's, you know, a fairly steep bank, you know, more of like you all ride on it almost. And I've got the Cape Flick Fakie on it and kind of the, you know, 90 degree back, so I flip on there.
And, but yeah, sometimes just going on there and trying to boost a little ollie like you'd be able to do in a quarter pipe or something or a smaller bank. It's really hard. And sometimes you're getting down your ollie and, and you just kind of hitting the bottom of the bank and flat at the same time. Or you're ollie and it's like you've missed the full connection of the part.
So you're just kind of getting like a half rocket ollie on there, but your feet slid all the way up to the top of the board. You're landing quick, you're landing on your, on your, on your back wheels or your tail and I think, and then sometimes I go up there and I'm getting a perfect ollie. I think you've almost got a crouch for the ollie or trick while hitting the wall ride. You've got to be, you might have to be there already.
This one, it looks like it's nice and smooth and you can get up high. So I think he hits it with some good speed, gets over the, the hitting of the transition and then is able to bend down and snap out that burial hill, land it, and then ride out. So I think, I think he's got a nice, a nice bank here. I think you're probably fighting with getting the right speed to get high enough of it.
I suppose that's, I suppose that's the key, the length of the bank itself. If it's long enough, then yeah, you can hit that, you know, hit the change in, in angle, but then you've still got time to readjust. It's not going to go fast enough, whatever. You can hit it and then still figure it out afterwards.
I suppose it's a cheeky short bank. You need to be almost prepped. Okay. Yeah.
You go far and fired before you even as soon, I mean as soon as you've hit the, hit the transition, you just need to be flinging, whatever you're flinging. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So, yeah, I can imagine not being there for too long, but you know, five to 15 minutes, some sense.
Yeah, I think you're right. And you probably have a bit of fun on there. You know, maybe getting in there and like, what can I do on this? What's going to look good?
Well, what you can do on things, mate, this next clip with the Switch 180 to Manny on this lovely blue brick kind of ledge deal with a DIY propped up slab going into it. So that's a big gap, by the way. To get up to that, to get up to that blue, that lovely blue shiny thing. What would you like to get there, mate?
And would you, you know, would you be happy with just getting up there with Manny or something or could you see yourself? It's hard to tell sometimes how big the tyre is on the kicker and, you know, I'd love to think that I could get up on there on the Switch 180, Manny, but if he's only doing that, it's probably a lot harder than it looks. I'm sure it's probably a bit slick on that motherfucker as well. Even a half of a one-eight, you're probably going to land and slide sort of thing.
So, yeah, getting a nice Manny backside or, you know, nice nose Manny shove or 180 on there. You can almost land in Blunt, mate, I reckon on that. Just blunt a little bit. You don't have to put a little bam on there.
Blunt just down the middle of it and then just turn whichever which way it lets you go. Yeah, you probably just power slide that guy or something. Which would be sweet. Yeah, it'd be really cool to see, yeah, fact just the Manny French out of something would be awesome, but it probably feels really nice, you know, if you like feeling, you know, feeling your little tyre, it's almost like a pulltail, like the bottom of a pull or something.
Super slick. And then Arthur that trick, mate, comes in with the most efficient motherfucker. That's a friendly section now. Yeah.
That's Jamar Brown with the fucking... Is he goof? Is he regs, mate? Is that switch?
I can't say that. I can't switch. I'm saying that's regs. But then again, would he just be throwing that out there?
I mean, it's beautiful, don't go wrong, so even if it is regs who cares. It's such a beautiful, perky kick clip into a five-o's. Yeah, I'm not too sure. And then you've got the Chris Falo crook, which could be a switch truck as well to be fair.
I don't think it is, but it's... Jamar Brown is goofy, so yes. It's a nice regs one there. Yeah, which is nice.
It fucking goes. Like you're saying. Yeah, you almost don't really get the same trick with a switch flip back five though, you know. It's not really the same perky kick clip, the really fucking expensive...
Yeah, you're a little bit more rigid. Well, that one, you've got the nice little half-pup-pup-pup-owl, and yeah, it works really well. Yeah. Yeah, I couldn't tell you know, Chris Falo if that was a...
I would have assumed that was regs just the way he does that little backside power side against the wall after. Yes, yes. Really nice. Up the rail crooks off the tile, you know.
You couldn't ask for more of that. They're making that as cool and as fun as possible there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. That is really just making that spot.
It's skate... Well, it's skate-balling in their way as possible. You know, obviously they could hit it. They could hit shit on there and if they want to get some crooks or some DC footage in there, they need to just give it a little bit of personality, you know.
You know, it's almost on the level of like way before like skate three times when you could make stuff. It's just like Tony Hawk's pro skater where you can move a couple kickers around. We're almost looking at that grittiness. You're looking at the kicker expecting it to be like a keen ramp or like one of the new ramps that people...
or just a piece of wood, but there's a little old tile there. So really fucking cool. And then he hits... I think he's got a front nose and then it goes to Montclifton with the...
I'm saying he's a gnoll you make on this setup. Yeah, that is an alley back lip. Yeah, an alley back lip, which is such an ice trick. Really cool trick, especially on a nice thin round rail like that made.
You know, it's actually a cheeky... you know, on a fat rail, you could probably just throw that on there, you know. But he's got to be really on a thin rail like that. One thing that can break your board, so he's on a thin rail.
And just to kind of... He's a big guy as well, so it wouldn't be hard for him to break his board on that sort of thing. Yeah. And then beautiful backside flip over a cross the...
cross the rail. Yeah, awesome spot. Awesome little bank to that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Such a dirty, grimy fucking spot that you would be getting this shit down. You would be landing in pits that many times. Yeah.
And then comes in with the front tail to fakey. Really nice you don't make. You just swung it around because he needed to. That's what he wanted to...