Welcome to issue 57 of Turbo Sports Radio. In this episode, we'll be doing a Skate Companion, which is like a watch along, and a full video breakdown of the Tanavan Varks TVV part for real skateboards, made with engine. Hello, thanks for tuning in to Turbo Sports Radio. This is issue number 57.
This is a bonus double feature episode. So I'm gonna do a Skate Companion and a breakdown of Tanavan Varks, new video part for real skateboards. If you haven't listened to a Skate Companion before, it's basically just a watch along to a skate part. You don't have to watch along with us, but it's probably a bit more interesting and a bit more entertaining if you do listen along and watch a video at the same time with us.
Anyway, if you do, if you don't, if you do wanna watch along with us, you wanna go to thrashomegazine.com, and you wanna find the Tanavan Varks TVV part for real. Now, probably the easiest way of doing that is to go on to search bar, type in real skateboards, type in Tanavan Vark. You'll find it anyway. You'll find a video and then queue it up and then pause us and then get ready to go and we're ready to go.
Alongside me today, as always, is Mr. Buckbiel, Will Hickey, how's it going mate? Yeah, it's going pretty good up here in Canada, eh? How's it going on in England?
Yeah, it's all good mate. The weather's getting better, so good weather equals more skateboarding, so it's only good when the sun's shining. You know what I mean? Lovely, jubbly, yeah, that's what we like.
Right, so, as I said before, we're gonna do a little watch along, skate companion, the way it works, just have the video queued up now, so hopefully enough time will be spouting shit. Skate your videos lined up, press play, let any advert play, because you don't get quite all the advert, you're gonna be, you know, maybe 30 seconds behind us. Let the advert play, then bring it back, bring it back to zero, zero, and then be ready with your cursor, hovering over that play button. You'll go back, where are you ready for the skate companion?
Oh, yep, I'm ready. So the way we're gonna do it, I'll do a three, two, one, and press. So be three, two, one, press, and then we're all gonna do it together. Just go with my timing, you'll get it fine.
You know what I mean? It's not too difficult. If you fuck up, then just pull it back and try again. But you shouldn't fuck up anyway.
No pressure, this is for reals this time, people. So just get ready, get ready, on press. So three, two, one, press. Three, two, one, press.
And you should see a blue burning threshold logo, turn into black, and then we've got a nice, starting up with a nice little kind of homage to keep helping their go themselves. Puff just hitting some awesome, long backboard slide. Yeezus, beautiful. Lovely.
Yeah, got a lot of the huff. Mate, his style was awesome. And that's a really, really nice, really nice dedication to him, mate. Yeah, love him.
So we're in, mate, we've got, kind of reminds me, we've been watching a lot of bands recently, they've been using that cutaway ship with the grainier footage. It's got that sort of vibe to it, but this is a real video, a real skateboard video. Yep. And he's already in the game, mate.
He's already in the game. He's showing you what you can do. And they're showing you that this is real skateboard. Yeah.
Lovely. It's already hitting points. Back, mate. Yeah, he's getting points here, he's stacking them.
He's stacking them. And then we've got Jack Olson with the Flip 50 into the bank, real, real nice. Front blunt, flip out. Nice.
It's nicely in the whole team together. Bit of a shot here. Yep. With the tongue sticking out, going up to the ledge.
Boosh. With the flip out and all. Nice little grainy footage, got the wind blower. Yeah, yeah.
Little cheeky front nose with a clearance. Yeah, nice, nice. Now he's hitting his walls, mate. He's hitting his walls.
Comade, sort of grind on there. Yeah, that was nice. Nice. He's got a bit of a dent, dent, dent, dent, dent.
And Tina. Yeah, go. Boosh. Big Ollie.
That was nice. Oh, and the front side fit, Manny. Oh, this is good vibes, mate. Good track.
Nice crispy tray. Lovely. Is that all Torgusson? There's Davis Torgusson there, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah. Nice to see. Look at the whole crew going on there. Whole real crew.
They look like Chima Ferguson right there as well. Obviously we've got the Soty here with the Boosh at a big 180. Nice and silver. And Zion, doing what he does best.
Oh, I'm killing it. Back-sniff pop over into the bank. Nice. Nice kick flip there.
Harry Lindt, Karl Walker. There's another front-side flip for us, so we're happy. Nice to play. Nice and I go.
Nice and I go. Yeah, he knows what he's doing, mate. Oh, that was nice. That was nice.
Wow. Now, Tana's hitting his wall rise again. Wow. Oh, the other way.
Back-on. Whoopsie round, the other way, mate there. Yeah, exactly. Very nice.
So that seems to me like a little intro. I'm sure the part's going to be starting. Wow. All the way around, tail slide into an aqueduct.
Very, very nice. That feels like a little bit of an open intro, mate. Oh, fucking hell. Oh, got another song player now.
Tana Van Vark's name popping up. So this must be a real deal here. All-Ride Blunt. To take you.
Oh, kind of a big thing. Keep you jumped. That's beautiful. Real, real nice.
Big old bank. Real school playground mate. School courtyard, which is always nice to see. Double grind there.
Nice. 180-50, the wrong way. Front-side Oli, the wrong way. Front-side 50.
All-Ride, front-side 180. Double nine, so that's a good one. Again, we'll pop out. Nice.
Yeah. I tell you, mate, these, uh, all-Rides and Walleys coming through are pretty, pretty nice. You've got these down. Yeah, these are some next level.
Walleys and WalRides for sure. What was that, Henry? Not too sure. That's a nice spot.
Oh, that's a nice spot. Classic maneuver there, mate. That's a classic. Whipped it round.
Yeah. You know, it must be in a school yard again. Nice front-side over there. Another ball, mate.
Another full-size wall there. Likes and walls. Got a fight on top. Slash.
Oh, nice pulse down over the wall. Wow. I tell you, he likes his wrong way 180. He's got the inside out.
180's going on, you know, hitting the front-side and going all the way over. Real nice style. What we've got here then? Oh, lovely.
Lovely back-five though. Yeah. Wow. Nice.
That was a kick-clip. Back-tail, walks all the way around. 180, into a wall. Yep.
Nice. Oh. Wow. Front-lit, round-o-horse-hew.
260. Yeah, 270 out, mate. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, lovely.
Big away. Nice. Nice. Really, really interesting tricks here.
Hitting those wall rides again before the hub, you know, that's almost like a switchsmith. Yep. That was a switch front-blood. What's that?
Big spin. Wow. That's almost like a right angle. That rail would get there.
Yeah, by the front-left, as you said. Right-angled. Continuing out. Oh.
Wow. That wall ride, mate. Wall ride transfer there. Yeah.
All-ride to wall ride. With a nice dip-half in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, full-committed. Ah.
I think. What we've got here? Clip a hub, huh? Yep.
Wow. Wall-o-up. Is that blunt? Wall-o-up.
Front-blun. Yep. Very nice. MBD, and that must be a zender, right?
I don't think you're sitting anything out after that. That must be a zender. Iconic spot. Fader-black there, real skateboards.
There we go. That is a really nice part, mate. We'll let it play in the cabinet for chat while the credit's going. Yep.
But that is a really, really nice part. I don't really know anything about it, I'm going to be completely honest. Seems like it's got, you know, good head in his shoulders. Seems like he knows what he's doing.
Pretty humble. I said we're just getting a couple of little cheek-exeter clips here. Couple of thank-yous. I just want to mention like halfway through that.
The amount of tricks in that part was, there was a lot of tricks in there. It was continuous. Very short and clips. That was really good.
Really nice. But they was jamming a lot of clips in there. Yeah, almost kind of like the shotgun edit style. Jamie Thomas edit.
Just putting them in there. I mean, it's almost like seven minutes worth of footage. You know, obviously we've got a load of B-roll all-sheet here for the credits, which they're doing this day. It's all right.
It kind of opens up a little bit before you, but it's not necessarily essential. Yeah. But yeah, seven minutes footage, mate, is pretty good. Yeah, and bangers all the way through.
You know, barely had time to get a replay on some of those. Yeah, that was actually a really tough one to do as a skate companion too. But hopefully you'll break down to that way better. Let's move to the start of the video, mate.
I mean, actually, before we even break down a trick, I'm going to say this motherfucker was a wall-ry king, right? Yeah. He is, I don't think I've ever seen anyone, you know, wall into something more than he has in one part. You know what I mean?
Some people will put that, put one of those in a part, but not five. Five of them in a part. Yeah, there's only really a couple of people kind of on that level of wall-ryge as well. I can think of maybe like T-Funk is probably one of them, but otherwise I can't really think of what two many people who are doing that type of wall-ryge grind, you know, wellying up, hubbers and everything.
What I've got from my tally marks here, mate, was nine wall-rych in that part, which is pretty impressive. So the first one, I don't have the timestamp for, but it's the backside five-oh and a hubber and then rolls into, rolls into fakie. So it still counts, mate. You know what I mean?
He's still using it. He's riding on a wall. So he's on the clock, like an outlet. I don't think it's a hubber.
It's more like an outlet. And he hits that backside five-oh and then just made a grind into it. So rolls into fakie. I'm trying to think I'm trying to get the timestamp of that, mate.
I think it's 140. Just after that front nose. 140. Oh, okay.
Yeah. So it's a long, old front nose, which is real nice. Yeah. Yeah.
So 140 mark already hitting those walls, mate. It's already hitting them. Yep. The next timestamp I've got for another wall-ryge is the 410.
So kind of the right to start, which is the wall-ry into blunt to fakie, which is absolutely beautiful, really, really nice. So pretty much first trick in the path, you know, after his title came up. Bonks it right onto their backside, blunt slide. He's got a king to the bottom of the hubber as well, and he kind of rides that out and then goes down to fakie, which is nice.
Yeah. Four ten. That is really, really nice. Really nice spot.
And I've just got it paused on a 412 at the land. That's a fucking crusty spot. Yes. I've got a lot of people grinding down that ledge.
You know what I mean? There's not too black down that ledge. It doesn't seem like many people touch that. It must be a bit of a chunky spot.
Yeah. It's definitely a fairly clean ledge. So my next wall-ry, mate. This is going to be the wall-ryteau of 10 of them backs, real part.
The next one I've got is 435. There's two here. I don't think I counted it. So maybe there's ten wall-rytes, mate.
Yeah, there's two back to back. Real nice down like a 10-ster. Perfect. And then this trick at the 438 mark.
Yeah. Front to wall-ryteau proper wall-ryteau and then puts that front 180 down. Yeah. So good.
And I got that paused when he's actually already turned out off the wall when he's about four steps high. So yeah, nice pop out on that. Really cool. If you look at the first one, he pops out of that as well, which is showing his skill on a wall.
Let's move on to the next one, mate. You don't have to wait long for next wall-ryteau. It is a 453. And it's on a...
It's a little bit of a hubber that we probably... I think we've seen before. You might recognise it. I don't know where it is, but it looks like he's going to hit a backside blunt side again, but pulls it all the way over to...
More like a Feiki 5.0 kind of thing. I don't know what the exact name you'd call it from that side, but he is going down the hubber in a traditional 5.0 going backwards. I mean, it's like a switch-nose grime, but more Feiki 5.0, but it goes all the way around to get to it. Which, again, he likes his...
He likes his overcomplicated rotations, mate. You know what I mean? Makes it harder for himself. Yeah, that's it.
He enjoys spinning the opposite way. And next one, mate, which is on the 530 mark. So 530, he's just hit a nice double combo, and now he's hitting the big old wall, kind of... Yeah, frontside grime, kind of frontside slash on an aqueduct wall.
I mean, how tall is that fucking wall mate? Yeah, big, big back to wall. It's a good 5.6 foot. You know what I mean?
It's got to be. Yeah. Full contact, all wheels on the wall, like properly riding it. Yeah, definitely a really big height on it as well.
It's pretty much like full fence height. Next one, after that, mate, is on the 610 mark. Yes. Bounce over to 610.
Yeah, this is him just 180 in into a wall. It's like, you know, it's like gradient on the wall mate. You know, there's a little bit, you know, it's not 90 degrees, but it's decent. You know, it's decent.
He's going... he's just full force 180 and rides out. And doesn't look like it actually affects him on the... You know, when he hits the ground.
Doesn't seem like he really actually stops his momentum or anything. He just handles that like a fucking champ. Yeah, exactly what you're saying. It almost might be like, only off like a glass roof.
Yeah. It could be a bit sketchy sometimes. Yeah, fucking two, right. You never know how strong something is.
No, until you do it. Yeah. So fair play, we like that. Next up is the 637 mark.
686, 687, another hover. Boost up. And this is the one that he kind of turns into. It's like a wallie and it turns into like a switch smith.
I don't know if this is like a... It's not the hurricane-style trick where you kind of let the ledge grab your truck and then you just let it twist round. Yeah. But yeah, almost...
yeah, wallies into it with a 180 and then has a backdrop down. So it's more like a... If you're looking at a freeze frame when he's on the ledge, it looks like a frontside switch smith. You know, that's what it looks like.
But I'm sure... Right, and let us know if there's an actual name for that kind of twisted grind. I'm not too sure what it is, but it's a fucking good grind. I can take that.
Yeah, very nice. Handers it really well. Next one, mate. We are on the 7-minute mark.
And this is basically in the aqueduct again. He likes going through storm drains and just hoofs like a big 360, I suppose, into the wall. Like, does the 180 lands on the wall with the 180 and then reverts a second time. Yeah.
But on the wall. Which, uh, almost tricked me. Kind of makes you think it's a 540, but yeah, it's a 180 onto the wall and then it has one more spin. Really, really nice trick.
Just again, showing how much scale he's in control. He's got when he's vertical. You know, when he's actually on a... Yeah, exactly that.
Really controlling his rotation and definitely styling it out. Probably what should have been the ender. Yeah, so wall ride to wall ride transfer. Almost vertical wall going down, maybe like a nine stair.
Roles up it, goes up the top of that and then Ollie's and goes into the smaller part of it where he extends. Obviously it's a lot easier if you are watching along with us than you get what I'm saying. Ridiculous. I don't think anyone's ever done anything like that before.
This is just absolutely crazy. Gets all the way to the end of that wall. Gives us a proper pop and then commits and puts that lead shoulder down mate. You know what I mean?
But it's a little bit more. It's a little bit more. Gets all the way to the end of that wall. Gives us a proper pop and then commits and puts that lead shoulder down mate.
You know what I mean? That lead shoulder down drops that foot and knows that he's going to have to land pretty much vertically. Yeah, and again, it doesn't really seem to affect him too much. Shelly then obviously gets that quick turn out to correct himself.
But otherwise, still rolling away with a lot of speed. And it's nice seeing that one in the slow moment. Just holding on for the day of life like you say. Kind of has to be adjusted on the land.
But surfs it out and holds it through and he's still moving at a decent speed. Obviously the next one after that is the ender and it's at the 725 mark and it's the classic clipper. A hubber. Frontside wall ride into frontside blunt.
Absolutely beautiful. Perfect. So good. And it's just a perfect trick for that spot.
Just the flow in it is just what you want to see. Yeah, exactly that completely smooth. Ten wall ride tricks mate in one part is pretty impressive. Yeah, it's pretty impressive.
And that's not even talking about some of the other tricks he's doing. Like we spoke about at the time. He hits the frontside 180. But he's approaching the ledge frontside or the rail frontside.
But then there's a frontside one all the way round to switch 50. Which is something you do on a curb. I mean I'm not going to be testing that out on a handrail or a flat bar or something like that. Which is what he's done in this video part quite a few times.
Got a couple of other switchbacks when it used to 50s as well. Yeah, exactly that. Really great trick selection. And you don't normally hear about people throwing ten wall rides in a part.
And then we'll be in good and interesting. You know, quite a few people will throw just a general wall ride down the stairs or something in a part just because just showing everyone you can do it. Just throwing one in there. But to be able to keep going and making everyone be like, that was fucking sick.
It's pretty impressive. Yeah, it's one of those things, mate, that you can easily get bored of a part that's got a lot of gimmicky sort of wall rides or hippie jump. You know, anything a bit more kind of off-paced, if you will. Where you sit in 10 of them and it hasn't taken away from anything.
That must be a signature manoeuvre, is that you can just go into a hubber, bump into the bottom of that and then you can go into a hubber trick. I'd like to see there must be some more footage of this kid doing. Maybe like bumping in wall ride backtail. I'm sure he's probably got that somewhere down the road.
So I'm going to check out some more of Tana Banbark shit because I'm sure he's got some more footage out there than I'm sure he's. This can't be the first time he's been doing those wall rides into tricks. It can't be. This must be his bread and butter.
He must be the fucking king of this. Any other tricks that kind of stand out to you there, mate? I really enjoyed the, it was just before one of those tricks, the really nice frontside nose slide on the curved ledge. Just really nice, really enjoyable.
Yeah, front and nose slides, you know, it's a real nice trick. And if you hold for that long, that's full commitment, you know, getting along one's actually a lot harder than, you know, if you do them than you're not talking about, if you can't do them, trust me. Getting along one is full commitment. You've got to just be in the game.
You've got to just trust that you've got enough weight down, this particular accelerator on. Also, once you put that weight down in that position, that's you fully committed that you're in. So wiping out a possibility at any moment in time. Yeah, exactly.
Really enjoyed just that 510 sort of mark. Mate, I'm already on it. I'm already on it. You carry on, but I'm just telling you, I've got it paused on 510 right now.
So you carry on, but yeah, you had to bring this trick up. Yeah, lovely spot, obviously one of those spots that couldn't really be anything better, but to skate or whatever, yeah, nice 180 up to switch back lip and then switch front free off, I'm guessing. Very nicely done. And just the whole thing flowed throughout.
The flow was there. You could have quite easily got caught up in trying to get like a switch heel out of there or something with a flip in it. And I'm glad you didn't. You know, it was the right thing to do is just swing that, if you can swing it back, you know, a switch 360 front side, then swing it.
I mean, it just worked absolutely perfectly. You know, 180 up, just sets the tone, just obviously just nicely does it, pulls around, shows this front side to the camera, and then just whips that motherfucker all the way around with authority. You know, that was a real kind of clean fucking 360 all the way around there, mate. Yeah, no, very nice.
Another standout trick for me was on, it was got like a gap out to flat bar, like, you know, kind of handrail, but it's, I'm not sure if it's flat or a little kind of decline on the rail, but it hits the switch front side blunt slide. Is it shut out or a big spin out? Oh, yes, yeah, big spin. Yeah, big, yeah, it's.
Yeah, that's on. It's the six. It comes out the same. So, yeah, six, you come out the same, you're still in goof.
So it's just. Oh, yeah, just the way you catch it, I guess. Yeah, it is. No, no, he comes back at 649 and adds the big spin.
Oh, OK, right. There you go. There you go. There you go.
He does get a big spin as well. Nice. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, there's on the other one.
Yeah, I got it here, paused at 644 on the first attempt, and it looks on the ground like he's pulling it big. So this must be maybe, you know, maybe he's not trying the shove and it looks like he gets absolutely denied over the big spin. But with the speed, he's got it kind of reverts him back into fakie and he just rides with it with full control. And he just realizes he's been denied.
But pulls it off really well. And I'm sure they just posted it in here to be like, you know, look at this or whatever. Exactly. You can see on the 644, early, early 644 that he's definitely, you know, he's more front heavy.
He's ready to pull that back around with a little reverb in there, you know, cheekily just getting big spin in there. And it just, like saying, it just doesn't happen. It just doesn't go. Yeah, it's like, you're going straight son.
You ain't having that. You ain't going around one more time there. Because you can just see it. He's inside that, you know, his front foot is trying to whip him in there.
It just does not happen. But it's nice he gets another clip and then comes back around, just whips around all the way around and gets the full spin, which is fucking heavy trick, man. Who the fuck's doing anything switch front blunt regardless on that sort of size thing and then whipping that sort of variation out of it? You know, that is an incredible trick.
Should we try and give it a little? Should we try and give it a little bit of a rate for this? It's quite a difficult one. Yeah, we're going to have to kind of ignore the little team intro and kind of aim more on a more antenna here.
Yeah, and with your net, you're going to have to take Kyle Walker's frontside flips and Boozenitz's frontside flips out the equation on this one. So it kind of starts. Where are we starting from mate? I think it's like the four minute mark is where they announce his name.
So I guess that's like seriously into it. Okay, so it's more like for him a three minute part of his got some other little bits in there, but more close closer to three four minutes. It's very hard because obviously will rise and shit like that aren't necessarily like my favorite thing to see. But when somebody's hitting them, this good, they don't see many people do it.
It's got to put them up there. So I mean, it's kind of like do you mug them off with three, even though he's hitting a lot of MBDs. But then again, is that always seen? It's hard to tell you to tell the right tricks mate.
You give them a three. Is that mug in a mouth or is that fair? It's a hard one. It's a hard one for sure.
Is it a four? I don't know. It's probably hitting the like three points, three points seven mark. So it might have to go the side three.
Yeah, which is still good mate. It's sort of three still good, but I'm kind of with you. It's kind of the three seven five sort of three three eight, even three nine, you know, it's close, but it's one of those things that no one gets a five apart from John Dilo. So that's just that's what you're trying to fight against trying to hit that sort of level of skateboard.
And you've got you've got to score something really mean shit anyway, you know, it's all a matter of opinion. But I think deep down, he probably knows he can hit. He can take these tricks to bigger hubbers. You know, I mean, he can if he wants to go and hit the Staples Center's hubber that rowdy 50 back in a day and then Clyde Dixon, I think he crooped it.
If he's hit one of his wall rides something down these mate, then you know, he can be in a five round there, didn't he? Yeah, exactly. That is one of those things where he can keep going. Let's see what else comes out.
Like I said, if he pushes a few more bigger tricks out there or just maybe a few more bangers in at the end would really boost it. Like I'm not going to put anything down on this part like you're saying, you would like to say, and I would agree with you the Wally Gaptr. I think the other wall ride would have been a nicer trick. I think the clipper was just put last probably because of how well known of a smart clipper is when I reckon if they just swap those two round, that wall road will probably get a little bit more.
Yeah, exactly. I just think that one trick we've never seen that before. I mean, we've seen people do frontside blunt sides down down clipper. We've seen people do, you know, backside nose blunts down clipper.
So we've seen some heavier kind of tricks down it. And that's why even as a more unique trick, maybe start apart with that. I don't know. I'm not taking away from it.
You don't catch me doing anything on that fucking thing. And I personally think that wall ride was just, he's never even going to hit another one like that again. Is he going to find another spot that you can even do that on again? You know, it's got to be a very specific spot to be able to hit that wall ride transfer.
I think it probably should have been the end. Yeah, exactly that. Not taking any of those tricks away or putting them down at all. I think the other one stood out more.
And I'm just thinking like it's hard to, you know, obviously you'd have to go and see both the spots ready to get full understanding. But to me, it seems like the wall ride is a hard, would have been a lot harder for him to do. Yeah, yeah, exactly. We can call it there for this issue of typical sports radio.
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