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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: TheFandangler on December 18, 2020, 04:58:58 PM
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What are your favourite spots to see in videos/photos? Could be for any reason: aesthetics, gnar factor, whatever. Maybe a favourite trick there too?
I've always been partial to the Arco rails (my sig would indicate that haha). Something about the way they look just tickles my goat. Big fan of when someone gets both sets/rails in a line. The bigger rails are especially rad to see someone skate. Arto's tricks stand out, but the Heath slam is kind of a rad clip, and JT back 50-50 is awesome too. Edit: Was hyped to see Louie get the switch flip there in the new Cons video. (That is the spot right? Just the Rails are gold now and there isn't one in the middle?)
Honourable mentions:
Bricktown - Jim Greco backlip shuv the side no one skates, Chima sw back tail
Takeshi Stairs (I think that's what they're called?) - Mason half cab 50
Synagogue rail - Arto fs crook and kf fs board, AVE halfcab crook, Justin Henry front shuv crook, Freddie sw crook
Paul Rever 16 - Bastien with the gnarliest kf fs board of all time, John Cardiel smith, Sheckler 360 flip, Darrell sw back 180
There's probably a few more that I'll think of and add later
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I found this online mag that lists most tricks done at some pretty famous spots. Pretty cool actually. They even make a little edit for each spot.
https://skatekrak.com/mag
Never heard of this site before though.
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3up 3 down in San Fran. Its simple enough looking that everyone can relate to it but the stuff that's gone down is mind bottling...
Love Busenitz' mini part there.
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3up 3 down in San Fran. Its simple enough looking that everyone can relate to it but the stuff that's gone down is mind bottling...
Love Busenitz' mini part there.
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But yes that's a good one! BA, Gerwer and Hsu
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I love seeing stuff go down at China Banks. This comes to mind
http://www.instagram.com/p/ByB9Y8IFljh/?igshid=1o0isxz6xt4ru
Also any trick taken all the way on the ledge at flushing is a serotonin booster for me. Hjalte's backtail bs heel and fsts front wheel were great.
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3up 3 down in San Fran. Its simple enough looking that everyone can relate to it but the stuff that's gone down is mind bottling...
Love Busenitz' mini part there.
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But yes that's a good one! BA, Gerwer and Hsu
"Yeah. You know when things are so crazy, you get your thoughts trapped, like in a bottle." - sorry a silly Blades of Glory movie (Will Ferrell) quote. I use it way too much.
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I love those concrete bumps at that schoolyard in Montreal. (incredibly specific, I know)
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3up 3 down in San Fran. Its simple enough looking that everyone can relate to it but the stuff that's gone down is mind bottling...
Love Busenitz' mini part there.
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But yes that's a good one! BA, Gerwer and Hsu
"Yeah. You know when things are so crazy, you get your thoughts trapped, like in a bottle." - sorry a silly Blades of Glory movie (Will Ferrell) quote. I use it way too much.
Haha I forgot about that one. I had a friend who up until he was about 24 thought it was "bottling" so that's what made me question you.
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There's this spot in Ann Arbor, MI that I once lived a few blocks from... I am struggling to think of its name, but it's a big bank to wall with a window ledge a few feet up the wall. You have to ollie up to get onto the bank... very hard to skate. Unless I'm mistaken, Dan Drehobl did a rock to fakie on the window ledge.
Any Michigan skaters know what I'm talking about? It's behind some kind of dormitory type building. It's definitely not a famous spot but it was a favorite, despite being really challenging to skate.
Edit- found the Drehobl footy:
http://youtu.be/bCh-T_j8kaM
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fdr
love
msb
wallows
china b
brooklyn b
bam has some cool clips at dust bowl
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China Banks- Rowan Zorilla nollie flip
Blubba - Jerry Hsu switch front board 270 out, Carl Aikens bigspin
NYC Courthouse - Brandon Westgate nosegrind across back 180 drop, TJ hardflip in
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All time favorite is the old union square with the green benches. Brown marble is neck and neck.
Currently it’s Emeryville high. Perfect blocks, close to my house, and no one skates there.
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All time favorite is the old union square with the green benches. Brown marble is neck and neck.
Currently it’s Emeryville high. Perfect blocks, close to my house, and no one skates there.
I also really like the spot in your sig.
China banks and NYC courthouse are also rad to see
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Love park prob
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UC Davis, Le Dome double set, that hubba that koston nollie noseslides in menikmati. It’s also in the sorry and lordz videos. The restraunt is called Les Quat- something
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3up 3 down in San Fran. Its simple enough looking that everyone can relate to it but the stuff that's gone down is mind bottling...
Love Busenitz' mini part there.
Love that spot.
BAs line in yeah right is in my top 3 of all time I rekon.
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southbank
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Not necessarily even my favourite spot but I love seeing people hit it and I can't for the life of me remember the name of it. It's like a bank that leads into an even steeper bank, almost as if you were to build a ramp by sticking two flat pieces of wood together to end up with something like this -
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It looks to be around SF and is in a narrow space too, the most notable trick I can recall being a back noseblunt and one additional detail I seem to recall about it is that no has yet to do anything to fakie on it. Lol this is gonna bug me until I figure it out now.
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This is pure nostalgia, but whenever I see Pier 7, even current footage with the wooden platforms, it brings back some of the magic it had in the 90s. Lavar McBride’s Pro Files come to mind.
https://youtu.be/SnDWAAwKBf8
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Not necessarily even my favourite spot but I love seeing people hit it and I can't for the life of me remember the name of it. It's like a bank that leads into an even steeper bank, almost as if you were to build a ramp by sticking two flat pieces of wood together to end up with something like this -
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It looks to be around SF and is in a narrow space too, the most notable trick I can recall being a back noseblunt and one additional detail I seem to recall about it is that no has yet to do anything to fakie on it. Lol this is gonna bug me until I figure it out now.
ah shit i know which one you mean i think, is it running next to some stairs maybe? basically a bank running into essentially a fuckin wall? bs noseblunt comes to mind too, guy got towed in i think? it might be in one of the awaysted videos, im sure someone else has specifics.
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Trenton brick banks and Afro banks in Philly. Both have always been hard as fuck to skate and it blows my mind seeing people do anything on either
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lSd7KiZHoFY
rip my fav spot
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lSd7KiZHoFY
rip my fav spot
For sure, City hall was the best
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Always loved the way Wilshire 10 and 15 look lit up at night.
Arco rails(above user has artos lipslide as a sig).
Love, City hall and Muni all look great but in that order.
Pyramid ledge in NYC.
Don’t know the name but the spot in Barcelona with the waves/ bump to bar, always enjoyed footage from there.
Really dig all those downtown Toronto spots that Bobby Dekeyzer skates they all look so good on footage and I’ve heard they’re all a bust.
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This is pure nostalgia, but whenever I see Pier 7, even current footage with the wooden platforms, it brings back some of the magic it had in the 90s. Lavar McBride’s Pro Files come to mind.
https://youtu.be/SnDWAAwKBf8
Pier 7 fr. Emb too and im not even west coast. Those 2 spots and love park are the shiznits imo
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@BurntPorridge was this the one?
(https://pm1.narvii.com/6093/c085e25806f0133b4062cb7476cbef582a814479_hq.jpg)
garfield high school, seattle.
https://www.instagram.com/madarsapse/p/BOpqdw0gbGk/
(https://www.ambushskateboarding.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/boneless.gif)
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That huge cobblestone quarter at cité de l'océan in Biarritz.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIxMi-PFMb_/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
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Exelon / chase Plaza in Chicago. Most fun and coolest spot. Kalis had a few clips there recently I think on the ledges that were beautiful.
Edit: also Shanahan skated it recently along with another fav the post office ledges
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHv-OY4jBUv/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
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(https://i.imgur.com/Tag1F.jpg)
Maitland banks cause I've looked at em since I was a toddler
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The pyramid ledges. Got a hard on for that spot since seeing it for the first time in a 411 about 20 yrs ago. Still get said hard on seeing new footage there to this day
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3up 3 down in San Fran. Its simple enough looking that everyone can relate to it but the stuff that's gone down is mind bottling...
Love Busenitz' mini part there.
Love that spot.
BAs line in yeah right is in my top 3 of all time I rekon.
Van wastell’s front heel in 6th Newell is the best front heel ever
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I have a major soft spot for shitty NYC spots. The Chinatown Banks are maybe the best representation of that because they’re so janky and hard to get tricks on but they look cool and anytime I landed a trick on them it felt great.
(https://quartersnacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/early-grab.gif)
https://quartersnacks.com/2018/08/shit-to-sugar-a-history-of-trying-to-make-new-yorks-chinatown-banks-work/ (https://quartersnacks.com/2018/08/shit-to-sugar-a-history-of-trying-to-make-new-yorks-chinatown-banks-work/)
Also really miss the Brooklyn Queens Expressway DIY... I’m just a sucker for wonky transition spots I guess. The ground was so filthy there but it was always fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_lXtvPEidY&feature=youtu.be
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carlsbad is the only “famous” gap i ever really cared about. something about it always looked sick, even if it was in a school. the chase banks in downtown chicago are sick; would probably be the most blown out overused spot of all time if it were anywhere near LA.
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Stockwell Skatepark, everytime I see it everyone looks like they're having a blast.
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i love seeing what people come up with on the brick banks in LA. Another spot i love to see that i for some reason i can't recall the name is that big pink bench that has a rounded dome with a flat top with a drop after i've seen people doing some epic shit off of lately.
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PLAN B RAMP
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Stockwell Skatepark, everytime I see it everyone looks like they're having a blast.
^^ absolutely, this place looks sick and the footage from the locals is always ace
i’m adding schaaf’s ramp, mostly for photos tho
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dways hawaiian dream