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Title: Riding on Bricks
Post by: ZEBRA on March 11, 2013, 09:04:38 PM
Anyone else love riding across bricks?? I don't know what it is, but the sound, the feeling, doing tricks.... Fucking love it.

I'm the only one??
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: Paco Supreme on March 11, 2013, 09:15:22 PM
love it, go as fast as i can and make it loud as fuck
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Post by: ZEBRA on March 11, 2013, 10:07:18 PM
love it, go as fast as i can and make it loud as fuck

Fuck yeah!!! YES!!!
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Post by: Jive Turkey on March 11, 2013, 10:31:27 PM
love it, go as fast as i can and make it loud as fuck
This.

I love it when they run lengthwise. Super smooth; sick sound.
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: Decreed Bratton on March 11, 2013, 10:51:32 PM
Henry Sanchez - Tim & Henry's Pack of Lies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzW1dTCoAuc#)

This was part of the lure of wanting to go to EMB back in the day for me.  Little did I know it was hard as fuck to skate on those bricks.  The cracks in between them was huge in some areas and riding bearing covers back in the day didn't help.
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: skateboardnorth on March 11, 2013, 10:57:48 PM
Anyone else love riding across bricks?? I don't know what it is, but the sound, the feeling, doing tricks.... Fucking love it.

I'm the only one??
  you are not alone man
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: raunchyrick on March 12, 2013, 09:58:42 AM
& riding over sewer caps! - it's the little things!
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Post by: A.J.K. on March 12, 2013, 10:01:10 AM
& riding over sewer caps! - it's the little things!
Doing those Omar Salazar type tail scrapes over sewers going fast as fuck is probably one of the best feelings in the world. 
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: paraquat on March 12, 2013, 12:51:41 PM
I fucking love when a manny pad is bricks.
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: Merked on March 12, 2013, 01:14:29 PM
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& riding over sewer caps! - it's the little things!
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Doing those Omar Salazar type tail scrapes over sewers going fast as fuck is probably one of the best feelings in the world. 

^^Fuck Yeah.
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: ttching! on March 12, 2013, 01:47:21 PM
Long ago, when I was about nine or ten, my mom was working at a University and one part of the campus had these breast shaped features that were half grass, half brick and surrounded by sidewalk. Sometimes our little crew would get to come with her and shred while she was working and that was the spot. I've been hooked on skating on bricks ever since. Sadly, although not surprisingly, that spot is long gone.
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Post by: LambShank on March 12, 2013, 01:51:02 PM
slippery-ass brick ledges are pretty ideal
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Post by: c. 1995 on March 12, 2013, 04:11:07 PM
The banks. The small banks  :(
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Post by: oyolar on March 12, 2013, 05:05:51 PM
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& riding over sewer caps! - it's the little things!
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Doing those Omar Salazar type tail scrapes over sewers going fast as fuck is probably one of the best feelings in the world. 
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^^Fuck Yeah.

I love it because you get that nice hollow sound from the sewer.
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: StFlour on March 12, 2013, 05:17:29 PM
I pretty much learned how to Skate on bricks at my house. Harder than concrete but thats good in a way, I guess.
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Post by: Randozzi on March 13, 2013, 01:23:39 AM
Market St. in S.F., so fun to haul ass down the sidewalk then hit the skater strip/curb.
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: Nick on March 13, 2013, 08:15:18 PM
I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE
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Post by: ZEBRA on March 13, 2013, 11:20:32 PM
I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE

YOU'RE NOT ALONE

I've always wanted to skate a brick ledge. I know there's ones out there you can grind and slide on. Only one spot I can think of though.

Andrew Reynolds-Baker 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb5Jb_BciNI#)

2:10
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: JamesNtheGntPch on March 13, 2013, 11:36:42 PM
Real brick is really nice.  When it is well aged it's a little slick and I can slide my tricks a more.
Fake brick (concrete dyed to look like brick) is usually terrible.

I also really like the cracks in the sidewalk around my apartment.  I just do a nose bonk kinda thing over them. 
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: Kitto Horsley on March 15, 2013, 07:07:37 AM
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& riding over sewer caps! - it's the little things!
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Doing those Omar Salazar type tail scrapes over sewers going fast as fuck is probably one of the best feelings in the world. 
Did this as i was going past some good looking girls the other day.  They were not as stoked as i was
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: BRIX SKWIKZ on March 17, 2013, 06:49:25 PM
I LIKE THE SOUND OF LOOSE TILES
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Post by: _aminal on March 22, 2013, 01:01:15 PM
I LIKE THE SOUND OF LOOSE TILES

*click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click*
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: RerouteTheDoubt on March 27, 2013, 10:23:22 PM
haha awesome thread
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: jgonzalez on March 27, 2013, 10:32:24 PM
I deliberately skate on bricks when I can

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love the EMB vibe and when skaters skate on bricks in videos.
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: Shredsledder on April 21, 2013, 03:08:30 AM
Seattle Central Community College has the best bricks I've ever had the pleasure of skating.

sorry to de-rail the topic but those little octagonal cement things that are all over NYC's public parks are my favorite thing to ride on.
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: hydrant hopper on April 25, 2013, 08:42:00 PM
Market St. in S.F., so fun to haul ass down the sidewalk then hit the skater strip/curb.

Some of the best pushing you'll ever do.  It just gets you stoked.
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: SkateViolence on April 25, 2013, 08:52:29 PM
fucking love this. hauling ass on bricks, hopping the curb into the street, dodging traffic, then hopping back up on the sidewalk. no better feeling.
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Post by: ChewyPoo on April 25, 2013, 11:41:29 PM
where i live the city is filled with bricks, we have this dope 3 down 3 up spot thats bricks which leads into this like steep brick back then just down the road theres a brick 6 and 7 a fat wo block and these poles that are maybe a bit higher than fire hydrants, also a brick manny pad, shit even a rail and a couple benches all in this same area called the octagon
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: EnjoiSanJose on May 19, 2013, 12:23:21 PM
1:08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSybMWbfrNY&feature=youtube_gdata_player (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSybMWbfrNY&feature=youtube_gdata_player)
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: The Human Condom on June 05, 2013, 10:32:31 PM
I would love to skate an all brick skate park/plaza/ or diy spot.  Is that NBD?
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: ZEBRA on June 07, 2013, 09:33:50 PM
I've always dreamed of making/skating a brick quarter. Just to carve brick transition would be awesome.

How about a brick bowl/pool?? Obviously it wouldn't be actual brick. It would be stamped to look like brick, but it would still have the same feeling.
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: Tarela on June 09, 2013, 11:37:44 AM
Always loved skating brick floor in general but banks especially..i miss the brooklyn banks but there a few spots here that will do..
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: J.R. on June 17, 2013, 09:48:24 PM
There is a manual pad in one of the parking lots that borders the outer perimeter of the park at Flushing Meadows, and the fact that the surface is made out of properly placed brick easily makes it my favorite manual pad to skate. Skating at the Brooklyn Banks used to be cool too...
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: zoltan on June 20, 2013, 09:30:30 PM
i love skating on marble tiles. nothing feels better than very smooth marble with those small cracks. it makes the best sound in footage and the cracks dont make you lose speed. i love love park footage for that reason
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: ZEBRA on June 20, 2013, 10:41:23 PM
i love skating on marble tiles. nothing feels better than very smooth marble with those small cracks. it makes the best sound in footage and the cracks dont make you lose speed. i love love park footage for that reason

What about when you have flat spots??
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: Paco Supreme on July 07, 2013, 05:22:44 AM
Went to a family friends this afternoon, the whole block they live on is brick roads and drive ways and perfect roll on curbs, back too back slappies all the way down the street  ;D
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: daditude adjustment on July 25, 2013, 10:27:53 AM
this is pretty cool

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/45874748?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=346900" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/45874748">EXPEDITION-ONE - BRICKYARD</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/kayocorp">KAYOTV</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: art hellman on July 25, 2013, 03:07:34 PM
i live in aberdeen (rattray's home town) and live about a 5 minute skate from the denburn banks so when i get bored i sometimes go for a skate there. there's just something rad about bricks and even radder about brick quarter pipes. i even love the little lip you have to ollie up every time to get onto the brick platform. you get into a cool rhythm ollieing on, tricking the quarterpipe, then rolling back off the bricks every run, i love it.

if you don't know the spot i'm talking about you'll probably recognise it. rattray makes it look easy to skate it in this video at 50 seconds.
Elwood Clothing - John Rattray Artist Reel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFOfOR-9y70#ws)

Never saw that clip before...rad!  the backside to that wall blunt is nuts-o.  And Stu!  Also, on a Scottish note, when living in NYC there was a tallish skinny guy who'd every so often show up and skate the Chelsea park that was in some way connected to Stu (I think also Scottish)...anyways, the guy rips and always seemed to find new lines there.  Any chance someone knows who that mystery man is?  Hmm, maybe I should have put this in a 'Missed Connections' when I was still living there...
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: foley_ on July 25, 2013, 04:20:48 PM
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i live in aberdeen (rattray's home town) and live about a 5 minute skate from the denburn banks so when i get bored i sometimes go for a skate there. there's just something rad about bricks and even radder about brick quarter pipes. i even love the little lip you have to ollie up every time to get onto the brick platform. you get into a cool rhythm ollieing on, tricking the quarterpipe, then rolling back off the bricks every run, i love it.

if you don't know the spot i'm talking about you'll probably recognise it. rattray makes it look easy to skate it in this video at 50 seconds.
Elwood Clothing - John Rattray Artist Reel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFOfOR-9y70#ws)
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Never saw that clip before...rad!  the backside to that wall blunt is nuts-o.  And Stu!  Also, on a Scottish note, when living in NYC there was a tallish skinny guy who'd every so often show up and skate the Chelsea park that was in some way connected to Stu (I think also Scottish)...anyways, the guy rips and always seemed to find new lines there.  Any chance someone knows who that mystery man is?  Hmm, maybe I should have put this in a 'Missed Connections' when I was still living there...

it could possibly have been div adam
Div Adams - Savoire Faire Bonus Edit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL_sWi13zUw#)

or colin kennedy
Colin Kennedy LAF (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7kdbJRlx1o#)

they're both scottish and both friends with stu. if it's not one of them i can't think who it would have been.
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: Greg on July 27, 2013, 01:16:12 AM
eating shit on bricks is like moonwalking on a cheese grader
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: ZEBRA on July 28, 2013, 09:25:18 PM
eating shit on bricks is like moonwalking on a cheese grader

Risk it for the bisciut
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: Spitfire4life on July 30, 2013, 03:39:50 PM
The indoor park by my house just built these wooden banks, but they cut the wood into brick sized panels, so it sounds and feels like bricks, but it slides well too. They even built a wallride just like the ones at the Brooklyn banks. The park kinda sucks and it;s $15 for 3 hours there, but it was worth it just to skate them. Still can't beat real bricks though.
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: flapJack on July 30, 2013, 08:54:30 PM
Southbank
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b13VTTq9Tfk

I also noticed how cory kennedy has the planter line on brick in pretty sweet, and does his best to avoid bricks. Cory Kennedy confirmed for brick hater
Title: Re: Riding on Bricks
Post by: art hellman on August 01, 2013, 10:29:04 AM
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i live in aberdeen (rattray's home town) and live about a 5 minute skate from the denburn banks so when i get bored i sometimes go for a skate there. there's just something rad about bricks and even radder about brick quarter pipes. i even love the little lip you have to ollie up every time to get onto the brick platform. you get into a cool rhythm ollieing on, tricking the quarterpipe, then rolling back off the bricks every run, i love it.

if you don't know the spot i'm talking about you'll probably recognise it. rattray makes it look easy to skate it in this video at 50 seconds.
Elwood Clothing - John Rattray Artist Reel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFOfOR-9y70#ws)
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Never saw that clip before...rad!?  the backside to that wall blunt is nuts-o.?  And Stu!?  Also, on a Scottish note, when living in NYC there was a tallish skinny guy who'd every so often show up and skate the Chelsea park that was in some way connected to Stu (I think also Scottish)...anyways, the guy rips and always seemed to find new lines there.?  Any chance someone knows who that mystery man is??  Hmm, maybe I should have put this in a 'Missed Connections' when I was still living there...
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it could possibly have been div adam
Div Adams - Savoire Faire Bonus Edit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL_sWi13zUw#)

or colin kennedy
Colin Kennedy LAF (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7kdbJRlx1o#)

they're both scottish and both friends with stu. if it's not one of them i can't think who it would have been.

nah, this ripper looks more like Bradford from Deerhunter