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This sort of reminds me of the Clint Walker thing. I forget the name of the spot, stairs that Reynolds destroys in Baker 3 (Wilshire?). Anyhow, the city put up an obstruction at the end to discourage people from skating it, Clint gaps the whole fucker, sits on the footage. Then some kid winds up doing it and posting it on Instagram and Clint and company melts down about it.
I think this is the risk of holding onto footage, and no one is at fault. If you want to gamble on no one else doing it that's your choice, but you can't cry if someone else does it after and publishes it before you.
Didn't Clint try to talk to the kid and then he posted out of nowhere? A kooky thing to do, they could've done a double cover or something.
I think so? I don't remember the specifics and found the whole thing to be lame. I think I felt like both parties sucked.
Probably.
From what I remember it was some random kid from the midwest or something who was out in Cali and did it. Why would he hide something like that just so a well known am / pro could get the shine for doing it? Anyone who commits to something that sick shouldnt have to bury their own clips to make pros happy, that sounds like some Stevie Williams NBA shit. If Clint was so worried about someone else taking credit he should have put a bike lock on it.
Mm I think it was a black LA skater on FA flow who went by a nickname. It apparently cost Clint cover money which I get being upset about, but went about it in a typical Clint Walker way
Yeah that Fa flow kid Reef I think. Clint did it first but thrasher wanted to save it for a possible cover. So this other kid does it, Clint reaches out and asks him not to post it and wait for the photo to come out, kid says “okay” and then turns around a couple hours later and posts the clip. Pretty goddamn whack, if you ask me
He's from Atlanta. Also this happened four years ago, time flies..
Here's a Jenkem article about it.
Clint is surprisingly un-kooklike in that article. He understands that both skaters had high stakes and seems sympathetic to Reef. This article ask presages the new reality, where some of the biggest skaters in on Instagram (and hence, biggest skaters in the world) have more or less completely circumvented the industry
Clint always gonna be fighting that small D energy he presented us with on kotr.
That pretty.reef guy ain't the best either, unfollowed him a couple years back, was he posting guns on his ig story or something? I dunno some kinda lame shit
As for Elijah he really needs a fixer or some shit, it's a travesty to be that sick at skating and to be doing shit like this