Was T-Funk's Ollie Filmed / Documented as Well as it Could Have Been?

[Lou Strux]

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Maybe if it wasn’t one of the most well known spots in the most documented skate city on the planet.  If aliens came down and said “show me something gnarly”, then, yeah, a little more context would be helpful. But in this case, for such a venerated spot, leaning on a little in-group knowledge is a feature not a bug. Piers Morgan don’t know!

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“Why’d you show us this? That shit is big enough to already see from space…”
          -aliens (probably)

Maybe you’re onto something here: bonus angle should’ve been filmed from an orbital mapping satellite.

[BartHarleyJarvis]

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Maybe if it wasn’t one of the most well known spots in the most documented skate city on the planet.  If aliens came down and said “show me something gnarly”, then, yeah, a little more context would be helpful. But in this case, for such a venerated spot, leaning on a little in-group knowledge is a feature not a bug. Piers Morgan don’t know!

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“Why’d you show us this? That shit is big enough to already see from space…”
          -aliens (probably)

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Maybe you’re onto something here: bonus angle should’ve been filmed from an orbital mapping satellite.

The unused Angle....

[shouldn't]

a lot of shit is just like that, truly doesn’t translate in film. you can’t tell how rounded clipper is just by a clip. you see van owen bump and think it looks fun and then you go there and it’s hard to even ollie. i think the clip looks great but, i get your point. it’s just skateboarding. i think it makes it cooler cause all these kids probably say “man i’ll kickflip that shit!” to their friends and then they get there and end up getting a “biggest bunt” award.

[pdknox]

and they never uploaded his ECG stats either

[Olympus Mons]

no

[LebowskisRug]

I thought the filming on it sucked. The angle from the back made it look like he rolled a lot further over the bench before ollie'ing than he did and the front angle was almost too far. If the filmer was like just past the front of the bench and got a side angle he would have looked further away and come towards the lens more and then required some panning near the end of the ollie and you would have gotten more scale.

[thebacker]

he should have used a go pro mouth cam

[glimmerati]

just measure the bigness already

13 ft 4 in, going by the number of bricks

[Burt Ward]

he should have used a go pro mouth cam

Shoulda had a fisheye strapped to his head, pointing directly into his face, like that English trainspotter guy on instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CQ1SHK4DFIh/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

[Lowcalcium]

When Fred ollied it he was on acid and never filmed it. Now your complaining about angles...get out of here.

[$$LESH]

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Maybe if it wasn’t one of the most well known spots in the most documented skate city on the planet.  If aliens came down and said “show me something gnarly”, then, yeah, a little more context would be helpful. But in this case, for such a venerated spot, leaning on a little in-group knowledge is a feature not a bug. Piers Morgan don’t know!

[close]

“Why’d you show us this? That shit is big enough to already see from space…”
          -aliens (probably)

[close]

Maybe you’re onto something here: bonus angle should’ve been filmed from an orbital mapping satellite.

[close]

The unused Angle....

ty evan’s is fuckin fuming right now

[stevedave]

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Maybe if it wasn’t one of the most well known spots in the most documented skate city on the planet.  If aliens came down and said “show me something gnarly”, then, yeah, a little more context would be helpful. But in this case, for such a venerated spot, leaning on a little in-group knowledge is a feature not a bug. Piers Morgan don’t know!

[close]

“Why’d you show us this? That shit is big enough to already see from space…”
          -aliens (probably)

[close]

Maybe you’re onto something here: bonus angle should’ve been filmed from an orbital mapping satellite.

[close]

The unused Angle....

This photo actually says a lot more than it looks.  Look at the small benches, they're like 1/3 the size of the big bench, and as people have said - carving the SMALL bench isn't easy. 

**edit - if you look closely, the big bench is damn near the same width as the width of a lane on the street below. 

[BartHarleyJarvis]

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Maybe if it wasn’t one of the most well known spots in the most documented skate city on the planet.  If aliens came down and said “show me something gnarly”, then, yeah, a little more context would be helpful. But in this case, for such a venerated spot, leaning on a little in-group knowledge is a feature not a bug. Piers Morgan don’t know!

[close]

“Why’d you show us this? That shit is big enough to already see from space…”
          -aliens (probably)

[close]

Maybe you’re onto something here: bonus angle should’ve been filmed from an orbital mapping satellite.

[close]

The unused Angle....

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This photo actually says a lot more than it looks.  Look at the small benches, they're like 1/3 the size of the big bench, and as people have said - carving the SMALL bench isn't easy. 

**edit - if you look closely, the big bench is damn near the same width as the width of a lane on the street below.

those benches are fucking mean too. Concrete blocks with sharp edges. You come up short on a carve you're either taking a corner to the shin or you take your chances jumping out.

[Rasmus]

I thought it was fine, but kudos to op for coming up with quite an interesting topic to discuss

[Prostate Exam]

Of course not! We need drones, VX1000 anlge, VX2000 angle, Hi-8 footy and next time someone needs to get a clip using his Nintendo 3DS

[Atiba Applebum]

I didn’t like the edit at first because it went by so fast, that it almost gave me a “that was it?” feeling, but I think it’s because it could have benefited from a slo-mo after all the homies cheering, rather than a different angle.   Watching it over and over on IG, it’s def gnarly

[DISTANT RUMOURS]

I was talking about this with some friends the other day. That trick is insane.
We've been there and it's literally just a wall that has been slightly pushed back. It's THAT steep.
 
My friends and I could even roll up the thing, and some other skaters were there as well to look at it.
We couldn't believe it.

That people did tricks on it is absolutely insane.

On top of all that the surface is literally bricks with huge grooves in between them.
If you slam on it you might need some skingrafts, because the sides of the bricks are pretty rough and sharp at the same time.

What T-funk did is mindblowing and I can't get over the fact that this kid can't land a shoe deal.
What more do companies want?

I think it was captured very well although a top/side view truly shows how steep that thing is.

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And maybe it would be a good idea to start a topic about spots that look underwhelming in footage but are huge/hard to skate in real life.

The LA high banks + city hall quarters  come to mind ...

[Prostate Exam]

What more do companies want?

More angles apparently

[DISTANT RUMOURS]

hahaha

[OldSkater]

i dont give two shits how it was filmed. it was historic that it even happened imho

[QixHexagon]

We'll be back after the commercials with an exclusive interview with the bank itself - his early life, immigration to US, from a small brick to a historical bank, facing pidgeon shit and much more.

[ShyLow]

Woulda been sick if Spike Jones filmed it and blew up the bench right after he ollied it like MikeMo in Fully Flared

[Atiba Applebum]

I was talking about this with some friends the other day. That trick is insane.
We've been there and it's literally just a wall that has been slightly pushed back. It's THAT steep.
 
My friends and I could even roll up the thing, and some other skaters were there as well to look at it.
We couldn't believe it.

That people did tricks on it is absolutely insane.

On top of all that the surface is literally bricks with huge grooves in between them.
If you slam on it you might need some skingrafts, because the sides of the bricks are pretty rough and sharp at the same time.

What T-funk did is mindblowing and I can't get over the fact that this kid can't land a shoe deal.
What more do companies want?

I think it was captured very well although a top/side view truly shows how steep that thing is.

In my industry, a “no assholes” policy is definitely getting entrenched.    Maybe dealing with him isn’t worth the tricks he lands and gnarly tricks don’t always equate to people buying your products

[DannyDee]

I think it would have been cool if they got another shot from street level, just to show the risk involved if you fucked up.

[Lou Strux]

I think it would have been cool if they got another shot from street level, just to show the risk involved if you fucked up.

Agree that it would’ve made for a cool angle, but this begs the question: are there people who ride skateboards who DON’T KNOW that there’s a sizable drop (to the street below, in places, though not where he hit it) on the other side of that wall.
Wonder if it would’ve even been necessary been necessary, given the collective brain of skating.
That last, long bench is mostly over a shorter, but still precarious drop to a small plaza about 15 feet below.
Doesn’t diminish how fucking insanely wild clearing that shit is, though.
Took me years of visiting that spot before I was able carve (barely) over the SHORT bench.
Swear to god I have know idea how he managed to pull that nutty move off.
Big respect to the safety hands man.
Loved it.

[DannyDee]

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I think it would have been cool if they got another shot from street level, just to show the risk involved if you fucked up.

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Agree that it would’ve made for a cool angle, but this begs the question: are there people who ride skateboards who DON’T KNOW that there’s a sizable drop (to the street below, in places, though not where he hit it) on the other side of that wall.
Wonder if it would’ve even been necessary been necessary, given the collective brain of skating.
That last, long bench is mostly over a shorter, but still precarious drop to a small plaza about 15 feet below.
Doesn’t diminish how fucking insanely wild clearing that shit is, though.
Took me years of visiting that spot before I was able carve (barely) over the SHORT bench.
Swear to god I have know idea how he managed to pull that nutty move off.
Big respect to the safety hands man.
Loved it.

On Slap, I would think most know the potential for disaster. But, among the 12 to 15 year olds Baker is trying to move product too, I have no idea how many know that.

[cucktard]

I was talking about this with some friends the other day. That trick is insane.
We've been there and it's literally just a wall that has been slightly pushed back. It's THAT steep.
 
My friends and I could even roll up the thing, and some other skaters were there as well to look at it.
We couldn't believe it.

That people did tricks on it is absolutely insane.

Only got to go there once, for about 30 minutes or so, a few years back. I had dreams of doing a few carves over the benches a la Animal Chin, just to say I did them.

I got there and fuck me, they are not ‘banks’, they are ‘mellow walls’.

No one was there, I had the place to myself, but took me many cycles of trying to ride up the banks, being like “fuck this”, giving up, sitting down, and trying again, to figure out just how much speed and the angles I needed to carve just a small bench. I finally did and was so stoked, but yeah, WAY harder than it looks on film.

Anything beyond a carve, much less an ollie over the long bench, is legendary

[shouldn't]

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I think it would have been cool if they got another shot from street level, just to show the risk involved if you fucked up.

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Agree that it would’ve made for a cool angle, but this begs the question: are there people who ride skateboards who DON’T KNOW that there’s a sizable drop (to the street below, in places, though not where he hit it) on the other side of that wall.
Wonder if it would’ve even been necessary been necessary, given the collective brain of skating.
That last, long bench is mostly over a shorter, but still precarious drop to a small plaza about 15 feet below.
Doesn’t diminish how fucking insanely wild clearing that shit is, though.
Took me years of visiting that spot before I was able carve (barely) over the SHORT bench.
Swear to god I have know idea how he managed to pull that nutty move off.
Big respect to the safety hands man.
Loved it.

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On Slap, I would think most know the potential for disaster. But, among the 12 to 15 year olds Baker is trying to move product too, I have no idea how many know that.

i feel like it could maybe look cool as a secondary photo from afar with the city in the background shot on film. where that bench is placed isn’t sitting right on top of the street though where it would look more dangerous/ aesthetically pleasing. it’s still a big drop, it’s just that what is below him is a parking lot on the side of that street. as for footage i think it would be odd to just see his head pop up out of nowhere and fly a foot high and then just sink back down, i don’t think it would fade into the other clips very well. maybe again as a secondary angle for the outro or something but still, i don’t think it would look as cool as we’re imaging. for a lip trick on the other hand i think it would work a bit better possibly.

[Sativa Lung]

The issue I have with it isn't the filming. It's that he doesn't pop until he's already a few feet down the bench. He looked like had the air and distance to clear it, so I think he just mistimed it and that's not really one of those tricks you go back and clean up.

I know I'm picking at the tiniest nit but it's one of those little things that bugs me. To make it even more stupid, if he took off early and landed an equal distance short but was high on the wall and carved the last foot I would think it was the coolest thing ever.