SOTW 5-25-09: Parking garage pricks
I almost forgot to do a Shot of the Week, so I pulled this one out. This is street skating circa 1989, and part of that scene was being a dick to pedestrians and cars… This shot involved the fake ollies (layback ollies?) where you skate up to something and put your hand on it to support your weight while you ollie the board onto whatever impossibly high obstacle was in front of you. Of course, nowadays people could probably ollie onto the hood of a car without help. I still love to do this trick, and recently brought it out of retirement, although not on the hoods of a cars belonging to people I don’t know. The guy in this pictures shall be named only as “Carl” as he has since gone onto become a productive member of society, and probably wouldn’t appreciate this picture showing up in his background check the next time he applies for a job.
Check out the full frame Shot of the Week.
I remember I used to run up cars and “boneless” off of the roof. It just never occurred to my teenaged brain that someone might have actually cared about my doing that. Amazing! Lucky I didn’t get my ass kicked. I got my first clue one day after my Dad saw me from down the street jumping off of a neighbors Porsche.
dude, you are getting forgetful in your old age. You used this same photo as Shot of the Week almost a year ago exactly: May 12 2008. Much hilarity ensued.
Errrrrr…. Yeah, just seein gif anyone is paying attention. Yeah that’s it.
Put me out to pasture…
bah… it’s worth a second week….
I think this was earlier than that, like ’86-87ish…maybe?
now break out the picture of Swiv railsliding the wooden parking block in the snow.
Shades of John Grigley.
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