Today I did a frontside wall rides on the bank to wall that was in the last blog post.
I will video it soon. All I kept thinking about is how my brother used to rip them without a bank...
Frontside wall rides right off flat ground. Frontside Mute Grab wall rides. Bob was an animal skater.
And an animal snowboarder. I randomly called his best friend Cesca last week. He said he went to Tahoe to snowboard with some bros, but he missed snowboarding with Bob, because it's not the same with others... they don't get gnarly. Shoot...I just called Bob in Colorado where it is 12:30 am and asked him if he could do Ses slides off the ramp to wall at the our local skate spot the Tennis Court on Yorkshire Ave when we were14-16 years old. He said "Yeah, but I only landed it once, I'll call you back tomorrow.
Considering he was doing it like 6-7 feet up off the ramp and landing on flat on a rough cement wall... Thats so gnarly.
Then I told him that I did frontside wall rides today, and he said, "Rad. Goodnight."
I still can't believe that one of my favorite skaters of all time was my brother. Trippy. I sound like a skate fag. If gay means happy then, I'm a Fag on Wheels.
I've never did frontside wall rides like I did today at 38 years of age. All other times it was total luck, and didn't know what I was doing. It felt so solid today.
Let's see if I can do them again. And catch it on Vid.
