The name of this post is a saying that our crew constantly tossed around during a trip to New York City last month. We had another saying but it’s grossly inappropriate and you probably wouldn’t get it. Here’s a dose of the good times we had.
"Best time of the day in my life" from Harald Reynolds on Vimeo.
My newest video featuring all the dudes skating around Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Chicago.
I hope this makes your Monday less sucky.
Vicarious from Harald Reynolds on Vimeo.
Jeremy Pryzbyla put together an edit of cool dudes doing moves at Estabrook…peep game real quick.
For five years Matt (BMAN) had an ongoing love affair with this over the rail into the bank. The run up is terrible. After you land, if you can’t ride it out to the right, you run into a fence. She’s a harsh mistress. But BMAN loved her anyway. She gave, she took, she treated him wrong. True poetry, true love. Fritsche.
Matt Nordness <3 Fritsche - 2010-2015.
Portraiture by Jeremy Pettis.
I asked Josh and Pizzy why boob bank is called boob bank. Both replied they didn’t know and said “maybe it looks like a boob?” My brain’s response would be “that ain’t no boob, guy.”
Boob Bank Mix circa 2010-2015 from Gabe Chan on Vimeo.
Trivia/Goofs: This bank is actually tricky to skate because there’s a weak skate stopper in the middle, a little channel at the bottom, the lip and bank are rounded, there’s a pole on the right that can clothesline you, and it’s steep enough where if you popped a trick too high there’s a probability that you may land in the flat bottom or over the lip (adjust speed accordingly). *On a filmer/photographer standpoint, that yellow pole sucks balls.
Right now, the dudes (a bunch of Milwaukee trolls) are in NYC ripping. Last year around the same time I had the chance to document some of these trolls…
Delirium Tremens Raw Footage: EP 013 from Gabe Chan on Vimeo.
Trivia/Goofs: Unfortunately, couldn’t skate all of Brooklyn banks but thankful to skate some of it regardless (of course media doesn’t do the banks justice…had the same feeling when I went to EMB in ’93…”whoa, a lot bigger than I thought” ((that’s what she said))). There were many highlights of the trip including hanging out with one of my all time favorites James and seeing his shop for the first time. A rad time with rad dudes.
Well, 4th of July 2018 just passed and it was wet, hot, humid, moist, and a blast. Met up with Rock and Max around 11:00 am to skate the post apocalyptic courthouse:
Filmed max getting heady with some of the obstacles, he probably lost a billion calories doing it.
Last year around this time Eric Risser won the ‘Under the Gate’ Croquet championships…
Under The Gate. from Gabe Chan on Vimeo.
This year I didn’t think a championship was going to happen (no documentation, sorry) due to lack of funding but let me tell you there were some thrilling moments in the first game…the newcomer Vince Stranc easily gained an early lead; Josh got into trouble and for the first time used a trowel as a juke to get out of a garden bed; Sleepy, Risser, and Chase did their job with their fair share of “aliveness”; the mayor, Jimmy Brick wasn’t ejected this year but did lose his cool under the forbidden tree zone…and also used Josh’s trowel juke method to get out of the dreaded garden bed. First game goes to Vince! It reminded me of this scene…
On the snap Vincent!
They started playing another match but I was out of there…sorry, I’m a horrible journalist. Consult Josh with the final standings.
I’m sort of on schedule with Delirium Tremens Raw Footage…
Delirium Tremens Raw Footage: EP 012 from Gabe Chan on Vimeo.
Next week will be raw footage of a NYC trip we did last year around this time…
FIB attack…
I don’t have much Milwaukee footage this week but I have this…
Spazz Vintage Footage from Gabe Chan on Vimeo.
This was the first time I saw/filmed spazz, he was probably around 14 years old.
And if you’re really bored…
Gabe Chan Vintage Footage circa '90-'94 from Gabe Chan on Vimeo.
I grew up skating in Glendale Heights, IL. I think I started around ’90, here’s some random footage. I wasn’t old enough to drive so most of it was filmed around my neighborhood except a random slappy nose bonk thing at embarcadero, a random juke line somewhere in Santa Barbara, CA and a two trick line in Sierra Vista, AZ (At the time, my aunt and uncle lived there and my brother and I would go there during the summer. We took spanish lessons by the mother of the lead singer of ‘Malignus Youth’ a punk band. I don’t remember too much espanol but I remember watching them jam once and hooking us up with some Thrasher mags).
Guest skaters are: Scott M., Sess, and Neal V.
Trivia/Goofs: The school where I do some horrendous flip tricks off and into a yellow ledge/curb and the lil gap where my friend yells Gino Iannucci is where ‘Lucas’ was filmed starring Corey Haim, Kerri Green (the babe from Goonies), Charlie Sheen, Courtney Thorne-Smith (90210 and of course Summer School), and a hella young Winona Ryder. I had a choice between going to that school or Glenbard North. I eventually went to North and later found out that Billy Corgan attended North before me.
**Bonus trivia: The town Carol Stream, IL (where North is located) is where I believe, Josh and Kelly adopted their new buddy Francois the Greyhound…
To keep me busy during a brutal winter, I took up the task of going through 50+ hours of mini DV tapes belonging to our man, Aaron Polansky. I entered a time warp going back 15 years to capture the efforts of John Bunch, Rob Owens, Pat Acuff, Jared Peterson among others for what might have been Sky High’s very first video. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the video came to an indefinite halt…until now.
Aaron Polansky and I are collaborating on these short edits to unearth the video for the modern audience.
Stay tuned for the local stuff. 🙂
