By web-gnar on Skatehive
We were walking towards the train after skating the Favela park, and @marbalskate found a spot. "The crusty-er the better" he said. Good thing I set up my new 55mm wheels before I left the US. New wheels and bones swiss baby, yeeew. it's been a good year without Bones Swiss ball bearings in my wheels and it is good to have them back. Very noticeable difference in performance. At first glance you might say, "uh, where is the spot?" Look closely, you will see a protruded sidewalk slab that was dislodged via a tree root of a tree that has been since cut down. Since this spot was downhill, we didn't really need to push to get speed to hit it. @xvlad already stacked a frontside flip at the park so he was on filmer duty. It was up to us to deliver him some tricks to make his hard filming effort worth-while. The old men aged 47, 43, and 37, assembled, and handled it like bosses. I was trying frontside flip, @pharra was trying pop shuv, and @marbalskate was trying tre flip. This frontside flip