The old bank…might i add the best fucking boost you ever felt, is gone, and been long gone for about a year now. i am far too depressed to go there and get a flick of it’s current situation which includes: a row of benches and dirt surrounding one the best peices of unintentional, skateable, architecture ever created. Keeping within the Art of Storytelling (thanks for sparking this Ki)…lets here some stories about the brooklyn banks.
This photo is from 95 when i first moved back to east coast…… in 95 there was lot’s of piss, bums, dead birds and board stealing for sure.
How bout it?
under 1000 words please….
sorry for the low rez flick froget to check that one fella’s. props to dad for the photo.
1000 characters, not words.
I can remember my first trip to the banks. I was about 15 years old. The year was somewhere around 1989 or 1990.
I heard about a contest that was supposed to take place there. Through a junior high school daydream I became completely disillusioned and thought I could compete and convinced my mother to take a trip to my grandfathers house. He lived outside of NYC. I figured if I could get that close I would make it.
On the big day my grandfather drove my mother and I into NYC and spend hours driving in frustration trying to find the banks. Once we found them, nothing close to a contest was happening. That was a blessing because I certainly was scared.
In conclusion, I was able to skate the banks with minimal pressure and it still stands as the best time I had skating at that spot. Rest In Peace old banks.
I think it was 1991? I went on the LIRR with a crew of Long Island friends for a contest put on by dead end vinnie. De-lite showed up and kids chased around a cat sized rat. I was scared to enter the contest. All I did was a kickflip and a 360 flip to fakie on the small part of the bank. I tried to ollie the wall and did 1/2 a back flip and landed on my head. Everyone else did pressure flips and varial late flips which I could not yet do. The contest music was coming out of a boom box. A bus pulled up next to the spot and a bunch of kids surounded it and tagged it, like all over the out side of the bus. Everyone dressed like a clown and at the end Harold Hunter was trying to sell his blue suede pumas calling them butta’s. My clothes, grip tape and hands were covered in bird shit when I got home. My sneakers smelled like bum piss.
I have never landed a 360 flip in my life, ever, anywhere.
DO, you are talking negative. Old head or not, you should consider re-evaluating the situation and learn them. Never say never.
Maybe so. But when I say I haven’t done one, I mean “not even close”.
That janoski clip, where he does like 100 of them, that, to me, is very rude.
Maybe so. But when I say I haven’t done one, I mean “not even close”.
That janoski clip, where he does like 100 of them, that, to me, is very rude.
Theres still time DO.Honestly,how much time have you logged in trying them this year?never quit,never fail.
Nugget – I think I have that contest you’re talking about on a super old VHS. They show the dead rat and everyone tagging the bus. Might even be the first ever 411.
411 numero 3 has the ill footy of a nine year old javier nunez destroying the banks…his whole part was filmed at the banks…(i think in one day)..
check that new link for “new york skate video”…for rad footage as well