Jumbo: 4 the Streets (episode 6)

Michael Kraft makes me feel like I don’t even know how to skate. I’m pretty sure he did 3 never before done tricks this weekend. Some of them aren’t in the edit (sadly), but I’ve never seen anything quite like it. I feel like I’m watching the doors open to a new era of skating. It’s like watching a new genre of music be created. Whenever it comes to all the wheel swivel stuff, I get that some people don’t understand it. I mean hell, I barely do and I like the stuff. I can hear those “hammer-types“ thinking “I don’t like all the nimbly bimbly dance skating.“ I feel like the invention of “glides“ can change that thought process. It takes the precision movement of flat-ground skating and turns it into a maneuver that looks more umm... classically understood. It’s like a grind... Except it’s a “glide.“ What’s a glide, you ask? I didn’t know til last Saturday either. Apparently that’s the genus for the wheel slide stuff. Grind - soul plate Slide - frame Glide - wheel I kind of like that it takes the letters from both “Grind“ and “slide“ to create it’s name. Fitting. I’m really just rambling at this point. I’m not even the right guy to be writing about this kind of stuff. Anyways. Only 2 spots on this drizzly day, but they were both super fun. The best kink rail in Texas was uncapped recently. Shoutout to whoever did that. It felt like 2002, watching everyone line up at the top of a kink rail to session it as a group. Overall, amazing session. Great energy all around. Saturdays are the best. 0:00 Meeting up 0:38 Ian Copp is here 1:06 Curved heel roll 2:29 Just skating 3:29 Glides 5:05 The hole in one challenge 6:53 Spot 2 11:49 Kraft vs capped rail 12:57 coming soon