In a tumultuous year for British skating, what with the mass exodus of the Blueprint roster and international monetary policymakers airing concerns around a potentially destabilizing bubble in Palace-branded asset prices, it fell to London stalwarts Slam City Skates to re-center the 2012 scene and Rory Milanes to deliver the closing argument. Rory Milanes did one of the best parts in 2010’s “This Time Tomorrow” and steps up here in decidedly U.K. fashion, kickflipping brick channels and wearing stripedy sweaters to properly downbeat music and overcast skies. Straight off the bat he spins a nollie twister across a street gap, skates some high ledges, has a beauty of a switch backside kickflip, full command of the frontside 180 fakie manual/5-0 and a danger poke over the final bump-to-bar. For me this section took a little while to sink in, given Rory Milanes’ tricks don’t hit with the bombast of a Chewy Cannon, but I think he comes in as a solid bridge to some of the best skating of the now-closed Blueprint chapter.
Tags: bricks, Chewy Cannon, City of Rats, flak jacket, Henry Edwards-Wood, London, Palace, Rory Milanes, Slam City Skates, switch ollies over blocks, the British Empire
December 27, 2012 at 2:58 am |
I was a little let down by this video as a whole but this part is great. he just keeps getting better and better
December 27, 2012 at 9:57 am |
awesome vid, maybe my favorite this year. not my fav part, but a good one.