Recalling a time when world records were giggled at
Element’s newest towheaded amateur Nick Garcia doesn’t entirely stand out from the current generation of ditch-skating ATV types, but there’s a couple things worth checking in this welcome-to-the-team video: namely the opening manual, the half-cab frontside nosegrind and the backside 180 magic-feet maneuver that takes a few rewinds to fully sink in. As far as that manual goes, at a quarter of the video’s runtime it’s probably one for the record books, up there with Hufnagel’s SF city block in “Roll Forever” and Vallely in that one older video I’m having trouble remembering right now. In terms of sheer distance, though, I think the one at the end of “Come Together” still takes the cake, right?
Tags: chains, Chipwich, element, hippies, Keith Hufnagel, Magic City, magic fingers, manual transmission, memory loss, Nick Garcia, Roll Forever
boil the ocean 
August 19, 2009 at 11:31 pm |
The world vid was ‘Rubbish Heap’- a real classic
August 20, 2009 at 12:15 am |
there was a seriously long nosewheelie in the credit of modern love by green apple, yknow the onne with travis strenger
August 20, 2009 at 12:16 am |
Daewon does a dumb long manual in the bonus stuff of the World box set also.
August 20, 2009 at 1:08 am |
Aww, yeah. Chipwich.
August 20, 2009 at 5:45 am |
pretty sure there’s one at the end of the zorlac video (zero hero?) that goes in for days
August 20, 2009 at 7:10 am |
I dig that kids style and trick selection. Simple yet precise.
August 20, 2009 at 8:23 am |
I really hate long manuals. That’s strictly bonus material/credits footage. Shit is boring.
August 20, 2009 at 8:46 am |
i’m more interested in the spot of the last trick. what the fuck is that for?
August 20, 2009 at 10:15 am |
wil taylor is thinking about manuals in a Texas state penitentiary
August 20, 2009 at 1:12 pm |
the bs 180 hippy is crazy, but i hate to be that dude..
but richie jackson has done those for awhile now
August 20, 2009 at 1:46 pm |
and dylan has nailed the exact reason i don’t give a shit about that trick.
August 20, 2009 at 4:46 pm |
Ask kenny anderson about the longest nose wheelie he has ever seen
August 20, 2009 at 6:31 pm |
I have a vague memory of someone doing a much longer manual in a 411… I think it was in Russia?
August 20, 2009 at 7:06 pm |
i remember some dude in an old Foundation vid that had a first trick manual that was way long…only other thing i remember about the video was the MC Serch song Back to the Grill Again…the grill again.
August 20, 2009 at 7:16 pm |
Don’t forget Jim Thiebaud’s opening manny in ‘Speed Freaks’. I remember my jaw dropping as it was so long. I saw it a few years ago and it’s laughably short now.
August 21, 2009 at 11:23 am |
In the Santa Cruz Troops of Tomorrow video some shoeless surfer does a wheelie for like 3 minutes during the credits.
August 22, 2009 at 3:35 am |
“YOUR CAR IS PARKED IN MY SPOT”