As Vincent Alvarez’s facial hair deepens, so too do his gangster-ish ways upon the board. Alongside some impressive bank-to-barring in this recent Lakai amateur video are three of the bossier switch tricks of this month or so offered up by VA, including but not limited to: the bank-to-ledge switch backside tail, the rail switch lipslide and the switch thunder-gap bomb over the rail, each one a crusher. This dude is getting more exciting/powerful and has left behind the more questionable ledge combos from the earlier days – worth revisiting is last month’s Lakai ad that has a crazy lipslide and invites the viewer to consider a world in which Federico Vitetta takes the cinematic reigns at the Crailtap camp.
Tags: Burrrprint 2, Crailtap, Federico Vitetta, green tees, holiday season, Lakai, Riley Hawk too I mean damn, switching lanes, switchstance, Vincent Alvarez
boil the ocean 
April 20, 2010 at 12:36 am |
Yes – Vincent Alvarez is damn exciting. Don’t want to call it too soon, but I think there’s legend potential here. I wanna see a full part.
April 20, 2010 at 12:40 am |
I dig his style, does some amazing stuff with the quick snaps of a cat scared by an M80.
April 20, 2010 at 2:37 am |
certainly one of my favorite am’s.
such an awesome unique style, and his anti-image will probably be setting trends and igniting a purist style among young folks in a few years. i feel he’s somewhere between a busenitz and paulo diaz….if that makes any sense at all
April 20, 2010 at 4:04 am |
Vincent Alvarez = The Popular Emanuel Guzman?
April 20, 2010 at 11:22 pm |
What’s unpopular about Guzman?
April 21, 2010 at 3:20 am
I rate him…but he rides for Santa Cruz which is hardly a good board sponsor these days.
God knows which shoe company he rides for, too.
VA has all the ‘good’ sponsors.
Hence the above statement.
EG rips. Shame he doesn’t get more love.
April 22, 2010 at 3:24 am |
Eman just got on Circa. Say what you will about Circa – but it is still a major shoe company and I would consider it a pretty legit sponsor.
April 20, 2010 at 11:32 am |
VA is very exciting. Considering how much he’s blossomed since he got on chocolate, his tricks and whole groove continue to grow. I admire his unique style and no bullshit gimmicks demeanor, to make it simple; he’s a boss, (or will be in the very near future). Reminds me of a rad early 90’s pro that you’d see a spitfire ad of doing a smith grind on a ledge and I like that. Of course this is just one guys opinion, but big up to VA!
April 20, 2010 at 12:23 pm |
Koston hovering ominously in the background of that one clip…
What a guy!
April 20, 2010 at 7:57 pm |
The dude is awesome.
Curious on your thoughts of Riley Hawk stepping out of his dad’s shadow and becoming a street ripper? As much as I kind of wanted to hate the kid at first that one internet vid of Fully Flared-y tricks made me start to pull for him. Happy to see some love from the Girl fam and not getting stuck with Birdhouse and whatever horrible shoes his pops wears. (Adio?)
April 20, 2010 at 9:58 pm |
Raven??? Anyone…
April 20, 2010 at 10:22 pm |
i love ur gucci mane references
April 20, 2010 at 10:53 pm |
Raven could be a killer. He put some sweet shit down in that video. Nice to see somebody with straight-up gnar capabilities mixing it up in the Lakai tech-heavy roster.
April 20, 2010 at 11:25 pm |
I’m sold on Tershay, Alvarez, and Hawk, and it won’t take much to get me on board with Espinoza. My personal favorite VA moment was that 15 foot noseslide to popover revert; dude rips!
April 21, 2010 at 5:48 pm |
Anyone see the Riley Hawk/Jake Phelps interview on the Thrasher site?
Shocking how mellow, down to earth, and unruffled he is after 5 straight minutes of questions about his father, only his father, more about his father.
Is Raven Tershay related to the surf Tershay? That would make it a double celebrity kids edition. But neither skater is riding coat-tails. Raven has been pushing the nosegrind on tranny beyond all previously known limits.
April 21, 2010 at 6:54 pm |
raven is probably joey’s son…or somehow related to the emb tershays
April 22, 2010 at 1:34 pm |
Raven is Joey and Nicks cousin… little f*ckin powerhouse
April 23, 2010 at 11:57 am |
Dude, lets not forget… that VA is also filming for said Chocolate video, making any real mind-scrambling moves probably absent from this edit.
April 23, 2010 at 12:43 pm |
Alvarez does feel sort of like a throwback to the days of Paco in that his skating is really advanced, but creative and also imperfect looking. I like how in his choco intro vid he takes switch tricks back to switch, like the fakie big spin noseslide, fakie big spin blunt, and switch blunt on the quarter pipe.