To me the pantheon of great tall-guy skaters like BA, Kenny Hughes and Andrew Reynolds reserves a spot for Tilt Moder Jesse Erickson, especially when it comes to tech merchants such as Rob Welsh. Before beard farming, Santa Cruz talent-wrangling and giant iron-wrought pentagrams came into vogue, Jesse Erickson was surfing out of ledge tricks at speed, with the occasional lewd conduct happening in the background or even more occasionally in the foreground. His section in “Black Cat” seems to have vanished into the great internet vaporizer but the above part from “Man Down” is just as good, offering a rarely seen varial flip out of a backside tailslide, a backside noseblunt transfer to regular and a yeoman’s switch wallie. Always thought the passionate hurling of the garbage can during one of his lines here ranked as some kind of ‘defining moment’ for the TMA.
*and, he’s got one out of a frontside blunt in the OG Tilt Mode.
Tags: beanies, glyphs, gyrations, heightening, Jesse Erickson, Man Down, Maple, Prince Paul, rare, San Jose, Tilt Mode, trash collection, ZZ Top
boil the ocean 
May 31, 2013 at 6:15 am |
I got the original vhs of black cat I gotta try and find a vcr and convert and upload it, also has the first real louie barletta and Jerry Hsu parts, great video.
May 31, 2013 at 5:29 pm |
I’m a male model, not a male prostitute.
June 1, 2013 at 2:56 pm |
YES! That section got plenty of rewinds back in the day.
June 1, 2013 at 12:37 pm |
I always loved this part. The line with the distractions is a classic.
June 3, 2013 at 11:32 am |
That part from the first TM vid still holds up better than most parts from that era, period.
June 9, 2013 at 9:41 pm |
that kickflip back lip on the step up ledge is nigh untouchable.
June 11, 2013 at 1:13 am |
Was that post title predictive of Edward Snowden?
June 13, 2013 at 2:17 am |
They put the passion in that trash can and let it loose. I can never get enough trash can. Really, though.