📩 The Week on Hangup 21/02/21
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Gnarfolk Review
When Jake Hearney initially reached out to let us know he was working on a scene video, our interest was piqued for a couple of reasons. The video being centred around Norfolk, an area with less saturated national media coverage, featuring a couple of established heads including Danny Coston, Sam Hayter and Joe Hinton and the fact that Jake has put together a full-length scene video in the middle of a pandemic, as well as being at a time where the local scene video seems almost extinct!
Danny Coston and Bradie Docwra’s shared section is first up, and you know it’s going to be pretty serious when the intro trick is a handrail kickflip backlip! Coston continues with the ledge-tech, ending a line with a switch nosegrind kickflip, before bluntsliding and flip backlipping again on a pretty quintessential seaside bench spot. Bradie Docwra gets gnarly with a backside 180 down a big stairset followed by various handrail tricks and a boosted heelflip on a DIY bump to trolley! Coston ends the part with a smooth nose manual nollie frontside flip…
Tommy Soanes gets a nosepick and beanplant fakie on that iconic, 70’s bowl corner, opening up a friends section with various shared spots throughout. The incredibly named Thelonius Omori Hardflips down a four stair and then some, Jake Hearney himself gets a pivot on a great looking street bank / tranny and Joe Hinson rips a DIY followed by a dipped back smith on a steeper than average handrail, and increasingly large handrails with a backside lipslide and frontside boardslide. Joe ends the part with an incredible frontside feeble to downhill bomb.
A DIY section is up next, with Michael Casey and Laurie Hibberd, getting pretty tech with Nollie Lipslides, switch manual and tailslide bigpsins, and Ross Barber getting some unique lines including a fakie shuvit switch manual, frontside nollie switch manual and fakie shuvit fakie nosegrinds! Hi mini-section ends with a switch shuvit flip over a DIY bump to barrier… Seb Walker continues the unique trick theme, hitting the DIY at speed with gaps to wallride, Ollie body varials and a high speed gap shuvit flip.
Next, there’s a glimpse of a couple of the techest men in the UK, James Grindley and Ash Challis. Hitting the DIY manual pad, Grindley switch nose manual 360 flips, while Challis fakie shuvit manny kickflips, before mirroring Grindley with a nose manual nollie 360 flip.
Sam Hayter’s section begins with a well-filmed loading bay ledge feeble, followed by a great tech line - nollie backside heelflip, fakie noseslide 270 and a smooth noseslide popover on a kerb to bank. He hits the DIY with a pipe boardslide popover, nollie 360 flip, wallie 180 line, then mixes it with a backside crailblock, nollie backside heel, fakie frontside boardslide. Sam ends the DIY section with a switch crooked grind on the ledge to drop. The last line in the part, and end to the video proper, is a front blunt, backside 180 nosegrind, switch pole jam, all with that patented Sam Hayter style…
The “credits” section shows some outtakes from across the filming of the video, and begins with Jake announcing that Gnarfolk was filmed over the period of 2014-2020, which really makes clear what a labour of love this video must have been for him!
Trip edit from the always excellent Coda Skateboards. Featuring: Pat Smith, Jake Keenan, Duncan Rowland, Caleb Shank, JT Gleason and more. Cool Chet Childress cameo too, at what I’m assuming is his private ramp! Plenty of amazing street / DIY spots, along with a few cool parks - that multilevel trannied spot (I’m assuming an empty fountain?) looks so fun.
Great Chris Mulhern-crafted intro part for Joey O’Brien to Alien Workshop. Plenty of awkward tricks in this, rare ledge combinations with 180 ins and outs various ways, interesting handrail tricks and boosted kickflips, shove its and 360 flips over increasingly gnarly banked gaps… I really need to think about writing that Extended article on the new Alien.
Really enjoyed this cross between a serious and mess about part from Emile Laurent! I’ve never seen any of these Portland spots before, which I guess suggests how crusty, or how much of non-spot they are… The couple of ender tricks are insane, even if they were filmed on a potato.