Free to Read - Thoughts On: Elijah Akerley's Pathways 2 Part
In this latest part, from the highly anticipated Pathways 2 video by Brett Nichols, we see Elijah fully commit to a full part of quirky street skating and it’s brilliant.
Elijah Akerley has long been one of our favourites to watch, great style, innovative trick selections and skates a bit of everything in his parts.
In this latest part, from the highly anticipated Pathways 2 video by Brett Nichols, we see Elijah fully commit to a full part of quirky street skating and it’s brilliant.
Have a watch of the part below and read our Thoughts On the part afterwards.
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As with every part in Pathways 2, Nichols intersperses secondary skate footage along with filler clips in between the skate footage, somewhat reminiscent of Alien Workshop productions. The part is generally filmed and edited in a manner similar to a Magenta video or that classic Japanese style that Magenta borrowed from. Fast paced, close fisheye, single tricks, unique spots and simple, well performed tricks.
Akerley begins the part with a rock and roll and rock transfer on an impossibly crusty double-sided bank spot. It seems to be basically a lump of excess concrete encrusted with pebbles and other assorted material to create a spot that somehow reminds me of a cross between Mallorca’s perfect mosaic spot and Barcelona’s park Guell…
The soft OJ’s get a hell of a work out, from being able to roll on that first spot to riding on cobbles, grass, mud, sand and probably a few more!
He puts his transition skills to work throughout the part, frontside disastering an ollie-up to trannied bench, Ollie blunting the spine of some kind of sea serpent structure, or hurricaning a brass sculpture before rock fakie-ing to fakie manual down and shoveit-ing to nosemanual on the same spot.
Ledge tricks include a double level 5050 on an assortment of S shaped ledges, a frontside tailslide on a long, tightly-waved ledge, popped out of the top of one of the waves, wallride nollie to boardslide followed by a back 180 5050 to switch wallride going the other way at the same spot.
Some of the most impressive footage in the section comes on a couple of banked bench configurations, pivot fakie-ing and shoveing out of a pivot, before rolling to the next bench, frontside pivoting before bigspinning off to flat. He also manages a perfect natas spin on his truck…