Holy crap. (nothing to do with markets.)
And he gets up and walks away…
(Thanks to my brother for sending me this link.)
My brother and I used to skate verticle when we were kids - we had a 32-foot long/9-foot high* half-pipe filling pretty much our entire back yard that we built ourselves with some friends. (We had pretty cool parents I’d say for letting us build it and ride it for 3 years…) Nothing even close to this kind of stuff. I mean we thought a few feet out of the pipe on a 12 foot high transition was pretty good, and seeing pros like Powell-Peralta’s Bones Brigade nail ten foot air and land McTwists was incredible. Amazing how kids just keep pushing the limit, and always manage to move it slightly further away.
*c. 10m long / 2.8m high for metric readers, even though Canada was metric back then, lumber was still sold in feet and inches and so that’s how skateboard ramps were measured.
