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Gonzo in Soho

Taji Ameen3 skaters recommend it · 4 mentions, 2014 to 2017
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Five-minute street session filmed by Taji Ameen of Mark Gonzales skating around Soho in New York City during winter, 2014. Shot with Ameen's handheld camera style, with Gonz rolling through odd bits of city terrain.

Why skaters like it

Posted as proof Gonz still skates the city in his own way. One commenter uses it to show how he turns random architecture into terrain.

“The relationship between architecture/geography and skateboarding is exemplified by Gonz.”

u/nicbrown

What skaters said on Reddit

u/nicbrown2017 · 2 points

The relationship between architecture/geography and skateboarding is exemplified by Gonz. As people caught on to the street skating he and others pioneered, the Gonz started skating more and more sketchy terrain, almost randomly. There is a great example in this video of a day out in NYC [VIDEO] [~2:20]. The Gonz finds a construction hoarding with the merest hint of a bump in the pavement and declares the spot "perfe

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