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Redefined: Carlos Ruiz

HavocTV4 skaters recommend it · 4 mentions, 2017 to 2022
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78K views · 9 years ago · Documentary

HavocTV documentary on Carlos Ruiz, who filmed a controversial part in Blind's 2005 video What If without pro or am status. Covers his El Toro backlip and the debate that followed.

Why skaters like it

Posted when skaters ask who Carlos Ruiz was and where he went after What If.

“… He’s basically a normal kid who likes to skate rails for fun but isn’t really very good and can’t kickflip or do anything technical. …”

u/aboynamedscrabble · Full comment

What skaters said on Reddit

u/aboynamedscrabble2022 · 41 points

It’s definitely Carlos Ruiz and that doc is amazing. He’s basically a normal kid who likes to skate rails for fun but isn’t really very good and can’t kickflip or do anything technical. He’s not trying to get sponsored or do anything serious with skateboarding at all. But he tells Knox Godoy he thinks he can backlip El Toro and Knox takes him there with a filmer probably just to get a good slam but he ends up landing it perfectly. He then gets offered to do more filming and be an am for the upcoming Blind video. They keep taking him to these crazy big spots and he keeps kind of getting lucky and landing stuff and things just keep escalating. It’s really an awesome story: [VIDEO]

u/skuntism2022 · 4 points

im watching the doc right now the make is at 6:30 [VIDEO]

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