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JENKEM - The Evolution Of... The Jerome Ave. Banks

jenkemmag2 skaters recommend it · 2 mentions in 2022
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Jenkem's fourth Evolution Of episode visits Jerome Ave. Banks in the Bronx, a row of five giant stair sets with banks on both sides. Aaron Herrington tours the spot and tells stories, with archive footage of tricks done there.

Why skaters like it

Linked in a thread about how spot size affects trick ratings. One commenter says it covers the historical objectives at the spot and went back to rewatch it.

“I just did a bunch of the tricks named in the video and they're historical objectives in the game.”

u/iambagels

What skaters said on Reddit

u/HYPERNATURL2022 · 47 points

I think something that has always been a bit of a flaw in skateboarding is that the gnarliness of the spot is often supposed to contribute to how gnarly the trick is, when 99% of people watching it on video have never been to the spot and have no real concept of it's actual size or the situational factors that make it gnarly. I think that's especially the case with this spot. I don't think any video clip of a trick a

u/iambagels2022 · 1 points

Somewhere in this comment thread is a video about this spot. I just did a bunch of the tricks named in the video and they're historical objectives in the game. Trying to find the video now to rewatch it. Edit: got it - [VIDEO]

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