Shut Skates Memory

another reminder of a story I want to tell...
-how Shut Skates would pull up to a Brooklyn Banks contest with hundreds of skaters on the banks getting ready with the heaviest snake sessions ever.

Shut would pull up in a van right in a the middle of it all.
Park.
Pull out a street ramp.
Force an isle way in the middle of it all somehow
and have their riders do a demo...
basically show off there stuff.
it was super ballzy but totally true.
they did have the best riders at the time.

A list of riders during this memory at the time. Most from Union City or Jersey area
-Felix Arguelles
-Mike Kemper
-Preston
-Coco Santiago
-Richie Garcia
-Sean Sheffey
-Jeremy Henderson
-Troy
and a couple of others I forget.

Led by Bruno and Rodney Smith who would soon end Shut and start Zoo York.

some of the tricks they were doing.
Ollie Japans.
Saran wraps
Possibly frontside 360 Japan's by Mike Kemper
Judos
Frigids
Just going so fast and pretty huge...
all of us skating on smooth almost perfectly laid red brick
which you didn't want to slam on.

It is one of my most bad ass memories I've ever witnessed.