Tuesday, 13 October 2009

All Hail Cardiel!

"Cardiel" is a name of legend in the skateboarding world, and to all those who will say "he's only famous because of his accident" are wrong, because even before he snapped his spine he had numerous cover shots and won the prestigious Thrasher Skater of the Year Award in 1992. If he was ripping from before I was even born up until Tent City, he had as much wheel screech as any human alive in their whole life. This clip is from 1998 and its an amazing video part, with as many gnarly slams as amazing concrete hammers, as Jake Phelps said "How can you not like this kid's style? Every fucking trick he does is do or die"



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N6C5eZmQTI


He does a backflip over a jump box for satan's sake. If you haven't seen the Epicly Later'd series on Cardiel by O'Dell yet, it's well worth watching he's a really interesting dude and one of the coolest guys on the planet (it's on vbs.tv and look for epicly later'd series 1). He makes the Beauty and the Beast tour Epicly Later'd one of the best as well, along with the rest of the Antihero guys as well as the Crailtap dudes as well, expect a lot of 30+ men ripping the heart out of a large amount of moulded concrete. The kids were dissappointed that Mike Mo wasn't on the trip, and he's not on the second so don't be expecting Nollie Hards Nose Wheelie Nollie Bigger Spin Out, expect the longest, screechiest Front Noseblunt you've ever witnessed. Cardiel is on this trip again, still making you hyped but cringe at the same time when he tries to do a Front Rock like he used to. Hopefully this time Robbie Russo will win enough money to buy himself a tent the right size.


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