One spot. One session. Three serious moves with sequential evidence as proof. The standards are high, which is why this stands as only the second and final Shutdown installment of Concrete’s 2009 publishing season. Back in our February issue [#98] we ran a trio of quality moves that Paul Trep pulled together at East Vancouver’s Post Office rail. This time around, an inspired TJ ROGERS was hell bent on solving the Shutdown challenge. During a late-summer left coast visit, TJ chose this rough and tiring bank-to-bike rack at a Burnaby, BC school to bang off his triple threat.
“You have to run as fast as you can to pop over the bike rack, so you’re usually happy getting one trick at this spot, let alone three. Prior to this I don’t think many nollie or switch tricks have gone down here,” explains Brian Caissie, who memory carded these sequences during an afternoon session. “TJ has some funny routines while skating. Every try, in order, he would touch a wheel, whisper something to himself, give pounds to the filmer, kiss his necklace, say ‘You guys ready?’, and then go for it.”