It’s the weekend, and nobody really goes on this site on Saturdays, which is probably a good thing since everyone’s hopefully out skating, so we’ll keep this short.

Kind of like that other video part that shook the whole world’s perception of shit earlier this fall, Austyn Gillette’s five minute opener should elevate him to an unquestionable status as one of the finest athletes in skateboarding today, and is a completely different beast from any of his previous output up until this point. Not that he ever had to battle it out with prominent misanthropic message board personalities in order to build his personal brand beyond things like an Opening Ceremony inspired piece of skate footwear, or taking photos with Lemony Snickets like the other guy, but he was just a Habitat dude. It’s kind of hard to stand out when you’re nestled into the mild overlap of styles that exists in the whole white guy in slim-ish corduroys with tech ledge tricks sub-genre of skateboarding that Habitat is the poster child for. But it really is one of those rare parts these days that you want to re-watch as soon as it ends, before even getting to the rest of the video. Between the inverted 180 5050 bench lines that will most certainly inspire a moderate-to-long lasting trend in the northeast (someone is probably trying it on CIA Ledge as you read this), to the most monstrous backside noseblunt pop-outs in existence, and a completely non-sensical five-foot-high backside smith grind, it is bound to be on repeat once the cold sets in and couches become vicarious viewing grounds for sessions cut short by wind gusts.

Otherwise, the other important consideration that hopefully doesn’t spoil anything is a reminder to everyone to not call this thing on Rector Street a bump. It’s not a bump. It’s a concrete booger on the floor with three metal poles sticking out of it. Bumps are supposed to assist you. Concrete boogers don’t do that. Like the G Man said, “I’d rather skate the Courthouse Drop a hundred times than skate that thing on Rector, it terrifies me.”

Fred Gall has a full part. Origin available on DVD and on iTunes on Monday, October 18. Don’t wait for your friend to get it because that Austyn Gillette part should be watched as soon as humanly possible.

Have a good weekend.