A widely unsung fact about skating in New York is that a lot of the best skaters are from the Bronx. And not only the best skill-wise, but in the sense that they all skate like they never saw Static II and could care less about what’s trendy, how they are expected to dress, what’s “acceptable” and whose wallie-laden video part is being discussed on the Lower East Side in between sips of PBR. They have fun on their own terms, even if they have to do it on a crusty board that looks like it has been floating in Eastchester Bay for the past two years. In the six months when the plaza across from the Bronx County Courthouse did not have gigantic chunks taken out of it by some assholes from the parks department, every single one of those Bronx kids progressed faster than any group of young kids I, or probably anyone else had ever come across. They finally had an actual ledge to skate, and you could tell they couldn’t be more psyched.

Mira Conyo (rivals the Queens-made Niggas With Skateboards as the best name for skate video of all time) is a video made by the Bronx Courthouse crew, back when the spot was in its prime. You should watch all the parts to hopefully remind you of what it was like to once have fun, but if you are strapped for time (meeting on the 38th floor with project management at 9 a.m. tomorrow, I know, you’re busy), watch Starlin’s part and George’s part, because they rip.