One of the great pleasures of skate travel is immersing oneself into the workings of a scene via its central spot. Every plaza has its own skate government, some loose form of a hierarchy, and sets of implied to not-so-implied rules that visitors can sometimes get a pass on. You can tell who the local legends are, even if they’re seated for 95% of the time, or who the lurker everyone diplomatically avoids is.
But the funnest part is watching the kids who are on the come up. (It’s also the part that you can observe vicariously via videos.)
The Rat Ratz dudes feel like that right now for Milan, and thus for Italy’s most storied skate spot. Already a step ahead of their last video from March, these edits still feel fun, playful, open-ended, and the scratches on the fisheye only add to the charm. It is almost like you’re watching someone’s drafts leading up to when they make the proverbial Leap™ — to the video that makes everyone who had been paying attention up until that point go “whoa.”
Us Americans won’t be able to make it to any spot in Europe for the foreseeable future, but it’s easy to root for these dudes’ progression from our seats on the internet. There’s some version of our younger selves in them; they just have the better skate spot ;)
Video filmed and edited by Brisquit.
Previously: Rat Ratz 4
Yo these Italian kids got the juice
that fucked up fisheye be realer than your ifoam 12. ratz life <3