We’re at that annoying part of the spring where everyone just complains about how the weather can go from February to July in the matter of hours. As we approach a 100% rainy weekend, some of us have sports (!) to look forward to (been around this franchise’s shit too long to confidently echo the “Knicks in 6” prediction being floated by internet pundits), but for the rest, how about a fun skate part?
Gronze has been a leading purveyor of Euro-envy for over half-a-decade now. Their videos inhabit a world where it feels like no spot gets left without at least one clip on it, and the camera seemingly never starts rolling. Every foreign crew has the experience of traveling to Barcelona for the first time and passing up on spots they wouldn’t dream of skating past back home because there’s a better one down the block — but a Gronze edit…nah. Nothing gets left unturned. In fact, it’s better to stay away from the shit that every other crew has been hitting. This approach resorts to snapping off propped diamond-plates lodged between sand, switch backside flipping between two board-width slices of stone on an otherwise grass bank, and skating metro ticket machines, all dimensions covered by Pierre Léze in this fun new one from the GronzeTube, set to the sounds of Kerri Chandler. (Run back Vincent Touzery’s section in John’s Vid for another dose once you’re done.)
Some old-man-yelling-at-the-cloud types might get upset about the big wheels, boat board or whatever, but like Nick Boserio told Village Psychic some time back: when your side of skateboarding is “just a really complicated A to B,” it works.