Man, Those T-Funk New York Clips Rule — Baker’s ‘Gimmie A Break!’ Video

As of the past few days, you can probably make the case for it being summer. And with summer, comes different variants of the same conversation: “Why the fuck are we going to Blubba?” “Who the fuck are you with that wants to meet at Pyramid Ledges?” “When the fuck was the last time someone got a trick at Seward that anyone remembered?”

While those three spots probably represent the upper 5th percentile of most-skated spots in the city, in this high season of productivity and complaining, each gripe is coated with a resigned air of what could possibly be left to do.

For a six-clip stretch in “Gimmie A Break!” A Baker Vid by Fel that makes it north of Houston Street once, T-Funk manages to 270 into the on-ramp of the Brooklyn Bridge, slappy onto the Canal and Allen pad going to wrong way and make the gap (no puddle!), disregard the scaffold on that two-try square rail on E. 95th Street that anyone else would’ve bunted on …because of the scaffold, half cab towards a jagged rusty wall on the way down to a 5050, bonk one of those posts on the way down the ten on Whitehall Street, and figure out a wallride on the Battery Park double-set that people only otherwise huck flip tricks down.

None of our friends are T-Funk and none of those spots are Blubba, but it’s a 25-second rationale for potentially leaving the biggest complainer in your crew at T.F. if you can’t reach a consensus on where to skate because of them.

After the Knicks game six loss, we were loitering at the bar and someone brought up the hypothetical nightmare of having your house be attached to a really good skate spot. Various skaters were brought up via the lens of “who is allowed to skate the crib?” Some were only allowed if they were paired with a certain filmer, while some filmers were barred regardless of who they were filming. The jury was split on T-Funk (someone said T-Funk is allowed if he’s with Naquan), and the new Baker vid might get a few more votes towards him being allowed to skate the crib — though the video itself has evidence for both sides of the debate.