We didn’t know much about Abel Bourbouze‘s skating until his Vague part that dropped last winter, and featured some of the most cobblestone-forward Parisian skating in an already cobblestone-friendly era for the city’s skate scene. The opening seconds of his latest, “CTRL+Z,” arrived with audible gasps around the main monitor at the QS submission desk, and didn’t let up until the final marble descent.
“CTRL+Z” comes with some cobblestone contortions in Paris’ 18th, yes, but it’s full of other third-eye-open shit in Nantes, Marseille and beyond. This includes transferring from sea to dock across a ship hull, handrails plunging one into razor-like foliage, rainbow-bent railroad tracks with wooden accents, and three levels of blind bumps protruding out of a bank that’d love nothing more than for you to slip out on the ride down. A beautifully nerve-racking three minutes to a beautiful Bjork-ian voice.
Video by Malick Kamité.
Text animation by Félix Roméo. Grading by Quentin Larrede.
Époustouflant!
J’arrive après la bataille mais dingos!!
J’arrive après la bataille mais dingos!!