JENKEM - The Evolution of... NYC's Pyramid Ledges

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4 жыл бұрын

The Pyramid Ledges are super popular with both out-of-towners and locals too lazy to explore because they look cool (all those little edges poking out) and they're "centrally located." But more importantly, compared to other iconic New York spots like D7 or Black Hubba, these ledges fairly easy to skate (i.e. even if you suck you can get a clip).
Really, the biggest challenge at this spot are the Wall Street assholes on their lunch break or cops suggesting you go scooter in the East River.
We were able to get in touch with Mark Suciu, Zered Bassett, RB Umali, Aaron Meza, and Josh Kalis to piece together a little oral history of notable tricks that have gone down at the spot.
Filmed & Edited by: Richard Quintero
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@harrytuttle564 4 жыл бұрын

Please don't ever stop this series.

@sweedican 4 жыл бұрын

I’m surprised they didn’t show tyshawn’s nollie bs noseblunt. That shit was sooooo clean!

@andydy464 4 жыл бұрын

Christopher Harris tyshawn’s nollie bs noseblunt deserves its own tribute. That was one of the sickest looking ones ever, it was almost like he was just dream floating at full speed. So I can understand why they couldn’t included every different trick that went down on those ledges.

@liamcanavan5970 4 жыл бұрын

He/his sponsors or someone probably wouldn’t let them use it for free or without paying money

@traddad9172 4 жыл бұрын

Everybody still sleeping on Westgate- The spot destroyer

@bleachvisionTV 4 жыл бұрын

Also people forget he's the KING of all bumps over bar, especially kickflip

@vasectomyfail442 4 жыл бұрын

i've always wanted to see interviews with architects that designed spots. why they even build ledges n shit, if they're hyped on how hyped we get about spots or if they truly hate us, etc ??

@LanceForLife 4 жыл бұрын

The dude that designed love park he thought skateboarding was sick he was even on board with trying to make it a skate park

@timmy2706 4 жыл бұрын

Transworld interveiwed the designer of love park. I remember reading the article years ago, and thinking the dude was cool af and had had an awesome outlook on what his design for a park came to mean for skateboarding. Hopefully you can find it somewhere

@nanping5428 4 жыл бұрын

@@Deadsetdead lol thats me

@vertsk8er419 4 жыл бұрын

@@Deadsetdead hey bro im 28 and am having trouble with this sentence in particular: "There are best purpose literature available to planners and architects to avoid use by skateboarders." It actually doesn't make sense. maybe i'm just lacking in understanding the implied context...A little help in explaining what you meant in different words for us simpletons would be nice. peace!

@giantasparagus 4 жыл бұрын

Same!

@crazybiscut 4 жыл бұрын

I think a pretty obvious one too do is the evolution of the brooklyn banks

@strictlybusiness1679 4 жыл бұрын

Dan Therman well now it is... but it was going strong for decades and it's still there unlike some spots.

@georgebamber6871 4 жыл бұрын

@@strictlybusiness1679 rip

@tuna_land 4 жыл бұрын

I always liked the JJ tre flip noseslide

@redatahiri6249 4 жыл бұрын

4:23 Insufficient. want to watch more... great job.

@maxim9461 4 жыл бұрын

Tyshawn nolie back nose blunt isn’t in this video and that is a real shame SOTY 2018

@TerryB 4 жыл бұрын

Really appreciate these. Keep em coming

@zzzzzzzzzzzz-11 4 жыл бұрын

love these videos makes me see these spots in a new way when im there

@sourstateofmind5944 4 жыл бұрын

These spot evolution videos are some of the absolute best content on KZfaq.

@johnarbuckle2823 4 жыл бұрын

Love this! Thanks for making it Jenkem!

@wafflez-man-1995 4 жыл бұрын

Love seeing old clips of these spots like this . I’m from NYC used to see this spot back in the early 00’s till now of course. Legendary spot and the Banks

@joshkatz 4 жыл бұрын

This was beautifully done. Would love to see more of these for NY spots.

@borys444 4 жыл бұрын

Helmet

@s8ba 4 жыл бұрын

When I see josh kalis I think of you idk why, weird I also thought that before I saw this comment

@pablosmith5473 4 жыл бұрын

Damn I love grittiness and roughness of the East Coast spots. NYC, Philly, even Boston spots, they really have something special in their look, their bricks and concrete, the materials they're made of, the style of design that all the California spots don't have. And having skaked on both coasts, I can easily say the East is really more tough to skate and master generally speaking.

@eletor 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this, looking forward to more.

@lordmoldybutt646 4 жыл бұрын

Please keep this series going it’s so good aha

@JakeBorchenko 4 жыл бұрын

Wow that kickflip front tail is insane

@triplflip900 4 жыл бұрын

Woah Kalis bigspin back tail was soooo good. Jake Johnson's tricks were crazy too

@josephpharr4915 4 жыл бұрын

seriously my favorite series

@BrushyZeus 4 жыл бұрын

Love this series!

@topeteu05 4 жыл бұрын

I love these!

@michaelcullen5955 4 жыл бұрын

Give Max Palmer a tent and set it up there. Tell him he can only film tricks there for a weekend

@nosmanual 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful piece

@oliverolson2261 4 жыл бұрын

Love these

@DJkautionNY 4 жыл бұрын

Such a hard ledge to skate, but any trick on it felt amazing.

@jdportwerks6795 4 жыл бұрын

Never forgotten!

@joshualamarre8921 4 жыл бұрын

I love these skateboarding history lessons

@AldensAntlers 4 жыл бұрын

Great vid, Brandon west gate, insane

@thomasrainbow 4 жыл бұрын

Could of watched this for an hour. Classic spot!

@nabeelnelson4368 4 жыл бұрын

Max with the ender🙃

@wallienollie 4 жыл бұрын

Best series

@CaliBreeeze 4 жыл бұрын

This was dope please make it a series

@namedidii 4 жыл бұрын

it is there are several episodes

@talon010 Жыл бұрын

Touring new York atm and skated it yesterday, it's still good. Was a lot harder to skate than I expected but I got a basic trick 😬

@NathanS12 4 жыл бұрын

Looking for session historical challenges ideas

@Rockstar-wf4fp 4 жыл бұрын

me too dude

@chrismcdonald1725 4 жыл бұрын

Smolik. Church of Skatan, wild in the streets

@spencert4840 4 жыл бұрын

Chris McDonald my thought also. All those back tailslides flip outs right?

@ADubTheGrizzy 3 жыл бұрын

exactly!!!

@1logeskeez 4 жыл бұрын

We need more of this series! Some SF spots maybe??

@amgone75dm 4 жыл бұрын

Love this spot!! Skated it back in 1996

@andreasakselvoll171 4 жыл бұрын

Cool thing you included a clip from 'VERSO' :)

@louistorres 4 жыл бұрын

We were skating those back in 1987!

@mosmith3026 4 жыл бұрын

More content like this please!

@max-eq3qo 4 жыл бұрын

Love it when I start a vid and hear mark's voice

@jamesradskijr.9745 3 жыл бұрын

These vids are RAD.

@cinemasnitch3959 4 жыл бұрын

Meza kicked it with me and my homies when i saw him at an adidas event...such a chill dude

@ocr2144 4 жыл бұрын

The first trick suciu did on it was bs tail fs shuv and the first trick he does on it in verso is the same but switch. Verso is about symmetry and suciu is a genius.

@goodtimesslim3387 4 жыл бұрын

Zered Basset , Zoo York, early 2000s.....if only I could go back in time.....

@KenpachiSauga 4 жыл бұрын

about to be in session!

@chrisb7051 4 жыл бұрын

I see Jenkem, I press like

@TheAlfone1 4 жыл бұрын

This section is dope asf

@lincolnsquare3281 4 жыл бұрын

More!!!

@shirokumaotaku 4 жыл бұрын

1:54 Correction it was actually in Tony Hawk's Underground

@R3D3Y3DTUB3R 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you're right, but It's kind of like a part of the series of Tony Hawk Pro Skater you know

@freshafro7098 4 жыл бұрын

Lol "corrections" couldn't help reading that in Dwight's voice from the office.

@scruffmcgruff21 4 жыл бұрын

Same shit different pile

@TIXLTIF 4 жыл бұрын

@@scruffmcgruff21 sounds like this game hurt you

@Dankman9 4 жыл бұрын

Big spin back tail!

@John_Lee_ 4 жыл бұрын

Jenkem....Picking up where On Video left off.

@LuisDiazHD 4 жыл бұрын

Waooo awesome

@ilikeemerica9619 4 жыл бұрын

Do you guys only cover Ny spots, because it would be dope to have one of these evolution videos on bricktown or the Lincoln 13

@bozooe 4 жыл бұрын

IlikeEmerica96 Jenkem are based in NY

@nnootens1 4 жыл бұрын

www.jenkemmag.com/home/2019/06/20/evolution-miamis-mlk-ledges/

@ilikeemerica9619 4 жыл бұрын

H G yeah I know but they travel so it would be cool if they did a video on some famous Cali spots

@MC_1993 4 жыл бұрын

Was that Tony Hawk underground..? I truly do not remember this spot in a Tony Hawk game

@TomsGarage007 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah the first underground after you take the train from jersey

@chromebomb 4 жыл бұрын

Zered Bassett is legend

@CULTCOLLECTIVE 4 жыл бұрын

but didnt feature suciu's front blunt to 5-0 that was on jenkem, now on his verso part.

@thegrudge 4 жыл бұрын

*Back blunt

@realnybossman613 4 жыл бұрын

Where I landed my first stair sets x]

@gra_potemkin 4 жыл бұрын

cool

@g-cloud4599 4 жыл бұрын

You forgot to add Tyshawns Nollie Noseblunt from blessed video

@bnsyphotography2104 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone else here looking for the locations from THUG1?

@giantasparagus 4 жыл бұрын

Not to mention there is always a thousand people standing around it texting lol

@nolankramer9545 4 жыл бұрын

What song is RB talking about when he’s talking about ginos line

@booski1865 4 жыл бұрын

Publicity--GZA

@dominicenglish9806 4 жыл бұрын

Daan van der Lindens back tail firecracker

@SomeJustice19k 4 жыл бұрын

I can't believe 2009 sounds like forever ago.

@norbertwohlstand7023 4 жыл бұрын

Zered the dan bilzerian of Skateboarding

@pierremaggi8661 4 жыл бұрын

Came here after the new Session update

@SirCheco1 4 жыл бұрын

Nobody did kick flip back tail?

@shadow.banned 4 жыл бұрын

A smaller version exists in Century City.

@brandon-qw5eu 4 жыл бұрын

go away communist bernie sanders supporter

@davidsuh4859 4 жыл бұрын

Roslyn banks

@bmorebread8993 Жыл бұрын

78 water st

@TheActiveAssault 4 жыл бұрын

Why does 2005 look like 1985 R.B. looks like Andrew Yang.

@kyle2408 4 жыл бұрын

Max Palmer....

@squidincsquid 4 жыл бұрын

That's my weed smoking spot during break in the Thumbnail.

@holeymattress8128 4 жыл бұрын

I remember kids were skating this in the mid 1980's, always after hitting the banks... why does this "evolution" focus on early to mid 2000's???

@vperkv6554 4 жыл бұрын

I feel like a boss. I sakted these ledges before and mentioned them in a comment section. Had no clue wht the name of this spot was so i called them the pyramid ledges. Again. like a mfing boss. Oh, and these mfers are soo jacked, so any grinds in them is impressive af.

@shimes424 3 жыл бұрын

1:57 no push to 30 mph Keep saying it's not real physics...just wait for these new kids coming up

@borys444 4 жыл бұрын

Bring Steve Olson back...

@mikesgarage18 4 жыл бұрын

Looks sketchy

@blackrook29 4 жыл бұрын

make replica spots. why dont the top brands of skateboarding NIKE ADIDAS BERRICS tony hawk, ect ect chip in and build replica spots around the world instead of bullshit skate parks imagine a street skating designed park with famous spots like these ledges as an obsatcle, or the ledges at love park. instead they let pros have private lock ups like berrics onvite only.