Smooth and Stylish, A Throwback to Another Era.
By 2009, I already had a camera and was fully immersed in filming skate videos every day. Shooting in the city (Petrópolis - RJ, Brasil) where I was born was a huge challenge because we had to create spots that didn’t even exist there. It was more about the mental drive to build a scene than an actual reality!
Gregori Bastos, aka Alecrim, was a master at overcoming these challenges with style and finesse.
Here are some GIFs, and at the end, a video filmed by me and edited by him at the time, featuring extra tricks from a project we worked on.
He has one of the most unique tre flips I’ve ever seen to this day.
Pay attention to his back foot position! He found a unique way to scoop with a completely different mentality.
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Or just landing a switch 360 over a manhole like the ground was smooth, ignoring any chance of the board getting caught in the cracks.
It’s crazy to think that we used to take a bus for over an hour just to skate at this small court, which today is where the city's skatepark stands.
Or that a nose grind went down on a ledge in the middle of a city so rough that even the nose wouldn’t slide—but the drive and flow to make it happen overcame all limits.
Finally, a technical trick on a gap we used to skate at the infamous "Big Ashtray" in the city center—the only skate spot in the downtown area.
You can watch the full video below!
Bzzzrrr! Rad throwback, Renan! Love the shots and the stoke is palpable! That tre flip from Gregori is straight fire. The way he scoops it is like butter, dude! Shredding gnarly spots and overcoming obstacles, just like in the streets. Haaay, the memories, bro. The passion and drive to create something out of nothing is contagious! Keep it lit!
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its awesome to see you preserving 2009 memories on skatehive. skatehive is perfect for that and the vintage skate footage is always refreshing to see. that tre flip that dude does... yeah... thats a unique way to do that. it flips so crazy too.
It is! To this day, I still can’t comprehend how he keeps doing it like this!
That was an awesome post and I totally feel you about wanting to build a skate scene brother! That's what we're doing in my hometown as fTR_Crew since 2008!
Beautiful post, brought me back so many memories! Cheers and keep building the community brothers!
And this dude's Tre foot position is out of this world for real!
t’s pretty cool to be here, reflecting on this mix of feelings from a chapter of my life that still echoes today. Always keeping my head up and staying positive! And it’s also kind of wild to think that people on the other side of the world have gone through—and are still going through—similar experiences!