Fargo Skateboarding homies went to New York for some chopped cheese and sick spots.
Photos by Owen Lehman
Words and video by Corey Henderson
Henry Luke and Nico had gone on a New York trip the previous year, and due to a change of plans in the second trip, I ended up going. This was my 3rd time in NYC, but it felt like my first time really getting a chance to explore and film in the streets. The edit came out a few weeks back but we wanted to share a little photo gallery.
We got the idea for the name of the edit from this Nas Song "Get Down". The opening lyrics describe the thug life of NYC in the 90's but specifically use the words "New York Streets". Pair this with a random dude in Brooklyn with the world's harshest raspiest east coast voice I've ever heard, talking loud over the phone about how he's had it with gold digging women, he said something along the lines of,
"Ain't no pussy out there worth that much!"
Around the same time we saw a verbal clash between an old head and an NYC YN wearing a ski mask or as we like to call them in Chicago, a shiesty. (for obvious reasons)
The old head seemed to have not liked what he saw, or perhaps there was a small altercation, but either way it ended in the older man saying something like,
"Everybody's hard, everybody wanna be hard!"
in a wise yet warning sound of a New York accent as the two walked away in opposite directions across a crosswalk. It was from that moment on that I just started repeating, "New York Streets, they('re) Kings, Queens, Killas, and Hustlas" in the raspiest east coast voice I could possibly make. It got to the point that it made my throat hurt from speaking that way and also from laughing.
A road trip from Chicago to New York is no easy task, but at the same time it felt pretty attainable. It just felt like we went through some fields and landed in another Chicago . . . that's like 3 times the size.
Honestly though I would recommend it from either direction, the cities are very comparable and give each other familiar feelings while adding tons of new flavors at the same time.
This was my first time manning a P2 camera for an entire trip and being responsible for the edit. Many would probably wish I had a better way to say this, but as a fan of Supreme videos,
I should be allowed to say that this is my first "Strobeck" edit.
As much as I try to have a unique style, the P2 camera is quite new to me so I had to stick to something familiar just to feel comfortable with it, and I just couldn't help but imagine how Strobeck or many other east coast filmers with that similar style would have filmed the same clips. There is also just something about looking into the face of a skater as they roll up to a clip that's just mesmerizing. It's mesmerizing enough to watch the clips, but to film them takes the experience to a whole new level. Imagine thinking about your favorite recent skate videos while filming a banger . . . it's an inspirational experience.
P.S. For all the meike homies out there, as you can tell, I'm pretty hyped on this setup, but the Meike setup will always have it's place!
Nico was always disappearing and coming back with a sandwich or a coffee, or both, we could not stop this man from eating.
Nico Positano: Fs Nosegrind 180
This is me posing in a future rub brick shirt at blubba. I didn't get any photos, but peep the clips, sucka!
Henry Woolever: Fs Blunt / Bs Tail a sick rail we've never seen anyone skate. Also driver of the year award. We took Henry's car all the way to New York. We stayed about a 30 minute drive from the city in Bayonne, New Jersey, so every day Henry took us through the Hudson tunnel.
He honked his horn to a quite healthy degree fitting right in with the locals with zero issues.
Luke Covey AKA Don Chito: Noseslide to drop.
I must say, we probably went on the entire trip based off of Luke's motivation, he wanted all of it the most of out everyone on the trip.
It's cool to see and support a skater on a mission, and while almost none of his clips came without a significant fight, he came out on top of most of the tricks he tried on the trip. He initially went to the ledge to drop to crook it, but after a few falls that tweaked his knee a little funny, he had to noseslide it and walk away before the situation got ugly. What made the noseslide clip really cool was the group of people standing right next to the ledge when he lands and they got so hyped.
Don Chito: 5050 till' the end.
This was the last clip filmed on the trip, and the ender of the edit, its so sick to see it work out that way.
The boys watching as Luke tried the rail over 50 times. Sometimes being the hype man is where it's at (safety).
Collage by me.
No trip is perfect, there will always be setbacks, and something or someone to grind your gears. There was some full rain days, there were some disagreements, some cooped up feelings, but we are all human. Sometimes bouncing back from the trying times can be what defines the good times.