What Was The Best Trick Down The LOVE Gap? 

The switch pop shuvit was from Ian Smith, who also did the bigspin. Both tricks were in his part in “Something Wild” which is a shop video from our local area in Bel Air, Maryland. The shop is called Skatology Board Shop. The video came out in 2009. I filmed a large portion of it. Appreciate you guys covering his bigspin! 🎉 Such a sick episode. The 360 flip from Eric Kunmann was also in our video “Something Wild”. You can find all the parts from the video on RU-vid, someone who bought our dvd at the time uploaded all of the parts to RU-vid a few years later. Chris Cole btw tried the 360 flip before Eric but never got it, so Eric is the only one to my knowledge who ever 360 flipped it before the gap was gone.

My favorite is the backside bigspin, its the most stylish exectution, the way he scoops it, the catch, the twist, the pose when he lands, the turnaround, its all so fluid and perfect

Chris cole,transworld in bloom,switch fs flip n bs flip is the best tricks ever to go down at the love gap🔥🔥🔥

You know what the difference was between Ishod an kerrys pushing was, the wheels.. Kerry did it with nineties sized wheels

Ian smith… backside big spin with no recognition it’s absolutely bonkers

No one is doing a massive gap on their own. Plus, you younger skaters, people didn't film all the time. People actually threw themselves down crazy stuff for fun of it. You would have to know someone with a camera and talk them into filming. The stuff I remember seeing but no one filming is crazy.

I’m surprised they forgot Kerry Getz’ legendary kick flip from ‘Jump Off a Building’

Imagine if Jetemy Wray landed his FS 360.

Hardest: switch backside flip Cleanest: switch heel For the time: switch back 180

Choppy?: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hxnnKqWtMjo.html

Donnie Bianco did a Scarewalk, not an Airwalk. Front foot off toeside, back foot off heelside is an Airwalk. Scarewalk is much more dodgy but cooler.

Cole tre’d it but stepped off the board and didn’t roll away. It’s in an old clip with Kalis talking about it. Bam is in the clip too talking about it

Brian Wenning's switch back 180 may not be the most difficult trick but it's so goddamn clean! Commented before I got to the clip, I'm so happy they included it!

Mark Suciu Varial Heel and Tom Asta's Switch fs heel are right up there imo

Ian Smith did that crazy bigspin and hes also the one who did the switch shuvit u guys where talking about... that bigspin is so crazy..

I’m surprised nobody has tried to recreate love as a skatepark

Reynolds front side flipped it and makes it look small

That bigspin was just too good. Absolutely incredible

You guys gotta factor in board size and wheel size variations from different times due to changing trends, a 49 mm wheel performs quite differently than a 45

Skating Love as a kid of the 90’s nobody ever thought anything would be done over that gap. Just seeing someone ollie it was mind blowing.

Matt Reason ollied it right around the time Vinny Ponte ollied it. Also, Mike Maldinado kickflipped it wayyyy back in the early 90s around that tine also.

I skated love park. I was brutal and my crew was brutal too. We skated it with some locals. Thats how it first was. You couldn't just go skate it. You could skate around it. If you tried to skatw without approval there was always someone "setting up" for the next set. When we got the invite we brought so many they almost didnt let us skate. That didnt last long because our older skaters infiltrated it. They had no choice.

I liked mine club a lot more when Roger was fully present, he always had really intelligent takes, he knew a lot of back story and skate history. I don’t think Eldridge adds much to the dynamic to the show and his takes never make me think “ah yeah, interesting, never thought about that”. One trait he has that’s good is that he isn’t afraid to disagree which the show needs, but when he’s disagrees it’s not like he’s the voice of reason, rather it brings the convo to a halt over something that doesn’t make much sense. Idk maybe it’s hard for me to like his commentary after he was arguing that filmers shouldn’t care about getting paid.

Chris Cole all day and he grew up/from 25 miles in Pennsylvania on top of it!

I heard Chris Cole did that backside 360 twice. He went back wearing the same clothes and did it again. Is that true?

Willy Lavigne is sick! Dope benihana

I'm surprised nobody's favorite was Tom Asta's sw front heel. He just makes it look so easy!

Again we turn to Rog for confirmation of skate lore. 🐐

Brandon Turner would have done switch hard flip

I am playing Session and doing every trick in this video as I watch it. And I'm making money...

Like this comment if you want to see Kerry Getz on the Nine Club! 25:00 Kerry has been trying to get on the nine club! He is always tagging you guys. Let's get him on! WITH Mike Maldonado.

I feel like its an unwritten rule in skateboarding when talking about firsts. It absolutely means first on desciminated media to do it, not the actual first.

Fun fact. Philly used Tony Hawk Pro Skater and it featuring Love Park and City Hall to sell them as a location for X Games. Then they used the X Games money to renovate them so there was nothing left to skate.

Why have I never seen this show/podcast.

Wenning sw back 180 was forever etched in my memory… too steezy and clean

yall gotta make your split screen even smaller cause it often gets in the way of landed tricks.. or put it in the top left or right corner.. we need to see the bottom corners often when you show tricks...... please and thanks ; )

Love to Jimmy Carlin from Sweden.

12:00 Ian Smith was also the one who switch pop shuvd it

Oh snap my boy Willy made the video! Benihana for days!

Chris Cole back 3 is up there too.

Here I am again. Alone.. midnight in NY... and don't really wana think about anything but skateboards

Wasn’t the bennihana done by Brian wenning?

Thanks for this Nine Club Guys, such a cool chat about all these legendary tricks and the people and for pulling up all the clips!

411 clip being shown? Kelly will interrupt and mess up the flow trying to show his nerd and tell everyone exactly what issue, minute, section, and what song was playing. He does this all for.....i mean no reason really because it even seems like the other guys are sick of it as well LOL.

The leaked Chris Cole battle from back in the day was fire. Can’t remember if it was the 360 or 360 flip. But he slammed over and over and over and over.

yo, i was there. Lil Stevie, Fred Gall were my boys. I'm from south jersey. It was a Sub Zero contest. I was in that contest "amateur" I ollied the fountain gap . That was my spot. I love gaps. Thanks guys.

Ishod first Kickflip down love is blasphemous lmao KERRY GETZ BUSY

Tom Asta frontside big flip and transfer to the biggest gap between the fountain and skating over the stairs of Love Park in Philadelphia!

You know all the tricks are mind blowing it’s just hard to really get the opinion of the actual skater who did the trick. Some guys do better sw back 180s than regular. Some do better sw tricks than regular. So like someone doing a sw tre could argue seeing it done regular and be like how the fuck could u do it regular?? When the guy who did it regular would be like HOW TF DID U DO IT SW?? so like they touched on the topic it’s all on individual styles and what tricks they have down. That’s why skateboarding is so fucking dope because it’s an art. Some master sw, some master frontside, some master backside, it’s all in the person and also how the person does it and lands it. Skateboarding is the best sport in my eyes hands down because no matter what there is a kickflip but I guarantee nobody does a kickflip the same. It’s forever stuck in my mind and my heart and soul. I don’t skate 24/7 like I used to but I still skate and think about it 24/7. I will die thinking about skateboarding and every single skateboarder knows what I’m talking about. Curt, out.

Hey guys, I use to skate back when I was 13-17 and I'm starting to o get back into it at the age of 29. The only thing I need, is skate video recommendations! Which videos should I watch first? Back in the day I was a Baker/Deathwish and Zero/Mystery fan, that is to say I like the hijinks and stuff, but I also want to see next level skating, see how far things have come since the last time I was on a board.

I'm surprised some people who were around then never did something down it. Like muska, Sheckler, nyjah, p rod, Ed Templeton etc...

Sheckler backside flipped it.

Donny Bianco's Airwalk will always be my favorite trick down the Love Park gap. It's etched in my mind from the 411 chaos opener as Motley Crew's " Shout at the Devil" begins playing. That back big spin was fucking sick though.

Kinda random but its upsetting skating gets a negative view when it comes to city officials. I would bet that LOVE park probably lowered the crime rate in the area camparing avg then and now

Heres the reality if you were somewhat local... The best trick was likely done with almost no one else there... By a kid YOU likely only heard a whisper of once. And as for your early convo on sharing the park... Love Park was left alone and skaters didn't get messed with often... Till people turned it into a place to go... So ya'll probably think the North Shore needs no rank and file too then.

I love the concept of this show but I can’t. Stand Chris Roberts talking 😂 I’m so sorry. Even when he’s a commentator at skate competitions

I did not know this I just moved to Philly in 2019 They buried it I was at the Christmas fair So sad

2:49 Its crazy how the ON Video footage is now older than the 93 "vintage" footage it was showing.

Kerry Getz probably had to push hard because back then everybody rode 50mm wheels or smaller. Could have also been not as smooth bearings in his set up.

Switch fs heel flip imagining trying that downs huge gap is insane. I don’t even see how that’s possible

For sure, Chris Cole owns love park. Also, RIP LOVE PARK!

I couldn’t even imagine doing a 180 down that like at this park near the skate park I got to has like a stage that’s probably 3 feet and I’m like hell no I’m not doing a 180 down it

Switch bs flippppp

Shuvit flips are putrid, they were banned at my local skatepark

Trevor colden backside hell flip ¿?¿?

I feel like I have a full on Mandela effect and I have fully imagined Chris Cole 360 flip Love Park too.

Pontes Ollie(love gap) was in a 411😉💪💪💪💪💪😎

Best trick down the love gap? Why don’t y’all talk about the last time you felt loved?

Choppy Omega in his day could ollie that gap with his eyes closed… he was pure stoke, did not give 2 shits about a camera the guy lived strictly to hype up the here and now

Look even though Jeremy 360 slid on his butt you known he can do that shit lol water tower

Andrews ocd must go off the fuckin rails when he hears baker maker

Switch pop shuv switch pop shuv switch pop shuv switch pop shuv

How is Curren Caples not on the race for SOTY 2023?

in 2004 i did a switch heel UP the gap! .. didn't get it on camera though smh.

Chris it's not just a "skate spot". You guys act like you own the property 😂

Someone should rebuild the love gap at a sk8 park

bs flip sw fs flip varial flip big spin comes to my mind first

First off- I’ve personally seen Choppy kill some gaps at Burnside that were WAY bigger then the love gap. He was also way younger when he lived in Harrisburg so I could see him doing it.

There's a chart that compares famous skate gaps, with height and distance🙃

is that first ollie of Vinnie Ponte in fucking snow? it looks alot like it but they dont mention it. even crazier to me

makes sense in a way tho, the commitment you needed to launch anything crazy off this.

Ian smith did switch shuvit as well at 3:05 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_tyFMC-8b5s.html

Is Eldridge always drunk or on pills or does he normally sound like that lol

Is a kickflip shuv it not a varial flip anymore? Lol

Simon Woodstock longboard love gap

those are two different bs 360s from cole, right?

Ben kadow ollied it when the fountain was filled up

Trevor Colden switch back heel!

I was there when wenning was switch heel flipping it. He bent his axle on that shit!

Is that Familia sticker from Minnesota?¿

Jimmy Hardflip was effortless!

Get Jimmy Carlin on the showww!!!!

Toss up Between Pappalardo and Wenning's switch Ollies :) By Far the Best tricks and Chris Cole..... also Philly is a tough city, they dont want anyone to take their pride :P ty yall for this shit conversation so dope!

Your tricks could never be done again

do walenburg next guys

If you haven’t been there, I grew up and skated Love park hundreds of times. You can’t understand how Large and long that Gap is. It’s Gnarly watching people like Chris Cole & Bam ripping that gap is Beast mode!!

What’s bigger love or wallenberg

My favorite Kelly Getz hahaha

That’s Philly They let them skate it for a day

I grew up just 30 minutes outside of Philadelphia, and I never went there to skate when they were shutting it down because I felt like an outsider. Those who flew in just to huck themselves down the stairs really had no business being there. Especially the berrics who was attempting put out bounties for NBD's.