Fuck the tricks, is Nikolai Piombo leading the league in the pants power rankings? His many and varied spins on the swishies injected an additional nylon and often cargo-panted dimension to his extreme confidence on the ledges, where it seems every gently curving block in the greater Los Angeles area has fallen under the power of his crooked grind hanger divots over the past year (and some more abruptly curving ones too). Nikolai Piombo closed WKND’s am-featuring ‘Jit’ vid, took up the Busenitz Pro torch from Dylan Sourbeer, and is one of the industry’s foremost practitioners of the reinvigorated Suski grind; many of this dude’s tricks adhere to Jimmy Gorecki’s ‘don’t do it if it wasn’t in “Trilogy”’ rule, only grinding or sliding several extra feet.
Tags: Alan Gelfand High alumni, also Kevin Perez’s ‘Vito’ vid, backside smith grind to backside tailslide, fakie 5-0s we have knowed, Jit, ledge tricks in tight quarters, Nikolai Piombo, shoes with the extended tongue, WKND
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