He goes out to skate at like 3am so that he is alone and can concentrate. He changed not only street skating but vert skating as much as anyone, even the GOAT of vert Tony Hawk. I'm too old and my health is too bad to do it now but I think of it multiple times a day and miss it terribly. I miss doing backside airs and backside ollies on vert ramps most of all. It was like floating and you can hear your wheels spinning as you are in the air. I'll hear that sound till I die.
Thanks for posting EarlG!

As mentioned I was never a skater, but like a lot of kids in the 90s I soaked up the culture. Back then I liked watching vert more than street, but recently I accidentally stumbled upon Andy Anderson and I was like holy shit…

I guess this is the generation that were little kids when the Tony Hawk Pro Skater games were first popular and they just thought all the crazy impossible stuff in those games was something to aspire to, lol.

There is actually a video on how Tony's pro skater video game did indeed do just what you are talking about. Its amazing what they are doing now. I can wrap my head around it but only barely. I skated from the mid eighties to the mid 2000's. I was the highest you can get in the Amateur division with 3 sponsors for a while. I was lucky to grow up in a great skate scene and then move to an area where we built it up to be a great skate scene with some pros moving there for it. I've got so many great stories. My first demo for one of my sponsors we had a 5 ft half pipe built in the parking lot of the business. A band came and played for us while we skated. I think I was like 16. After the show I talked to the band and they gave me their cassette that only had two songs on either side, the same two songs. Loud Love and She's got a gun. Still have that cassette.

Was bummed when they had to cancel it.

Or twist and ankle, or something! Stay off those contraptions!

had the misfortune of living in one of the flattest places in the country.

Since there were no skate shops or parks around my part of the woods in the late 70s, my friend and I gleaned every bit of information we could from the latest edition of Skateboarder magazine. That enabled us to mail order decent boards, trucks, and wheels from California.

We got chased from many an empty pool...once at gunpoint. Lucky we survived without any broken limbs, or being shot.

I could do some basic freestyle, but the moves that the elite skaters went on to create and perfect were simply unimaginable to me back then.

Seeing it in slo-mo certainly emphasizes the coordination and precision needed to complete that move.

It looks cool when you see it at normal speed but it’s so fast that you don’t really get a sense of what happened. Seeing it in slo-mo lets you see how complex it is.