A Surreal Day With Guy Mariano Video
StartFragmentmso-ansi-language:EN-US">Back in 2004 I was working on a project with Ty Evans
and Chris Ray titled simply, The Crail Tap Video. The
video never came out and Ty and Chris went AWOL and well, I, as well as many
other cats who were supposed to be in it never had a chance. One day, Chris and
I drove to LA to skate 7th Street School. We climbed the fence and
set up the bench on the bank and within 20 minutes of our arrival we
saw a thick crew of heads jumping the fence. Gino, Rick Howard and Mike Carroll
as well as A.V.E., the last man to jump the fence was Guy. Guy had not been
seen with his come back yet; no coverage, no write ups and no video
parts of him had come out in well over two years, with
the exception of his one trick in Yeah Right and the 2
page spread in the Skateboard Mag. He was a recluse. I was deep in
concentration trying to hammer out some tricks on the bank to bench and before
I knew it, Guy warmed up with this attempt you see of a f/s 180 to fakie 5.0
grind to fakie big spin heel flip out. My jaw almost hit the ground. Here was
this living legend inventing and creating even on warm up. He had not
been out of the car for more than 5 minutes and he almost pulled it like it was
nothing. He soon started to skate some flat and he lit up
a cigarette and just rolled around the schoolyard doing what most of
us claim we skate for fun. After a bit, the whole crew bailed to go skate LA
High School and Guy just disappeared sometime between there and 7th Street. I kept thinking that when the Laki video would drop he would have went
back to 7th Street to get this epic trick. To my knowledge, it
never happened. The only hypothesis I have is one of two things:
either he went back, pulled it and decided it was not good enough for the video
or he just did not care and decided to not do it. Either way it was a surreal
and fun day. EndFragment
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