Last Sunday, the Plank sailed the highways to relatively new Hingham Skatepark. My roommate and captain Collin Boisvert and myself (navigator) woke up at sunrise and awaited the new members of the crew, first mate Nick Petkauskos, and the cabin boy, cinematographer, and team waxer, Justin Foley. We bellowed punk-rock shanties for the forty minuet voyage, with stops to plunder fast food.
Within the first twenty minutes of ravaging the smooth concrete ramps and rails, our cabin boy fell injured, attempting to ollie the step-up. He has twisted, and possible sprained, his ankle. Fortunately for the rest of the crew, this left Justin’s schedule open to documenting our concrete carnage.
Captain Collin and I spent much of the day in the bowl. It is about five feet in the shallow end and seven feet in the deep end, divided by a spine ramp. Collin’s backside grinds around the corner were impressive visually, but not actually as difficult physically, as with all the tricks in this bowl. This ramp is a lot more intimidating than it looks.
The pirate of the day was really Nick who is the main subject of the montage that Justin released to YouTube the day after filming. The handrail next to the five stair may not have much life in it now that Nick did almost every conceivable grind on it, ending with a stylish front side blunt slide to fakie, into the camera. You can check out the edit here, and make sure to subscribe to Justin’s channel and keep following Nick on his journey to fame and skateboard sponsorship.
"the forty minuet voyage"? You just wrote something you definitely didn't mean to write -- all the more out of place with people singing punk rock.
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