Friday, December 2, 2022

Mike Rusczyk #8.




Rus-Sick.

As I've written many a time before, the neat thing about doing this is highlighting some of the other skaters that weren't the big names of a particular era, but still were straight up rippers as good as, if not better than some of the flavors of the day. Mike's another example of why style and thoughtful trick selection matter. Check out his assorted parts for Foundation to see what I mean.

The bluntslide sequence by Brian Gaberman.

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3 comments:

Valentin said...

A real individual at that time. His no complys were something special back then. Art Bars was an eyeopener, especially Rusczyk, Jon West and Justin Strubing. Like you said, straight up rippers.

Valentin said...

Oh I forgot Daniel Shimizu...FS hurricanes with tons of style.

Justin said...

Art Bars was great, but there's an ankle injury for Omar Salazar somewhere in there so I won't watch it. I prefer the Good Times Are Killing Me tour video from the same crew. Rusczyk brought the no comply back from the trick graveyard with much better style than many of the present day variations.