Pop Files

pop. an intangible quantity when it comes to skating. at a minimum, pop is the height you get on ollies or whenever you pop your board. but pop doesn't necessarily mean how high you can get, it can also translate to distance, that up and out that gets you over a fire hydrant or across a hip. there is also the 'floaty' quality of pop, where the board seems to be glued to shoes and keeps rising.

i like pop. a consistent floaty ollie is all i want (that a nollie heels and/or some type of variel flip). these posts will be dedicated to pop. i'm not some grom concerned with how many stairs, how high or how long. i'm looking for that gorilla snap. case in point, check out my man, stevie. tricks on flat are the best determinate of pop. the switch heels is INSANE (2nd trick). that is what we call gorilla snap...



gangsta!

since we started with stevie, i think it is only reasonable to put in a word about his DGK teammate darren harper. dude is from dc and has some inhuman pop. when i went to dc, i went to this block. kind of like going to love park, just to see the gap, it was a spot i'd seen in plenty vids and wanted to see if it was the fisheye or if it was really diesal. i can saw.... spots legit. the block is alot wider than it appears and is a little over shin high. the difficulty is the drop off. the front is about 2 feet but the back is like 4 feet, so you got to float over, level out to land. it'd take me three weeks just to clear it with an ollie, much less the destruction mr. harper puts down. so, let's get to it. pop files presents.... darren harper. crazy snap on them shuvs....