HUF Worldwide presents: The Gillette (2015)
HUF Worldwide presents: The Gillette (2015)
Despite barely having stepped on a skateboard for the last year, for reasons you can discover here, Austyn still came through with this part to debut his first shoe with HUF. It’s also worth bearing in mind that some of this was filmed during his knees’ decline so we can’t wait to see whatever comes from Mr Gillette once he’s recovered. Revisiting a spot that seems to be a favourite of his for filming lines, the Warschauer Strasse benches, Austyn places an awkward and interesting fakie front shove to nosegrind backside 180 out. The front noseslide 270 variations he perfected in Unlimited pop back up, but are popped into from fakie this time, while the back to back stairsets in Berlin also get re-visited; practically mirroring his line in Unlimited with a frontside 180 down the first and switch tre down the second. Throwing caution of what’s ‘cool’ (and his board) to the wind, Austyn handles some sure to be familiar bumps with a stylish switch 180 and late bigspin. He then follows on with a tre flip over a gap that could be described as ‘awkward’ to say the least and ‘fucking huge’ to put it a bit less lightly… Finally Austyn rounds things off with a cherry looking bump to bar frontside heelflip and an outstanding switch front noseslide flip out. While I’d say this is Austyn’s best part to date, that would feel like somewhat of a disservice to past video entries which, if you’ve read to here, never have disappointed. V-neck represent…