After last week’s Twilight Zone Footage Feast – which focused on various creative types taking unusual approaches to skateboarding – the standard ‘re-up lines’ format with a single skater focus wasn’t going to work. Instead we decided to follow on from this with a look at how, in the right hands, a basic and slightly looked down upon trick (the early grab) can become a thing of utter radness!

It seems at the moment that many of the staples of 80’s skateboarding are making a resurgence – no complies are a flatground staple once again and no ramp jam is complete without at least a few kids chucking themselves into backside bonelesses. However whilst these tricks are being given a new lease of life, grabbing early remains consigned to the scrap heap – much maligned outside of a few choice circles. I personally believe that the over-eager aerial has got an unfair rap – it’s always fun and in the right hands can look fucking ace. Whether tweaking it out or taking it to something gnarly, here are a few examples to bring out when your friends start taking the piss out of the early grab.

Above photo courtesy of Chromeballincident