Ryan Hickey – Eastern Exposure NYC montage 1996

Whilst perhaps not as technically progressive as the other examples, NYC’s most underground son’s deserves a mention here for rearranging the boundaries of what constituted a wallride.

When EE3 came out – 99% of it blew people away, but this particular trick (shown here out of context for ease) was a head-scratcher – ‘Was that a wallride or did he just nose wheelie across the wall?’ “Did he only use the side of one wheel?’ WTF etc. If anybody was in any doubt that wallrides were cool again then Mr. Hickey’s impressionistic reinterpretation at 100 mph on a video that re-directed street skating from the minute it came out certainly sealed the deal. Get on the bricks, dicks…