I’ve known Chris Jones for a good few years now. It’s been a pleasure watching him grow from an unassuming, polite welsh kid with mad skills into the stylish yet gnarly street chomper he is today. CJ or ‘The Bank Manager’ (as he was dubbed by fellow Welshman Dylan Hughes) enjoys finding a line that no one has thought of (or that no one has considered possible) at new or well-established spots. This gap to nose slide spot is right across the road from London’s main Elephant and Castle ledges. Having been there a good few times trying to decide if anything was possible with the lack of run up (there’s a short pavement ending abruptly in a busy main road), I’d never actually considered that the spot could be skated across the gap. The one push run up has to be executed with your foot behind your board, as the wall is just wide enough to ride along. So you would have thought there wouldn’t be enough speed to clear the gap, let alone get a decent nose slide. I’m sure CJ enjoys the escalated level of difficulty as he somehow managed to do this with no apparent effort in just a few goes without his board shooting out into the main road. Next Level ability. Go and check his tricks in the Nike NESW edits – the ollie over the rail into the bank at the end of the ‘West’ edit is not possible.