Lucas Healey - Frontside Boardslide - Coventry
Lucas Healey - Frontside Boardslide - Coventry
UK skateboarding, for the most part, has managed to keep its weary head above the beige swamp that seems to have swallowed our collective personality in other walks of art forms or sports. One of the most amazing things about our domestic scene is that you don’t need to belong to the same cult or pay the same council tax band as ‘the gatekeepers’ in order to gain recognition. This being the case, it allows people like myself to seemingly stumble across people and be completely blown away by them without any precursor.
On the day in question, I headed towards Coventry to meet up with a cross section of the Get Lesta crew as I had a quiet Sunday between tours and life events this past summer. Having filmed this right angled front board the week prior, I’d placed bets on him being able to bang it out pretty quick, ticking a First Light off the list before delving into the Ghost Town’s most notorious spots with some of the group’s heavy weights as their video deadline loomed. This was not to be the case.
As I stood on the grass mount that towered above the rail, I watched time after time as Lucas would tip toe himself onto his board which he’d balanced in the narrow run up before sending himself from a gravity-less zero to terminal velocity sixty down the steep rail before piling out on the bottom two steps. Battered and bruised, Lucas carried on until he was finally granted the roll away for the second time.