Whilst shooting for Ben’s Haunts I decided to meet up with him in Manchester and see if we could find anything to shoot. It was during summer so we were out for most of the day. The day consisted of walking around a lot and struggling to find something new to skate, the weather was banging though so I wasn’t too bothered if we didn’t shoot anything. I think Ben felt like he wanted to shoot something as he had work later that evening and didn’t want to feel like we wasted the day away. We ended up finding a new spot with help from Ben Grove and we managed to shoot something.

After this we had an hour to kill until Ben had work, luckily we remembered this roof spot, which we wanted to have a look at. So me, Ben and Foz set off and went to check it out. The spot was a car park with some sort of abandoned structure above it, which looked unfinished. There were a variety of roof gaps all over it. Ben wanted to check the gap that was at the very top and see if it looked skateable. We all got up there. Me and Foz were feeling sketched out but Ben wasn’t phased and had a look. He thought it would be a good idea to ollie it for a photo, me and Foz thought he was insane because the run-up was pretty short and the floor on top of the roof was covered with stones.
Ben wanted to have a go so I made sure that the run-up was clear as it could be because I was terrified that he’d hit a stone and fall down. Ben kept leaping over the gap on his feet to test the distance and then out of nowhere he threw his board down and popped over it first go while Foz was squealing with fear watching. We checked out the photo and it looked good so I was ready to get out of there but Ben casually said he wouldn’t mind trying to kickflip it. I’ve never been this scared for someone trying a trick so I made sure that he definitely wanted to try it and double check the run-up was clear of stones. Foz had enough and couldn’t watch from the top so he went down to the bottom to watch. Ben attempted the flip and managed to do it first go, we were relieved, we checked out the photo and then Ben thought he could do a better one so he went at it again and did two in a row. The second photo was rad and I’d had enough trauma so I decided to get him down from that roof incase something bad happened. We made it out of there and in the end we shot a banging photo, Ben must have been feeling stoked when going to work, props for doing this madness mate! This was featured in Ben’s ‘Haunts’, Sidewalk magazine, Issue 215.