Dave Adlington - Full pipe carve - Yorkshire
Dave Adlington - Full pipe carve - Yorkshire
During the Summer I met up with Myles Rushforth and Alex Bird in Barnsley. Some Sheffield heads said they were keen to check out Barnsley too (Jerome Campbell, Dave Adlington and James Cruickshank) so we all met up and drove to different spots. Barnsley surprisingly has loads of really dope stuff to skate. We had a pretty productive day of skating and then we came across this spot.
These bottle shaped silos were peculiar, you had to climb in head or foot first and then you were pretty much in a dusty, claustrophobic greenhouse. Dave was hyped to skate these silos so he jumped in and realised how hot it was in there because of the boiling hot weather. Dave skated a smaller silo at first and then we eventually found the biggest one there and he started to pump up and down the full pipe. The silos were made from some sort of plastic material so they were incredibly slippery, Dave took many slams and hacked the constant greenhouse heat. He kept coming out of the pipe to get a breather.
He then started trying to get a kickturn high up the pipe and kept slamming because of the slippery conditions, eventually he got the hang of it and then got as high as he could. I was shooting it fisheye from outside the pipe with my arms fully stretched into the bottle neck and it was pretty hard to get right but luckily I worked it out and the highest kickturn looked rad. Dave was stoked on the photo and he got out of there, he was drenched in sweat. Considering how boiling hot it was props to Dave for skating these for as long as he did. This was used in the Witness section of Sidewalk Magazine, Issue 215.