On a regular visit to London I met up with some people in Greenwich for the first spot of the day. There was a big crew out but the spot we wanted to skate in Greenwich was pretty much situated inside a wind tunnel so it was time for the next spot. No one had any ideas and then Manny mentioned ‘Ilford’. Rye and me were wondering what was there to skate, to which Manny casually said ‘Theres a double kink handrail which I wanna skate’.

After rounding up everyone we headed to Ilford to check out the spots. We all nearly skated past this double kink handrail because it was so ridiculous when Manny stopped us and pointed at the spot with an over the moon expression, he most likely thought this double kink was ‘so perfect’. This was technically the first spot of the day for Manny and this isn’t something I’d want to skate no matter how warmed up I was. The rail was awkwardly positioned against an angled wall so if you didn’t lock in properly it was game over. Everyone was keen to watch Manny tackle this horrid handrail and watched from the bottom of the stairs.

Manny started grafting straight away and jumped onto the rail to test it out, after a few attempts he hit the middle rail and shot out, everyone got pumped up and encouraged Manny to get on it. After a few more attempts Manny got to the last part of the rail and fell off. Manny was so stoked that he nearly landed it, he ran back up the stairs shouting ‘I’ve got this’, I’ve never seen someone so hyped to be skating a multi-kinked rail before, it was like he was skating a curb, he’s not scared of them one bit. A couple more attempts later he did the whole thing perfectly and rolled into the lads who were giving him props. I can’t believe how he managed to do this without messing himself up. This was used for the cover of Sidewalk Magazine, Issue 214. Once again, I was stoked to have shot another Sidewalk cover. Manny is a mentalist.