Eric Koston’s skating has always had a sense of theatre to it – he’s the guy who’s known for doing very difficult tricks whilst just goofing around and this skit really shows off his natural ability to bring humour into his skating.

Shot by Spike, in a grainy black and white film reel, there are two masters at work here. Spike captures the sense of Charlie Chaplin and the dolefulness of his iconic tramp character and Koston, the most Jedi like skate wizard, somehow makes us all believe that he’s just started to learn how to skat. I think that, just for a moment, we all wanted to believe it as we were all genuinely entertained by this skit.