Ricky was me and jims first skate friend. We have been good friends since 7th grade. We skated together everyday for 2 years from about 7th to 9th grade. We didnt have anyone to drive us so me, ricky and jimmy would pretty much just skate around Harleysville everyday and occasionally took trips to souderton. We skated every gap we could find in Harleysville and Souderton haha. Him, Jake Hoffman and Dan Ackerman really pushed me and Jimmy to try new stuff. Rick and Jake were always so good at manuals. They really inspired me to learn a lot of that stuff. Ive seen ricky do some pretty crazy stuff. But when we skated we really didnt film anything. He could do a lot of stuff in middle school that I still have trouble with now haha. So many good times skating and hanging out at ricks house. Probably some of the best times Ive had skating.
Heres a clip from our first video "First Try" featuring Ricky Finn and Vinni Prosseda. We filmed all of rickys trick in the span of a couple weekends haha. He had quit skating for a couple years before this but he occasionally would come out. He could still do everything. Most of this stuff was first or second try. I remember being pretty shocked when he did the nosemanny shuv to manny first try. We really werent doing tricks like that then. Vinni's manny on the skinny ledge at Methactin highschool was so sick.
And I was really surprised by the manny kickflip cross foot haha. We used to watch the Flip "Sorry" video and we thought it was sick when bastien salabanzi did a kickflip crossfoot over some stairs. He learned it the next day.
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