Way Back Wednesday with Geetz 18

Ledge Ends

So ah, I’m gonna drop some Trilogy shit again. Where the fuck did Enrique Lorenzo come from? Daaamn, so this dude just casually drops a part in one of the most ground breaking videos of all time and no one has even heard of him. Pretty impressive! An instant vintage, I guess. Well, at least it was for me. Enrique is from Spain, I guess that explains his dopeness. Gettin’ the thumbs up from Kareem, even doper. I like Enrique especially because he looks like his board is about as small as they come and he really knows how to manhandle it. I reckon he may have even stashed a bunch of World boards from the mid to late 90s, the ones that were all stubby and shit (that everyone pretends to hate on these days) and just puts Expedition stickers on them now. Nah, I’m kidding, but there is something in the way his board sticks to his feet that makes him so important to my life. It was a no brainer really that Enrique succeeded, although there was a time in the mid 2000s that I was gettin’ a little worried. Like after Deca/Monkey Stix and he was back on World Industries, when it was no longer ‘World Industries’, if you know what I mean?! Don’t get me wrong, his skating was all there. Thank god Expedition pulled finger and saved him, god knows he deserved it, but it is hard out here for a pimp these days. Anyhow, I’m not here to tell you about the 2k years, this is just some knowledge of Enrique’s OG shit. I’m gonna hit you with his debut section, a handful of other parts, an interesting photo that may not look right but is so right for so many reasons and a couple more pics of yet another classic making a rail look like good, wholesome and carefree fun. Peep the backside 180 fakie 5-0. I hope you follow with the whole board stick thing, not many peole are capable of having this skill. Enrique, God bless. (Sorry for the poor quality on Rodney and Monkey clips, it just enhances the ghettoness).

Debut in Trilogy

Rodney vs Daewon Round 2

Deca Sneak Preview

Monkey Business

L.A. County

Quick Pic

This may have been a first. One advert, two crooked grinds.

My Periphery

A bit of Doug E Fresh x Lavars green Nikes. A pretty mean combo, if you ask me. The rest is fairly average apart from the Kalis, Guy and Carroll snippets. You definitely can’t front on Mako Urabe’s flip grab combos! Word to your moms.

Fine Tuning

I bounced school in ’97. It just wasn’t my gig anymore. I used to do super well at school before the summer of ’95/’96 when I was introduced into the world of many new and exciting things. The next year, ’96 was a blur, I had made a deal with about half my teachers. You see they didn’t understand how I was no longer interested in all the things I had previously excelled in the year before. I dunno man, like I said, I was doing fairly well, but that summer had opened my eyes up. Skateboarding was starting to let me reap some benefits, I had a job on weekends at the dopest shop in town and there were far more important things to focus on like girls, shoes, clothes and music. So my teachers just said that if I came to class and sat quietly in the back and read or whatever, I could slip on by and that was cool. Well, it wasn’t that cool, it was actually fuckin’ boring. I’m still unsure why I even went back the next year, hence I only lasted until like May or some shit. Back in the 90s it was mean. They used to give out student loans in a different way. Instead of just paying your fees for you and giving you some miniscule weekly amount to live on, they would give you a couple seemingly generous lump sums deposited straight into your bank account. For any teenager to have this waved in their face seemed to be the best thing that you could ever imagine happening. I signed up for some course that I didn’t even look into and the next thing you know boom I was gettin my first decent payday! Well, so I thought, ask me sometime what happened with the IRD ten years later, and how many times over the loan value I ended up paying it back at. Those are the things you don’t think about when you are 17. I didn’t care, I was gettin’ paid! You used to hear stories about students getting loans so they could buy cars or go on a holiday or whatever, well that was me, except I was buying a lot of Polo, Hilfiger, shoes, heaps of weed and smokes. I also bought some turntables, a mixer and started buying records. Fuck, you are probably laughing at me for saying that, but this was in a time when not every human became a DJ. Shit, this was a time when people actually had records! Nothing was digital. Anyway, the first record I ever bought was DJ Shadow Endtroducing, which was probably first edition. After maybe eight months or a year, when I realised I was in no way musically talented; I sold it in a bundle along with my turntables, mixer and all my records (including another first edition press of Ready To Die which only had nine songs on it instead of the actual 17) to a pal for a couple hundred bucks which I probably spent on more shoes, weed, smokes and Polo. Oh well, the things you wish you still had from your past. Off the album Endtroducing here’s Midnight in a Perfect World by one very talented individual DJ Shadow.

Stomping Grounds

Matt King once sent me a couple of pairs of these when I was gettin DVS. They were gully as fuck but yet another shoe that I found near impossible to skate in. Gutted yet again. The black/red colourway was especially nice. This is the DVS Mercer.