A hill bomb is a maneuver in skateboarding in which a rider rides down a big hill. The trick is noted for its particular danger and, sometimes, grace. [1]
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A hill bomb is a maneuver in skateboarding in which a rider rides down a big hill. The trick is noted for its particular danger and, sometimes, grace. [1]
Thrasher magazine refers to hill bombing as "one of the first thrills ever on a skateboard." [1] Hill bombs are dangerous and should only be attempted by highly skilled skateboarders. [2] Sean Greene, Pablo Ramirez, Frank Gerwer, GX1000, and others have repopularized hill bombing in the mid- to late 2010s. [3] [4]
In the 1985 Powell Peralta Skate video Future Primitive, Tommy Guerrero skates down the hills of San Francisco, using the steep landscape of the city in ways previously unseen. [5] In the 1988 skate video Sick Boys, skaters, in particular Julien Stranger, skate down the steep streets of San Francisco. [6]
In Toy Machine's 1998 skate video—Jump Off A Building—Chris Senn's part contains a number of hill bombs. [7]
At the end of Jon Allie's part in the 2005 Zero skateboards video "New Blood," he does a frontside 180 kickflip to hill bomb. [8] In the 2005 DVS skate video Skate More Dennis Busenitz incorporates a number of hill bombs into his part. [9]
In 2010, Emerica released the skate video Stay Gold featuring a part by Brandon Westgate that contains a hill bomb down a drainage ditch. [10] In 2011, Magenta skateboards released SF Hill Street Blues filmed by Yoan Taillandier which features many San Francisco hill bombs. [11] In the 2011, Emerica released a video: Brandon Westgate: New Shoe, New Part which contains a number of hill bomb lines filmed in San Francisco. [12] The GX1000 videos are known to contain gnarly hill bombing, including the 2017: Adrenaline Junkie and the 2018 Roll Up and El Camino. [13] [14] [15] [16] In the 2019 Supreme video CANDYLAND - dedicated to Pablo Ramirez and directed by William Strobeck - a number of hill bombs are featured, including ones by Sean Greene, Jeff Carlyle, Rowan Zorilla, Matt Finley, Sean Pablo, Andrew Torralvo, Taylor Nida, and Elissa Steamer. [17] [18]
Due to its hilly nature, San Francisco, California, is known to be a particularly good city in which to bomb hills. [19]
In July in San Francisco, California, hundreds of skateboarders gather on Dolores Street across from Dolores Park for an impromptu hill bombing event. [20] [21] [22] The event has become an annual tradition. There have been some injuries and at least one death associated with the event. [23] [24] [25] The city attempted to stop the event from happening by installing Botts dots in 2020. [26] [27] However, skaters returned anyway in spite of those. [28]
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