Jacob Harris' Atlantic Drift epsiode 11 - TOM KNOX

Yet another incredible clip of Tom Knox! He's dropping video parts at the drop of a hat, making Lockdown 2.0 more bearable, and with this being the latest instalment of Jacob Harris' Atlantic Drift series, it was obvious it would be very, very good!

I've seen someone comparing to this edit to the feeling you get when you've just seen a certified classic film at the cinema, and you can't wait to get outside and discuss it with your friends.

Tom's street skating through London is a thing of beauty. He makes his skateboard seem a natural part of some quirky, sharp-angled and narrow pathways and alleyways that the non - skateboarder would never notice.

It seems a lot of skaters in the USA have been turned on to the nuances of British skating, in no small part thanks to the successs of the Atlantic Drift videos and a policy at Thrasher Magazine to shine some attention on the UK and other locations outside of America.

The cobbled streets, red phone boxes and crusty curbs (actually kerbs) of England now have an exotic appeal to US skaters. You can see most of the surfaces are covered in that green film of damp moss which seems to be down every back alley in London.

In fact, a lot of these spots remind me of the old banks, ledges, slabs of concrete and futuristic/brulatlist architecture I grew up skating in the South West, which have almost all gone now. Or knobbed to hell. I'm sure a huge proportion of those types of locales have also been demolished and replaced in London, but as it's so big compared to other cities in the UK, there's still enough of them to put out an incredible Tom Knox part avery now and again!