I witnessed this first hand and it was truly something amazing.
Pontus had tried to do this a couple times during the demo and couldn't quite manage it, but once it had settled down he went at it again.
A few of us were watching whilst sitting on the wall opposite and we helped with some cheers of encouragement.
It was only after about 30-ish tries I realised that Pontus might be trying to finish this because we were still watching in anticipation.
I felt pretty bad so I decided to take a couple of laps around the park to try and lessen the amount of on lookers. As I whipped round the bowl I realised the rest of the Polar team had stopped skating. They were pretty much done with being at Stockwell and were waiting on him to roll away. (After the gnarly 9 day Surf and Turf Tour I didn't blame them either)
A serious amount of energy, sweat and multiple tries later he done what you see in the clip, everyone was beyond stoked and high fives were had. Hjalte called him over and Pontus replied "Im chillin with this new friends!"
We later bummed into the team on the tube leaving Brixton. We had another chat with him for a couple of stops about board production and cheap labour. It was deep but pretty fucking eye opening to hear the real deal.
Over all everyone on the team was really sound and tore Stockwell a new one. That, plus Tommy G tabling a joint for Aaron Herrington and a couple of the SMBH dudes getting a new board, made for a day of epic endless stoke.
BIG UP PONTUS. BIG UP POLAR.
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