Colder than a witch’s tit…

We stay at Robs for about an hour, and head west.

Conversation turns to Cattle’s full-length video project due for a December 2011 release: ‘DANG!’ “Everyone on the Wight Trash team has a very different skate presence, and get me really excited for the video possibilities that are now opening up for ‘DANG!’”

“DANG! will feature all team members and Mouly (who will have new and old school footage), and will also have a soundtrack and graphical influence from other long time Island friends. It’s going to be an Isle of Wight showcase, if you will, from every style of art, music and skating that our friends have to offer.”

“The Island scene is ridiculously good at the moment and each town has a myriad of rippers both old and new. DANG! is going to show this in our ‘Every Skater From Here’ section where I go from town to town and film at least 1 trick from every skater over here – and also get some lazy asked ex-skaters out of retirement and bully them into performing 1 trick for this extras section on the DVD. So watch out slackers, I’m coming for you! I thought it would be rad to get a snapshot of Island skate-life in the early part of the 21st Century.”

As we hit the coast road, we pull off into a car park that is literally falling into the sea. Due to being so exposed to the harshness of the English Channel, the South-side of the island is prone to massive erosion, and vast chunks of it disappear over the cliffs every year.

We notice that one of the railings, presumably there to stop cars and pedestrians from falling over the edge, has been bent at an inviting angle. Blake’s up for an impromptu jam and gets to work grinding and bumping (see previous double page). Thank Christ he’s a sick shredder and doesn’t need more than a couple of attempts to nail it – it’s colder than a witch’s tit up there.

Back in the welcome heat of the cars, we head to Freshwater Bay, and find a hesh little stairset – covered in slime and seaweed. The skies were still threatening to empty on our happy little group, so we got down to business.

Jaymie got the ‘shot of the day’ honours with an uber-clean frontside 180 down the set (next page), and Sean Dawson proceeded to line up some pub benches and ollie the rail into a sizeable drop.

[Opposite: Sean Dawson |  Ollie To Drop  |  Freshwater]

[Inset: Simon 'Tomsy' Toms trys to keep his head warm, Island-style]