Skater Shawn from Ohio (@punks.sticks_) battles gravity, concrete, and his legs, to land his first kickflip. He had this to share about the haunting process, “every fail made me try again over and over again without end to the point where I was about to pass out from exhaustion”. Shawn also shared with Nexus that he “was hanging out with my friends all day and decided to skate in my garage when I got home, it started off as any other garage sesh until I tried landing a kickflip”. Our story has a happy ending as “After about 3 hours of nonstop kickflip attempts I can literally barely even balance on the board but I land the kickflip”. A monumental effort from the Ohioan homie, paid off with steez and a boned catch. As this event cannot be journalistically verified – where is the clip Shawn? – we suspect Shawn will ‘have a bad ankle’ when the time comes for him to kickflip in the SUB. Regarding the kickflip Shawn confided how he “lowk started crying tears of joy for a bit”. We assure you as readers, it would not of been tears of joy if he had a bad shinner. Keep skating Shawn and hopefully at least one reader laughed at “Ohio.”