Daniele Galli - Skateboarding Therapy (2011)
Daniele Galli is not your average person since what you see here was his way to recover from a nasty...
Daniele Galli warmin' up #2
Skateboard Daniele Galli
City: Sondrio
Years of skateboarding: more than 10
Sponsors: bastard, Almost, Skullcandy, DC, Dakine
Favourite spot: Brasil!
Favourite riders: Daewon Song, Dan Drehobl, Jamie Thomas
Hhhmmm… What can i say about Danny… I think everybody knows he's a ripper. To me Daniele is pure progression. His consistency in reinventing his skate style, the passion he puts into skateboarding and everything around it are undeniable. Throughout the years i saw Danny progressing as a person, friend and skateboarder. Skateboarding is his life, Danny breaths skateboard at 110%!
About a year ago, while skating the bastard bowl, Daniele Galli got injured.
An average person would require physical therapy for the recovery process. He would there find physical therapists, nurses and advanced machinery to do the job.
We can safely say that Daniele Galli is not your average person since what you see here was his way to recover from a nasty injury.
Daniele Galli is one of the first lucky italians to be invited at the Barcelona DC Embassy, recently opened DC’s indoor private skatepark, and since it’s pouring rain in Barcelona these days, he’s been skating it non-stop. The official video and photos from the visit of the italian delegation will be published on the DC Embassy website. The photos will also be published in a feature article on the next issue of 6:00AM magazine.
Still curled up in my bed sheets i get up to the hubble-bubbling of the classic labour day demonstration marching beneath my window, followed by another group in which i glimpse a palestinian flag, but the language spoken over the speakers doesn’t help me and my neighbour in understanding what it is exactly about…
After snapping a picture of the demonstration, i jet to the Lambro where we gather for heading to the Polaresco bowl in Bergamo.
So we sail with Amen and the Giordano bros; we meet there with Galli, Cattaneo and Formenti, along with a few locals and Bergum.
We then go to the Creedence Skatepark in Castrezzato, near Brescia, where we see a big party going on, picnic tables and good food, kids playing in the open fields, flea market, and the sweet transitions built by Seba Rossi, Kendall & co.
The park is genuinely fun, and the guys are already working to expand; a really good vibe with a great party for labour day, topped off with the night concert, which unfortunately we could not attend.
Daniele Galli, during a physio session in his homeland, Valtellina. Very few know that frontside feeble grinds on elevator round bars are the best cure for recovering from a recent surgery with pins in your foot.
Unless you can get ahold of high grade kriptonite (and believe me it’s hard to find), it’s not easy to keep Danny away from skateboarding.
A nice interview with Daniele Galli just came out on the abriefglance front blog. Daniele tells us how he’s recovering from last winter’s injury, about his job at the Trinity Skatepark and unveals some plans for the future, all of this enriched by some nice flicks by Davide Biondani and topped off with this Danny and friends video part, that summarizes some of his 2010 skateboarding.
Danny, who’s a real superhero, has already been skating for a couple of months despite his surgery in November, and i’m pretty sure that summer 2011 will see him shred many sessions.
Daniele Galli is on the cover of issue no.5 of a brief glance with a bs smith grind on the Knodel bowl cradle. The good flick of Davide Biondani gives justice to the trick and motivates Danny in these very last few days of physical therapy, while he’s on his way to full recovery from his last injury.
On the other hand the weird (and dated) image on the cover shows Gargy, a.k.a. Alessandro Gargiullo, long time roman skater, in the big pants small wheels era, ak.a. the early 90s, at the famous EUR Palombini spot in Rome.
The leit motiv of this issue is infact an excerpt of Gargy’s memories and pictures, of which he decided to make a book on his twenty-more years of skateboarding.
Gargy tells us about the uncomfort and social akwardness of a young boy in the outskirts of Rome who chooses a slightly different route for entertaining himself. Then the realization that this diversity is a value that opens the door to a brand new world that carries along friends, an actual subculture and a real long term lifestyle.
A few days ago Daniele Galli got injured at bastard bowl while filming a line for his next videopart. The guy didn’t lose focus and he’s already looking forward to a full recovery for springtime. As he awaits for his cast to be removed, he takes some well deserved rest in Valtellina, his homeland.
Posted by : jep
