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Figured it was about time I made the first post on the page something other than a giant inflatable vagina. Plus, when I saw Brandon Westgate’s Emerica part promoting his new shoe that came out earlier this year, hot on the heels of his (dare we say it) epic showing in Stay Gold, pop up on Boil The Ocean’s top video parts of 2011 countdown, I was spurred into action. And run-on sentences, apparently. Anyway, I was surprised to see I hadn’t posted this when it came out, and it really is a hell of a part, particularly if you like relatively fearless attacks on sketchy-at-best downhill terrain — and who doesn’t? Watch it if you haven’t before, watch it again if it’s been a while.

That kickflip over the bar isn’t merely best-of-2011 material, that thing’s best-of-all-time material. Holy tweak.

I don’t know if Brandon Westgate looks like Grant Taylor, or if Grant Taylor looks like Brandon Westgate, or if those two things are actually the same thing. But one thing is for certain — they both share a nearly autistic ability to hurl themselves at horrifying obstacles with great speed. My guess is they’re robots. Or maybe clones. Or even, like, genetically engineered twins or something.