Perhaps you would go straight to the clip of ‘best bails’ and chuckle as he lands, time after time, on his scrawny backside, a sheepish grin on his face and another rip or two in his dirty, hanging crotch, beltless, jailhouse jeans. Perhaps, like me, you would be impressed, for it turns out he is quite good at skateboarding… He is the star of the group. I have been on YouTube and I have watched him performing his tricks (and failing to perform them) and I have marvelled. He does things that do not a first or even second glance look possible.
Sandy Balfour on Kieren in ‘What I Love About Cricket’ (2009)
I wonder to which tricks Mr. Balfour is referring to. Perhaps the 2nd half of Kieren’s NTB section, or the early stages of his Cloud part. Either way, he isn’t the first to laugh at some of Kieren’s fantastic bails in the NTB Bail section.
He has a name, but I won’t trouble you with it. You would only look him up on YouTube and what good what that do? It wouldn’t tell you anything. You would see him cutting up Parliament Square on his skateboard of performing a five-oh on the South Bank to the consternation of tourists and the delight of his equally floppy-haired, bedraggled-jeans, pimple-faced inarticulate mates.
Sandy Balfour on Kieren in ‘What I Love About Cricket’ (2009)
Credit to Mr. Balfour- Parliament square was a favourite of ours around that time, and Kieren did perform and film a 5-0 at South Bank. It seems a bit uncalled for to call us pimple-faced inarticulate mates though.
NLT August 2006
After about 3 years missing in action, all I seem to be updating the website with is Kieren-related skateboarding goodness.
Kieren English, FS Smith. Photo by Katie Smith.
Everyone’s favourite skateboarder Beaver shreds Lough park. Edit courtesy of Clark Diamond.
![A few years ago Kieren’s old girlfriend’s Dad wrote a book. About Kieren. It pretty much sums up how much he hated him and wished he would talk about anything else rather than skating. Of course, Kieren being Kieren could only talk about skating or banging his daughter, so he should’ve been grateful really.
Anyway, turns out NLT have a little mention in the book:
“Obviously I couldn’t [skateboard], but perhaps I could film him doing it? It turned out that he is quite good at skateboarding. Good enough for him and his mates to have a collective name and a modest following. He is the star of the group and he and his tricks deserved filming.”
That’s right we have a modest following. He could have plugged NLT in his book though. Anyway, the story goes; Kieren broke his ankle skateboarding so he quit and drove to Lord’s on the back of his girlfriend’s Dad’s scooter and became a cricket enthusiast.
What a load of bollocks, the real Kieren got a job in a warehouse and gets pissed all the time. Legend.
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A few years ago Kieren’s old girlfriend’s Dad wrote a book. About Kieren. It pretty much sums up how much he hated him and wished he would talk about anything else rather than skating. Of course, Kieren being Kieren could only talk about skating or banging his daughter, so he should’ve been grateful really.
Anyway, turns out NLT have a little mention in the book:
“Obviously I couldn’t [skateboard], but perhaps I could film him doing it? It turned out that he is quite good at skateboarding. Good enough for him and his mates to have a collective name and a modest following. He is the star of the group and he and his tricks deserved filming.”
That’s right we have a modest following. He could have plugged NLT in his book though. Anyway, the story goes; Kieren broke his ankle skateboarding so he quit and drove to Lord’s on the back of his girlfriend’s Dad’s scooter and became a cricket enthusiast.
What a load of bollocks, the real Kieren got a job in a warehouse and gets pissed all the time. Legend.
I fucking love filming with JMAC, he’s a killer! I ask him to do a chiller line, and he’ll do 10 no questions asked!
Check this shit, it’s dope!
Basi’s modeling career is really taking off…
