Cool audio interview and 5 sequences with manual master Chris Roberts on Slap. I’m glad to hear they’re shooting to wrap up the new Chocolate video before the Mayan Calendar ends in 2012.

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Chris Roberts has made a place for himself from one of the most frustrating veins of skateboarding: manuals (and long grind tricks, too). Few have the ongoing patience for the often torturous task of getting all the elements of the modern manual trick to line up in order, but Chris has been quietly chipping away at them for years now, and always comes up with some good ones. We’ve got five recent manny creations from Chris plus a five minute talk on the finer points of what he does, so check them out.