Look deep inside the skate scene and you'll find certain individuals that know every trick that's gone down, on every single skate-able spot, in most Canadian cities. This column highlights those individuals-they can tell you what went down in the videos and the magazines because they were there doing it or watching it. I'm talking about the people that, just by listening to them, you can learn what's really happening out in the streets. Enter the Run It Back spot check.

For the first installment of Run it Back, we met up with Ryan Bonnell in Vancouver. This month were talking with one of his close childhood friends, Morgan Smith from Toronto. (Here's an interesting fact: Morgan and Ryan both got hooked up with their first sponsors through DBS Skate Supply, the shop they both rode for roughly seven years.) Born on the east coast of Canada, Morgan has been based in Unionville, Ontario for the majority of his life since then.  Although he spends most of the fall and winter months traveling the globe to continue skating year-round, his recent adventures have been focused on logging as much footage as possible for the long-awaited Blind video.

Morgan has been on the come-up for quite some time now, and with his sponsors consistently running ads of him in every major North American publication, its safe to say he knows a thing or two about what's happening in his own backyard. Do yourself a favor and put your finger on the scroll button to learn Morgan Smith's favorite Toronto skate spots.

Skydome 13
A massive 13-stair with multiple, big silver rails. Everyone usually skates the rails, but a couple tricks have gone down the set, which is pretty serious. The run up is endless and smooth, but slightly downhill and has a metal crack a couple feet before you hit the rail. The landing is interlocking brick, which can make tricks a little harder to roll away from. Getting kicked out here is weird; sometimes you can't even walk up to it and you're already kicked out, but sometimes you can skate for two hours and leave on your own. It's hit or miss, basically. There is still a lot to do on this rail; no one has kickflipped in or nollied in. I can see people doing some really crazy stuff in years to come. Anyone who comes to Toronto to visit will probably see this rail because it's right at the base of the CN Tower.

Jeff Folgman: He kickflipped it a few years ago in the winter, the footy was in a video from a local crew. He frontside flipped it more recently, which is pretty insane; the photo was a checkout in Concrete magazine, and the footy was on the Transworld site.

Phil McKnight: He did a backside lipslide and a switch frontside boardslide. Anything switch on this spot is really sick, but Phil did it pretty easily. The photo of the switch front board was in an SBC and the footy was in a Tort's Dreams video.

Dallas Ives: This guy is from Windsor but basically came to Toronto and just destroyed every spot. I think he did a switch lipslide on this rail twice. It didn't take him more then two tries each time he skated it. I heard he would skate the rail by himself some nights, which is pretty ruthless. The footy was in the Change video, which is a board company from Windsor he was riding for, and the photo was in SBC.

Honorable Mentions: Josh Kasper three-flipped it in two tries, like, 10 years ago.  Chad Fernandez nose blunted it a couple of summers ago.

5 and Sidewalk
A pretty perfect 5-stair to street; there is kind of a short run, but enough to clear it for sure. You land in a road where cars drive and sometimes park, so jumping down this spot is sometimes sketchy. If you're skating during business hours it's pointless and you'll get kicked out right away, but any other time it's no bust and you can skate as long as you want. I'm pretty sure everyone in Toronto has skated this spot, and every visitor has skated it as well. Most people just chill and meet up at this spot; no one really skates it anymore because everything has basically been done. It's hard to pick a handful of people that have done the gnar-est tricks, but I'll give it a shot.

Al Murray Lawson (a.k.a. "Needle "): This guy bigflipped it a couple years ago and it was so sick. I was downtown one day with my friends and we just saw him trying it so we went over and he just landed it. Everyone was so hyped. I still think that's one of the best tricks on it. The footy was in a local crew video; I'm not sure which one.

Simon Disher: Nollie backside heelflip. He did it in, like, four tries I heard, which is crazy. Everyone was so hyped. I think the photo was in an SBC check-out and the footy was in Environment.

Dave Lapchuck: This guy killed this thing, but no one even knows ‘cause none of the footy has ever been seen. He three-flipped it for a cover of Concrete, literally ten years ago, then over the years he's done switch backside flip, switch backside heel, and nollie backside flip, just to name a few. There was a photo of the switch backside heel in an old SBC interview, but that's about it. Most tricks were probably homey-cam and the footy got lost or something. I'm pretty sure Grant Patterson filmed the switch backside heel. Lapchuck is basically a legend and now he lives in the forest up north and fishes all day, but could still come down on any given day and drop hammers.

Brown School Hubba
This is a Massive hubba at a school just a little north of the downtown core. I think it's an 11-stair or something, and you can skate it frontside and backside. The run up is alright, but there is a crack right when you pop, and the ground you land on is pretty rough. The actual hubba is pretty damn big and steep; anyone who skates this thing definitely knows what they're doing. It's at a school, so weekends or after 6 PM is when you've got to go skate it.

Galiea Momolu: He did a switch frontside 180 5-0. So insane, plus he did it in a line with a fakie tre, and I heard he did it a bunch of times. Basically the most insane trick at the gnarliest spot ever. The footy was in his part in Digital.

Dan Bochart: I think this guy was the first to skate it, but I could be wrong. He noseslid it and backside 5-0'ed it. He did the backside 5-0 twice; once for a still photo and then again for a sequence, which is pretty sick. The side he skated has the massive death drop on the other side. The photos were in an old SBC interview he had.

Paul Machnau: He's done a couple tricks, but the ollie over to noseblunt is pretty intense. Basically you have to fully commit to the trick or just eat ***. I don't know for sure, but he probably did it quick and easy. The photo? I'm not sure where it would be; might be in a Thrasher or an SBC. The footy might be in a Darkstar promo.

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