As most of you know a good friend of mine and to everyone skateboarding on the East Coast, Velocity, friends and family, and the online community, Derek Gertz passed away earlier this year. We had a good showing for him at a local park and Mark Raymond put together a sick montage of a lot of Derek Gertz Skateboarding footage. Hopefully the City of Bowie will let us leave a footprint of Gertz in the Bowie park since he was a resident and local ripper.

Until then we just have the video footage to look back on to remember a great skateboarder and cool cat. Skate Perception has posted a montage of the year 2007 in skateboarding and the beginning clip is a dedication to Derek Gertz. Much love for Skate Perception and the influence that they had on Gertz and that Gertz had on them.

Check out the montage and remember to stay ripping and having fun.