Sooooooo as some/all/none of you may know, last thursday I was robbed at gunpoint by two faggot-ass thugs in the ghetto while on delivery runs. One of them was angry enough that I only had a $500 phone, $20 bucks in cash and three food items that he even went as far as to cock the hammer on his piece and tell me it was coming on the count of three. Now, naturally, I'm no longer at that job and amongst picking up the pieces of that night and working on finishing up the Culpeper DVD entitled "Rough", I haven't had any time whatsoever to post. I could ramble about all the things that have distracted me, but you now know the main reasons so I'm assuming no one else cares past that point. In fact, probably all shreds of caring ceased to exist when I stopped posting two weeks ago.
So.
Back to bidness.
I'll have a legit post up later about the new Brent Atchley clip and a somewhat startling ad in Transworld that I have yet to decide my feelings about. But for now, since I'm craving a chicken wrap from 7-Eleven, this piece of park play will have to do. These clips have been laying around for anywhere between forever and last week, so those of you who I bullshitted by squatting on this stuff, my apologies. This is what happens when I stop park filming, I guess.
Take note: Londen's late shuv was first try.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Vamdalism = 100% Gustavo
So, while there are about 10 different posts I'd like to make, I'm still short on time working on finishing up filming for the ROUGH video. But, upon reading BTO today, I became aware of the Plan B am video, Vamdalism.
Feast your corneas:
Scott Decenzo, as BTO mentioned, is indeed boring. While gnarly, I only really enjoyed his switch front feeble, opening front nose 270 shuv, switch heel back tail shuv line, switch back tail shuv on the bank, back feebs back 180, and front board to hurricane. Of all those tricks, only the opening noseslide, feeble 180, and front board hurricane struck me on the first watch. The boy looks awkward no matter which stance he's in, so stance recognition was much harder for me. Not to mention, I'm sick and FUCKING tired of seeing people switch back tail that long concrete rail. I've seen it in parts three times now. Seeing an ABD a second time is annoying, but not so bad. But to see it a third time, in a Plan B publication? Completely unacceptable. Plus, once Felipe Gustavo comes on, you literally have to rewatch Decenzo, S.'s part to even remember it happened.
Gustavo is a young, more interesting P.Rod. It's just a fact. The technicality in his part had me dropping my jaw and spilling my beer. Nollie hardflip noseslide bigspin, fakie hardflip tailslide, noseslide, tre flip nosegrind reverts in lines with kickflip nosegrind back 1's on picnic tables, nollie front noseslide 270 shuvs on the belmont rail in lines after a perfectly swerved bigspin up the three..... Felipe seriously chooses the absolute hardest ledge tricks in skateboarding and lines them like they're nothing. Perhaps the master of the kickflip crook AND nollie flip crook, his part left me craving for a full video part on DVD so I could rewind over and over. Also, I like how he took the ABD switch back tail and fucked it over with a beautiful switch flip into it. Take that, Decenzo.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention. Hardflip back tail on a handrail? Oh, wow. Just wow.
Feast your corneas:
Scott Decenzo, as BTO mentioned, is indeed boring. While gnarly, I only really enjoyed his switch front feeble, opening front nose 270 shuv, switch heel back tail shuv line, switch back tail shuv on the bank, back feebs back 180, and front board to hurricane. Of all those tricks, only the opening noseslide, feeble 180, and front board hurricane struck me on the first watch. The boy looks awkward no matter which stance he's in, so stance recognition was much harder for me. Not to mention, I'm sick and FUCKING tired of seeing people switch back tail that long concrete rail. I've seen it in parts three times now. Seeing an ABD a second time is annoying, but not so bad. But to see it a third time, in a Plan B publication? Completely unacceptable. Plus, once Felipe Gustavo comes on, you literally have to rewatch Decenzo, S.'s part to even remember it happened.
Gustavo is a young, more interesting P.Rod. It's just a fact. The technicality in his part had me dropping my jaw and spilling my beer. Nollie hardflip noseslide bigspin, fakie hardflip tailslide, noseslide, tre flip nosegrind reverts in lines with kickflip nosegrind back 1's on picnic tables, nollie front noseslide 270 shuvs on the belmont rail in lines after a perfectly swerved bigspin up the three..... Felipe seriously chooses the absolute hardest ledge tricks in skateboarding and lines them like they're nothing. Perhaps the master of the kickflip crook AND nollie flip crook, his part left me craving for a full video part on DVD so I could rewind over and over. Also, I like how he took the ABD switch back tail and fucked it over with a beautiful switch flip into it. Take that, Decenzo.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention. Hardflip back tail on a handrail? Oh, wow. Just wow.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Eminem
I know it's unrelated and generally mainstream of me, but listening to Eminem's last three singles defines him as a pure motherfucker. There is no other word. An emotional yet truly expressive individual taunting the entire American public doesn't come along often. His indifference towards the limits of decency are appalling and awe-inspiring at the same time.
As far as pure motherfuckers go, observe Darren Harper:
A local hip-hop track and footage of pure hood, his obese pop and pure "I-don't-give-a-fuck-but-to-make-it-rain" style is refreshing. Not the usual steeze I'm into, but the pure offensiveness and brute beauty of it makes it something remarkable.
May I say, Darren Harper is probably the only magazine-mentioned skater I'm genuinely afraid of.
As far as pure motherfuckers go, observe Darren Harper:
A local hip-hop track and footage of pure hood, his obese pop and pure "I-don't-give-a-fuck-but-to-make-it-rain" style is refreshing. Not the usual steeze I'm into, but the pure offensiveness and brute beauty of it makes it something remarkable.
May I say, Darren Harper is probably the only magazine-mentioned skater I'm genuinely afraid of.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
DC on the mind
Usually if I'm down on skating or have a bit of a regressive period I like to sit down and watch Shaun Gregoire and Randy Ploesser's parts from Birdhouse's "The Beginning". So I was gonna post both their parts for lack of time for a true update, but when youtubing Gregoire's part, I stumbled across some Washington DC footage that I had not seen.
The aforementioned Birdhouse part:
There's alot to love about this part. The candycane bank was a steep bastard, and he front 3 bigspinned it. Wallie Church is also steep, and mad thin. Note the front blunt. Georgetown Quarterpipes...... well, there's a slew of things wrong with those, and he chooses nollie bigspin nosepivot 270 as a trick on it. Easily the techiest trick I've yet to see on that thing. The bent pole is gnarly, the nollie heel bank is sketchy and ghetto, the Gold Rail and Welfare easy busts..... So much about Gregoire's spots and trick selection make his footage appealing. I'd be willing to call him the master of DC skateboarding in the present without a doubt. With a unique style that really doesn't seem industry correct, I'm sure some out there would disagree. But anyways, fuck them.
This part is the first I stumbled upon after looking up his birdhouse part. Much of it seems to be throwaway from his birdhouse part. The nollie into the sketchy bank, the smith on the bent pole, and the smith on the bank to dock ledge. There's other stuff that I can't justify as throwaway for any reason. Ollie up courthouse, backside flip down? The nosemanny shuv line at wallie church? The tre flip front crook stall on white walls? Damn.
Some of the footage in this old Bradley Rosado compilation has some ridiculous clips on some of the city's more famous spots. Weitzel switch big heels the courthouse four and noseblunts down Red Rail, Jack Curtin shuv nosegrind reverts off the Freedom ledge, Gregoire's effortless blunt flip on Georgetown QPs (which I'm probably gonna make a whole post about later), his varial flip and nollie heel down the pit, and the kickflip front board line at Gold Rail.. Another thing I like about this montage is the quality of footage and the presence of most of the names I know of from up there and elsewhere on the underground East Coast. Two good Pete Broderick clips, Daniel Kim footage, Jack Curtin, Jimmy Macdonald, Zach Lyons, Gregoire, Billy Roper, and Alex Hanson. Hanson in particular has a knack for interesting tricks, such as the back smith pop to rock fakie on Georgetown, the tremendous switch ollie, and the ride-on switch fifty big heel. Oh, I wonder if Weitzel thinks he's doing hardflips? Because he's not.
Lastly, the oldest clip I came across, from the first Static.
John Igei is undoubtedly a monster. The switch hardflip down the white steps is really something I can't understand. How people line that spot is completely remarkable. The murder of Freedom Plaza even in that era in the form of nollie front noseslides and nollie front heel tailslides is in a league all it's own. Skating these spots like we did last weekend and then looking at years old footage like this has my respect for DC skaters at an all time high. Regardless of the year, those guys have been there pushing the limits on federal buildings, rounded marble ledges, ghetto concrete, and all kinds of odd findings (note the out-of-fountain kickflip, Bloomer's mailbox wallie front 180, and all footage of the pigeon bowl). In my opinion, DC footage is probably the most interesting footage of any particular metro area to watch, due to it's unmistakable nature, it's architecture, styles, and closeness. DC is wack as fuck, but it's one of the sickest scenes on the East Coast aside from the little manual wankers at the Archives.
The aforementioned Birdhouse part:
There's alot to love about this part. The candycane bank was a steep bastard, and he front 3 bigspinned it. Wallie Church is also steep, and mad thin. Note the front blunt. Georgetown Quarterpipes...... well, there's a slew of things wrong with those, and he chooses nollie bigspin nosepivot 270 as a trick on it. Easily the techiest trick I've yet to see on that thing. The bent pole is gnarly, the nollie heel bank is sketchy and ghetto, the Gold Rail and Welfare easy busts..... So much about Gregoire's spots and trick selection make his footage appealing. I'd be willing to call him the master of DC skateboarding in the present without a doubt. With a unique style that really doesn't seem industry correct, I'm sure some out there would disagree. But anyways, fuck them.
This part is the first I stumbled upon after looking up his birdhouse part. Much of it seems to be throwaway from his birdhouse part. The nollie into the sketchy bank, the smith on the bent pole, and the smith on the bank to dock ledge. There's other stuff that I can't justify as throwaway for any reason. Ollie up courthouse, backside flip down? The nosemanny shuv line at wallie church? The tre flip front crook stall on white walls? Damn.
Some of the footage in this old Bradley Rosado compilation has some ridiculous clips on some of the city's more famous spots. Weitzel switch big heels the courthouse four and noseblunts down Red Rail, Jack Curtin shuv nosegrind reverts off the Freedom ledge, Gregoire's effortless blunt flip on Georgetown QPs (which I'm probably gonna make a whole post about later), his varial flip and nollie heel down the pit, and the kickflip front board line at Gold Rail.. Another thing I like about this montage is the quality of footage and the presence of most of the names I know of from up there and elsewhere on the underground East Coast. Two good Pete Broderick clips, Daniel Kim footage, Jack Curtin, Jimmy Macdonald, Zach Lyons, Gregoire, Billy Roper, and Alex Hanson. Hanson in particular has a knack for interesting tricks, such as the back smith pop to rock fakie on Georgetown, the tremendous switch ollie, and the ride-on switch fifty big heel. Oh, I wonder if Weitzel thinks he's doing hardflips? Because he's not.
Lastly, the oldest clip I came across, from the first Static.
John Igei is undoubtedly a monster. The switch hardflip down the white steps is really something I can't understand. How people line that spot is completely remarkable. The murder of Freedom Plaza even in that era in the form of nollie front noseslides and nollie front heel tailslides is in a league all it's own. Skating these spots like we did last weekend and then looking at years old footage like this has my respect for DC skaters at an all time high. Regardless of the year, those guys have been there pushing the limits on federal buildings, rounded marble ledges, ghetto concrete, and all kinds of odd findings (note the out-of-fountain kickflip, Bloomer's mailbox wallie front 180, and all footage of the pigeon bowl). In my opinion, DC footage is probably the most interesting footage of any particular metro area to watch, due to it's unmistakable nature, it's architecture, styles, and closeness. DC is wack as fuck, but it's one of the sickest scenes on the East Coast aside from the little manual wankers at the Archives.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Sole = Trio
Since the apparent folding of Element's footwear series (thank God), three parts from their would be video entitled 'Sole' have been released online in a trilogy. The featured skaters being Chad Tim Tim, Levi Brown, and Darrell Stanton.
It appears that father Tim Tim, back from injury finally and fresh off an interview in last months Transworld, is back in the saddle in terms of his career. Fitting in nicely with the ledge trends as of late, he hurdles proper switch backside flips and switch back smiths along with a slew of switch back lip and back tail variations going a damn decent speed and making everything look easy. I was not originally a fan of Chad, or others like him which were just too natural on the board (ex, Danny Garcia). But after watching his Time To Shine part multiple times and seeing his berrics footage, I came around. Check out the back lip to sugarcane on the up ledge, and the fakie boardslide 270, which was a brilliantly chosen trick for that spot. Also, he does some hucking in this section. Refreshing.
His ender doesn't really feel like an ender, but thinking about it more and more that shit would have been incredibly hard to pull off. OH, and beware, his intro is way longer than it needs to be. There seems to be a trend with phones in this internet offering, also. Strange to say the least. Does Apple have an advertising agreement with Element?
The second part of the trilogy is Levi Brown's part. The first thing I noticed is his Toyota Tundra, and wondered as to why my girlfriend didn't hunt down this part before me. On that note, there was about zero industry buzz about this release, which surprised me a bit. Hence why I'm almost a month and a half late finding it. Perhaps it was overshadowed by the Plan B partnership news. Anyways, Levi also has a long intro, and he does Chad Tim Tim's ender frontside. The first 50 seconds of his part feels kinda funny, like it's not really his best efforts. However, he displays a startling degree of variety, and once you get to the wallie to hill bomb, the rest is a GRADE A part. Levi seems to be one of the masters of snap on his flip tricks, and his wall frontside flip and massive wall kickflip coupled with his smith flip (one of the best I've seen) and his absolutely crisp fakie tre before his water adventure ender all add evidence to my theory. Sometimes he flicks so fast I can't even see the flick on this laggy internet connection.
Oh, and watch out for a guest skater by the name of Jesse Plumb who rears his head in a couple clips. Should be obvious which ones. Final note on Levi's part: Gap to picnic table noseblunt.
Now, I was gonna toss some hate on Darrell's part because his opening ledge combos really are not very appealing, other than the back lip to back bluntslide. However, early in his part there's a steep wallride bluntslide front 180 which caught my attention, and as my hopes for some Stanton Spinning grew, he nollie cabbed that massive sixteen or whatever it is that he cannonball back 180'd and backside nollie'd several years ago. There's too much high impact insanity to mention here, so I'll highlight his ledge massacre (front feebs, back 180 nosegrind, front blunt), his front tail 270 big drop (which blows everything else done on that ledge out of the water), his epicly filmed ditch gap inward heel, the appearance of the rare switch bigspin and switch bigflip down sets, the fifty back 3 (great spot use)... see? Too much. The long lens angle on his ender, if you've heard that lame mainstream song where they say 'oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh, my, god' unfortunately cropped into my head when he landed.
Solid internet video, save for the long intro in each part, the iphone appearances, and some bummer ABD's in the form of Tim Tim's flyout switch flip that served as Rodrigo TX's ender in the LRG vid (and no offense but Rodrigo is a bit more of a powerhouse than Tim Tim, so again WHY was that his banger? I even liked Chad's more) and Darrell's nollie tre into the steep sidewalk bank. But I loved the aforementioned skaters rock tricks, both the nollie cab and the tre which appeared in Tim Tim's interview, and although Tim Tim's part seemed like the most uniform and interesting throughout, both Levi and Stanton got fucking down in their parts. Pretty stunning, now I just need to watch them with the music up and outside of a library. Peep all three parts. Not a perfect video, but it makes me wonder what Sole would have been like. And this was free, and had some hefty clips in it. Up yours, Berrics?
Unforunately or fortunately depending on who you are, my computer charger got Dog-raped so I have no home computer for several days. I probably won't update again til the weekend. I've got a list of things to post about though, so don't worry or worry depending on who you are, there'll be more bullshit to read in the coming week.
It appears that father Tim Tim, back from injury finally and fresh off an interview in last months Transworld, is back in the saddle in terms of his career. Fitting in nicely with the ledge trends as of late, he hurdles proper switch backside flips and switch back smiths along with a slew of switch back lip and back tail variations going a damn decent speed and making everything look easy. I was not originally a fan of Chad, or others like him which were just too natural on the board (ex, Danny Garcia). But after watching his Time To Shine part multiple times and seeing his berrics footage, I came around. Check out the back lip to sugarcane on the up ledge, and the fakie boardslide 270, which was a brilliantly chosen trick for that spot. Also, he does some hucking in this section. Refreshing.
His ender doesn't really feel like an ender, but thinking about it more and more that shit would have been incredibly hard to pull off. OH, and beware, his intro is way longer than it needs to be. There seems to be a trend with phones in this internet offering, also. Strange to say the least. Does Apple have an advertising agreement with Element?
The second part of the trilogy is Levi Brown's part. The first thing I noticed is his Toyota Tundra, and wondered as to why my girlfriend didn't hunt down this part before me. On that note, there was about zero industry buzz about this release, which surprised me a bit. Hence why I'm almost a month and a half late finding it. Perhaps it was overshadowed by the Plan B partnership news. Anyways, Levi also has a long intro, and he does Chad Tim Tim's ender frontside. The first 50 seconds of his part feels kinda funny, like it's not really his best efforts. However, he displays a startling degree of variety, and once you get to the wallie to hill bomb, the rest is a GRADE A part. Levi seems to be one of the masters of snap on his flip tricks, and his wall frontside flip and massive wall kickflip coupled with his smith flip (one of the best I've seen) and his absolutely crisp fakie tre before his water adventure ender all add evidence to my theory. Sometimes he flicks so fast I can't even see the flick on this laggy internet connection.
Oh, and watch out for a guest skater by the name of Jesse Plumb who rears his head in a couple clips. Should be obvious which ones. Final note on Levi's part: Gap to picnic table noseblunt.
Now, I was gonna toss some hate on Darrell's part because his opening ledge combos really are not very appealing, other than the back lip to back bluntslide. However, early in his part there's a steep wallride bluntslide front 180 which caught my attention, and as my hopes for some Stanton Spinning grew, he nollie cabbed that massive sixteen or whatever it is that he cannonball back 180'd and backside nollie'd several years ago. There's too much high impact insanity to mention here, so I'll highlight his ledge massacre (front feebs, back 180 nosegrind, front blunt), his front tail 270 big drop (which blows everything else done on that ledge out of the water), his epicly filmed ditch gap inward heel, the appearance of the rare switch bigspin and switch bigflip down sets, the fifty back 3 (great spot use)... see? Too much. The long lens angle on his ender, if you've heard that lame mainstream song where they say 'oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh, my, god' unfortunately cropped into my head when he landed.
Solid internet video, save for the long intro in each part, the iphone appearances, and some bummer ABD's in the form of Tim Tim's flyout switch flip that served as Rodrigo TX's ender in the LRG vid (and no offense but Rodrigo is a bit more of a powerhouse than Tim Tim, so again WHY was that his banger? I even liked Chad's more) and Darrell's nollie tre into the steep sidewalk bank. But I loved the aforementioned skaters rock tricks, both the nollie cab and the tre which appeared in Tim Tim's interview, and although Tim Tim's part seemed like the most uniform and interesting throughout, both Levi and Stanton got fucking down in their parts. Pretty stunning, now I just need to watch them with the music up and outside of a library. Peep all three parts. Not a perfect video, but it makes me wonder what Sole would have been like. And this was free, and had some hefty clips in it. Up yours, Berrics?
Unforunately or fortunately depending on who you are, my computer charger got Dog-raped so I have no home computer for several days. I probably won't update again til the weekend. I've got a list of things to post about though, so don't worry or worry depending on who you are, there'll be more bullshit to read in the coming week.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Watching some people... it never getz old
Gnarly:
Front Boards
Front Lips
Ollies
Front 180s
Back 180s
Kickflips
Heelflips
Fakie Ollies
Fakie Frontside halfcabs
Frontside Flips
Frontside 360s
Fakie flips
Switch Flips
Back Heels
Backside Flips
Nollie Flips
Fakie Fs Flips
Double Flips
Tre Flips
Well used:
Front heels
Halfcab Crooks/nose variations
Fakie Front Heels
Kickflip nose mannys
Kickflip mannys
Nollie heel nose mannys
You can pretty much sum up every single Kerry Getz part along those lines. Interesting how an arsenal pretty much consisting of 25 go-to tricks can last you more than 10 years worth of video parts. 14 years, actually, unless my math is wrong. Which it may be, because math sucks. In fact, I'm not even entirely sure it's 25 tricks exactly, I counted that list pretty quickly. Anyways, the first Getz part I ever saw was his dinkling in Toy Machine's "Jump Off A Building." I went through the trouble of looking up links to each of his video parts that I'm aware of, including his park segment from the aforementioned Toy vid and his Berrics Battle Commander, which offered probably the most diversity out of any of his videos thus far. However, something about how he puts his feet, how he lands, the way each trick is done.... it doesn't get old for me. Watch the quickness in his "Inhabitants" mini ramp intro, and the technicality. Couple that with the gnarly factor in that same part and also in "Skate More", and consider how old he's getting to be doing that kind of shit. Notably, the massive stair hop he hauls ass for, reminiscent of his LOVE fountain front 180 line. Anyways, onto the videos:
Jump Off A Building:
His first full part, this is where we first see his double flip obsession begin. Note the FS Flip down the bush gap, which, if any of you remember that video well enough, Elissa Steamer ollied in her part, and bailed a kickflip on. Why is she pro, again? Lets not forget his monster LOVE fountain kickflip at the end, which was a statement in and of itself at the time.
Jump Off A Building Park Segment:
One of his most diverse videos, and it's all park. Full cab heels, and the beautiful kickflip late shuv at the end that baffled me for years. I think he was made to skate transition, really.
Photosynthesis:
I don't know if this really counts as a part per se, but his fs flip melon always was worth a look. One of the better Habitat parts from that video for sure.
Mosaic:
One of my favorite parts of his, and I feel like one of the only ones he has actually gone out of his way to try for. The Philly footage is classic, the Barcelona clips, the ending lipslide.... not to mention the editing. Also, his roll in to back 180 and roll in to kickflip in this part are notable since he went back and heelflipped that same spot in Inhabitants, which is one of my favorite clips of his and one of my favorite heelflips ever caught on film.
Inhabitants:
My favorite for sure. The mini ramp stuff, the tweak on the opening nosepick, the flyout tre (not to be repetitive, but also one of my favorite tre flips I've ever seen.)..... so much to love. Good song too. Whole video was great, but this part and Fred Gall's were standouts.
Skate More:
While I don't like the opening anger segment, even though I'm aware of his temper, I love the casual opening line and the song, and the big stair ollie like I said. This is the part where he double flips over a handrail frontside. Damn. This is also the part with his big stoney 5050, the always slightly leaned front 360s, and the barcelona fakie fs flip.
Battle Commander:
Although in terms of tech he's not quite with the times, his double heel, double bs flips, and triple flip up the euro all show some work on Mr. Getz's skills. Very admirable and surprising little showing, the most variety he's displayed since..... his last park clip.
Front Boards
Front Lips
Ollies
Front 180s
Back 180s
Kickflips
Heelflips
Fakie Ollies
Fakie Frontside halfcabs
Frontside Flips
Frontside 360s
Fakie flips
Switch Flips
Back Heels
Backside Flips
Nollie Flips
Fakie Fs Flips
Double Flips
Tre Flips
Well used:
Front heels
Halfcab Crooks/nose variations
Fakie Front Heels
Kickflip nose mannys
Kickflip mannys
Nollie heel nose mannys
You can pretty much sum up every single Kerry Getz part along those lines. Interesting how an arsenal pretty much consisting of 25 go-to tricks can last you more than 10 years worth of video parts. 14 years, actually, unless my math is wrong. Which it may be, because math sucks. In fact, I'm not even entirely sure it's 25 tricks exactly, I counted that list pretty quickly. Anyways, the first Getz part I ever saw was his dinkling in Toy Machine's "Jump Off A Building." I went through the trouble of looking up links to each of his video parts that I'm aware of, including his park segment from the aforementioned Toy vid and his Berrics Battle Commander, which offered probably the most diversity out of any of his videos thus far. However, something about how he puts his feet, how he lands, the way each trick is done.... it doesn't get old for me. Watch the quickness in his "Inhabitants" mini ramp intro, and the technicality. Couple that with the gnarly factor in that same part and also in "Skate More", and consider how old he's getting to be doing that kind of shit. Notably, the massive stair hop he hauls ass for, reminiscent of his LOVE fountain front 180 line. Anyways, onto the videos:
Jump Off A Building:
His first full part, this is where we first see his double flip obsession begin. Note the FS Flip down the bush gap, which, if any of you remember that video well enough, Elissa Steamer ollied in her part, and bailed a kickflip on. Why is she pro, again? Lets not forget his monster LOVE fountain kickflip at the end, which was a statement in and of itself at the time.
Jump Off A Building Park Segment:
One of his most diverse videos, and it's all park. Full cab heels, and the beautiful kickflip late shuv at the end that baffled me for years. I think he was made to skate transition, really.
Photosynthesis:
I don't know if this really counts as a part per se, but his fs flip melon always was worth a look. One of the better Habitat parts from that video for sure.
Mosaic:
One of my favorite parts of his, and I feel like one of the only ones he has actually gone out of his way to try for. The Philly footage is classic, the Barcelona clips, the ending lipslide.... not to mention the editing. Also, his roll in to back 180 and roll in to kickflip in this part are notable since he went back and heelflipped that same spot in Inhabitants, which is one of my favorite clips of his and one of my favorite heelflips ever caught on film.
Inhabitants:
My favorite for sure. The mini ramp stuff, the tweak on the opening nosepick, the flyout tre (not to be repetitive, but also one of my favorite tre flips I've ever seen.)..... so much to love. Good song too. Whole video was great, but this part and Fred Gall's were standouts.
Skate More:
While I don't like the opening anger segment, even though I'm aware of his temper, I love the casual opening line and the song, and the big stair ollie like I said. This is the part where he double flips over a handrail frontside. Damn. This is also the part with his big stoney 5050, the always slightly leaned front 360s, and the barcelona fakie fs flip.
Battle Commander:
Although in terms of tech he's not quite with the times, his double heel, double bs flips, and triple flip up the euro all show some work on Mr. Getz's skills. Very admirable and surprising little showing, the most variety he's displayed since..... his last park clip.
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