So anyways, on to Daewon's part. I am unsure how well his part has been watched just yet, since it was released in the wee-hours of the American morning and I and many others were unaware of it's release either until a/ message boards blew up or b/ I spread the news via facebook. But with this video part, Daewon becomes the undisputed champion of the switch crook with no holds barred, skipping down steps with the grind and tossing fakie tre flips out of such ludicrous lock-ins as nollie halfcab crookers. Not to mention fakie biggerflipping out of one on a flat ledge. Daewon has also upped the tech-tranny ante, fluidly executing a shoulder twister of a front shuv blunt variation with seemingly impossible tre flip feeble fakies and double flip boardslides, all the while busting out famous Cheese and Crackers ender kickflip front nosegrind switch, minus the Haslam and questionable back truck tap. And dare I even mention fs flip fakie 5-0. The blunt-to-blunt-to-blunt fakie around the pool coping hip from the DVS ads makes an appearance, along with numbing manny combinations, some risky ledge simples over a nasty drop, skinny full pipe flippery and a bizarre tre flip wallride on a metal ridged door fairly recently frontside wallridden. So let's review what Daewon has become undisputed master of, in my mind:
-Switch crooks
-fakie mannies
-popping to fakie on transition
-technical transition, both stalls and slides (blunt bigspin back noseblunt??)
-fakie tres
-tre flip fakies
Although I'd gander he was the champion of tre fakies and popping to fakie before hand, and even fakie manny considering his gravity defying ender in Skate More, this part cements those facts, and adds switch crooks and the ability to fakie tre into the mix without doubt.
Not sure how long this link will be up, and I hate putting up non-permanent links, but fuck it. And fuck you, Berra. I didn't upload this, I'm just posting it.
New Year's Dae from You're Welcome on Vimeo.
Also on the video front are severable notable and overwhelming drops from the past week, including Ed Selego's MIA skateshop video which I have yet to fully view, and Red Star Skateboards premiere of an online two-part project entitled Starcast, featuring Paul Machnau and Grant Patterson. Flying the Darkstar coop and the Blind camp respectively, these guys have seemingly left growing obscurity on a chance at possibly greater obscurity on a Canadian board brand. But with Machnau's part popping up online yesterday, perhaps the gamble is a good one, particularly for Grant Patterson's much neglected ability to huck nollie flips into anything, including boardslide on steep handrails, and toss late flips years before P-Rod's recent developments.
Machnau, specifically, strikes my interest. Popping up sparsely in United by Fate episodes, I cannot recall a proper Machnau part since the days of FSU and Battalion, and both those appearances were particularly ugly. Shredding rails beyond comprehension in those days, rivaled mostly only by Duffy's former works and Mumford's Opinion part, Machnau was stuck in the times with the bent forwards facing snap back, walmart carpenter jeans, and some ugly lanky style. But this little diddy from Red Star shows Machnau in full-shred mode, fore-going the cap in many clips, while spinning it backwards in others. He lands everything comfortably, and is a pleasure to watch, switch backside flipping that popular street gap that MJ busted up his face nollie back heeling, lipsliding the double kink that last I saw, Gallant was only 50-50ing (if it's the right rail.... Gallant's may have been shorter), and noseblunting the steepest handrail I've yet to see that maneuver go down on. Surprisingly the noseblunt wasn't his ender. But either way, watch this classically forgotten and usually semi-boring switch bs flipper/handrail master shred his way back into my memory with textbook perfect executions of some manly and modern grinds, along with some decidedly still-untouchable sized handrails sprinkled in for good measure.
As for MIA, I've watched Ed Selego's part and most of Ben Gore's, both guys I enjoy thoroughly. It's comforting to see Ed's Adio-clad toes hopping around through bank nosegrinds and nollie halfcabs again, although it's odd to see a couple clips clad in Nike's. Ben Gore has perfect executions of flip tricks and lots of popping over shit like trashcans and lightposts. But more on all that later.
Also I know I'm very behind on this, but it's worth mentioning that the Mystery online video, Color Theory, is agonizingly good. Tom Asta's part is too short, and that new guy, Sascha Daley, is a bit boring, but gets absolutely gnarly in the last half. Watch out for a big fifty pop out over a gap, a Quintuple set ollie, and a big ass triple set banger.
The 'agonizingly good' portion of the vid, aside from the handful of goodies from Daley's part, comes from a guy I'm beginning to think is featured too frequently on here. Skate-enigma Jimmy Carlin.
Carlin's best part to date, although somewhat lacking the Carlin-craziness that Men Without Hats' "Safety Dance" added to his Feed the Need part. We get trademark Carlin tricks, such as the fakie bigspin inward heel, along with a boss of a Chetty Thomas and a fakie hardflip down a respected gap, which is probably the hat-trick of the video to my mind. Also watch out for a surprising use of the fakie laser flip, along with a pension for fakie flip tricks, doing one particular ledge combo you rarely even see done nollie. Front heels, big hardflips, interesting ledge performances, a sugarcane 270 shuv, and a particularly difficult and exceedingly rare ending clip round out a part that's pretty much non-stop enjoyable, with only one clip of filler that comes to my mind, which is the nollie heel noseslide/fs flip nosegrind clip. Very very good watch indeed.
So I'm strongly backing Mystery's incorporation of color, obviously. The new Virginia graphic is sick too. Stay tuned for more on the MIA video later this week, and whatever the fuck else pops up as well.
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