BUT
I got the bitch online finally.
If you don't care much, you can watch the whole video straight through right here. It's also downloadable, but then again it's a video I produced so who would want to download it?
And if you REALLY don't care, you can check out my youtube channel, which has the intro as the featured video so you get an idea of what you're in for, and you can furthermore watch each part one by one depending on your mood or tolerance.
and for a ditty of industry watchery, the most interesting clip I've watched this week is undoubtedly Raven Tershy. Usually I really don't like 180 fakie 5-0s on bank to ledges and small quarterpipes, but this one is nuts.
Also in other news, Shane O'Neil's throwaway/alternate angle clip that came out has the first REAL frontside salad I've ever seen in it. And notably, an unused switch back tail backside 270 flip out in it. Strange why this is throwaway if you ask me. If I had to guess, he's pulling an early Kenny Hoyle and not accepting the slightly-less-than-perfect landing.
The downside is that it's wayyy too long, and Nugget looks like a pudge lil target for bullies in the beginning.
Last, Josiah Gatlyn, aka boring boy, put out this clip of his uh, '2010' footage, which I'm guessing doesn't include whatever Stereo is sitting on? Is that where he still is?
I found only four of his clips to really be up to par with the hype that once surrounded him, those being the backside nollie/fakie double flip line, the really really long bigflip, the nosebonk/lazer flip clip, and the transition line, but that ones only on my list because of how good the blunt flip was and that he did try to do something different other than stairs. However, he's still got some gnarly stuff off that curved block stairset and his lazer flip and fakie tre down the double set is pretty beastly too. But again, as usual, there's a catch... so. little. trick. selection.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Valentine's Bonanza
In the midst of this gruesome holiday, I find myself just back from skating a damn flatbar only to realize my surprise dinner plans have been thwarted by my girlfriend who decided to visit her hometown today. Sweeeeeet. Anyways, seems like alot of shit keeps cropping up to post, and sifting through and deciding what's worth it amidst multiple cigarettes to boost thought process and a brutal porch-fire earlier this morning is not really working out. So. Since I spent too much time finding a fucking link for Lenny Rivas' "Glimpse" only to realize the embed option is on their site, I'm gonna talk about Kayo for a second to make myself feel better about getting my ass kicked on Black Ops, as is destined to happen after I hit "Publish Post"
The Glimpse series is fairly hit or miss, but essentially it's kayo's version of the Berrics. Needless to say, it's a breath of fresh air to see a park absolutely covered by graffiti and hear some good old fashioned rap music for once. If I have to watch something as utterly boring and generic as Mikey Taylor's Battle Commander from the Berrics again, I might really harm myself out of frustration. Kalis has had a clip, so has Marquise, Lima, and now Lenny. Lenny's is by far the sickest. He doesnt look like that skeleton inside a XXXL shirt from It's Official anymore. Nope, the goon look is gone, and his skating is interesting as hell, pretty much without warning. The whole reason I found out about this clip and "Da Playground" DGK park itself is due entirely to Mikey Taylor's Switch 180 front feeble in his Battle Commander. Yep, Lenny did it too. And although not as 'perfect' as Taylor's, the lock in is beautiful. Not to mention he does some damn interesting lines and some sick manny tricks. Do I now enjoy watching his footage? Yes, oh yes.
Meanwhile, Marquise is still boring except for an inward heel manny front shuv, and Kalis filmed 50 seconds of his go-to tricks, which was a bummer. I fail to understand how he unleashed that retardedly good tre flip nosebluntslide in Habitat's Regal Road and has pretty much ignored that trick ever since. If it's been a while since you watched a perfect part, now would be the time to watch it. Interestingly, thinking about it, this was kinda the first of the one person, one part wave that has taken the internet and the world by storm. Although it wasn't designed for internet release, online parts and shit like Dylan all seem to have followed Kalis in Mono. Odd. It's like a grandfather that everyone forgets.
Probably because coupling Josh Kalis with the Rolling Stones was something his core fans didn't appreciate. But I found it marvelous.
Now in more recent video-endeavors, as you've hopefully seen, Dan Plunkett has got a nice little edit floating around. I'm not sure of details, mainly because I don't care, but my guess is that the footage was dubbed to VHS and then cut and chopped. Hopefully that's how they did it. If they did it all digitally then that kinda ruins it. But it's still got two factors going for it: the music, and Dan Plunkett.
Another video I can't find in order to embed on here is this little Reese Forbes ditty, where he evidently has decided to skate Barcelona Ass-Backwards.
http://www.dlxsf.com/popups/videos/ReeseForbes.mov
Click it with your little wireless USB rodent.
The Glimpse series is fairly hit or miss, but essentially it's kayo's version of the Berrics. Needless to say, it's a breath of fresh air to see a park absolutely covered by graffiti and hear some good old fashioned rap music for once. If I have to watch something as utterly boring and generic as Mikey Taylor's Battle Commander from the Berrics again, I might really harm myself out of frustration. Kalis has had a clip, so has Marquise, Lima, and now Lenny. Lenny's is by far the sickest. He doesnt look like that skeleton inside a XXXL shirt from It's Official anymore. Nope, the goon look is gone, and his skating is interesting as hell, pretty much without warning. The whole reason I found out about this clip and "Da Playground" DGK park itself is due entirely to Mikey Taylor's Switch 180 front feeble in his Battle Commander. Yep, Lenny did it too. And although not as 'perfect' as Taylor's, the lock in is beautiful. Not to mention he does some damn interesting lines and some sick manny tricks. Do I now enjoy watching his footage? Yes, oh yes.
DA PLAYGROUND - DGK - LENNY RIVAS from KAYOTV on Vimeo.
Meanwhile, Marquise is still boring except for an inward heel manny front shuv, and Kalis filmed 50 seconds of his go-to tricks, which was a bummer. I fail to understand how he unleashed that retardedly good tre flip nosebluntslide in Habitat's Regal Road and has pretty much ignored that trick ever since. If it's been a while since you watched a perfect part, now would be the time to watch it. Interestingly, thinking about it, this was kinda the first of the one person, one part wave that has taken the internet and the world by storm. Although it wasn't designed for internet release, online parts and shit like Dylan all seem to have followed Kalis in Mono. Odd. It's like a grandfather that everyone forgets.
Probably because coupling Josh Kalis with the Rolling Stones was something his core fans didn't appreciate. But I found it marvelous.
Now in more recent video-endeavors, as you've hopefully seen, Dan Plunkett has got a nice little edit floating around. I'm not sure of details, mainly because I don't care, but my guess is that the footage was dubbed to VHS and then cut and chopped. Hopefully that's how they did it. If they did it all digitally then that kinda ruins it. But it's still got two factors going for it: the music, and Dan Plunkett.
Another video I can't find in order to embed on here is this little Reese Forbes ditty, where he evidently has decided to skate Barcelona Ass-Backwards.
http://www.dlxsf.com/popups/videos/ReeseForbes.mov
Click it with your little wireless USB rodent.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Lip-Service
Well there are probably more important things to be writing about at the moment, not just in skating but namely my colossal research paper and senior thesis on competing representations of Vietnam in Soviet and U.S. newspapers (it's a thriller.), but something that caught my eye this morning is this tremendous, ridiculous and bitterly enraging run Ryan Sheckler, whom, by the way, I have NEVER posted a link of on this site or anywhere else, pulled off at the Simpel Session 2011 contest in Estonia.
Fittingly, I would think this time around, he got first place. Now I'm about as anti-contest as one can be, and reading about Street League in TSM with all its photos of billboards with Koston's face and an ESPN retaining wall and it's description of scoring and praise for the event was just about as sickened as I've ever been with that magazine, Dyrdek, and skateboarding in general. Initially I felt street league was a good idea, but I've decided I'd FAR rather watch pros and particularly ams hucking themselves madly to up the ante than see Sean Malto do all his go-to tricks at every stop. Who cares. And Dave Carnie's cynical, meanindering blabbery wasn't even enough to redeem that issue, which is a miracle I haven't experienced in about five years of subscription.
But back to Shecky. I'm sorry to the haters, including myself, but tossing that mammoth tucknee to start the run is a great way to get shit going. He looks like he's flying throughout half of the line. The massive kickflip, the smooth front blunt, the noseblunt to quick flip front board... all coupled with a nice backflip to finish off. What the fuck. How do you do all that in one minute, being Ryan Sheckler, and not even do a bs flip or tre? The life of Ryan seems to be getting more interesting.
In other non-knob-slobbing news, Jordan Hoffart had a nice little clip come out for Theeve trucks:
I've been, and probably always will be, a Jordan Hoffart fan. The second he manhandled a pole jam varial heel in Digital's Get Tricks or Die Tryin stole my heart, and any man who can dish out heelflip late shuvs, fs flip late shuvs, and even make front 180 front foot impossibles look good IN THE SAME PART as two tricks over the Kirchart gap is a godly creation all it's own. Not to mention his front tailslide mentionables and all his hucking adventures. This clip is no different, but because of the internet slew footage I'm not sure whether this is throwaway or Theeve's attempt to show off some well done filming and give a glimpse of what's to come from their media releases. Yes, he does a textbook heelflip, probably ate shit in that ditch after ollieing it, and did the rare but enjoyable kickflip noseslide shuv to fakie on that bank to ledge, which are all cool and made me keep watching. But the real highlight is the back 5-0. Should be pretty obvious which one I'm talking about. Unless I've missed something important, I've not seen anyone go up that spot. It's always down. And unlike the up-rail phase, I feel like this was actually a really, really good idea. It's like the tried and true skatepark methods of setting a bench above a euro gap. A really big one with very little bank. Which brings me back to wondering if this is throwaway or not. Could he have managed something else there?
Last on my little agenda is some Torgy love. I feel like I need to find more things to hate on, like YWS' recent bashing of uh, whatever that stupid twirly-stool shit is called. But I feel like that'd be a waste of my time and any readers, because the whole point of posting shit is to highlight notable clips that I come across in my entirely too frequent internet exploration.
So Torgy gets a Recruit around the same time as his Flow Trash part hits the internet. Interesting. As I told a close friends, I'm convinced that Mr. Torgerson belongs on my list of skaters that can do anything they set their mind to. Completely different than his Boondoggle part, although his Recruit does harp upon his nollie frontside hurricane, these two clips are nice and enjoyable: not too techy, some interesting trick selection, and some damn proper trick executions.
Recruit:
Anyone with eyes can see how good that little clip is. All I really want to mention is two things: his backside nollies (alley-oop to back 5050? alley oop into the bank?) and the fakie to switch feebs. Too bad they put Mikey Taylor's boring ass in there.
Flow Trash:
The song seems a bit risky, but I stand by risky editing decisions with all my devotion and energy, seeing as how I've made billions of them and failed at more than half.
So, eleven things I like about this video:
1. The first crook to fakie I've seen look good in a longgggg time
2. He's better than me at basketball even when ollieing gaps
3. Narrow fakie flips on intimidating mostly-open bridges
4. The manly switch push in the same line as the switch powerslide
5. Switch backlipping red rail
6. dropping down six stairs to keep speed
7. at the same time, the 'n' word in the song is changed to 'brothers'
8. Lipsliding just barely into a bank
9. Janoski deja vu on the nollie boardslide/tre flip line
10. Back 3 on flat in a line
11. The second angle of the green rail nollie flip.
I decided on eleven because as many terrible nollie flips as I see these days, that one really struck me as probably the most important trick in his part. The flick and catch is unreal. Pay attention to that back foot kiddies. Hell, I should probably take note too.
Fittingly, I would think this time around, he got first place. Now I'm about as anti-contest as one can be, and reading about Street League in TSM with all its photos of billboards with Koston's face and an ESPN retaining wall and it's description of scoring and praise for the event was just about as sickened as I've ever been with that magazine, Dyrdek, and skateboarding in general. Initially I felt street league was a good idea, but I've decided I'd FAR rather watch pros and particularly ams hucking themselves madly to up the ante than see Sean Malto do all his go-to tricks at every stop. Who cares. And Dave Carnie's cynical, meanindering blabbery wasn't even enough to redeem that issue, which is a miracle I haven't experienced in about five years of subscription.
But back to Shecky. I'm sorry to the haters, including myself, but tossing that mammoth tucknee to start the run is a great way to get shit going. He looks like he's flying throughout half of the line. The massive kickflip, the smooth front blunt, the noseblunt to quick flip front board... all coupled with a nice backflip to finish off. What the fuck. How do you do all that in one minute, being Ryan Sheckler, and not even do a bs flip or tre? The life of Ryan seems to be getting more interesting.
In other non-knob-slobbing news, Jordan Hoffart had a nice little clip come out for Theeve trucks:
I've been, and probably always will be, a Jordan Hoffart fan. The second he manhandled a pole jam varial heel in Digital's Get Tricks or Die Tryin stole my heart, and any man who can dish out heelflip late shuvs, fs flip late shuvs, and even make front 180 front foot impossibles look good IN THE SAME PART as two tricks over the Kirchart gap is a godly creation all it's own. Not to mention his front tailslide mentionables and all his hucking adventures. This clip is no different, but because of the internet slew footage I'm not sure whether this is throwaway or Theeve's attempt to show off some well done filming and give a glimpse of what's to come from their media releases. Yes, he does a textbook heelflip, probably ate shit in that ditch after ollieing it, and did the rare but enjoyable kickflip noseslide shuv to fakie on that bank to ledge, which are all cool and made me keep watching. But the real highlight is the back 5-0. Should be pretty obvious which one I'm talking about. Unless I've missed something important, I've not seen anyone go up that spot. It's always down. And unlike the up-rail phase, I feel like this was actually a really, really good idea. It's like the tried and true skatepark methods of setting a bench above a euro gap. A really big one with very little bank. Which brings me back to wondering if this is throwaway or not. Could he have managed something else there?
Last on my little agenda is some Torgy love. I feel like I need to find more things to hate on, like YWS' recent bashing of uh, whatever that stupid twirly-stool shit is called. But I feel like that'd be a waste of my time and any readers, because the whole point of posting shit is to highlight notable clips that I come across in my entirely too frequent internet exploration.
So Torgy gets a Recruit around the same time as his Flow Trash part hits the internet. Interesting. As I told a close friends, I'm convinced that Mr. Torgerson belongs on my list of skaters that can do anything they set their mind to. Completely different than his Boondoggle part, although his Recruit does harp upon his nollie frontside hurricane, these two clips are nice and enjoyable: not too techy, some interesting trick selection, and some damn proper trick executions.
Recruit:
Anyone with eyes can see how good that little clip is. All I really want to mention is two things: his backside nollies (alley-oop to back 5050? alley oop into the bank?) and the fakie to switch feebs. Too bad they put Mikey Taylor's boring ass in there.
Flow Trash:
The song seems a bit risky, but I stand by risky editing decisions with all my devotion and energy, seeing as how I've made billions of them and failed at more than half.
So, eleven things I like about this video:
1. The first crook to fakie I've seen look good in a longgggg time
2. He's better than me at basketball even when ollieing gaps
3. Narrow fakie flips on intimidating mostly-open bridges
4. The manly switch push in the same line as the switch powerslide
5. Switch backlipping red rail
6. dropping down six stairs to keep speed
7. at the same time, the 'n' word in the song is changed to 'brothers'
8. Lipsliding just barely into a bank
9. Janoski deja vu on the nollie boardslide/tre flip line
10. Back 3 on flat in a line
11. The second angle of the green rail nollie flip.
I decided on eleven because as many terrible nollie flips as I see these days, that one really struck me as probably the most important trick in his part. The flick and catch is unreal. Pay attention to that back foot kiddies. Hell, I should probably take note too.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Colorless Theory
While Mystery bangs out the de-saturated color footage, I'm hiding my inability to properly set GL2 colors with black and white. First time using one and probably my only time. No fisheye available so the confines of the little park pretty much dictated the angles. I did not film my frontside flip, obviously, or the backside blunt line. Just some after-hours dick-around footage filmed in under an hour.
Also my own camera returned to my possesion and disposal this past Sunday so more park semi-shreddery should be forthcoming soon. In addition to my lazy ass finally uploading all of ROUGH within the weekend. Yay? Gay? Nay?
Also my own camera returned to my possesion and disposal this past Sunday so more park semi-shreddery should be forthcoming soon. In addition to my lazy ass finally uploading all of ROUGH within the weekend. Yay? Gay? Nay?
Ten Dumbassidies
Dumbassidies - noun. (dumb-ass-id-eez). 1.A statement so stupid it leads one to question the intelligence of the person who created it. 2. A statement that cannot be forgotten and forever lives in memory because of the pure idiotic nature of it's content.
In the past couple years, I've slogged away easily for $9.00 an hour at a hole in the wall family-owned 'sk8' shop on weekends. I've not been a fan of their business practices or my bosses in general, but a paycheck is a paycheck and I lived with the guilt of circumventing my morals in order to make a meager living watching skate videos and listening to kids talk about their ollies. Better than getting shoved on the concrete in a grimy downtown apartment complex in the middle of the night with a gun in the small of my back and one in my ear cavity. Which was one of my esteemed experiences as a delivery driver for Dominos after getting laid off from said 'sk8' shop with no notice early last year.
Unfortunately for me I was asked to work weekends again after one of their employees quit because of the bullshit, and now I've again fallen victim to notice-less, cold, selfish business practices in which the owners don't give a FUCK as long as nothing bad is happening to them. So basically, I'm on a bit of a spree on denouncing shitty profiteering business practices which take advantage of skateboarding, all for the well-being of someone who has no damn clue about or care for skateboarding itself. So, for the beginning of my little 'series' which will continue through local newspaper editorials and letters to certain companies whose product is being misrepresented and/or completely stolen/copied, I decided a list of ten of the stupidest things I've heard at this place would be somewhat entertaining.
1/ "Lizard King sucks. Name one contest he has EVER won. Just one. You can't, because he hasn't."
- This one takes the cake. Perfect example of the atmosphere there. All about the win, all about the who's the best, the contest, the jock side of skating. I literally almost shit my pants when I heard this. It's like the hundred or so skate videos I played there never happened.
2/ "Ryan Sheckler has the best tre flips ever."
- does this include that mirrored one that was claimed to be switch?
3/ "Who's Stefan Janoski?"
- They even mispronounced his name
4/ "People are gonna think that being sponsored is cool so they'll buy servings of this drink for $2.75 a spoonful."
- Can't remember the brand name. But this one's from the boss. Some stupid energy powder that you add water to and drink, and they 'sponsored' boss-bitch's kid. No one ever bought any, of course.
5/ "*name removed* signed this deck, kid's are gonna buy it because they want his autograph."
- news flash. nobody wants to pay $40 for some kids signature ruining a deck. The board sat there for 8 months.
6/ "No surface will ever be perfect except skate lite, and that's just too expensive."
- Uh, actually, no surface is perfect at all. Skate lite breaks too. BUT if you build shit right, and invest in top quality from the get-go, you won't have chipped up plywood ramps covered in paint that you have to replace every six months. Talk about expensive.
7/ "there isn't one good trick in that Alien Workshop video."
- self-explanatory.
8/ "Those kids win every contest we have so they're not allowed to participate anymore."
- seriously? excluding shredders from contests. GREAT marketing strategy.
9/ "It's my shop so I'll sell whatever I please."
- after gripes about putting prices on stickers and promo DVDs that come with decks and also specifically say "NOT FOR INDIVIDUAL SALE." Criminal.
10/ "oh... well just get a sharpie and black out the scratches. You're a smart boy. Shoulda thought of that."
- This one definitely requires context. If you care at all, you're probably thinking 'what the fuck?'. The vice president of marketing for Hoffman Beverages, the local Budweiser/Anheuser-Busch distributer/producer, comes to the shop around Christmas to buy his nephews presents, because of all things on earth, the shop promotes and is a dealer for Monster energy, aka alcohol for kids. So the man rolls by with a couple of AWS(Dyrdek of course)/Monster collaboration decks made in limited numbers. He wants the boards gripped and to pick out trucks wheels bearings blah blah. So all is done as he says, and after another employee grips one of the big-man's boards, I discover that since nobody will agree to change out the crumb and grime riddled carpet on top of the work counter, the mostly dark green and black graphic is scraped all to shit from the gripping process. And instead of figuring out how to make it right, that's my boss' solution. Get a fucking sharpie. and color in the scrapes. Great customer service to one of your few supporters.
So anyways, expect a full-on rant about profiteering douches in local industries very, very soon. Meanwhile I'll probably be preoccupied talking shit about them across the limits of the South eastern corners of Virginia in newspapers and across facebook until they've lost all credibility they have outside of the skate world, since the skate world correctly coins them a joke already.
Good thing I used the hell out of that place after hours for dudes to come skate for free and chill.
And I'll toss in a cool little video as a reward for reading that:
Albert Nyberg, co-founder of Newsoul Skateboards and fresh out of Sweden. Quite a capable bastard in my opinion. Or anyone with a brain, for that matter. Even despite the shorts and the crazy socks and elmo shirt. Let me pause for a quick chuckle.
Anyways I like that he can toss in strange maneuvers like that flyout casper flip looking deal and proper frontside bigspin kickflips along with monster flatland fakie varial flips in lines with backside bigspin 5-0s on ledges. Plus the fakie frontside flip late shuv, and then all the stuff at the end when he's throwing down some tall rail nosegrinds and hucking fakie flips down 11-stairs.
and who can forget double set fakie hardflips and front 360 no comply bigflips with a nice little fakie manny bigspin at the end? Plus everything is done so well. Note the double flip/double heel line. The fakie fs flip down nine (or eight, if you don't count that last stair). The fakie tailslide hardflip. The front blunt back 3 bigspin.
And lets not forget the two ending clips. The sickest clip I've yet to see at Macba, and a ten stair 360 hardflip. Quality part. Great mix of tech, geek, and uh, tech-gnar? is that what people used to call Jordan Hoffart? Tech-gnar? Anyways, dude skates with speed and style and dresses crazy but the song fits amazingly and every trick is solid. One of my favorite online videos at the moment. Watched it about 10 times now.
In the past couple years, I've slogged away easily for $9.00 an hour at a hole in the wall family-owned 'sk8' shop on weekends. I've not been a fan of their business practices or my bosses in general, but a paycheck is a paycheck and I lived with the guilt of circumventing my morals in order to make a meager living watching skate videos and listening to kids talk about their ollies. Better than getting shoved on the concrete in a grimy downtown apartment complex in the middle of the night with a gun in the small of my back and one in my ear cavity. Which was one of my esteemed experiences as a delivery driver for Dominos after getting laid off from said 'sk8' shop with no notice early last year.
Unfortunately for me I was asked to work weekends again after one of their employees quit because of the bullshit, and now I've again fallen victim to notice-less, cold, selfish business practices in which the owners don't give a FUCK as long as nothing bad is happening to them. So basically, I'm on a bit of a spree on denouncing shitty profiteering business practices which take advantage of skateboarding, all for the well-being of someone who has no damn clue about or care for skateboarding itself. So, for the beginning of my little 'series' which will continue through local newspaper editorials and letters to certain companies whose product is being misrepresented and/or completely stolen/copied, I decided a list of ten of the stupidest things I've heard at this place would be somewhat entertaining.
1/ "Lizard King sucks. Name one contest he has EVER won. Just one. You can't, because he hasn't."
- This one takes the cake. Perfect example of the atmosphere there. All about the win, all about the who's the best, the contest, the jock side of skating. I literally almost shit my pants when I heard this. It's like the hundred or so skate videos I played there never happened.
2/ "Ryan Sheckler has the best tre flips ever."
- does this include that mirrored one that was claimed to be switch?
3/ "Who's Stefan Janoski?"
- They even mispronounced his name
4/ "People are gonna think that being sponsored is cool so they'll buy servings of this drink for $2.75 a spoonful."
- Can't remember the brand name. But this one's from the boss. Some stupid energy powder that you add water to and drink, and they 'sponsored' boss-bitch's kid. No one ever bought any, of course.
5/ "*name removed* signed this deck, kid's are gonna buy it because they want his autograph."
- news flash. nobody wants to pay $40 for some kids signature ruining a deck. The board sat there for 8 months.
6/ "No surface will ever be perfect except skate lite, and that's just too expensive."
- Uh, actually, no surface is perfect at all. Skate lite breaks too. BUT if you build shit right, and invest in top quality from the get-go, you won't have chipped up plywood ramps covered in paint that you have to replace every six months. Talk about expensive.
7/ "there isn't one good trick in that Alien Workshop video."
- self-explanatory.
8/ "Those kids win every contest we have so they're not allowed to participate anymore."
- seriously? excluding shredders from contests. GREAT marketing strategy.
9/ "It's my shop so I'll sell whatever I please."
- after gripes about putting prices on stickers and promo DVDs that come with decks and also specifically say "NOT FOR INDIVIDUAL SALE." Criminal.
10/ "oh... well just get a sharpie and black out the scratches. You're a smart boy. Shoulda thought of that."
- This one definitely requires context. If you care at all, you're probably thinking 'what the fuck?'. The vice president of marketing for Hoffman Beverages, the local Budweiser/Anheuser-Busch distributer/producer, comes to the shop around Christmas to buy his nephews presents, because of all things on earth, the shop promotes and is a dealer for Monster energy, aka alcohol for kids. So the man rolls by with a couple of AWS(Dyrdek of course)/Monster collaboration decks made in limited numbers. He wants the boards gripped and to pick out trucks wheels bearings blah blah. So all is done as he says, and after another employee grips one of the big-man's boards, I discover that since nobody will agree to change out the crumb and grime riddled carpet on top of the work counter, the mostly dark green and black graphic is scraped all to shit from the gripping process. And instead of figuring out how to make it right, that's my boss' solution. Get a fucking sharpie. and color in the scrapes. Great customer service to one of your few supporters.
So anyways, expect a full-on rant about profiteering douches in local industries very, very soon. Meanwhile I'll probably be preoccupied talking shit about them across the limits of the South eastern corners of Virginia in newspapers and across facebook until they've lost all credibility they have outside of the skate world, since the skate world correctly coins them a joke already.
Good thing I used the hell out of that place after hours for dudes to come skate for free and chill.
And I'll toss in a cool little video as a reward for reading that:
Albert Nyberg, co-founder of Newsoul Skateboards and fresh out of Sweden. Quite a capable bastard in my opinion. Or anyone with a brain, for that matter. Even despite the shorts and the crazy socks and elmo shirt. Let me pause for a quick chuckle.
Anyways I like that he can toss in strange maneuvers like that flyout casper flip looking deal and proper frontside bigspin kickflips along with monster flatland fakie varial flips in lines with backside bigspin 5-0s on ledges. Plus the fakie frontside flip late shuv, and then all the stuff at the end when he's throwing down some tall rail nosegrinds and hucking fakie flips down 11-stairs.
and who can forget double set fakie hardflips and front 360 no comply bigflips with a nice little fakie manny bigspin at the end? Plus everything is done so well. Note the double flip/double heel line. The fakie fs flip down nine (or eight, if you don't count that last stair). The fakie tailslide hardflip. The front blunt back 3 bigspin.
And lets not forget the two ending clips. The sickest clip I've yet to see at Macba, and a ten stair 360 hardflip. Quality part. Great mix of tech, geek, and uh, tech-gnar? is that what people used to call Jordan Hoffart? Tech-gnar? Anyways, dude skates with speed and style and dresses crazy but the song fits amazingly and every trick is solid. One of my favorite online videos at the moment. Watched it about 10 times now.
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