1. The Bones video is FUCKING SICK. Yeah, we know, everyone wishes everyone had a full part. But Bartie is a monster, Decenzo and Gravette, throwaway or not, ripped to the hyped degree, and Jordan Hoffart cannot be stopped. Future legend in the making right there, easily. Front heel late shuvs are not something I ever expected to see, especially after creaming over Getz's kickflip late shuv over a park hip years ago. Also Dyet is a true grown-ass man. So gnarly. So..... ugly. Too beautiful. So that's out of the way now, basically. Go get that video. Buy it. I bought it. Hell, buy all the full length DVDs. Keep this shit going so I keep having things to get excited about other than plopping my ass on concrete to hunch my back and peer at my friends through a viewfinder and stuffing tapes into my pocket when authority shows up to bitch us out.
I must say though, pissed the land of Derrick Wilson's nollie heel down the Hollywood High 16 ended up somewhere other than the full length, since the attempt was in the promo. Bad move. Coulda really made Bones an industry must see with that one.
2. Tom Asta is now pro. Obviously you should have heard this by now. hellaclips.com probably enlightened you to his pro part, but here it is anyways, shoving his switch foot up Brian Wenning's fat ass with that switch heel:
Unfortunately, I liked his earlier footage much better. He's become an overnight sensation and he's turning into a carcass-hucking drone that does all his tricks to the fullest extent of proper. Like we definitely need more of that. WHY is he pro, and James Hardy, Hatchell, and such notables as Tancowny and Dane Burman (notice the camp affiliation, eh?) are not? Just because Chris Cole is backing him means he gets the nod before other gnarlier, more raw, and more creative dudes? I can't say I really understand. I don't dislike Asta, but I'm sure starting to.
3. Kyle Leeper has my favorite online clip in quite some time that some greedy bitch didn't try to charge to see, or didn't involve Randy Ploesser. The edit is epic, the skating is smooth and questionably slick, and the filming is fantastic. Hypes me up for slick skateparks.
4. Adelmo, as I mistakenly assumed when the LRG video came out, now has actually been separated from his dreads for real, in one of the most twisted fateful jokes life has thrown at a professional skateboarder probably ever. The vid explaining the awful legal mess is here:
DISCLOSED - ADELMO JR - DREADS from KAYOTV on Vimeo.
The sound might be off so try to pair what you hear with his lip movements and time them together in your head. He's a little hard to understand.
5. Randy Ploesser has a new part out from some video called Jake's Junt. Not his best, and some of the footy is recycled unless I'm losing my mind, but the front shuv wallride and the first well done fakie impossible I've ever seen are sick, and overall this clip is just fun to watch. Weird song though.
6. And last on my laundry list, Chad Fernandez from the Globe/World Industries days of yore put out a gnarly little part. Note the ender, which I feel speaks very highly for him in light of Figgy's front board.
Now if you haven't been keeping up with the "Glimpse" series on Da Playground, I'd suggest you add that to your list along with the BATB 4 which started last weekend. I've got Luan winning it all but we will see. Should be sick though. Ishod and Nugget was a great game, and so was the one with Torgy. But I'm not all about Reda's little praise sessions afterward. They're awkward. And pretty lame.
Also I suppose I'll post up this sick little local promo for a video out of DC, formerly a company full of either has-beens or people without steez. But the new blood seems to have corrected this, and this video is definitely cool, although I for one am completely over downtown DC footage since those kids up there essentially get a city of marble as a skatepark, and I equate whatever they do in the streets there as basically park footy for anyone else. Forgive me if that sounds unfair. But compared to the rest of the DMV area, downtown DC is about the only place that the spots aren't rough as shit. Nonetheless, Ghetto Birds down the Courthouse four are still very sick, and Stephen Jefferson is a monster.
Also I'm really hyped the Gold Rail is knobbed, although the performer of those tricks on it is Jonas Durney, a dude who grew up in the town next to mine. Once upon a time he was really sketchy and unnecessarily cocky, but hopefully that's changed, because the footage I've seen of him recently is pretty good for sure. The above promo was made by Leukemia survivor and Convoy filmer Adam Turrisi, props to him on the progression his videos have made.
