Skateboarders

July 23, 2012 11:48 PM

We always wanted to be skateboarders, jumping up curbs, down the stairs and filp our boards as many times as we could.
posted by Brandon Blatcher (15 comments total)

A thing of beauty, eh? Skate footy quality has come a long way since the Animal Chin days. The shots here are great, it's satisfying larger structure is lacking IMO, but as this was essentially a Red test and was shot really quickly, that makes sense.
posted by victory_laser at 12:10 AM on July 24, 2012

Really liked it - although I was a bit afraid that the music would suddenly "drop" during the first two minutes.
posted by KMB at 2:50 AM on July 24, 2012

That first rail grind shot was pretty cool.
posted by allkindsoftime at 3:15 AM on July 24, 2012 [1 favorite]

Awesome video, loving when skate movies are made in pure hd, looks so epic.
posted by leevituulola at 3:53 AM on July 24, 2012

That was.....THE SHIT.
posted by kuanes at 3:55 AM on July 24, 2012

Love me some slow-mo skateboarding. I would totally land better tricks if only I could move this slow!
posted by orme at 5:30 AM on July 24, 2012 [2 favorites]

Skate footy quality has come a long way since the Animal Chin yt days

That was a very young Tony Hawk.
posted by Forktine at 6:00 AM on July 24, 2012

Blog idea: People who are bad at sports look awesome at said sport if filmed in slow motion. It probably works.

(These people are actually good at skateboarding and the video is beautiful.)
posted by Turkey Glue at 6:42 AM on July 24, 2012

I want to go home and watch Gleaming The Cube now.
posted by inigo2 at 7:36 AM on July 24, 2012

I'd love to see some early '90s Rodney Mullen filmed that way with the Red Epic...
posted by blaneyphoto at 8:10 AM on July 24, 2012

Noting this to show my son later.
posted by saulgoodman at 8:21 AM on July 24, 2012

I have nothing significant to say, but I would like to thank you for the post!
posted by meows at 9:21 AM on July 24, 2012

Cool video. Good skating and very nicely filmed and edited!

I love it that no-complys, nosegrabs, and truck taps are coming back in modern skating.
posted by broadway bill at 12:34 PM on July 24, 2012

Watched the first minute and a half, and stopped watching because I want to watch this on the big TV at home instead. :)
posted by antifuse at 1:23 PM on July 24, 2012

Capital awesome. Love the straight on shot of the feeble grind at 1.21, you can literally see the truck being ground down.
posted by Albondiga at 1:52 PM on July 24, 2012