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04-22-2005, 09:32 PM
I just downloaded this the other day. After watching it a few times I felt you should have my input about it. Get it straight, if you're looking for another Wonderful, Horrible Life, you'll be disappointed. This video is a lot like Tiltmode Army: Man Down or Chomp on This! than anything.
All right, first off is Hector Gill. I guess he's a Puerto Rican. He's got a really clean style and does some cool stuff, but nothing mindblowing. You get a little footage of Ryan Weasel and Happy Dave skating some spots that would raise even Bobby Puleo's eye, but like Gill, it's not that mindblowing.
PJ is up next. I guess the footage is new, but either this kid doesn't get new clothes or it really isn't new. Tricks seem newer at points, but I just can't tell. In the middle of the section Mean Mark does his Rodney Mullen impression with some back foot flips. A couple more clips of PJ, then a little bit of Gallant. Back to PJ again, who ends it with a monster switch flip down a 12 set.
Baby Schizo is next, and he's funny as usual. I liked his style in WHL, and I still do here. Jereme Rogers shows up for a cameo, too. Schizo shows us he's got some Smolik "steez" with a trick you might remember from Fulfill the Dream.
Dave Vey is a freaking weirdo. He barfs up some white crap onto the asphalt then licks it back up. Disgusting. Anyway, he got a lot better since his last part. He actually does tricks with some grace this time around. I enjoyed his part, especially his last trick. He's getting up there with Haslam as far as being able to compete with Rodney Mullen's seemingly infinite bag of tricks.
Colin Fiske is next. I can't stand watching this guy skate. Tight girls pants and a blueberry colored tight longsleeve shirt, ugh. His part reminded me of someone like Chris Senn, just skating around crazy spots and doing a couple ollies and kickflips here and there. The banks this kid drops in from are nuts! Julien Stranger interjects and kills it with a psycho hill bomb that puts Fiske to shame, though.
All right, my favorite part. What? You didn't like PJ's part the most? Nope. Skyy and Daddy Longlegs. Oh my freaking god. These guys know how to skate. A lot of Sacramento spots in this, and Daddy Longlegs gives a shout out to Biebel after switch frontside flipping the Folsom High 11 set that Biebel nollie heelflipped in Yeah, Right! So yeah, these guys hurl themselves down huge gaps and flights of stairs and are still able to show board control that rivals Marc Johnson. Kickflip shiftys down 9, switch flip shiftys, kickflip body varial revert, and a trick I don't know the name of so I call it a switch half-flip frontfoot shove-it. Yea, and wait till you see the ender. Josh Kasper gets crapped on is all I can say.
Southie is the ender? Bleh. Nah, he got a lot better, too. His part was awesome, just not as good as Skyy and Daddy Longlegs. A lot of skating on strange obstacles, but he does it well. The end.
So yeah, it's a pretty good video, but if it weren't for PJ, Ryan, Skyy, and Daddy Longlegs, this video would be pretty bad. It doesn't make me want to skate unless I stop it right after Skyy and Daddy Longlegs because the ebb and flow is thrown off by a lesser part ending it. It's missing something that Man Down and Chomp had that made me want to skate (trust me, those videos, although goofing around, were awesome), but I can't pinpoint it. Check it out for yourself and let me know if you think I'm way off.
Rating 7/10
All right, first off is Hector Gill. I guess he's a Puerto Rican. He's got a really clean style and does some cool stuff, but nothing mindblowing. You get a little footage of Ryan Weasel and Happy Dave skating some spots that would raise even Bobby Puleo's eye, but like Gill, it's not that mindblowing.
PJ is up next. I guess the footage is new, but either this kid doesn't get new clothes or it really isn't new. Tricks seem newer at points, but I just can't tell. In the middle of the section Mean Mark does his Rodney Mullen impression with some back foot flips. A couple more clips of PJ, then a little bit of Gallant. Back to PJ again, who ends it with a monster switch flip down a 12 set.
Baby Schizo is next, and he's funny as usual. I liked his style in WHL, and I still do here. Jereme Rogers shows up for a cameo, too. Schizo shows us he's got some Smolik "steez" with a trick you might remember from Fulfill the Dream.
Dave Vey is a freaking weirdo. He barfs up some white crap onto the asphalt then licks it back up. Disgusting. Anyway, he got a lot better since his last part. He actually does tricks with some grace this time around. I enjoyed his part, especially his last trick. He's getting up there with Haslam as far as being able to compete with Rodney Mullen's seemingly infinite bag of tricks.
Colin Fiske is next. I can't stand watching this guy skate. Tight girls pants and a blueberry colored tight longsleeve shirt, ugh. His part reminded me of someone like Chris Senn, just skating around crazy spots and doing a couple ollies and kickflips here and there. The banks this kid drops in from are nuts! Julien Stranger interjects and kills it with a psycho hill bomb that puts Fiske to shame, though.
All right, my favorite part. What? You didn't like PJ's part the most? Nope. Skyy and Daddy Longlegs. Oh my freaking god. These guys know how to skate. A lot of Sacramento spots in this, and Daddy Longlegs gives a shout out to Biebel after switch frontside flipping the Folsom High 11 set that Biebel nollie heelflipped in Yeah, Right! So yeah, these guys hurl themselves down huge gaps and flights of stairs and are still able to show board control that rivals Marc Johnson. Kickflip shiftys down 9, switch flip shiftys, kickflip body varial revert, and a trick I don't know the name of so I call it a switch half-flip frontfoot shove-it. Yea, and wait till you see the ender. Josh Kasper gets crapped on is all I can say.
Southie is the ender? Bleh. Nah, he got a lot better, too. His part was awesome, just not as good as Skyy and Daddy Longlegs. A lot of skating on strange obstacles, but he does it well. The end.
So yeah, it's a pretty good video, but if it weren't for PJ, Ryan, Skyy, and Daddy Longlegs, this video would be pretty bad. It doesn't make me want to skate unless I stop it right after Skyy and Daddy Longlegs because the ebb and flow is thrown off by a lesser part ending it. It's missing something that Man Down and Chomp had that made me want to skate (trust me, those videos, although goofing around, were awesome), but I can't pinpoint it. Check it out for yourself and let me know if you think I'm way off.
Rating 7/10