MattC's Skate Video

[MattC]

Name: Matt Campbell
Stance: Goofy
Skating for: 1.5 years
Sponsored?: No, looking for sponsors
Location: Conneticut
Contact: mattcampbellct@gmail.com

Video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=4znSLhB7Bs8 (sorry for the youtube quality)
This is mainly a video of me progressing from February to July. This isn't my sponsor video but some tricks in this may make it. What do you guys recommend I do more of for my sponsor video? How did you like this video?

Thanks a lot for your feedback

[AdioBird52]

Insane! That was FIGHT! quality for sure.

Less double kicks. Yeah, your sig trick, but that was WAY to many.

And clean it up.

[SmaShitUp9]

alot of that was sketchy , too many kicks and double kicks.... less park skating?

that hardflip was the best

the last trick you did was amazing

and yeah some nice drops, not enough stairs though but nice vid!

[McJesus]

I thought what adiobird thought when i first saw it.

[Voughtie182]

not enough spots, too many kick flip, was that an inward pop shuvit and the end???

[MattC]

I live in an area with no spots what so ever. All I can skate is flatland. Some weekends I can get a ride out of town to meat people and go to some spots and video tape. Thats how I made this movie. I live in the worst place to be a skater.

The last big trick was a preasure flip. I was going to make a smaller vid with no sketchy tricks but decided to go with a longer one.

Thanks for the comments guys.

[FlashFlip]

well, i wouldnt look for a big company sponser, maybe a local shop or something, way too many double k-flips as said above, and tricks were way sketch.

[skizzate]

Good stuff. Your kickflips down the drops were a bit sketch though. Your back foot looks like it gets lost.

[MattC]

Good stuff. Your kickflips down the drops were a bit sketch though. Your back foot looks like it gets lost.

Yeah. My feet are too big I'm thinking about going to 8'' decks. Putting 3 double kicks side by side with slow-mo was too much haha. Had to get it out of my system.

[skizzate]

hah yeah. What size deck do you ride? I normally ride a 7.8+ and I wear size 10 to 10.5. Right now my deck is a bit too small, like a 7.6

[MattC]

I ride 7.75. I'm size 11 or 11.5.

[Jimmy]

Try to put in some more lines at higher speeds. maybe some switch stuff.

[mcwattersm]

Bring some of those f/s flips and three flips off ledges. Try a b/s 360 kick off somthing too. Also, land on bolts, you see too stiff thats why you can't stay on the board. Also, also, for the love of god, please don't look back after every trick!

Other than that, it was really good, you have an insane variety of tricks and tones of potentail.

[MattC]

Bring some of those f/s flips and three flips off ledges. Try a b/s 360 kick off somthing too. Also, land on bolts, you see too stiff thats why you can't stay on the board. Also, also, for the love of god, please don't look back after every trick!

Other than that, it was really good, you have an insane variety of tricks and tones of potentail.

The trick I looked back on was in the rain but you can't tell because of youtube's beautiful quality. Thanks for the suggestions.

[Hov32]

Also, try skating the miniramp that you manual across. Being able to skate a little bit of transitions is never a bad thing.

[MattC]

Also, try skating the miniramp that you manual across. Being able to skate a little bit of transitions is never a bad thing.

I didn't wana skate any actual park in the video. So I just went off the mini ramp, and manualed it. Next time some transitions

[STR8 RIPPIN']

I think you have a lot of potential especially for 1 and half years. If you where to land some of them flip tricks a little less sketchy, put in a few lines, show different types of skating (mini etc) and take out some of the smaller tricks you will have a good sponsor vid there and I guarantee that you will get sponsored by a small shop or small company.

EDIT: oh yeah switch to.

[crazy_dave]

That was bloody amazing for 1.5 years! You got some real nice tricks, specially those double flips, k-grinds are real soud too. I think all your video was lacking in was variety of spots! Oh and try to learn some heel variations/switch/fackie stance stuff too. Give it half a year, you'll be amazing. Props btw.

[360degrees]

That was awesome MattC.

[China Skate]

Props to you. You have alot of potential. Alot.

[theflyingcheez]

wait how old are you?

[scarecrow476]

your extremely tech and your bag of tricks is like unlimited but I didn't like the video:) Well, mainly because you would repeat every trick twice and slo mo it the second time and it took way to long. But I liked the video near the end, definately much more fun to watch than the beggining.

[SmaShitUp9]

put in more hammers like that hardflip off the drop. damn

[Sam Gates]

i wouldnt agree with getting on fight. but take those flip trick to some stairs.

[~FIGHT~]

Noice bro, cant wait to see that final sponsor me vid!

[Shadow2kx]

That was some nice stuff, I really liked the last two flip tricks, but there was a lot of stuff you could have cut from that video. You had so many repeat tricks, and it also helps to go faster big time.

Ive talked with some shop owners about the smaller things they really look for in a skate video (aside from just having "good tricks"). And the most important thing they mentioned is speed.

But yeah, when we see one Crooked Grind, thats generally enough, and when we've seen one double flip thats enough too. Unless its one insane flip trick like your two at the end, I would also avoid putting lines in of just flat land flip tricks.

Make sure when you finally do a sponsor me video, cut out the doubled footage, and just make it short/sweet...your best stuff. And make sure its stuff your pushing yourself on. So if the biggest set you've ever kickflipped is an 8 stair, well then for the video you kickflip a 10-stair and you throw out that old footage.

One thing they really look for is style too, if it looks good it is good. So anything you have that is sketchy or slow...I would take out of your final video.

Very good stuff though, I especially liked some of your manual combos on that half pipe too, just find a better manny pad for them :p

[crashandburn]

I agree with everyone about more spots and less double flips in one vid and some lines, but that was still incredible.

[GrizzledJASPER]

You had some very nice tricks, but i never want to see a crooked grind or doubleflip again in my life.

[loganownzj00]

WOW, I think you would call that a casper heeflip what your last trick was. That just blew me away, I've never seen anyone do one of those. Half-heelflip to half-front-foot-impossible. I would call that a Casper Heelflip cause a casper flip is like half-kickflip to half-impossible. Nice vid though.

Slow-mowing your double flips got really annoying though.

[hopelessfilmer]

that kinda sucked... besides the occaison of kinda awing tricks, you skated way to fuking slow and the slow mo was gay.. and i cannot emphisze how much your styl sucked. good luck!

[dsc6072]

that kinda sucked... besides the occaison of kinda awing tricks, you skated way to fuking slow and the slow mo was gay.. and i cannot emphisze how much your styl sucked. good luck!
+1
You don't have a gimmick so you need some speed and good steez at the least. Switch skating is also nice.

[mcwattersm]

that kinda sucked... besides the occaison of kinda awing tricks, you skated way to fuking slow and the slow mo was gay.. and i cannot emphisze how much your styl sucked. good luck!
Wow, I don't know whats worst, your horrible spelling or the fact that you used "gay".

[juggle]

Keep the one crooked grind, the nosegrind on the bench, one double flip, the stair set, and the backside flip, and id have enough, o yeah and throw in those flip trick things. find two ledges or a long one, maybe do a kickflip, smith the ledge then do a treflip for a line rather than two kickflips a treflip and a double flip. and stop all of the slo mo i already saw the trick i didnt need to see a slow mo fall thats only becasue i have dial up and that took an hour to load.

[I_Eat_Emo_Kids]

You've got a lot of potential... your lines aren't very good but you have a nice kickflip, espescially off high ledges. i'd like to see you perfect that and go faster. faster = more style

[pop38]

Dude your 3 flips are clean enough to eat off of. Less double flips, more pop shuvits and bigspins. Throw in some fakie and nollie tricks.

[blind_rippa]

You HAVE TO keep the birds eye view kickflip off the ledge right before 4 minutes in. And the kickflip over the gap at abut 4:17. Try some more tricks off stuff. Take out some of your multiple kickflips (multiples as in the doubles and tripples, etc.). Watch it and decide what LOOKS the best, not what was hardest to accomplish, then put that in and you'll have the best sponsor me video ever. And yes, I'd reccomend sending it to Fight! But, hands down, one of the best videos I've seen on RR.

[NoneMoreBlack]

cut out the sketchy shit and the useless stuff. Also stop pushing mongo. Theres no need to show a kickflip down a small gap, then down a bigger gap. Just show it down the biggest stuff.

[MattC]

cut out the sketchy shit and the useless stuff. Also stop pushing mongo. Theres no need to show a kickflip down a small gap, then down a bigger gap. Just show it down the biggest stuff.

I pushed mongo in one clip cause my foot hurt for some reason. Thanks for all the feedback guys.

[crippled_skater]

Dang that was pretty sweet although I thought it needed more variety of grinds.

[hopelessfilmer]

wow ppl really don't know what there talking about just becuase he can do three flips doesn't mean they are clean or even look good. evrything was disgusting.. skate videos,promos,montages,intros,outros,clips, those are suppose to make you learn something, or atleast entertain you... you had sloppy sketch style, terrible angles,terribble slow mo,every single trick was played like 9 times and almost every trick was either doubleflip, or 360 flip. .... come down to boston i'll show you how to skate

[MattC]

wow ppl really don't know what there talking about just becuase he can do three flips doesn't mean they are clean or even look good. evrything was disgusting.. skate videos,promos,montages,intros,outros,clips, those are suppose to make you learn something, or atleast entertain you... you had sloppy sketch style, terrible angles,terribble slow mo,every single trick was played like 9 times and almost every trick was either doubleflip, or 360 flip. .... come down to boston i'll show you how to skate

Maybe your just a bitch... Most of the footage is months old, you can see there is snow on the ground in some of it. Almost all of the footage are of tricks I literally just learned at the time. Like I said it's a video of me progressing. I havent even been able to do airs over my waist up untill a few months ago...

I didn't ask you to judge this like it's some kind of $20 dvd. I wouldn't even post this kind of asshole comment to someone who could just ollie in their video.

If you don't like it, tell me what I can do to help it. Then ****off. You don't need to make another post about other people that actually might of enjoyed it. I really don't care if you live in Boston or think you can skate... your still obviously one of the biggest douche bags on RR.

Thanks for all the comments guys

[JoeyKovacs]

^^ You guys. RR! COME HERE! RR!! I just witnessed for the first time, MattC angry. I kind of like it.

You tell him Matt...C. You tell him MattC.

Your vid was cool, but one advice on the anger rant. Less explaining, more making fun of him.

Anyways. MattC angry, a first and last?

[MattC]

Yep you just witnessed a rare event :)

[Shadow2kx]

Yeah don't let him get to you MattC, the guy was being a dick, and he's nothing but a loser anyway. Your vid was good, just for your sponsor me video, you want to cut out your weaker footage thats all.

But it was definitely cool to see, and you had some insane tricks in there man.

I dont think anyone here is going to respect "hopelessfilmer" for bad mouthing your video, so dont worry about it.

[pop38]

wow ppl really don't know what there talking about just becuase he can do three flips doesn't mean they are clean or even look good. evrything was disgusting.. skate videos,promos,montages,intros,outros,clips, those are suppose to make you learn something, or atleast entertain you... you had sloppy sketch style, terrible angles,terribble slow mo,every single trick was played like 9 times and almost every trick was either doubleflip, or 360 flip. .... come down to boston i'll show you how to skate

Hey buddy, post a video of yourself skating, to prove to us all how good you are. And to make sure it's legit, say "***** Park had my baby" at the end.

Otherwise, shut up.

[Ramp]