I’m up to my eyeballs in deadlines, so DebRebel has saved us for content today by pointing me to this video on MSN. Some of the snippets I’ve seen on MTV’s ‘Ridiculousness’ and some of the ones I haven’t seen are ones that can be filmed anywhere people skate, but they’re all still very fun. Enjoy!
Oh, and there’s a dirty word at the end, so… y’know. Kill the sound or something if you don’t wanna hear a kid with tailbone damage say dirty words.
I posted the still frame of Chad coming off his skateboard the other day, but I forgot to post this for you- the video of a perfectly good run gone silly only fifteen seconds in. The music (what there is of it) is Nine Inch Nails. Chad, being who he is, walked away unharmed and tried again. I’m gonna go get you guys a bunch of shots like this and try to string ’em together into a real video.
Til Then:
Some friends of mine did a cardboard and duct tape boat race somewhere somewhen in the past, but I don’t have video of it, but I thought you guys might like seeing such a thing. I was hoping for some wild-and-crazy fun videos, but those must be hard to make. Here’s some slightly entertaining footage.
If you guys do this- please… take some video. Slot in some raucous music. Send me the link for here. ‘K?
FeelingForYa has struck gold again for us. Here’s a video she thinks Hubris (and therefore us, TeamHubris) should get a kick out of.
‘FeelinForYa’ sent the link to this gem. Who can spot the issue with this?
If you duct tape a camera to the front of a skateboard, and have a hotshot (Hey, Chad) make a run through a serpentine, it’ll be a cool video, yeah?
Sounded perfectly reasonable to me.
Anyhow, the camera bobbles around and points down more than you’d like, and what you get is what your shoe sees while you skate.
That’s the trouble with a lot of skate videos. They don’t communicate the absolute FUN of what you’re doing. Most of them show you action shots of guys doing aerial moves that are amazing and all, but they don’t give you the feeling of BEING there. Neither does putting the camera on the front of the board, but it’s fun to try!
I managed to cobble this thing together. It’s weird, and I had some issues that YouTube didn’t like, but take a look…
I have no idea why it’s up in the corner like that. There were several versions that were higher resolution, too, but YouTube wouldn’t load those at all. I have no idea where I botched it up, but there you go. Anyhow, I have no idea why the one guy stood around clipping his fingernails… I mean, I’d already asked him to move one way or the other ’cause I was filming. Who knows.
What matters is that the clinic classes went really well, and a lot of skaters learned new skills. I learned to drop in at my favorite skatepark. So there. The next clinic and competition is in February, and involves ‘street’ skills- meaning that the flat areas of the park will get used. This time was for half-pipe type skills. Some of the very youngest students didn’t drop in- the older ones rolled in, and a couple of the very littlest guys climbed down into the bowl and skated from there. It was great.
Also, the laid-back music I put on this Gideo was for the little folks and their parents who see skate videos with all the screamin’ and the cussin’ and the crashing guitar noise and are put off by it. Don’t be put off. Go and get you some exercise at the skatepark.
Gid prepared this product review for me a while back. I’ve apologized to him for the delay, but as I said this past Saturday, I didn’t know how to edit the thing into something useful.
So finally, here’s Gid’s Gideo Review of an airsoft gun:
Thanks to Dave Mason, I have started a Youtube set of videos. Also, thanks to Allan for suggesting the whole mess. You’re killin’ me, man.
Anyhow, Here’s Doran- my mentor- skating a run his dad said wasn’t quite up to snuff. I don’t know what he’s talking about. I’m dreaming of the day I can pull that off.
There are more videos coming- mostly called Gideos, ’cause Gideon shot most of the raw footage I collected to get this thing started.
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