Righty-O! Twenty new strips now. Nearly Book Time.
Ooooh, you get to preview the color and everything today!
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:
There are some very fine people who skate at the Memphis Tobey Field Skatepark. Chad is one of the best. He’s skillful, enthusiastic, humble, and he’s really good at teaching- always taking time to help out the little guys and girls who come to learn.
We were shooting a little video to go here the other day- just an iPhone thingy- when he spilled off the board fairly high up a wall. Here’s a still frame for you to see. I had to crop the bottom, so in this shot, you can’t see how high up the wall he is nor how far he’s got to go to get to the bottom. So… is this a teaser or a spoiler? I didn’t hang around long enough to get really good vid, just enough to try to see the line he’s teaching me to skate in ‘The Bowl’.
Chad’s also helping raise extra funds for the Hernando MS skatepark soon to be built. Go HERE and check it out. You might wanna skate there someday. Chuck ’em a dollar and the skatepark will be better for it.
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!
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