What clip best represents skating 'now'?

[bakingsoda]

[yungthug]

I dunno, I feel that skateboarding is so diverse and stratified now that it would be impossible to find a single edit that would show what skateboarding has become today.

[DannyDee]

I mean what are you trying to show??? Like technical tricks many people would of thought were impossible a couple of years ago like Cory Kennedy's bs tail-kickflip-bs tail and Shane's switch flip-bs tail-switch heel 270 out? Or you aiming for gnarliness like the speed Westgate skates at or the size of Jaws gaps. Hell to show how anything is now skateable you could show Daewon's 5 incher part.

[360 frip]

I'm just trying to show them a couple of minutes of different sports to elicit a response and hopefully some basic adjectives. They're a low ability class which are 50% SEN and the rest have behavioural problems. Not really going to be doing a Mullen style TED talk!

I think Westgate will do the trick. Fast, big and easier to relate to for a non-skater.

[weaselhead]

Too much filming has diluted the skate video experience almost entirely.

I agree with this

[WeirdBeach]

13 year olds? Jaws.

[juhzden]

Kenny Anderson/montage in Pretty Sweet WITH the intro. All that style packed into a couple of minutes and some off the board antics.

[SodaJerk]

It's impossible to represent skating now. Skateboarding has finally left the world of homogeneity amongst itself. Skateboarding is defined by popular culture more than by an intrinsic expression. This is the big picture. Of course there are many skateboarders that are simply skating for the love of it and are expressing that through innovation. As far as companies go, most companies are striving for a place in the market, hence the lack of creativity. Even the smaller companies are simply trying to find their spot. There is no one thing that is skateboarding anymore. On a positive note, people are using the history of skate progression and incorporating all elements of skating in their style. Worst case, corporate sponsors and athletic training style skating make for some unbearable nonsense. The DIY spots are bringing something positive back to skating IMO. Too much filming has diluted the skate video experience almost entirely. As much as skateparks have made it easier for kids to have a place to skate, they seem to have created a monster, i.e., kids that are almost too good to the point where tricks lack an element of spontaneity. Another problem as i see it is that being a stuntman is almost requisite. Going gnarly is great when it is done naturally, e.g., westgate, kirchart etc... but the need for every sponsored skater to be this cookie cutter mega man is obnoxious.

Geez you're not really helping here.

[noileum]

if you want lifestyle as well as skating the element tim tim trio vid is a nice way of showing that it's not just a kids game



edit: as they're SEN and kids with behaviour issues it also shows getting your shit done before you go and skate which might help with PHSE (not sure if that's a thing where you are? Personal, Social & Health Ed) and wider responsibilities to others etc.  Something that not many other skate vids will show.

[Chinaskis underpants]

Bryan Herman -Stay Gold. Duh

[360 frip]

The lesson was a trainwreck (as ever!).

Ended up showing them Westgate's Emerica shoe part:



They seemed to like it and then returned to doing nothing when we got to the learning some English part...

[vancanman]

Donovon Piscopo. High water dickies, Nikes, slicked hair, good looking, rides for Alien, skates fast doing simple tricks.

[piece of shit, straight up.]

Cherry.

[360 frip]

Cherry.

I think that might represent 'then' more.

[piece of shit, straight up.]

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Cherry.

[close]

I think that might represent 'then' more.

Well you need to think more.

[police state]

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