The Black Labels videos work(ed) when viewed as a whole I think. I remember at the time I had some friends who briefly got back into skating after leaving it in their teens mostly to do band stuff and they were not looking to really dissect tricks. More just have a tallcan and enjoy the soundtrack and skating was in a way secondary or at least equal to the tunes. Like, Jub doing an acid-drop or whatever to S.O.D was more than fine for them.
Seeing the parts now on YouTube can highlight where they fall short. Also the use of black and white and some other effects looks bad now. I respect that JL was clearly going for 'vibe' though.
I think the Mike V part is something you can do when you have some goodwill in the bank if you get me but at the time its not like he had a ton of footage. It was poorly timed I think. Like, if it had come recently after a well-received part people would 'get' it. As someone mentioned before, the ollie is huge though. Skating to Rollins Band also is so on-the-nose that it's cringe.
Having said all that, is there an official name for the trick he does where he kicks the board away and catches up to it and jumps back on? The only time I've heard someone else mention that trick they basically just call it what I just did. I actually think it's a pretty stylish flatground trick when done perfectly.
Topic: Mystifyingly bad video parts (Read 14675 times)