I would recommend approaching this the same way that people study art or film history.
1.) Start with the most recent major piece:
We will use 2018’s Blessed for this exercise, but you can argue that one of the earlier Primitive or GX1000 vids is more influential to today’s skating. Watching Blessed is just easier for this.
2.) Look at the recent pieces that directly influenced step 1
Blessed is a sequel to 2014’s Cherry and an homage to the late Dylan Reider, so you should check out:
- Cherry
- Gravis ‘Dylan’
- Cinematographer Project
- Mindfield
- A Time to Shine
If you chose to rewatch blessed after this, you’ll notice a lot of references.
3.) Then you start looking at the earliest major piece from that genre
- I would recommend starting with 1991’s Video days, because that’s when you start seeing a lot of modern editing choices (and you see a young Gonz in contrast to what you saw in the supreme and tws videos), but if you want to go earlier than that you should start with 1987’s Animal Chin
4.) Look at all the major stuff in chronological order until you return to the starting point
Most of which has already been listed