The Legend of Phil Shao documentary

[Marv]

This is gonna be good

[TheDraught]

One of the best. To this day his Fort Miley cover remains one of my favorite Thrasher covers. I like the non cropped shot even more

[Marv]

One of the best. To this day his Fort Miley cover remains one of my favorite Thrasher covers. I like the non cropped shot even more

Iconic photo. Incredible

[sid vicious]

So hyped for this

[Marv]

In the meantime before this is released

[drewdown]

One of the nicest dudes ever during a time when skateboarding was filled with kooks. 

[CossRooper]

Last night after seeing this, I found this Whitely tribute piece about Phil Shao on Chromeball, really enjoyed so I figured I'd share

https://chromeballincident.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-gnarler.html

[FrAnKenFrEd]

This will surely cleanse the pallet after the SOTY nonsense.

[funeral_tuxedo]

Psyched for this.

[steve]

Last night after seeing this, I found this Whitely tribute piece about Phil Shao on Chromeball, really enjoyed so I figured I'd share

https://chromeballincident.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-gnarler.html

Cool read. Thank you

[Jim and Dan]

Wow, some actual good news on a Monday morning and just what the people need right now...

[let’s go home]

One of the best. To this day his Fort Miley cover remains one of my favorite Thrasher covers. I like the non cropped shot even more

I’ve never seen the full photo before, so good. I didn’t remember how beautiful color’s were in that.
Damn now I really want a framed print on my wall.

[Toenail628]

I drive past the spot where he passed in a car accident almost every day, i think of him frequently

[decoi1]

Stoked for this. My first videos were the older Trasher videos. Sponser Me and On the Road. He had a decent amount of footage in these and was one of the first impressionable skaters I ever remember. I remember getting the mag with his RIP a couple few years later and feeling super bummed

[j....soy.....]

I always thought he was suppose to be an editor at thrasher, it would have probably been a different magazine. 

[Plan9Customs]

Yeah he was slated for it but the world said no unfortunately. Looking forward to seeing this. Thanks for the heads up @Marv

[Lou Strux]

Hoping to see some PALS there tomorrow night.

[The real veganshawn]

Looking forward to this

[tuesday]

Anyone been to the premiere?

[Atiba Applebum]

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One of the best. To this day his Fort Miley cover remains one of my favorite Thrasher covers. I like the non cropped shot even more

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I’ve never seen the full photo before, so good. I didn’t remember how beautiful color’s were in that.
Damn now I really want a framed print on my wall.

That is def in the top 5 skate photos of all time. 

[Lou Strux]

Anyone been to the premiere?

I went.
Lovely little doc & an overall pretty standard deep dive piece for Thrasher.
I thought they missed a trick by focusing on how incredibly good Phil was instead of delving deeper into what could have been, especially w/ him being groomed to take the reins at Thrasher.
Would def rec for any fan of Phil Shao, or the late 90s era of skating.
A decent effort gathering interviews & archival footage by dude Schmitty; made for a “feel good” look back on a life gone too soon.

[Atiba Applebum]

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Anyone been to the premiere?

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I went.
Lovely little doc & an overall pretty standard deep dive piece for Thrasher.
I thought they missed a trick by focusing on how incredibly good Phil was instead of delving deeper into what could have been, especially w/ him being groomed to take the reins at Thrasher.
Would def rec for any fan of Phil Shao, or the late 90s era of skating.
A decent effort gathering interviews & archival footage by dude Schmitty; made for a “feel good” look back on a life gone too soon.

How long was it?

[jgonzalez]

Whitely sighting with the Steve Jobs drip

[Mbrimson88]

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Sorry if someone else has already said this, or if it has been posted elsewhere but is this going online anywhere?

I am pretty keen to see it, as with almost anything from back in that era, I saw little bits and pieces here and there and only later have been able to watch a whole lot more, especially the Thrasher box set dvds and the Think videos, which I was going to post some links but thought best not to right here.

[assvogel]

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Sorry if someone else has already said this, or if it has been posted elsewhere but is this going online anywhere?

I am pretty keen to see it, as with almost anything from back in that era, I saw little bits and pieces here and there and only later have been able to watch a whole lot more, especially the Thrasher box set dvds and the Think videos, which I was going to post some links but thought best not to right here.

Schmitty posted that Shao's birthday is on the 28th, so prob will be up on Thrasher mag then.

[Alan]

Very much looking forward to this.

[Jim and Dan]

I'm truly excited for this...

[tanhoe]

I am pretty sure I read it comes out on Christmas

[Kielwasser]

Not expecting a Thrasher funded documentsry to touch on this but is it not either uncanny or an indicator that, if you consider his unfulfilled destiny, he's among three high profile Thrasher "staff" that lost their lives because of drugs (P-Stone being an exact parallel and yhen Phelps of course)? Did any other big skateboarding publication have similar cases?

[Fongstarr.]

I am bad with my history with older skaters. I thought he died of a car crash? Was he high on drugs or something?