Skating was awesome and I'll watch it over and over because of it.
I do have a lot of complaints about the video though, starting with the way that I thought the edit made the video feel; Underwhelming and Incohesive.
I feel it might be, in part, because (at least on the television I watched it on and on my computer later) the skating sounds weren't that loud in comparison to the music (some of the shots, long lens especialy felt muffled; maybe a lot of the shots were filmed HPX/HVX without external mic's and this sounds bad/tinny when loud? I don't know much about HD...), but also there were a lot of points in the video where I felt like things were moving way too quickly/couldn't hear any noise from the clip itself. I get there is a broader audience that you have to cater to and the world has a shorter attention span but fuck, half the reason why people take five years to make a whole video is so it doesn't feel like yer on the internet getting forcefed part after part (someone mentioned this earlier).
I thought the intro was brilliant in showing the evolution of skating (vans has always supported skateboarding doo doo doo) through vans riders, but some shots could have been prefaced with more context in my opinion. Again, I think time to take in some of the last tricks/part a little more/showing a little more substance of the riders before moving on to the next one would have done the video good. Breathing time. As soon as I saw an ender I barely had time to process it before another guys part had already started fullswing. They somewhat tried it with the alva commentary for Rowley's part but it felt out of place to me since it was the only place with a large break (aside from pfanners intro, which I thought was nice).
...I did think Trujillo's, Pfanner's, Daniel Lutheran's, "Double AA"'s, & Ave's felt natural and supple.
In sum,
main complaint: sound
secondary complaints: fast and bland
main theme for all complaints: inconsistent (the things I complained about didn't occur the entire time, but enough to really bug me)