The official nickyd "thoughts while watching the Vans video" post:
-Chima-Killed it harder than I expected.
-Rowan-I like this guy because you never know what trick is coming next. The perfect switch flip noseslide(not back to regs), stood out.
-TNT's ender was a literally kickturn on a bank. LoL.
-Elijah-I feel like this dude is underated somehow, very gnarly part. That ollie over the chains into the bank stood out.
Pfanner-Killed it of course, skates with so much pop and power.
-Daniel Luthern randomly, but clearly had the best part(skating, editing, and song all worked together the best), and I would have never expected that. The song almost brought me to tears. Really great part.
-Pedro Barros-Obviously insane, but I have to admit I was drinking wine while watching his part and when the song starts it says something about "I don't belong", and I lost it.
-Curren-I actually like Curren a lot, however this part kinda started slow and felt like a bland surf part. But def some good looking shit there doe.
-Gilbert-the best. You know dis.
AA\Dollin-both killed it, obvs wish we had a full part from both. I thought Andrew's fakie 5-0 on that steep bank looked so sick.
-Not sure why everyone described Geoff's part as so short, seemed like a full part to me, with plenty of sick shit in there. Who cares if it was mostly banks? Every trick he did into a bank looked sick.
Kyle Walker-This dude is fucking sick. Not my cup of tea, but undenable destruction.
-AVE-killed it of course. I hate Ozzy, but nothing could ruin the part, you can tell he tried really hard with this.
Conclusion:
-8.8/10, would watch again.
-Bring back VX1k. Whatever camera setup most teams are using now doesn't capture the speed or gnarliness of most of the tricks properly.
-No more China footage please. It looks as boring as a skatepark and the same spots get in every video now.
-Bonus footy? J-Lay?
-Would LOVE a Ray Barbee full part. Dude obviously still kills it.
I'll take my answers off air.