Comments on: Groundbreaking skateboarding video

Groundbreaking skateboarding video

spork — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:23:36 -0800

Beez skateboarding video. A portion on youtube (gross). It will be a cult classic.

Some info here and here. The Beez guys seem to be affiliated with Wiskate. The DVD cover says all proceeds will be donated to the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless and Hope House Milwaukee. Currently it's only $13, shipping included. Photo of Russ Clark, Backside Smith a Personal Water Craft. Their myspace.

By: gcbv

gcbv — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:44:29 -0800

The bastard children of Neil Blender and Lance Mountain. And thank God for that.

By: mary8nne

mary8nne — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:45:25 -0800

absurdity!!

By: dunkadunc

dunkadunc — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:46:10 -0800

I kept waiting for Bob Dobbs to show up and pull a kick-flip. How wonderfully surreal.

By: porn in the woods

porn in the woods — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:11:46 -0800

I dig this crew's love of classic forgotten 1980s moves like the boneless, street plants, cavemans and the No Comply. Takes me back to the days of the launch ramp, Ho-Ho plant, Gorilla Ribs, Thrasher Skate Rock cassettes and "The Bird" plastic curb lapper for your rear truck.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:13:16 -0800

Heh. I don't usually dig skate videos, but the Calimari Wrestler cameo marked this as quality. Entertaining stuff.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:15:33 -0800

strangely compelling

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:20:49 -0800

Goddamnit, who gave the skaters a jar of ether?

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:21:38 -0800

HAY GUYS I FOUND ANIMAL CHIN

By: empath

empath — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:23:28 -0800

Why are there so many fucking weird skating videos. You never see tennis or basketball videos like this.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:29:21 -0800

You never see tennis or basketball videos like this. That's because tennis and basketball have rules. Skateboarding doesn't have any rules, man. The only wrong way to skate is the one where you're not having any fun. It's at this point I should probably put on a silly hat and go do a boneless fastplant off a couch in my living room but I'm old and I still need to make some coffee.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:53:37 -0800

It's all the wild fantasy shit that normally only 8-year-olds are capable of conceiving and refining — done by pro skateboarders with the coordination to pull off much bigger tricks, but who have chosen to do cooler tricks. A lot of the tricks are tailored to a child's imagination, and the limits it takes for granted: lots of walking, miniature park features, the tiniest ollies. The stars of the video are doing the things they ~~thought~~ discovered would be fucking awesome before they discovered girls — inverting Free Willy, riding two stacked skateboards, zany obstacle courses, bolting trucks onto a block of styrofoam, etc.

By: anthill

anthill — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:53:59 -0800

Ironic skateboarding tricks, what will they think of next. That being said, 8:05 = awesome.

By: secondhand

secondhand — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:32:19 -0800

There are basketball and tennis videos? Please link. (Instructional don't count) But seriously, tennis and basketball are not preemptively ostracized (NO SKATING!) by the community. "Weird" kids skate?, or Skate culture makes kids "weird"? Chicken or egg? I think it's just a cry for help. From the perspective of a non-skater, I enjoyed that video. Irreverence good. Overt theatrics good. Non-angry instrumental soundtrack good. Go Beez.

By: rageagainsttherobots

rageagainsttherobots — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:42:55 -0800

"I'll take whatever they're ingesting."

By: box

box — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:15:55 -0800

Not a lot of NBA videos, but there are about a million streetball ones.

By: JeffK

JeffK — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:28:54 -0800

Oh sure, but there are no Dadaist streetball videos.

By: hot soup girl

hot soup girl — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:29:02 -0800

That was all kinds of fun, and sorta deconstructionalist. Or something.

By: thebigdeadwaltz

thebigdeadwaltz — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:11:14 -0800

This rules. Funny noise culture meets skateboarders.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:27:03 -0800

Tennis on skateboards, please.

By: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:07:36 -0800

I didn't skate, but all my friends did. There was a bowl that we used to go to where I'd watch them skate and take care of changing tapes on the boombox. On one occassion, I was also compelled to slap a dislocated thumb back into position. Listened to a lot of Pushead, Flipper, DK, Dr. No and GI back then. And right now I am so very, very happy there are people still doing this.

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:14:33 -0800

Crazy. Awesome. Crazy awesome.

By: infomaniac

infomaniac — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:19:33 -0800

Ok, so it's not tennis on skateboards... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8abhADZ6tac

By: Mach5

Mach5 — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:57:37 -0800

that was so stupidly brilliant. excellent.

By: Xezlec

Xezlec — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:19:59 -0800

Wow. Yeah, I remember fun.

By: The Monkey

The Monkey — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:14:09 -0800

God damn I loved the hell out of that.

By: BrodieShadeTree

BrodieShadeTree — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:58:26 -0800

that was great.

By: tylermoody

tylermoody — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:42:33 -0800

stupid awesome. About a third of the tricks are cringeworthy bad, but the rest more than make up for it. I loved the pole-run around 8 minutes in.

By: cazoo

cazoo — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:59:41 -0800

This was great and I don't even care about skateboarding!

By: celerystick

celerystick — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:37:48 -0800

funny like Harlem Globetrotters (not as funny tho) / wierd like Monty Python (wierder) (Dad cultural references, sorry). good skating srlsy Im buying one

By: generalist

generalist — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:54:42 -0800

Joy. Thanks for this.

By: Mach5

Mach5 — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:14:10 -0800

can anyone identify the 8bit song at 6:44 in the youtube video? i need.

By: infinitefloatingbrains

infinitefloatingbrains — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:43:09 -0800

I love the vid but these guys owe a lot to what Louie Barletta already does. Except Louie is faster and has more style.

By: Neilopolis

Neilopolis — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:04:02 -0800

This sort of reminds me of TV Carnage, but with moar stunts.

By: king dingaling

king dingaling — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:38:21 -0800

I bought it after watching the intro vid on their site. Came with a hand written note from"Russ". Worth every penny. Makes you want to make things.