Through this week I was able to get what I think will be the ender for my skate part but that cannot be shared until the video is done. I was also able to record and add a few more videos into the intro to the movie, which is what I am sharing with you know. If the snow which recently came doesn’t melt I will be unable to get more street clips for my skate part meaning it is very close to completion. Due to a busy week it has been hard to work on skate videos an adequate amount so instead of showing the little progress I made I will instead share my favorite and most influential skateboard parts.

Starting this off with my favorite skate movie of all time is RDS/FSU/2002

This is the video which got me reallllly into skateboarding and especially making skateboard videos. RDS or red dragons is a Canadian skateboard company based in Vancouver BC, this means all the people and places they skateboard are from Canada making this video feel even more important to me. Recently skateboarders part of the RDS team came to Cranbrook and the choice shop and gave out 100 free skateboards to youth in the community. all this has made this video feel extra special to me making it my favorite of all time.

Another one of my favorites is Fully Flared by Lakia. This video has the most iconic intro in skateboarding and was one of the first skateboarding movies given an actual budget to work with. The intro is so iconic due to the many explosions but especially Mike Mo’s switch flip down the stair set as this is already a very very hard trick, adding an explosion meaning he had to get it first try makes it even more impressive. This video includes some of the best skateboarding of all time and was so ahead of its time. With this there are also so many cool b-roll sections and transitions making this video even greater.

The last movie I want to talk about is an actual movie called street dreams.

While this movie is very corny and includes some very bad acting the plot of the movie is very interesting and keeps you intrigued the whole time. The part that makes this movie really cool is how it was written, created and acted by professional skateboarders. The movie follows Derrick Cabrera try to be a professional skateboarder, he struggles to do this until he is able to land a nac (360-flip back crooked grind) (not a chance) at Tampa-am one of the biggest competition in skateboarding