I don't like skate videos because I think they betray what skateboarding is. As soon as you film something, its soul is stolen, and each time someone watches it, the soul gets worn off until it disappears forever. One day, sports center is going to have skateboarding high lights from the past 24 hours with some peice of shit talking over the footage. Tricks happen when they happened, not on endless loop.
All that being said, I love street footage, especially of sketchy but heroic tricks, especially in a city, especially at night. In particular, videos filmed mostly at night and all in the same city are the best. Videos with well chosen music are almost always improved, but I stop watching at the third park trick, no matter what. Also, the entire video shouldbe obvisouly flimed in the same season.
Over edited videos suck. It goes without saying that any park footage should be burned or deleted. scooters and roller blades and wiggle boards in skateparks make my day.
Here's who does it right: certain groups of dudes in new york city. Their videos make me not only want to go skate, but to go skate in their city. Because it looks hard and because it looks so different from taipei. It doesn't hurt that around teh time I started skating, I went ot new york with my class on a field trip and I saw someone ollie the highest popped ollie I've ever seen, over a manhole cover, cruising through traffic at 9 am. anyway, doesnt matter.
my point is this: all you can eat and drink hotpots are a good way to avoid doing work when you have to get work done on the weekends.
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