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Big Hubbas & Big Emotions Redux

While every arena of popular media has accompanying institutions to prevent the said company, celebrity, sport, etc. from taking itself too seriously through gentle, elbow-poke-to-the-side humor, whether it be SNL, Jon Stewart, or two Jews on the internet making fun of coke dealing, rapping kingpins, it seems that skateboarding has been so devoured by its own epicness that this sort of thing has come few and far between over the past half-decade. Understandably, months spent in crappy hotel rooms, a dominantly fast-food based diet, injuries for stupid tricks, deadlines, and grappling with color correction for hours upon end is (probably) an emotionally taxing experience (nobody involved with this site would know), but when all is said and done, we’re talking about a bunch dudes skateboarding…as in riding a four-wheeled piece of wood and hoping it lands in such and such of a position on a given object. Step back and realize — it’s not that serious. And you don’t have to run down the list of exceptions of people keeping skating infused with a much-needed laugh at itself, we know them all. In the event that a review of something isn’t met with “this guy’s part was sick, this guy’s part was sick, and this guy’s part was so sick!” you typically have to wade through comments of people telling you you’re a faggot with too much time on your hands, and reminders that you cannot frontside flip over a house. You have to be a fan of something to parody it well, or at least know it well enough to criticize it constructively throughout whatever means you choose to do so.

As you probably know, Roger Skateboards runs this Roger of the Month thing. Bill Pierce had one two years back. This month’s is a parody of a man whose video parts are not strangers to profound epicness (“Yeah dude, but he’s sooooo sick, fuck you!”), Heath Kirchart. The excruciating detail that Ted Schmitz puts into his remake of Heath’s retirement tribute from the Emerica video, given the obvious gap in skill that inevitably prevents carbon-copy duplication of the part, is absolutley amazing. Right down to the hand motions, facial expressions, outfits, and mildly downgraded versions of tricks.

P.S. There’s also a Dylan parody that could have been better than it was, but is still worth a watch. The tattoo zoom-in is pretty good though.

P.P.S. Anyone who uses Vimeo…They actually have an embed code now that iPhones support.