Much closed-door (and open-door!) discourse has been made about how evasive skateboard productivity can be to outsiders in Japan. Not that there haven’t been countless incredible Japan edits starring foreigners — but there is always an expectation v.s. reality thing to new arrivals. Navigating busts and crowds is a more algorithmic endeavor there than in other premier skate destinations, hence a palpable difference in how otherworldly the homegrown videos from Japanese locals feel.
There must’ve been a feeling of “holy shit, we’e kinda actually getting a full video out of this trip” during the filming of Inshin Denshin, a video featuring a sizable slice of the Carhartt WIP team, which was shot during a single extended trip across Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. Willow and Eddie scour the side blocks for the GX spots, Tanner Burzinski does the same for curved ledges, Max finds the Max spots, Family Marts sit as post-ender afterparty venues, and the entire rest of the team takes turns on a seemingly endless array of seawall spots scattered across the coastline — all while hiding a full part from Kyonosuke Yamashita between it all. (Hurricane to back noseblunt was certainly on nobody’s beautiful THPS combo trick bingo card, but some fellas got it like that.)
The video is helmed by GIDDY series lensman and architect, Romain Batard, and with this crew, it’s definitely a formula worth replicating elsewhere ;)
Features Noah Mahieu, Kyonosuke Yamashita, Max Palmer, Eetu Toropainen, Yuma Takei, Kelly Ishihara, Tanner Burzinski, Willow Voges Fernandes, Amélien Foures, Raphael Langslow and Eddie Cernicky.