Was waiting to see how the title of the latest Polar project would manifest inside the video’s outtakes — you know, the whole “welcome to Jurassic Park“-thing — and it turns out that he indeed doesn’t know how to fucking airwalk. At least not yet.
But Emile does know how to do a lot of things. It was funny hearing reports from people who were able to make the New York premiere talk about Emile’s part in terms of what some of the spots in it weren’t: “the brick double-set he ollies in Portland isn’t even a spot,” “the transfer he does at Burnside isn’t even an actual possible transfer,” etc.
Emile skates wholly unlike anybody else out there, but also in a way that defies era. Like, if this part was presented in Dan Wolfian 90s black-and-white in a hypothetical lost Eastern Exposure video, it’d make sense; if it started after the credits of early-aughts Baker video with the slo-mo ramped down a few dozen percentages, it’d make sense.
Now while the video is titled after Emile’s star-turn part, all Polar eras are on display as it also features a pro part from Polar day-oner David Stenström, whose “holy shit, I just saw David skate IRL”-magic translates to the silver screen here (or iPhone, whatever), and an intro part for new pick-up, Dylan Mills. Supporting turns from Aaron Herrington (was sitting there watching like, “Damn, is this the first Polar video with no New York clips?” until Aaron’s section came on), Nick Boserio and his beautiful voice (“ARE YOU FAWKING JOKING?” would be a good alternate title) + Jamie Platt doing my favorite fakie 5-0 grind in a minute.
wow emile is my new fav skater