Any skater who has been to Tokyo has a story about walking into Prov. It is like stepping inside of an encyclopedia of small skate brands. If you live in one of the global skate centers and have a small-to-medium size brand, they have it; hell, they might’ve been the first account in Japan to roll the dice on it. At Prov, you’ll see brands that you can barely find in the States, whose drop schedule can be described as once every three months or three years. The knowledge that this crew has of what’s going on in the global skate landscape is truly unprecedented. And they’re down to pay the duties and import it across the globe.
That’s one aspect of Prov’s community-building pedigree. The other is familiar to anyone who has hung out at any skateshop: the shop video that’s made by the grom who started out as a shop lurker, and eventually graduated into its star videographer.
Prove is entirely filmed + edited by Toya Hori, all throughout Tokyo [insert mandatory QS mention of how Tokyo is incredibly difficult to skate in] over the past three years. It is the shop’s first-ever full-length, and it’s even got a Kyota Umeki part in there!
Titles by Masaru Harada.
Features Takeshi Aso, Motoki Sugino, Wataru Hotta, Seiji Mochimatsu, Masaru Harada, Shunsuke Sorimachi, Kyota Umeki, Ryohi Hanashima, Yuto Ishii, Tao Amakawa, Kanta Harada, Yuto Takada, Itsuki Tomura, Shu Matsumoto, Arashi Shigekuni, Sota Yokoyama, Ryunosuke Tomita, Kosy Yamamoto, Seiya Bowser, Kimi Juds, Daisaku Hidaka, and Soranosuke Taka.