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Coda Skateboards ‘Slappy Hour’ Promo

Daily News July 2nd, 2011 · 11:41 am · 3

Coda has a short new video out. Ten minute video, seven minute bonus/credits section. A bit lighter on the memorable New York location scouting than their last video was, but it’s still going to send a handful of spot sharks onto message boards with screenshots and requests for directions. (Actually, does anyone even use message boards anymore?) Only full parts are from Conor Fay and Jerry Mraz, but there are plenty of features, including Pat Smith and Loose Trucks Max. At least 50% of Jerry Mraz’s part looks like it was filmed in the middle of the projects. If you know of a bank spot in the middle of some buildings, it’s probably in here. He also does a middle of the street 360 shove, 360 flip immediately after combo that Carroll did in another middle of the street masterwork. It’s one of the best two trick flatground sequences that exists for line choreographers today.

Added bonus: No annoying soundtrack. Chuck Berry, Lynyrd Skynyrd. There’s no Nelly, but not exactly anything you can complain about. Be sure to stop by Coda Skateboards.com to check out what they have going on. Have a good weekend.

“Bad Grammar Overload”

Daily News May 18th, 2011 · 10:28 am · 8

Photo by Jordan Zuppa

Yesterday, the fortune of Ohio athletics took a turn for the better, so we felt compelled to share some skateboarding from QS-favorite, and Ohio-bred athlete, Loose Trucks Max. The part is a bonus section to accompany a crew video entitled Whassamattayou (presumably a nod to the endlessly quotable “Trilogy of Error” Simpsons episode, but perhaps that phrase has some greater non-sensical meaning.) As explained here, the actual video is thirty minutes of footage filmed on a digi-cam, and the creator was adamant about excluding footage filmed on the a three-chip Mini DV camcorder, which is a device that may have had some prominence within civilization some ten years ago. The tricks filmed with a “real” camera were reserved for this bonus part featuring difficult wallies, “BAM 2” footage, and Gino homages. Limiting a thirty-minute video to digi-cam footage while calling a part filmed on a VX a “bonus” is a good look, at least as far as this website and its neglect of proper documentation techniques is concerned.

If you’re interested in the whole video, you can watch it here. It’s definitely a “by the homies, for the homies” sort of outing, but check it out. They have some Kool Keith and Bill Withers in there.

From Seattle to Pink Houses

Daily News January 10th, 2011 · 12:09 pm · 7

Have you seen the forecast for Tuesday night into Wednesday yet? Seven to twelve inches overall. Should be fun.

Film Me, the summer 2010 video that came before Goin’ Ham’ from the same crew, is available in its full forty-minute form on Vimeo.

Some real nineties-looking footage. The video says it’s from 1993-1994, or “around the time when people started skating switch.” You can see the barren asphalt wasteland that Battery Park City was prior to the completion of construction some years later, The Humps (or at least the spot I think was The Humps), and the nineties version of Midtown.

The final update from the Autumn Bowl. It’s been a wrap for a minute now, but just in case you wanted visual proof of its final state. Here’s a clip from the final two days as well. But according to Forrest Edwards, “It’s not like you get paid a million dollars to skate transition.”

This Keith Hufnagel-channeling clip of Zach Moore is about a year old, but a solid watch largely due to to the speed with which he skates through things.

Mama’s Boys is an upcoming local video that has a Loose Trucks Max part, you can watch the promo here, and a few New York-set throwaway clips here.

The nollie off the hip to boardslide down the rail in Pat Gallaher and Jack Olson’s shared part in the Flow Trash video is pretty official.

As a follow up to our new street plazas post from November…there’s a new street gap on Maiden Lane down the hill from C.I.A. (foot and a half high ledge over seven or eight feet of sidewalk into the street), and the new Grace Ledge is black marble, over four stairs, and lower (although still closed off for construction.)

Quote of the Week: “Yo Dre, what are you doing?” — Inquisitive Gentleman
“I have been sitting here watching the ‘Ride’ video for hours and don’t feel like I have wasted a second of my day.” — Andre Page

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