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Flipping through last month’s Transworld reminded me of this video that I never really heard too much about. Which is wierd because it has footage from Dennis Busenitz and Silas Baxter-Neal, two guys who manage to make pushing look amazing. That’s in addition to comback trail rampager Pete Eldridge and ridiculous am Lem Villemin (I suspect he’ll be a full-on Chocolate am when the Chocolate video comes out. For his sake, I hope its not a protracted five-years-of-filming-Fully-Flared type deal.)
Anyway, this HD video tracks the Adidas team as they hit different cities for premiers of the Adidas euro video Diagonal. Tour videos are usually a nice diversion for 5–8 minutes, but these guys actually stack legit clips (with very little park footage) from Silas’ backtail on a waist-high Barcelona rail (just before the 4 minute mark) to Lem’s general willingness to throw huge flip tricks wherever, Pete Eldridge just doing his switch ollie thing and Dennis’ inability to not catch a legit clip regardless of trick or spot. Oh, and there’s actual footage of Tim O’Connor on a skateboard, plus some other Adidas cats catch wreck. I can’t find the credits but the filming and production are up to the standards of everything that Adidas has been doing lately. My guess is the creative direction is by Matt Irving and Juice Design and Eric Noren is on filming detail.
All said, a good way to spend the next 5 minutes.
You can also download the video here.
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(the reviled SB debut that was so bogged down in ambitious but ultimately irritating sketches that the actual skateboarding seems to have been stricken from the collective memory of skateboarding even though you had sick parts from Omar Salazar, Todd Jordan, Lewis Marnell, Chet Childress and Stefan Jonaski amongst others. Considering that the packaging was pretty beautiful, maybe they just need a re-issue minus the sketches…). Lean and mean clocking in at just 23 minutes with full-parts from Nike ams David Clark, Daryl Angel, Shane O’Neill, Grant Taylor, Justin Brock (the last two since been made pro) and a Theotis Beasley cameo, its all high-energy gnarliness with no clear stand-out—definitely a good thing.
