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Slap – One in a Million

December 3rd, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in USA, clip, competition, entertainment, web page

I’ve been a little busy lately, but this morning I had a little more time than usual and I’ve found Slap’s One in a Million.

I’m always a sucker for things like Thrasher’s King of the Road and the Berrics’ Younited Nations. I’ve got all the King of the Road DVDs and I followed Minor Media and their trip to the Berrics. One in a Million is like skateboarding’s “Next Top Model” or “Hell’s Kitchen”. They’ve chosen a bunch of guys from the footage they’d sent in. All the popular skate stereotypes are represented, as the candidates are thrown into a skateboarding melting pot. The first two episodes in San Francisco hint to the tension that I can see developing as the episodes move on. So One in a Million is just the sort of thing that would snare me.

Forrest Edwards is generating a lot of heat as far as people making comments and stuff on Slap and YouTube. Surprisingly there are some people backing him. At the moment I’m backing Mango, but I like Nik Stain, he seems cool too, but not too much personality has come out yet. Mango’s he’s got the whole goofy enjoying skateboarding thing going on, and Forrest has a gangsta thing going on, opposite ends of a spectrum. I’m sure some of the other characters will become a source of interest as the episodes move on, the contestants’ natures come out and some of the other colours of the spectrum are revealed.

Here’s episode one to get you started. This shows all the competitors, shows them arriving, getting product, and their first session at the indoor park.

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Menikmati

July 4th, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in clip, shoes, video, web page

Over at http://skateboardingstartswith.es, éS Footwear have this timeline thing going. Every two weeks on the site they show the development of the éS Footwear brand by showing what éS was up to for a particular year. The years are sequential, and this weeks year is 2000, the year when the éS video Menikmati came out. Here’s one of my favourite sections from one of my favourite videos.

You can see the rest of the éS Menikmati video here

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Mountain Dew Code Red

June 29th, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in competition, editorial, video, web page

There is a vertical banner on the side of my blog that has google ads on it. I think I get paid for each click or something but normally they have nothing to do with skateboarding and I guess no one ever clicks on them anyway, because I’ve never seen any money from it. Well a while back there was a Mountain Dew Code Red banner and it looked interesting. I didn’t click it because that’s a violation of the terms of use, but there was a URL http://www.mountaindewcodered.co.nz so I typed it in.

It’s a site decked out like a flat that features three action sports athletes (“the Residents”), a prize room (“Gear Room”) and a TV with action sports videos (“Watch the Stunts”) on it. The action sports athletes are: wakeboarder Brad Smeeke, BMXer Haimona Ngata and skateboarding’s Brett Band. I always have two feelings when I see these sites, first I’m happy that a skateboarder has the opportunity to be on this sort of thing and that someone from outside is interested in skateboarding, but then I get disappointed because it’s too mainstream and thus a little cheesy.

Anyway here’s Brett’s footage on the “Watch the Stunts” section and a behind the scenes clip featuring all three “action sports stars”.

The site is pretty much done now and all the clips are up.

Here in New Zealand Code Red has a berry flavour, but in the US it’s cherry. In the States things have moved on as far as the flavours go, in addition to the CodeRed (Cherry), there is LiveWire (Orange) and Voltage (Raspberry, Citrus and Ginseng), as well as White Out (White-Colored Citrus) which is due out later this year.

Things have also moved on with the Green Label Sports too. In addition to the Dew Tour with footage here, Paul Rodriguez has a mini site. The tour must cost a bit to put on, and I doubt if it they would break even let alone make a profit. It’s cool that they have chosen to put money into our sport.

Another interesting feature on the US site is the “Green Label Art” Shop Series. Thirty-five skate shops across seven different regions in the US each created their own can design. Pretty cheesy, but it’d be cool to have your own can. Schidt colab.

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